The age-herald., 1897-09-11
II CROWS STEADILY WORSE
Yellow Flags Adorn Many Houses
 At Biloxi.
APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE
From the Outside World Will Be Made-New Orleans Has Suspicious Cases-Gov-
 ernment Physicians Recalled.


 ment of twelve suspicious cases on one square'in this city, and that three cases had developed since the death of a young lady who had come from Ocean Springs, created large measure of alarm in the public mind early today, but this was allayed when the facts be- came known. At nightfall all reports reports received by Dr. Oliphant were so favorable that renewed confidence was infused in the officials of the board Just before the board met pr. Onphant said to a reporter of the Associated Press:
 There is marked improvement in the situation in the state I may state un- officially that all the patients in the St. Calude square are better. I had not received a report from the board of ex- perts, but I have learned from our in- spector, who is assigned to the premises, that apparently none of the patients are at present in danger. I am prepared to say that no other case has been brought to our attention in New Orleans the symptoms of which would justify us in chasing as suspicious
 This morning a party of doctors and other officials left here over the Illinois Central for Memphis and will return via the Mississippi Valley. They stop at all intervening places to make known the exact status of affairs, seeking. to allay the fears of the people in ordsr that panic in the country may be pre- vented and the imposing of unreasonable quarantine restrictions raised
 It is hoped that this visit of the off, cials, in whom the people have confi- dence. will have the effect of checking undue restraint of this kind
 Surgeon Murray of the Marine Hospi- tai Service, stated tonight that Ocean Springs from now on would be the off, cial head of the entire gulf coast Marine Hospital Service, and the camp of de- tention would be at Fontainstbleau, chree miles from the gulf.
 Those who are taken to the camp will be held nominal prisoners for ten days, and if at the expiration of hat, time they show TO signs of infe5 ion they will be given a certificate by the Marine Hospf- ital Service and permitted to go where they please. One thousand people, white and black, at Ocean Springs, by actual count, are in distress, many being in ex- treme want of medicine ard provisions. No, a morsel of food or an ounce of medicine has been given to any one ex- cept by private citizens who already have been heavily taxed.
 Sisters of Charity have appealed to the authorities to be allowed to nurse the sick
 The fever has not spread west beyond Biloxi. The most effective quarantine measures are in froce, and if the dis ease is not held in check at Biloxi, Ocean Springs and Scranton, it will not be be- cause the authorities have lacked vigil ance.
 Biloxi Is appealing for medicine, and 'the situation in the town is apparent ly growing worse.
 Mss Lewis, in the city limits, was de- cAared to have black vomit, after Dr. Tackett had made a microscopic exam- ination. Frank Emery son of the Meth odist preacher, was late this afternoon reported down with yellow fever. The house and inmates are quala mined and rhe yellow flag is flying.
 Mayor Howard today issued orders that the flags should be displayed wh4r- ever yellow fever was found and a. cor respondent telegraphs this afternoon that the yellow fever flag is now con spicuous in Biloxi. Mayor Toward has determined that all physicians shall tlxr afties for failure. Now that the worst is known it is desired that no facts shall be concealed Today it was learned that a number of people who have b:en quarantined at the Barateri canning fac tory at Point Cadet, near Biloxi, were in reed of provisions and Mayor How ard sent them relief.
 Thers are no suspicious cases at Mo bile and the general health there is shown by the board of health records to be better than for the past five years. The fins of defense of Baldwin county. as we'll as Mobile county is complete and a quarantine officer has been added in the lower bay.
 Natchez, Miss, today included New Orleans in the list of infected points against which a rigid quarantine is be- ing enforced and the shot gun quaran- tine is established all round the city.
 Trains from here passed there this morning with several Natchez people among their passengers, but none of them were permitted to land.
 Galveston today quarantined against New Orleans, Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Scranton and all yellow fever infected points or where there are suspicious cases.