San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-17
NEW ORLEANS EXCELLENT
SHOWING AS COMPARED WITH
THF rs EPIDEMIC
Ocean Springs Quarantine Camp
Almost DeSOlatei--N Newspaper
Hops On Quarantine Of
ficialS And ROaStS Them,
Other News,

BY special wire to Sunday Light
New Orleans, Oct. 16.--Dr. Carter re-
turned last night from Franklin, st.
Mary parish. He said that the Italian
tailor Caro- died of yellow fever. DR..
Carter did not see the man as he had
been buried, but was satisfied with the
description of the case given by DR..
Smith, the attending physician.
The health authorities of Franklin
took all necessary precautions relative
to disinfecting and isolation and DR..
Carter superintendent the disinfection
of the fabrics. 1t is not known how
Caro- got the fever as he had not been
out of Franklin for long time; had
not received goods from New Orleans
since the quarantine was established
and had not, so his people said, been
visited by parties from suspected To-
calities.
One theory, which appears plausible,
is that Caro- may have contracted the
fever while cleaning clothes. His books
showed, and his family acknowledged,
that recently he had done considerable
business in the clothes cleaning line
for different parties, some of whom
were of his own nationality, and pos
sibly they had come from an infected
place, and the clothes which Caro-
cleaned had not been unpacked until
he received them at his shop.
Camp Hutton, in Jefferson Parish, for
the detention of sugar-house employees,
will receive 100 men Sunday, leaving on
the a. m. train of the Southern Paci-
fic. The issuance of certificates of ad-
mission has been stopped until further
orders, as there have been more than
five hundred already given out.
Although it is impossible to obtain
data for an accurate comparison, it
may be encouraging to know that
while from the 9Th of September, the
beginning of the present outbreak, to
the 10th of October, the total number
Of deaths has been So while in the out
break of 1878, from the sth of July I'M
til the end of August the total number
of deaths was 1851. 1t is true this
shows the number of deaths for the
first twenty-nine days of the current
outbreak as compared with the first
forty-four days Of the epidemic of 1878,
but this comparison leaves but fifteen
days to be added to the 1897 record
with the enormous margin of 96S deaths
to be made up in that short space of
time. This certainly seems to speak
we'll for the quarantine regulations,
Notwithstanding many complaints that
have been made against them, and in
this connection it must be remembered
that when yellow fever visited New
Orleans in 1873, following numerous
and repeated visitations of lesser mo-
ment, it did not find such a city full
of non-immunes as it had in 1897 after
an absence of nineteen years.
The outside record is by no means
reassuring one. Biloxi leads off
with nineteen new cases and no deaths.
Scranton had nine new cases. Mobile
8 and Edwards s, with no mortality at
any of the points mentioned.
Cayuga, Miss, enters the list with
IA new cases. This place is small
village in Kinds county, Miss, six
miles from a railroad. On September
9TH, a man from New Orleans refugeed
there from yellow fever. In about ten
days he was taken sick but recovered
in few days. Since then there have
been numerous cases in the little town.
The Mississippi board of health sent
an expert to investigate and today he
reports II cases of fever there. A
great panic has ensued among the peo-
pie of that section.