The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04
Cases Reported by the
Board of Health Sunday, Making
a Total of 317 to Date.
DISEASE OF MILD NATURE
ONLY TWO DEATHS SUNDAY, AND
But SO SINCE THE START.
Situation at Edwards, Biloxi, Mobile
and MISREPRESENTATION of a
Plague Ship at Philadelphia.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3.-At o'clock to-
night there had been twenty-seven new
cases of yellow fever reported and but two
deaths. In the past week the foci of infec-
ton have not been largely increased. DR..
Metz reports that by Tuesday all the
houses in the st. Claude district, where the
infection was first introduced, will be re-
leased from quarantine. The fever was
confined to the single square in which it
started. The authorities have also been
successful in wiping out the foci of infec-
tion on Hospital street and at the Home
for Homeless Men. To-day's record:
New Cases
PAUL MONTE, 1872 Monroe street.
Mrs. GEORGE BLANCHINI. 2221 Chippe-
wa street.
MARGARET MHUGH, 2221 Chippewa
street.
ADELINE Ntzhugh,, 2221 Chippewa
street.
HELENE UPHADr, 2221 Chippewa street.
lSITA BOHNE, 1419 Chartres street.
HADTON FLEETWOOD, 727 Lower Line
street.
Mrs. II. MOSS, 1922 Felicity street
AUGUST, FRANCES and JAMES ALL
WE'LL, 423 Diana street.
JAMES MONTGOMERY, $50 Thalia
street.
MAGGIE FITZPATRICK. 63o Thalia
street.
Mrs. ]. H. SMITH, 1l27 Washington
FRED WINCHESTER, 1906 Chartres
street.
ALBERT LLOYD, 522 Carrollton street
AUFRA HABERS, 1918 Oak street.
JAMES d. NIX, Fem and Hampson
streets.
EDWARD WRIGHT, 9O7 Camp street.
HOWARD JONES, 1909 Tulane street.
Miss GORDON. 1924 Carondelet street.
TONY BRENNAN, 221S Brainard street.
RUBY COLLINS. 2Ol6 Baronne street.
MAGGIE PLEASANT. 1928 Josephine
street.
NJ. p. BRADY, Jackson Barracks.
c. w. STONE, 1881 Polymania street.
Miss ANNIE WRIGHT, 1910 st. Charles
avenue.
- VERLANDER. Tchoupitoulas and
Alonzo streets (child.)
- VERLANDER, same address as
above (child)
BERTHA DONNELLY, SAG Philip street.
Deaths
G. PEPPITONI, 1916 Magazine street
DAN SULLIVAN, Isolation Hospital
(ca1ne from 6i9 Bolny street. Algiers.)
The State Board of Health's official bull
letin says: During the twenty-four hours
Cases of yellow fever, 81; deaths. 2; total
cases of yellow fever to date, BIZ; total
deaths from fever to date, SO; total cases alb
solutely recovered, SO; total cases under
treatment, 1885,"
OF the new cases eleven are in houses
where fever has heretofore been reported.
The other cases are pretty we'll scattered
and none was reported to-day at the de-
tention camp or in any of the asylums or
hospitals. From detention camp seventeen
people were released to-day and only two
were taken in.
An effort is to be made to delay the time
OF sailing of some eight hundred immi-
grants from Palermo WHO are destined for
this city.
Among the cases reported to the Board
of Health to-day are three from Algiers
opposite New Orleans. These make a total
of five cases in Algiers.
The quantity of fresh water running
through the streets of New Orleans will be
augmented tomorrow by some eight mil
lion gallons through the use of the mains
and machinery of the old Auxiliary Sani-
tary Association.
Church services were held to-day in
Ocean Springs for the first time since the
sickness there was declared to be yellow
fever. There were no cases of the prevail
ing fever under treatment to-day, and the
people of Ocean Springs now believe that
all further danger has passed.
The City Council finds itself unable to
and has called a conference of the state
legislators for tomorrow night with a view
of obtaining their pledge to back up an eff
fort to obtain state aid.