The age-herald., 1897-09-30
Through EVaSiOnS Of Guards at Infected
 Houses, Have the Disease.
EDWARDS SENDS GLOOMY TIDINGs
Twenty-Four Cases, and Two Cases
 and One Death at Brownsville.
ENCOURAGING REPORT FROM MOBILE
Only Four New Cases for the Day-Poor Being Taken Care of--Meridian Ex- perienccs a Sensation-Contri-
 button to the Destitute.
DEATHS.

- Y DEATHS.
 PARK c. HANDS. 16s7 octav.a street.
 GIAcoMo RUSSO. e25 St. Phillip street.
 EMILE TAMMoRs, 1906 St. Andrew. MRS. JENNIE AFFORD, 1894 Charles.
 NEW CASES.
 = BURNS. Phillip, near Chippewa street.
 DAVID MITCHELL. 52s Esplanade street.
 MISS MAUDE sTREYcK, e2o Jack son.
 RAvENEL SMITH, 2s1s St. Charles street.
 ALEX BURAGE, 219 Methome
 CRUDE CHANDLER, colored. 1515 Jo- seph.
 FRANCIS HACKNEY. Poydras asy- lum.
 WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN. S2s8 Chippewa.
 MISS PIGIE PETUs, Victoria street, near Charles.
 GEORGE HYNsON. valmont and South Rampant.
 MISS OLIVE HEWITT, 174S Jackson.
 MISS ELLEN PRERET, 1s3 Second street.
 MISS AUGUSTA DICKINSON. 14ss Jackson.
 MRS. JAMES RAY, 523 Esplanade.
 JOHN LOTION, Charity hospital.
 JAMES GORMAN, Charity hospital.
 BERTRAND DAzEL. 325O St. Thomas.
 I A. M'KINNEY, Detention camp.
 S. J. HOLLISTER, Detention camp.
 THREE CHILDREN, in Sisters of Charity convent; namss not ascertained. EDWARD ENGLEBRECHT, 4so3 South Front street
 New Orleans, Sept. 29.-Today has been record-b.eaker in the number of new eases of yellow fever reported, while the deaths equailed in number those of any day since .he yellow fever was first dis covered in the ely. There are various reasons given for the sp'.ead of the dis ease, but the principal ones are two- that the weather turned warm again and owing to the much wider field 70 70, 1T the board of health had some diff icuhy in getting every house as closely guarded as was possible when the cases here were few in number and the trained officials of the board were stationed at rhwe quarantned houses. Tie fact that the death rate has been small and that the chance of an epidemic has been con- the quarantined houses. The fact that general public somewhat careless, ard there has been increasing friction be- tween the qualantined people and the au- thorities. limp. isoned inmates of houses have been going over back fences and sneaking out of side doors in order not to be confined, and the result has been that more germs have been scait ere d and rapidly developed in these warm days. In no other season have the au- thorittes been more st:icr in quarantin- ing houses and isonat.ng inmates who might be around she sick, and ihe result has been that every possible effort has been made by certain clements of the comrnu nity to get the better of the board. The increa assd number of cases here has caused no general alarm, because .he increase of deaths has not been in pro- portion.
 Tho death rate is a trif1e under 12 per cent, when five or six days ago 1t was shown to be about 15. The conclu- sion therefore is natural that there Is no increase in the malignancy of the disease. The authorities here still be- aieve that for some time longer the new cases will occasionally exceed the num- ber on .he books today, but they are Anguarly one in the cp.nion hat the disease cannot attain the proportions of an epidemic.
 Among the new eases reported today Is Ravenal Smith, a m4mber of a we'll to-do family.
 Five cases appears on Jackson avenue, one of the fashionable streets of the city. Most of the patients reported as III today are of the better class
 Late this evening three cases were, re- ported by Dr. separd in the Sisters of