The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-09
SOUTHERN CITIES RECOVERING
FROM THE PANIC CAUSED BY
YELLOW FEVER.
DOCTORS MAY DISAGREE.
THE DISEASE Is THE REAL
SCOURGE.
No New Cases Reported ut New Or
leans, Biloxi or Ocean Springs
During the Day.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept S.-When the
board of health met tonight DR.. Olli-
plant had no additional yellow fever
cases to report to that body as having
occurred in New Orleans, and was able
to say that the local situation had
vastly improved andthat there were no
present prospects Of evil results fol-
lowing the death of the Gelpi child. The
public pulse here is vastly stronger, al i
New Orleans is almost ready to declare
| that it has had scare for nothing. DR..
Olliphant and his staff have slept but
| little in the past tWenty-six hours and
| have fairly honeycombed the city for
| suspicious cases of fever without re-
| suit. Now they are ready to render any
assistance in their power to the gov
| eminent and the Mississippi authori-
| ties in bottling up whatever fever ex-
lists in Ocean Springs and Biloxi.
Deep interest has naturally been felt
here in the outcome of the examination
OF DR.. Guiterras, who arrived at Ocean
| springs this morning. Under inStruc-
tons from the superintendent of the
Louisville & Nashville, DR.. Guiterras
| was put off in the woods, a couple of
| miles from Ocean Springs 1t was not
long thereafter that the doctor ran up
against the quarantine, and the distin-
gulshed visitor had fully to establish
his identity before he was permitted
to run the line. On his arrival in Ocean
Springs he went Immediately to work
| investigating a number of cases. He
| found only two cases, it is said. that
| CnJ,yra tlon y
| and in answer to an inquiry he said he
| hoped to be able to wire the result of
| his examination to Washington this
evening. In the meantime a CORE
| spondent wired that he had learned.
| from a source that could not be doubt
ed, that Dr. Guiteras after his examina-
ton had not been entirely convinced
that any yellow fever has existed or
does exist in Ocean Springs The To-
cal physicians are not prepared to say
what effect an opinion by DR.. Gutter
ras counter to that expressed by the
four experts who declared the cases
they investigated were yellow fever
would have.
thorough canvas of the wards of
Ocean Springs, completed late this
evening, shows there have been 74S
cases Of the prevailing fever since July
g. There are now thiry-seven still
sick. The total deaths have been nine
and in several instances physicians
certificates show the fever was COM
plicated with other diseases. There
are believed to have been only two
deaths due to yellow jack At the
suggestion of Dr. Cant every house
where there has been sickness or there
is now is being fumigated. Dr. Cant
says whether the prevailing disease is
yellow fever or low malaral, it is GER
tainly contagious.
Final arrangements to handle the
Biloxi and Ocean Springs mail were
completed today. The railroad man
| ayers sent over a mail crane today
and the pouches will be taken by
trains both ways, after the bags have
been fumigated. After Guiterras has
completed his investigation, a quaran-
tine detention station will be establish
ed. Those who are not i'll will be de-
tanned at the station until they are
considered worthy to be given clean
bills of health and will then be per-
mitted to go to their homes. There are
sixty-five residents of New Orleans
who are tied up in Ocean Springs, and
some fifteen from Eastern points.
AS indicated by the difficulty Dr.
Guitarras had in getting into the
Springs, quarantine is being very
strictly maintained. Fishermen and
hunters who were out of the town
when the Gordon was established. have
not been permitted to return ARMED
men are posted in every direction and
Ocean Springs seems to be determined
that no more sickness of any kind shall
be imported within it's borders The
cases are very rare wherein the quaint
let has been run and generally the
guards have made no discrimination as
between rich and poor, white or black.
There is a law in Mississippi against
the violation of quarantine laws.
Usually in yellow fever epidemics.
however, an unwritten law, enforced
by the shotgun, obtains, and that is
the law which is now in effect about
Ocean Springs and Biloxi.
Biloxi people are absolutely con-
WINGED that the fever there is yellow
jack. Dr. Haraldson has so pronounce
ed the cases. but when he has COM
pleted his investigation at Ocean
Springs, DR.. Guiterras will be asked
to visit Biloxi and determine positive
ly whether or not Haraldson has cor
rectly diagnosed the disease. Until
the report is made by the marine hos
pital expert the Biloxi people declare
they will not be satisfied.
This morning the three patients at
Biloxi were doing we'll and it was
thought they would recover. The1r
homes have been completely isolated
and thoroughly disinfected. Some $50
people were brought to New Orleans
by the morning trains from that dis
tlict The Louisville & Nashville Of
ficiaIs believe the state officers will
soon wipe out the plague. The rail
roads will be considerable losers by
the pest. for it's heavy summer travel
to the coast has been cut off about six
weeks earlier than usual. Baton
Rouge, the state capita. is the latest
town to declare quarantine.
Business men who had shipments to
make by express to the state capital
this evening learned that orders had
been issued not to let the New Orleans
trains stop there, and the express peo-
pie had been further instructed that
they would not be permitted to toss off
packages as the train went flying
through Baton Rouge. Even the
afternoon papers were tabooed and the
furnishers notified that their papers
co11ld not be delivered at the capital.
None of the other Louisiana towns
who ever quarantined New Orleans
have used the barriers and they are
rot likely to do so until doubt no long,
err exists that the fever has been eff
fectually stamped out, though nine out
of ten people here believe that this |
has already been accomplished.