The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-17
YELLOW JACK
The Fever Extending = Cities u
the South
TRAINS LEAVING MOBILE CROWDED.
Mucb Material for the FeyeF TO Feed Upoh
business st 6 Complete standstnot
jackson, afias., and the city Spr-
rounded By q Guard.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept l5-The books
Of the board Of health show the fol-
lowing reeapitulation Of tbs yellow
fever situation. There have been re-
ported to the board for investigation
% cases which the attending nhysi-
clans considered suspicious OF these.
IS cases had been found suffering with
a harmless fever, i've cases were re-
garded as suspicious but necessary to
/ be further investigated before det-
mite report could be made upon them;
there were no reports as to four cases
and four cases had been pronounced
genuine yellow fever, though one
Of the latter was classed as OF
mild type. The most serious Of the
four yellow fever cases is located IN
the neighborhood Of the French mar
ket Officers from the police fierce
were detailed to take charge of the
lneighborhood, a restaurant, q bakery
and q shop next door TO the premises
in which the sickness was found were
closed and a disinfsctant was sent to
the scene TO be used.
Out Of population Of s5, only TIRES
persons in Barclay have not had the
sickness, and the percentage of death
has been what is usual in yellow fever
| epidemics. There were several new cases
reported yesterday at Ocean Springs
and of the number Of i'll at Biloxi, i5
were reported as suffering from yellow
fever. At Ocean Springs, Dr. Wasdin,
of the Marine hospital staff, is receiv-
! ing the best Of attention, and it is
hoped he will pail through ia few
days. Surgeons Carter and Dunn left
Ocean Springs for Pascagouls yester-
day. a case Of yellow fever exists at
that point.
OUTGOING TRAINS CROWDED.
MORuE, Ala, Sept I6-Three cases
of yellow fever were officially an
nounced yesterday by the board Of
health. This caused much more alarm
than did the discovery of the first case,
which was regarded as sporadic. The
people who can are leaving for points
of safety and the trains are leaving
crowded. The same is true Of the
trains on the Mobile & Ohio Dr.
Guiteras left yesterday for Edwards,
Miss, ordered thither to investigate
the dispatch received from there, He
declined to tell what have been his
observations here, saying he had FIRST
to report to the surgeon-genersl at
! Washington. II is learned, however,
that he finds four suspicious cases, al
lin the south central districts When
asked upon what he based his teis-
gram to the surgeon general that there
would be a spread of the disease hero,
he said that the city has had q long
immunity from the disease, and thera
is much material for it to feed upon.
BUSINESS AT A sTAEDsTIL.
JACKSON. Miss, Sept 15-Yesterdag
was q day Of excitement and anxiety
to the people of Jackson. The city is
now surrounded on all sides by ah
armed guard and the quarantine rules
are enforced with great strietness.
| The principal cause Of alarm to the
people Of jackson came from Edwards,
only % miles distant, where there ara
now So cases of dengue, at least three
Of which were reported TO be oonsid-
/ cred suspicious. Business in Jackson
/ is at q complete standstill.