The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-13
IN NEW ORLEANS.
THE EXISTENCE OF SEVEN CASES
OFFICIALLY ANNoUNCED.
one Case IL in One or tho Most Fashionable
Residential Streets ana Creates some Alarm
Exodus from the City to q Large Extent
Prevented by the May ouaraptincs.

NEW ORLEANS. Sept, l2.-The Louisiana
Board OF Health officially announced the exist.
enco OF seven cases Of yellow fever in New
Orleans. Six of these are among the twelve sick
on 81. Claude street, previously reported as sus-
pici Gus. Tho disease has made sufficient pro-
gr IS to enable the doctors to definitely dag.
nose it rs yellow fever.
The Board Of Health followed this informa.
tion up with the announcement that it had dis.
covered a case of genuine yellow fever at the
corner OF Esplansde avenue and Miro street.
THIS last case has caused much apprehension.
1t is twenty-five squares, u milo and n half,
from the st. Claude street cases. in the heart OF
the Creole section OF the city and on one of the
handsomCst and most fashionable residential
streets in the city. The patient is n child, who
had been in Scranton during the summer and
may have contracted the disease there, but he
has h On back for ten days, so the origin Of the
disease cannot be definitely determined. Of the
six 81. Claude street cases four arc convalescent
AMI the other two in u very critical condition,
wi h little hope of recovery. Both arc children.
o,u Il, the other II.
Il prCmised to announce when we had yellow
fever in New Orleans" said DIR. Olliphant, Presi-
dent of the Louisiana Board of Health, to-day,
land | must announce with regret that it is
here. There are two or three other cases under
examination. upon which it is impossible, as
yet, to pronounce judgment. They are refugees
flopl Ocean Springs"
The report naturally created some alarm here,
ps iticularly the Esplanade street case, as it was
b '.ieycd that the Board of Health could conhne
thc fever on ST. Claude street, in the lower part
oi the city. and admirably adapted for quaran-
tine and isolation The exodus from New Or
leans, which was expected at the official AN
nouncement of the yellow fever, has been to a
large extent prevented by the numerous quar-
snuncs recently proclaimed. as refugees will
not be allowed to land this side of Kentucky.
NJ my persons would go away, If they could go
olsy q few hundred miles, as in the past, but
only u few can afford to go to the other side OF
the Ohio. This is about the season when the
summer tourists return to the city, but the an
nouncement of the suspicious cases has so far
Eert them from returning.
AT Ocean Springs, Miss, only one new case Is
reported. A large sum of money has been raised
IN New Orleans and sent TO the relief of the
destitute poor in the town. Yesterday there
was not a loaf of bread to be bought in the town.
as all freight has been shut out. Arrangements
were made to-day TO allow q car 10 be sent to
Ocean Springs daily, which will carry there such
food and provisions as the people absolutely
need.
In Biloxi the town authorities have requested
the Mississippi State Board of Health 10 take
chargc Of the health of the city. This has caused
herc, opposition on the part of many people,
and there was much riotous tsk for q time. One
ca 80 was reported to-day.
Biloxi reports four new cases OF fever to-day.
Drs- Tackett and Gsul visited fourteen cases.
nine Of which they found to be Enthusiastically
yellow fever. and Ave suspicious.
Work has proceeded on the detention camp at
aon.aineoiean to-day. and the station win DO
ana detention stations are being established at
several points on the Gulf coast, and the tramps
OF that section are having a hard time Of IL with
dtsintection and fumlgation. In scranton the
c!ty, Council has authorized the Board OF Health
20 close the schools and even the churches IL
necessary. and to enforce a curfew Law prohibit
ang the people from being on the streets at night,
should this be deemed necessary.
Three cases are reported from Barclay, twelve
imiIes from scranton; AtAugusta. twenty miles
north of Ocean Springs, and in the midst OF
iin being a refugee from Ocean Springs. He
h . been thoroughly Isolated.
Quarantine wars have broken out in all parts of
the southwest, which are causing much bitter
ness and suffering and interfering greatly with
IN. eilclency or the quarantine work.
There is ugly friction between the Mississippi
state Board OF Health and DIR. Guiteras. the ex-
{trt sent south by the United States Marine
The Mississippi Board pronounced the Ocean
%hiIc declaring that young seymour. on whom
that two other patients there were sick OF the
-, nv OthOAo oo'hN NM IA
A amber. dengue. DR.. Haranson. President Of
ne Aiississippi Board Of Health. regards this
ell OF Biloxi he arraisncd DR.. Gutter.
a.. severely for declaring that the cases
T Kew nc" 10 the Bs't e%on,r fGyeT thus Mh sisIh me- , YGH peapis
ihLse hopes and serving to make them careless
Hhen a great danger was hanging over them.
ne expressed tue opinion that the views set out
hS pr: Gulteras we're not the honest conclusions
&c has reached. but were made to conform to
sHFgeon,GeneraI Wyman's wishes, The quarrel
rs caused q sensation on the Gulf coast. The
M.s'lsslppi State Board OF Health was about 10
to the Marine Hospital service. but The quarrel
u" No hfs arisen may now prevent this
lie louisiana, Board OF Health to send an in
speetor TO } ok at suspicious cases there. but
Tue louisiana board Imagined that 1t had been
Mms shiieed and accordingly quarantined against
not t'n even sSSt aI hlEa1. Mobile IA has reeiprocated 6y
at ,he quarantine station and LETT there.
Also at war over the quaran Il TiehRnsbars
ssnt out health inspectors on the trains Of the
~spectors have been exssmining ali the passengers
t5u agPSp iNslt to be from the Gull coast. the Xicks,
Souhty, SO as to prevent them entering Vicks-
The Port Gibson and Claiborne authorities
Pat the suspects iorcibly on The train and made
We y railroad haul them into Virksburg, and the
r,hsuuFB inspectors arc now IOt allowed To
"Href Tue county or mike their inspection there.
ihe rdiirOads are 50 cranpGd by the numerous
Ala cohhicting, guarantees that they can with
NSllncuity run their trains. The LOuisville and
SSnsnyllle discontinued two trains from New
op To-day in consequence OF the numerous
tGafahtihes IN Alabama. through which the
roau runs, The Illinois Central officials were
sotihen ms morning of the fact that tho entire
Stale OF Mississippi had quaTHntined against all
poihis from Mobile TO New Orleans, Inclusive,
against another.
MO persons from points between Mobile and
~ nSW Orledns can even pass through the State
r. = ntt7issippi, to say nothing OF stopping within
~ boundaries. No persons from Now Orleans
cndn NC perm ted To stop at Terry, Jackson,
CCanlon, Walden, Piakens, Durant, Winch
uLeHada, or Natchcz with or without certih.
'Spprs IRON the health authorities.
not hlb'oh has adopted tho same policy,
Mu,h or Tennessee Is already shut out by quar-
anime, and tho railroad officials express the
Sr'noom mat the greater part II not the entire
SSo 49, VIII quarantine against yisitors from the
It'll NIihin The next day or two.
~ !ack or reason in many of the quarantine.
muue 10 the fact that In most of the towns there
p%e not regular health officers. Tho people mecl
m mass meeting, elect their own health ohi
nul, an declare their own quarantine. Ray
nolu' f!lisville, and Port Gibson, Miss,. hav,
WxfIFHhiihed themselves against The world. anC
i, nnut up light within their own walls.