Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-06
MORE NEW CASES OF FEVER
Dread Disease Still Keeps Its Hold on
New Orleans.
Ocean Springs, Where the Disease
First Made It's Appearance, is
Now All Right.

NEW ORLEANS, La, October 6.-Dur-
ing the sixteen hours ending at 1 pm. to-
day the board of health reports fifteen new
cases Of fever and five deaths. Four new
cases are reported from Mobile, Ala
DR.. Carter of the marine hospital told a
conference at the sugar exchange that the
Formaldhyde generators would be used
here in the disinfection of freights until
cold weather sets in in Mississippi Ala
bama and Arkansas. He believes that as
soon as the states have frost the quaran-
tine against New Orleans will be raised,
because yellow fever germs will not thrive
after frost, and he looks for frost in those
states inside of thirty days, or considerably
earlier than it will be had in New Orleans.
The sugar and rice dealers will embody
DR.. Carriers views In circular and send
1t broadcast through the three states men,
toned.
Ex-Gov Yarmouth and other planters
down the coast have practically arranged
to receive on their plantations the Sicilian
immigrants coming on the Chateau Yquem.
The board of health will consent and the
steamship agents are expected to.
Baton Rouge has quarantined the levee
camps in her suburbs. La Fourche parish
has decided to receive laborerS to work on
the sugar plantations. provided that they
have undergone detention at Fontainebleau
or some other station. Parishes of northern
Louisiana are to confer and modify their
quarantine regulations, in order to permit
the shipment of cotton to New Orleans and
in order that properly disinfected freight
may be received from this city.
General Manager Thorne of the Texas
Pacific is in Louisiana and is cooperating
in this movement. Gov. Foster has ten
dered his assistance in the premises.
Alexandria declares that fumigated cars
are safe to receive and her action will have
a good effect on the other parishes of
northern Louisiana.
Ocean Springs is free from fever now
and refugees are flocking into that town.
The result will be rigid quarantine by
Ocean Springs against infected points,
THEOLOGICAL work in New Orleans, and is
coming here from Ocean Springs
Marine Hospital Service Bulletin.
The daily bulletin sent out today by the
surgeon; general of the Marine Hospital
service shows the new cases of yellow
fever yesterday to have been as follows:
New Orleans, So; Biloxi, @; Scranton, .;
McHenry, 2; Edwards. 0; Militia Yuma, l.
There were 10 new cases at Ocean
Springs. The only deaths reported were
two at New Orleans and one at Edwards.
In his last report to the surgeon general
of the marine hospital service DR.. Drummer,
United States sanitary inspector at Ha-
vaIa, gives warning of the danger of yell
low fever infection from cattle steamers
plying between Cuba and the United States.
He mentions the fact that preparations are
beirg made to ship cattle from Galveston,
New Orleans and ports on the west coast
of Florida under the new tariff regula-
tons admitting cattle at smaller rate of
duty. He says the cattle-carrying craft
necessarily are filthy, and being obliged
to go alongside Cuban wharves there is
danger they may carry the disease back
with them.