Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-20
YELLOW JACKS DOMAIN
Nideously Filthy Condition in New Orleans
Quarter.
MARINE HOSPITAL FOR CAMP OF REFUGE
Board of Health Report in the Crescent
City-Panama's Condition-Cas
In Illinois.

New orleans, Sept. 19.-The local
,ever situation has undergone little
obonre since yesterday. At 6 O'Clock
,onipbt the record book in the board of
health office showed total of six
,s,v cases and one death. There are
,bree cases under investigation and
the health authorities view the situa-
tion with some complacency.
The report of DIR. Metz, the city
ohemlst on the condition of the italian
o,,srter. moved the board to prompt
Srcaptauce today OF the offer of the
liz of the Marine hospital as a refuge.
mr., Metz found as many as sixty people
huddled together in the Italian quarter
living in squalor and NTH. In one OF
The rooms a goat was found sleeping
nightly with the family who owned 1t.
4 woman was taken from this quarter
aud the board realized that unless
something was done at once the block
IN which she had lived was likely soon
10 become a plague spot. 1t was,
therefore, decided to guard the building
thoroughly, disinfect and fumigate the
entire square. and to remove as soon
MS possible most of the families to the
old Marine hohspital. The hundred
snuatters who now occupy the latter
building will be given quarters in one
Of the new schoolhouses in the vi
cinlty and the Marine hospital build
ing will be permanently used as
refuge until the fever is stamped out,
for the families of the Italian quarters
and those Of the INDECENT sick through
out the city.
At a largely attended meeting of
bankers. business men, ministers and
representatives OF laboring organiZa-
lions, IL was resolved to ask the board
. IA gnngfhar tho a1,rfgn afIffN
Of adopting next Tuesday as a general
cleaning day Acting Mayor Britain
and President Oliphnnt today replied
10 the suggestion, strongly deprecating
II. They wrote that 1t would be mad
yisable and inexpedient to determine
upon a fixed day for cleaning purposes
as such q movement woL q cause an
accumulation of filth and trash. which
could not be removed at once and. by
the stirring up of miasma. would fur
Their endanger the health of the city
instead Of improving 1t. 1t was sug-
gested, therefore, that each individual
lnhabitant of the city proceed without
delay to the cleaning of his own prem
ises, TO the dislnfecting of his water
closets, alleys, yards, etc, and the de-
struction Of all decaying matter by fire.
Detention camp at Funtalnbleau was
today declared to have been practically
completed and to be ready for the re-
p
day went to Biloxi and Ocean Springs
and from there carried about forty
people to the camp. Tomorrow the
camp will be thrown open to all COM
ers. Those who are not immunes will
have to stay in the camp ten days,
according to the rules laid down by
surgeon Murray, these rules being
simply the Federal law which the
surgeon, as the commander of the
camp, Is bound to enforce.
Charles Zeigler, son of prominent
New Orleans people, was among those
stricken yesterday at Ocean Springs,
and his condition is not yet considered
serious When the fever had been de-
elared epidemic and yellow. he closed
himself up in his house and did not
come forth, except to go to the de-
tention camp as soon as 1t was ready.
Isolation, however, did not prevent the
germs from entering his home.
The daily official bulletin of the
board Of health says: During the
twenty-four hours ending with
O'clock pm. Sunday, there were six
positive cases of yellow fever, one
suspicious case under investigation and
three deaths. Total cases of yellow
fever to date, 40; deaths. g.
The majority of cases under treat
ment are reported as doing WELL.
SCOURGE IN HAVANA.
NdSnlilBtpnt sept. l9-ln MS weekly
report to the Marine hospital service,
Sanitary Inspector Drummer of Havana
says that for the week ending Septcm-
Der 9th, there were 1926 deaths, of which
htteeh were from yellow fever. TWEEN
ty-nine from enterlc or pernicious
fevers; thirty-four from dysentery ana
ntty-iye from entcritls. The inspector
says the decline in deaths from yellow
Fever Is only apparent. many deaths
from that disease having been placed
under the head of enterltis and en-
terlc fever AT the same time there
are not as many cases of yellow fever
IN the military hospital as there We're
TWO months ago, the soldiers who are
SICK being cared for in the hospitals
elsewhere.
CAMP OF REFUGE.
jackson, Miss. Sept 1s.-Dr. II. S.
Glddings of the Marine hospital service
arrived here today ON his way to Ed
wards to establish camp of refuge
there. He has with him 300 tents and
mattresses. Dr. J. Il. Hunter, secretary
OF the state board Of health. viii arrive
mere tomorrow from Vicksburg to con-
Ter with DIR. Giddlngs with a view to
establishing base Of supplies. and
taxing stringent measures TO stamp
out the yellow fever.
TWO CASE AT CAIRO.
Cairo, ILL.,, Sept. 19.-Dr. Guiteras, the
yellow fever expert, who arrived here
from Mobile at noon today, has pro-
hounced the two suspicious cases at the
Marine hospital to be yellow fever in
mild form. Owing to the prompt
measures taken. there is no danger OF
ita spreading The hospital building
is Well guarded.
Tonight Dr. Elgan issued an orde,
addressed to every railroad entering
me state from the south. instructing
quarantine against the states OF Ala
b1ma, Louisiana and MlssissIppi.