The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-16
HOPES And FEARS
New Orleans Yellow Fever
the Genuine Article But
of Mild Type.
WILL IT INJURE BUSINESS ?
Winter Race Meeting and the
Cotton Trade May Be Af-
fected by the Scare.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1s, Iss7.-The
sanitary inspectors and experts of the
Board of Health got to work at seven
o'clock this morning and proceeded with
the investigation of cases left over from
yesterday.
Reports of additional suspected cases
are slowly trickling into the Office At
ten O'Clock nothing had reached the Board
OF Health to warrant the fear that there
had been any material change in the
situation. There are no new cases this
morning and nothing alarming has come
from the homes of the patients who are
i'll. Present indications point to no inn
mediate Deaths
Ii. however, death shall occur, there
is little doubt that the experts will hold
autopsies, to satisfy the public. There
IS no doubt in the minds of any of the
local physicians that the eighteen local
cases reported are genuine yellow fever.
1t is not malignant now because it has not
had time enough to breed here and if it
is stamped out now there is no reason to
believe that it will appear next year.
Some inquiry has been made as to
whether the present scare will have the
effect of interfering with the winter race
meeting. Officials of the clubs say that
they are going right AHEAD with their
preparations for the opening and that the
existence of a few cases of yellow fever
here will not change the arrangements.
They feel that there will be absolutely no
danger of fever existing when the date
of the meeting arrives.
Local cotton men are warmly co-operat-
ing with the authorities in the effort to
stamp out the disease in the hope that
no cotton may be diverted from New Or
leans, as a result of the quarantine ragu-
iations throughout the country. AS soon
as these quarantine barriers are raised it
is hoped that trade intercourse with New
Orleans will become normal again.
The Board of Health authorities are
preparing careful map of the several
infected houses in New Orleans and a
copy of this map will probably be sent
to the hospital service at Washington
for it's information. Several of the towns
have adopted the policy of Lake Charles
and will fine and imprison all persons who
in these times of excitement give circula-
ton to unfounded rumorS with view to
alarming the public mind. Several towns
have adopted local laws providing for the
prompt punishment of people who may be
successful in running the quarantine but
known. Representatives of the railroads
and the health authorities, together with
members of the Board of Trade and other
commercial exchanges, are meeting this
forenoon to take action with regard to
moving freight out of New Orleans.
Dr. Oliphant of the Board of Health
and Surgeon Carter of the Marine Hos
pftal Service have both expressed the
opinion that 1t is entirely feasible so to
disinfect merchandise as to make its re-
ception at any town from New Orleans
entirely harmless. An effort will be made
to induce Louisiana, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi town boards of health to modify
their quarantine regulations so as to
admit freight. No blankets, cotton OF
woollen goods will be attempted to be
shipped but it is proposed if possible to
move groceries and provisions, machin-
cry, hardware and other articles which
are not good mediums for the propaga-
ton of yellow fever germs.
The "Picayune" says this morning that
gist, who took part in the autopsies at
Ocean Springs, gathered quantities of
blood there and through his microscopic
Investigations since his return has dis
covered the bacilli of yellow fever.
At eleven o'clock today the Board of
Health officially declared the suspicious
case of fever on St. Andrew street, be-
tween Camp and Chestnut, yellow fever;
1t has been under observation for several
days. The patient Is a butcher. This
makes total of nineteen cases to date.
A telegram from Biloxi says that an
Italian has died in the heart of that city
apparently Of yellow fever An autopsy
will be held and all the physicians In
Biloxi will be invited to be present to de-
termine the character of the sickness
from which the man died.
jackson at Ssandstili.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 16, 1S97.-No
more people are leaving the city, for two
reasons-there are very few left here and