The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-09-30
YELLOW JACK
An Improvement in the Situation in New
Orleans Reported.
The Formaldehyde Disinfection in Use in
the Csty - The Only Druggist at Ed
wards, Miss, Stricken - Five New
Cases aud No Deaths at Mobile.

the City - The Only Druggist at Ed
wards, Miss, Stricken - Five New
Cases aud No Deaths at Mobile.
New ORLEANS, Sept 27-Sunday
was the quetest of the week in New
Orleans. and the fever situation, n
spite of the appearance of Il rather
large number of new eases. may be said
to have shown much improvement.
Fifteen cases were recorded on the
books of the board of health, but there
was no death and there have been none
since Friday The authorities re-
,cived reports during the evening
from nearly every patient that s
now under treatment. and these
we're all to the effect that
the eases are doing well. and that no
patient is in any immediate d niger of
dissolution. Some forty cas- IS We're re-
ported tonight as being rapidly on tho
mend and Il number of them will he
discharged during the week. One of
the most dangerous cases that have APP
pcared was discharged Sunday. 1t was
that on Madison street, in the neigh
borhood of the French market, where
| the conditions were considered to be
| such aS to warrant the fear that the
| disease would spread.
Unusual precautions, however, were
| taken by the authorities to quarantine
the ease and improve the sanitary con-
ditions of the neighborhood and the
fever in that vicinity seems to have
been stamped out completely. At the
Oakland Park detention camp all the
| e., 80,
were declared to be we'll, no sickness
having yet appeared in the camp
| Prof. Metz has large number OF
formalhehyde generators now at work.
Sunday he burned in the street the bed
clothing and other articles in the
| house where the man Series died on
Constance street, the clothing first
having been subjected to formaldehyde
disinfection. Some discomfort and
loss is being suffered by the poor
classes whose effects have to be burned,
but Prof. Metz said Sunday night that
he was hopeful of getting the city
to make an appropriation to
cover just such cases of dis
tress. Prof. Metz has placed these
generators at the railroad depots and
baggage is being promptly and thor
oughly disinfected before it is put on
trains. The local charity organiza-
ton is taking steps to relieve all cases
of destitution that are presented. The
board of health supplies medicines and
the charity hospital physicians, and
the charity organization will try to
provide food for the poorer classes.
EDWARDS, Miss, Sept. 27.-There was
one death from yellow fever here Sum
day-that of Mr.. S. S. Noblin. Twen-
ty-three cases were reported since sew.
en- o'clock Saturday night.
Mr.. Ethel Crister. our only druggist,
was taken sick Sunday morning and
DR.. Hunter, of the state board, has
been wired for another druggist i'm.
mune from the disease. Only three or
four cases are considered Scrl'
Gus aud these are receiving the
best of attention at the hands
OF experienced nurses.
MOBILE Ala, sept 27-The returns
at the board of health office Sunday Iol
the "a hours ending at noon showed 1--WE
new cases and no deaths, with two pa
ticnts discharged. This leaves u un
der treatment.
SO favorable report was not looked
for by many, for the weather has
turned warm again and the increase il
number of cases the previous two day!
seemed prelude to a serious turr
of the outbreak There is however
no actual change for the worse. III,
case on Lafayette street, near the OK
, Shell road, being but a reappearauc,
of the disease in one of the foci vhor,
5 it had seemed TO be stamped out Thi
l ease is that of Brother Symphorian o
I the Catholic school and orphan asylum
on that street. There has not been am
case in the school be fore. but sevo ri
l cases in the vicinity. The isolation o
= the sick man is complete, the inlirmar,
being detached from the school proper