The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-24
THE YELLOW PLAGUE.
little Change in the Situation at New Or
lie :ns Total of Six New Cases aud One
Deat;I-The Health Authorities Still View
the Situation with CoEpiaceHcy People
In the Italian Quarters Living in SquaIor
and Filth.

1
| the Situation with omp!acemcy- People
In the Italian Quarters Living in SquaIoE
| and Filth.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 19-The local
fever situation has undergone little
| change since yesterday. At six o'clock
| tonight the record book in the board
of health office showed a total of sia
new cases and one death. The official
bulletin to be issued tonight, how
ever, will show two Deaths that of the
woman Santa Graffato, who died in the
| hospital last night. not having been
included in the official bulletin, al
though reported in the press dis
patches.
The first two cases are in the ex-
treme upper portion of the city; one is
in the fourth district, one is in the ST.
Claude-street house where the original
six cases were reported and one is in
the Williams house, where two cases
already existed. There are three
cases Cnder investigation and the
health authorities tonight still view
the situation with some complacencv.
They do not anticipate an epidemic as
at its meeting last night the board de-
ClNC0 W dOdIQOn IbS IllS AblH SCSS1OuS
and created DR.. OIiphant master of
the campaign against the disease with
leave to solicit advice from local physi-
clans and the municipal authorities.
The afternoon and night bulletins will
be continued.
The report of DIR. Metz. the city
chemist, on the condition of the Italian
quarter moved, moved the board to
prompt acceptance yesterday of the
offer of TIE city of the marine hospital
as a refuge.
Dr.. Metz found as many as go people
huddled together in the Italian quar-
ter living in squalor and filth. In one
of the rooms goat was found sleeping
nightly with the family that owned it..
The woman Graffato was taken from
this quarter and the board realized
that unless some thing was done at
once the block in which the woman
had lived was likely soon to become a
plague-spot 1t was, therefore, de-
cided to thoroughly disinfect and fumi-
gate the entire square. and to remove
as soon as possibl most of the families
to the old marine hospital. The hum
dred squatterS who now occupy the
latter building will be given quarters
in one of the new school houses in the
vicinity, and the marine hospital build
ings will be permanently used as a
refuge until the fever is stamped out
for the families of the Italian quarters
and those of the INDECENT sick through
out the city.
House Surgeon Bloom had confer
relative to establi< hing. a place to
which INDECENT yellow fever patients
might be removed. There are usually
700 o.. 500 patients in the charity hospi-
tai, and it is considered highly dan
gerous to receive yellow fever patients
in that institution. DR.. Bloom said
that the hospital would provide a sup
Elementary hospital
At this conference DIR. Bloom sub
mitted free use of the old small pox
detention camp which is entirely dis
connected from the small pox hospital
and it seems likely that the offer will
be accepted and all yellow fever
patients who cannot be treated at
home will be treated at DIR. Boards
place.
There are now two yellow fever
patients in the charity hospital and
their presence although they occupy
isolated apartments is deemed serious
menace to other patients.
At a largely attended meeting of
bankers, business men, ministers and
representatives of laboring organiza-
tions, it was resolved to ask the board
to consider the advisability of adopting
next Tuesday as a general cleaning
day. Acting Mayor Brittin and PreSi-
dent Oliphant yesterday replied to the
suggestion strongly deprecating it.
They held that it would be inadvisable
and inexpedient to. determine upon a
fixed day for cleaning purposes, as such
movement would cause an accumula-
tion of filth and trash which could not
be removed at once, and the stirring
up of miasma would further endanger
the health of the city instead of i'm
proving it.
1t was suggested, therefore, that
each individual inhabitant of the city
proceed without delay to the cleaning
of his own premises, to the disinfec-
ton of his water closets. alleys, yard,
etc, and the destruction of all decay
ing matter by fire.
The detention camp at Fontainbleu
was yesterday declared to have been
practically completed and to be ready
for guests.
There were no new cases reported at
Ocean Springs up to noon, but the
weather was heavy and sultry and one
of the patients was not expected to
live. She is Miss Laura Atkins.
Charles Zeigler, son of prominent
New Orleans people, was among those
stricken yesterday at Ocean Springs,
but his condition is not yet considered
serious When the fever had been de-
clared epidemic and yellow he closed
himself up in his home and did not
come forth except to go to the deten-
ton camp as soon as it was ready.
Isolation, however. did not prevent the
germs from entering his home.
At Other Points.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20.-Two mild cases
of yellow fever are reported at Cairo,
III. They are isolated.
Reports from Mobile, Ala, are that
II new cases came to light yesterday.
Total cases to date in Mobile, 20;
deaths, 3.
Greeks Dissatisfied with Peace Conditions.