The herald., 1897-09-22
NINE NEW
PATIENTS
Reported to New Orleans
Officials
NO DEATHS ARE RECORDED
THE SITUATION GENERALLY Is
IMPROVED
NO DEATHS ARE RECORDED
st. Louis Badly Scared But Not Hurt.
The Cairo Case Proves to Be
Malaria
Press Special Wire.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 21.-There
were nine new cases of yellow fever re-
ported to the board Of health this after
noon at 6 o'clock when the days work of
the physicians ended. There were, how
ever, no deaths recorded, and all agree
that the situation Is steadily improving.
The fever at present. instead of develop
ing into malignant type. is as mild.
If not milder, than when it first ap-
peared, as witness twenty-seven cases
in two days without single reath.
A number of cases were discharged
yesterday and today, and the total num-
ber of cases receiving strict attention
today does not Axceed ten. Half dozen
towns today, by telegraph and tele-
phone, notified the authorities here that
they had concluded to withdraw their
restrictions against the receipt of freight
from New Orleans.
ONLY ONE CASE
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. N.-This was an
other day of favorable reports. There
was only one new case reported today.
a child named Willie Goodloe, living in
the infected district. One case was dis
deaths, and none since Saturday.
Traffic is picking up daily, despite the
rigid quarantine maintained. The Mo-
bile and Birmingham road today got
through a train with the local and
through cotton and some through
freight, for the first time since the 18th.
A ST. LOUIS SCARE
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.-This city had
yellow fever scare today, but there
seems to have been but little foundation
for it, according to Health Commissioner
Starkloff, who made an examination Of
the suspected case and declared that it
showed not single symptom of the
dread disease that is raging in the south.
The suspected case Is William Triplet,
30 years of age, who reached the marine
hospital Monday night. He had high
fever and said he came from the govern
ment dredge boat Alpha, engaged in
revetment work near East Cairo, Ky.
DR.. Decker, physician Of the marine hos
pital, became interested in the case when
told by Triplet that he had been working
on the Alpha, for that boat had trans
ferred several cases of yellow fever to
The marine hospital at Cairo Thinking
1t case for investigation, he tele-
phCned Commissioner Starkloff, but it
was 10 o'clock before that gentleman
could get to the hospital.
He examined Tripiet and then re-
turned to his Office in the city hall,
where he Nls seen by representative
Of the A1sds prs Press In regard to
the case, ike onarkloff said: II have
made a thotfcith examination of Trip
let within lHodtope. Jordan and Decker.
The analpSin hIgs @ltall't to me makes the
case lookolihel one ofdordinary intermit-
tent fevsron4f ie is yellow fever, it is of
very mild type. There are none of
those alarming symptoms, such as
suppression Of the kidney functions anG
constipat.on-the two things that kill
in yellow fever. Besides the man had
an appetite for breakfast. He looks
yellowish and has foul breath, like all
malarial patients.
"Triplet says he boarded box car on
the Iron Mountain road in the Cairo
yards early on Monday and came here.
When he left the box car he went di-
rectly to the marine hospital. I shall
have the patient sent to quarantine
where DIR. Woodruff is In charge and take
Two hundred clerks with their fami-
lies. employed in the general offices of
he M. and o. Railroad company at Mo-
bile, Ala, arrived here tonight, tempo
rary headquarters of the road having
been established in this city until after
the yellow fever has died out in the
south.
Information reached the state board
of health today of Suspicious case on
dredee boat at Point Pleasant, Mo-,
one hundred miles below Cairo.
Surgeon-Gereral Wyman replied as
follows to Dr. Paquirs report:
Recommend same course in ST. Louis
as was taken in 1878. Suggest that you
look after Point Pleasant, Mo-, with ref
erence to dre6ge boats there Acting
Assistant Surgean Guiteras has left
Cairo for Point Pleasant to investigate
and take immediate measures. You
should assist him.
There was much indignation at the
health department over the report from
Chicago THAT there were ten cases of the
fever in ST. Louis.
DR.. Starkloff, in answer to a telephone
from Chicago. said there was
no foundation whatever for such a ru-
NOR.
ONLY MALARIA
CHICAGO, Sept. FL The report that
two cases of yellow fevs have beer, dis
covered in Cairo. ILL.,. Las not alarmed
Chicago health officials. Health Com
missioner Reynolds doubts the cases at
Cairo are yellow fever, and believes they
are malaria. or "break-b ,ne" fever. He
has no intention OF resembling his procla-
nation welcoming Southe IN refugees to
Chicago. In discussing the situation Dr.
Reynolds said:
There is absolutely no cause for
alarm i'm Chicago, and we welcome refu-
gees from the fever district. Our climate
would act as a barrier against the con-
tagion, and It would disappear as auick-
ly as 1t came"
TRAFFIC DELAYED
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 2l,-Kansas City
railroads having outlets 1T Gulf ports are