The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-16
While Doctors Were Trying to
Determine the Character
OF the Sickness Prevailing in
Southern Towns
FEVER WAS SPREADING
First Malaria, Then Dengue,
Then Yellow Jack.
By That Time Edwards, Mss,
Had 40 Cases.

Jackson, Miss, Sept. 16.-All the fears
Of the citizens of jackson in regard to
/ the sickness prevalent at Edwards
have been realized. DR.. Guiteras, the
| expert, has confirmed seven cases of
| yellow fever and says there are many
| suspects.
First the cases were reported as ma
larial fever, then after time they be-
came dengue fever. Another wait and
| they were pronounced suspicious, and
| finally declared to be the genuine yellow
| jack During all this time the disease
has been spreading rapidly at the rate
of five or six new cases daily, until
| there are now forty cases in existence
at Edwa rdS The evolution of the dis
ease from malarial to yellow fever was
such that the people now regard dengue
as simply a more convenient term than
yellow fever.
The board has instructed DR.. Purnell
to place the Gordon of guards around
Edwards at once. Report says that the
disease has also appeared at Clinton
and Smiths, towns near Edwards. The
state board has ordered the discontin-
uance of trains on the WOodVille, Mis-
SiSSippi, branch of the YaZOO and Mis-
SiSSippi Valley road.
YazCo City has issued orders for a
shotgun quarantine to be enforced. No
trains are to stop except to exchange
mails at the quarantine station. No
passengers are allowed to leave the
train at all and mail and express must
be fumigated
Guards armed to the teeth are placed
all along the county boundaries, but
in spite of these rigid rules several have
managed to get in, some even coming
from infected districts. Two drummers
who came Monday were taken yeSter-
day and put in quarantine.
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 16-Yellow fever
refugees poured into the city today.
During the day three special cars of ref
ugees came in from New Orleans and
other infected points.
One car was filled with troops from
Jackson barracks, in New Orleans.
This stopped here but a few minutes
and then passed on to Chickamauga Ma
tional park, where they will camp.
New orleans, Sept. 16.-The~ fever sit
uation, so far, at least, as New Orleans
is concerned, is considered to have ma
terially improved, and there is less anx-
iety than at any time since Monday.
At TOuro, there are some 200 sick peo-
pie and the utmost caution is being
displayed in order to prevent any pos
sible spread of the disease.
Millions of gallons of water have al
ready been pumped through the streets
and with the general situation as much
improved as it is, confidence is being
strengthened.
The stormy weather there since Sat
urday has had the effect of increasing
the number of cases at Ocean Springs.
Conductor johnson of the Louisville &
Nashville, was stricken together with
three others One new case is reported
at bIloA1, lHdl Oh rev - ~. E1n-
cry, pastor of the Methodist church,
making three in his family.
Biloxi now has 40 cases of sickness
OF these 10 are yellow fever, six are sus-
piciOus and a diagnosis as to Is is re-
served. There have been no deaths at
Biloxi.
Mobile, Ala, Sept 16.-There were
five new cases of yellow fever and one
death in Scranton, Miss, today. The
Mobile board of health has received re-
ports showing that there are no new
cases of yellow fever here and no sus-
piciOuS cases.