The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-21
Cases in a New Orleans Boarding House Pat
ronized by the Smart Set.
More Rapid Than at Any Pre-
vious Time Since the Crescent
City Was Attacked.
Dr. Holt, An Expert, May Be Put Under Arrest for
Failure to Comply With the Law-Conditlons
Improved at Mobile.

city authorities the Oakland driving park
was selected as the site for the camp OF oe-
tention. 1t is situated in the rear OF the
city, and was rendered to the officials by the
Crescent City Jockey club. A large force OF
men was Immediately put to work, and it is
expected that by tomorrow the camp will be
ready to receive 800 to 400 people from the
Italian quarter. Any people who live in in
fected houses who desire may go to this
camp and be cared for. Gov. Foster this af-
ternoon instructed Gen. Glynn to provide 100
tents, blankets, cots and other necessary ar
ticles for the of the refugees, and Gen.
Glynn has arranged to have these articles
sent to the camp tomorrow morning.
Today the board of health decided to send
a list of infected houses daily to manufac-
tories, in order to enable the proprietors to
discriminate in the employment of aid, and
to lay off any of the employees who may live
in neighborhoods where infection exists. The
board also decided to send immuniZed wash
women and servants to all of the families
who have sickness in their homes and who
are unable to pay for servants themselves.
The New Orleans & Western road, which
has large settlement at Port Chelmette,
ordered a physician there to inspect the plant
and the cottages of employees, and to at once
put sanitary measures into effect. Fifty-eight
people slept at Fontainbleau, the federal de-
tention camp, last night Today additional
refugees arrived there from Mobile Tomor-
row the camp will be prepared to receive l5o
additional guests and by Thursday the sur
| geons in charge say they will have room and
accommodations for 800 people besides those
already Quartered there. The Louisville q
Nashville railroad is providing free trans
portation for all who wish to go to the
camp. Today ]. H. Whyte, a newspaper
correspondent, was taken i'll at Fontainbleau,
and was removed to an isolated point where
the hospital is located, one mile from Fon-
tainbleau There were no new cases at Ocean
Springs up to evening, and several of the
old patients were discharged.
Miss May Chinn died at Biloxi this
| afternoon. All mails are now being
sent from the infected districts with
as much regularity as possible with
the reduced railroad facilities. DR..
Holt reported to the board of health
today that all cases were traceable to
| Ocean Springs, one of them contracted
the fever through letter written by
woman in room where her child
was sick at Ocean Springs. The letter
apparently had not been disinfected.
Only one of DR.. Holt's patients is dam
| gerOusly ill-Clinton S. Dixon. This
evening the board of health ordered
all the houses occupied by Dr. Holt
patients to be fumigated. The public
| circulating library in New Orleans was
closed today at the suggestion of the
board of health. Two private schools
that have refused to close in accord
ance with the suggestion of the board
of health will be proceeded against
| legally.