The record-union., 1897-10-15
Forty-IWo New Cases and Four
Deaths Reported Yesterday.
No Chance Of Improvement So Long as
Sultry Weather Continues.
The Fever Dying Out in Texas
Towns and Railway Traffic Re-
sumed - Surgeon-GeneraI Wy
mans Bulletin of New Gases
and Deaths in Southern Cities.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14.-It was the
same old story here to-day. The yellow
fever situation showed no decline in
the number of cases reported. The wea-
ther is warm and sultry, and unusual
for the season, and if it keeps up there
will be little Improvement for the time
being.
The record for the day shows forty
two new cases, and the following deaths:
Allen Dillon, Henry Hass, John Garbo,
Henry Frantz.
Professor Metz said this evening that
up to dark there had been 719 cases al
together of yellow fever and 423 foci
of infection
The uptown people have been COM
planning because the ToGou Infrmary
has been treating patients The his
pital is in the center of a thickly popu-
lated community, and there has been
fear that infection would spread from it.
DR.. Loeber, head of the institution, and
Rabbi Luicht say that the infirmary is
working for humanity, and that it will
continue to treat patients.
DYING OUT AT GALVESTON.
GALVESTON CTex), Oct. 14-Of the
eleven cases of alleged fever, all but
three have been discharged as cured,
and no new cases discovered. The other
three are doing well. Since Houston
has discontinued the quarantine, trains
have been resumed, and business is look
ing much higher. Galveston now ex-
poets that other quarantines will be
raised after a few days. The city
Board of Health to-day re-established
the quarantine against New Orleans.
THE FEVER OF MILD TYPE.
HOUSTON cTex.), Oct. 14-Dr. r. NJ.
Swearingen, State Health officer, be-
fore he left San Antonio. was requested
to make statement for publication
regarding the fever situation.
when I brought DR.. Guiteras here
the day before yesterday" said he, i
apprehended that he would find the
same conditions here as he found at Gal
weston, and there is no doubt in my
mind that yellow fever prevails in both
Galveston and Houston. 1t is, however,
of a remarkable mild form, and instead
of being a calamity, it is going to be a
blessing. II the disease is stamped out
and it is found that there has been very
few fatalities, the name yellow fever
Will have lost its horror"
ported to-day. The suspects declared
by DR.. Guiteras are still under guard,
though the Board of Health has de-
clared two of them well.
The Galveston, Henderson and Hous-
ton road resumed passenger and freight
service with Galveston to-day and the
other roads will resume tomorrow. The
International and Great Northern, Mis-
nd
and Texas Central Railway run trains
north to-day.
SAYS A LIBEL HAS BEEN SPREAD.
AUSTIN CTex), Oct. 14.-Dr. Gui-
teras, the United States Marine Hos
pital and yellow fever expert, who has
been investigating yellow fever cases at
Galveston and Houston, and who has
declared yellow fever to exist at both
places, has left for lis home in Phila-
delphia. Imediately after his departure
the local Boards of Health of Houston,
Galveston and other infected cites in the
State held NEE tings to-day and informed
the Governor that DR.. Guiteras had
spread a libel by declaring yellow fever
to be here while none existed.
NO YELLOW FEVER.
SAN ANTONIO Crex.), Oct. 14.-Dr
r. NJ. Swearingen, State Health Off
Ger, made a report to the city Board
of Health and to the Governor on his
investigation of cases at the city hos
pital and Santa Rosa HOSPITAL. He
said: Il find many cases of dengu and
some few with evidences of jaundice
but none that show any indications of
yellow fever
WYMAN'S BULLETIN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-Surgeon-
General Wyman's bulletin of new cases
and deaths from yesterday to to-day is
as follows:
Franklin, La, one case. fatal.
Mobile. five cases. one death.
Flomaton, Ala, four cases.
Bay Minette. Ala, one case, fatal
McHenry, Miss, six cases.
Scranton. Miss, ten cases, one death.
Edwards, Miss, six cases.
Clinton. Miss, one death
Biloxi, Miss, thirteen cases, one
death.
DR.. Guiteras, who has been making a
tour of the yellow fever district, IS on
his way to Philadelphia to resume ms