The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-09
NOT so MUCH SCARE
yellow Fever Fright Subsldlng After the
First Excitement.
new ORLEANS FREE FROM coRTAGIoN
Dr. Gniteras at Ocean sprIngs-Alter
examination KS Not Convinced
That Yellow Fever Has Existed NJ
tho esprings-VeEy Few Fatalities
Reported.
New Orleans, Sept. 3. 1So
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New Orleans, Sept 8, 1897
When the Board of Health met to-
night DR.. Oliphant had no additional
cases TO report to that body as having
occurred In New Orleans, and was able
70 say that the local stuatlon had vast.
~ improved. and that there were nc
present prospects Of evil results fol-
lowing the death of the Gelpi child. The
public pulse here is vastly stronger and
Ne" orleans is almost ready TO de-
clare That 1t has had scare for moth
ing. Dr. Oliphant and his staff have
slept put little In the last 76 hours, and
nave fairly honeycombed the city for
suspicious cases of fever without re-
: suits
Deep interest has naturally been felt
uere IN the outcome Of the examination
OF Dr. 9uiteraS who arrived at Ocean
Springs this morning. Under instruc.
lions from the superintendent of the
Louisville and Nashville, Dr. Gu!teras
was put off III the woods q couple of
nliles from Ocean Springs. It was not
long thereafter before the doctor ran I'm
against the quarantine trocha. and the
dIstinguished visitor had to fully es-
labilsh his identity before he was per-
mitted to run the line
On his arrival in Ocean Spr,nrs Dr
IN person investigated number of cases
OF the prevailing sickness He found
only TWO cases. 1t Is said, that deserve
1he term doubtful or suspicious md In
answer 10 an inquiry he said he hoped
10 be able TO wire the result OF his en-
ANIMATION to Washington this evening
IN the meantime a correspondent wired
TO one city that he had learned from a
source that could not be doubted tb,,
Dr. lSllitprQH n Etay HI
not been entirely convinced that any
yeilow teVer has existed or does exist in
ocean springs The local physicians are
not prepared to say what effect nm oDin-
ION py DR.. Guiteras counter to that ex-
pressed by the four experts, who declar
90 pne cases they investigated was yell
low fever, would have.
a hhorough canvass of the wards of
ocean Springs. completed late this even
Ing. shows there have been seven hun.
dred and forty-eIght cases Of the pre-
Vailing fever since July Sth. There are
now 81 still sick. Tho total deaths heye
peen y, and In several instances physi
clans say the symptoms show the fever
was complicated with other diseases
Ihere are believed to have been only
ONO deaths due to yellow jack. AT tho
suggestion Of DR.. Cant, every house
where there has been sickness or there
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Final arrangements to handle tho Pt
loxi and Ocean Springs mall were com.
pieted to-day. The railroad) manage ers
sent over mail crane today and tha
pouch Will be taken by trains both WAYS
after the bags have been fumiratcd
AFTER DR. .Guiteras has completed his
lnVestlgation, quarantine detention
statfon Will be established Those whn
are not Ill will be detained at The sta
1lon until they are considered worthy
to be given clean bills OF health and
will then be permitted to 20 TO ,theIr
MONIES. There are sixty-five residents OF
new Orleans who are tied up in Ocean
Spr!nSS anxious to get away, and Same
fifteen from other points.
There Is q law in Mississippi against
the violation OF quarantine laws rs
ually In yellow fever epidemics. an nm.
; written law. enforced by the shot gun
obtains. nnd that is the law which is
Biloxi A''o
Biloxi people are not absolutely con-
Vlnced that the fever there Is yellow
jack. DR.. HarraIson has SO pronounced
the cases, but when he has complctcd
his Investigations at Ocean Springs, DR.
Gulteras Will be asked to visit Biloxi
and determine positively whether or NOT
DE- Harrnlson has correctly diagnosed
the disease. Whatever the fever is, i;
has had good effect for on all hands
residents are carrying into effect Nav
or Howards Recommendation to put
their homes In proper sanitary condition
and TO abstain from congregatinE any
where In crowds
fhis morning the three patients at
Biloxi were doing well, and II was
Thought they would recover. Their
homes have been completely Isolated
and thoroughly djsinfocted. +
Some $50 people were broiIGht to New
Orleans by the morning ira ins from the
coast. There were very few passengers
OIL the evening trains and both Pass
Christian and Bay ST. Louis have been
deDopulated 40 far as summer visitors
are concerned
All coast trains on the L. e ~ were
discontinued to-day and through trains
will do whatever local business is nccca
sary while Il special is always n the dis
posal of officials who are enlisted In ths
movement service TO stamp out the
fever at Biloxi and Ocean Springs.
Baton Rogue, the State capital, is The
latest town to declare quarantine. Bus
mess mon who had shipments to make
by express to the State capital thL; even
ing. learned that orders had been issued
not ITO let the New Orleans train stop
there and the express people had been
further instructed that they would MOI
be permitted to toss off packages az the
irain went flying through Baton Rogue
Even the afternoon papers were tnbooed
and the publishers notified that their
papers could not be delivered at the
capital.
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