The record-union., 1897-10-02
YELLOW FEVER
ON The INCREASE,
The Disease Rapidly Spreading in
Many Directions.
Twenty-Five New Cases Reported at New
Orleans Yesterday
Seven New Gases and One Death at
Mobile, While Several Suspici-
Gus Cases Diagnosed as Yellow
Fever Have Been Reported at
St. Elmo.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1. - To-day
was again something of a record break
er in the matter of new cases. They
cropped up in all directions, but up
to d o'clock the death rate was still
low. The fever is rapidly spreading in
many directions, but the large major
ity of cases are proving to be of d
harmless type. The weather is warm
The death percentage has fallen con-
siderably below the record of 1878
Twenty-Five new cases were reported
to-day and two deaths.
The authorities continue to keep the
Water Works plugs open, and every
gutter is filled with running water.
The fever here has, of course, not
been declared epidemic, and for that
reason physicians are disinclined to re-
port yellow. A number of doctors said
tonight in a formal protest that if their
names are reported in connection with
yellow fever cases their practice would
suffer. Nobody would send for them
if they have anything to do with yellow
fever cases.
Among the new cases is Rev. Beverly
Warner of Trinity Episcopal Church.
He was in the East, but came here to
be with his congregation.
The people in the neighborhood of the
hospitals have concluded that there is
no reason why violence should be Of
fered, and the health authorities con-
slider that there is no reason to appre
hend further incendiarism. Officials of
the Board of Health say that figuring
on the situation in 1878 and the prog
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is not the remotest possibility of an
epidemic.
There is undisguised feeling against
the Board Of Health because it is quar-
antining people. The trouble is, how
ever, that a number of local physicians
are Withholding diagnoses of cases, not
believing the prevailing fever is yellow
jack. They justify their apparent neg
ligence by the fact that the deaths are
few and the cases not increasing.
SEVEN NEW CASES AT MOBILE.
MOBILE (Ala~), Oct. 1.-The increase
in the number of cases continues low.
there being but seven cases reported
to-day and one death, that of Mrs A.
Hoffman.
The disease has appeared in the
northwest part of town, where many
of the poorer people dwell, a man who
was on guard in the district first in
fected having carried the scourge to
his home. Thus are established two
foci of infection.
The Commercial Club has called a
meeting of citizens for tomorrow, to
form Relief Committee to assist peo-
pie thrown out of employment. There
is much private charity at work, Mayor
Bush leading, having empowered the
Chief Of Police to relieve every sufferer
that applies for aid
A suspicious case is reported tonight
in the heart of the city, J. F. Stiner,
keeper of the Delicatessen Restaurant
on St. Emanuel street, near Dauphin.
DR.. Edwards, at st. Elmo, twenty
miles south of Mobile on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, reports four
suspicious cases which he diagnosed as
yellow fever.
A suspicious case is reported at Grand
Bay, on the same line. Health officers
have gone to investigate.
The Mobile Board of Health has is
sued orders that no person shall move
out of the infected districts into another
part of the city. It is sought to pre-
vent ejectment for non-payment of
rent.
QUARANTINE RAISED.
DALLAS CTex) Oct 1.-The official
declaration of Health Officer Swearin-
gen, that the suspicious case at Hous-
ton was not yellow fever, has almost
been Immediately followed by the rails
ing of the stringent quarantine meas
ures which have been in force in many
counties and all the towns below Cor
sicana. BY tonight train service will
have resumed something like its normal
proportions.
NEWSPAPER MAIL TO BEBURNED
WASHINGTON, Oct POSTMASTER
Flourney of Ruston, La, has tele-
graphed the Postofice Department that
the Town Council there has command
ed him to burn all local newspapers
and mail received from the yellow fever
district. Their orders are based on
the failure of the great bulk of such
matter to show any trace of fumiga-
ton, the wrappers not being perfor-
ated.
Assistant Postmaster General Heath
telegraphed him to-day that if news
paper mail is refused, he should de-
stroy it without expense to the De-
partment, under the authority of Sec
tion sos of the postal laws, waving the
thirty days clause.