The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
AT MOBILE.

AT MOBILE.
Mondays Report Greatly Revived
the Spirits of the People.
Mobile. Ala, Sept 27.-The report for
Monday has greatly revived the spirits of
the people here. They accept it as indi-
eating that the energetic efforts to sur
round the disease and stamp it out are
meeting with success.
The new cases reported at noon for the
previous twenty-four hours: ...u.y ..
! Patrick Sullivan, 304 Augusta street; A.
j. Chisholm. Bayou, between Selma and
4 Savannah; Edward Shea, George near
Selma. -y.y
The only death reported was that of
Florence Barlow, aged %. She lived on
Elmira near Lpscomb. A popularity and
sad feature is that she was engaged to
| be married next month, and during her
illness, and even after her death her fiance
was not permitted to see her, nor attend
the funeral, the regulations being so strict
that none outside the physicians, clergy
and undertakers may approach the fever
cases. ,H. a.4 e. -H
The conyalescents reported are: George
Shanneberger John e. Bolton and John
Shea.
Total cases to noon, "a; total deaths. s;
/, discharged, %; remaining under treat
ment. 20.
The immediate cause of Father Muir
rays death ON Friday is said to have been
his own imprudence. During the momeh,
tary absence of the nurse he got up ana
drank a pitcher of ice water and i'm
mediately had severe chill. Death FOL
| lowed quickly. -s.
The report sent out Saturday night that
there was fever reported at Bladon
Springs and Womack Hill, Ala, is denied.
| Mr. S. l.. Basoh of Frost Bridge, lett
| Womack Hill Friday morning and spent
| the night at Bladon Springs. He says that
there is absolutely no foundation for the
reports. DR.. Christopher, of Isney says
| they started from DIR. Turner's daughter
| returning home from Livingstone and
! taking sick at Bladon Springs, but that
I She had not been exposed to fever and
certainly has not that disease. e.,
A letter reached here yesterday saying
that there was yellow fever on the East
Hill, the working mans part OF - 1oW sa. IN
| The Mobile board telegraphed Tor IN
formation and has received reply from
State Health Officer Porter, SAYING:
"Report absolutely false. Thank you
for giving us opportunity to rectity.'
Porter demands the name of the writer
of the letter. ~"
Mobile business men are much affronted
that the Montgomery quarantine agains,
ali mail from Mobile. whether fumigated
or not, vet let's New Orleans mail in, and
distributes it to Mobile. A letter from %.
r. owen & Co., Columbia, Miss, calls
attention to this discrimination of Ala
bamians against Mobile, saying that AS
we are receiving daily fumigated mails
from New Orleans via Montgomery ana
Birmingham, there can certainly be no
sane reason why fumigated mails from
Mobile should not be forwarded mere py
the same route" --.
DIR. r. o. Summers leaves here tonight
He still regards the fever as controllable
and the efforts of the local health authorl,
ties. if properly attended to, will control
it. He regards the situation as far from
alarming and lays the panic to the charge
of those physicians who predicted dis,
astreous epidemic. The doctor has turned
his efforts principally to securing the re-
sumption of travel and traffic which at
one time was completely suspended by
reason of the panic. He has succeeded IN
, removing the quarantine so far as mluuie
! and eastern Tennessee is concerned. lie
regards that state as absolutely IN no
danger. NJ
bile board of health. in his ADDRESS 10
night reviews the situation here, stat
ing the number of cases ana oeaths
as given above in tonight's dispatches,
and adding that with three exceptions
the deaths have occurred In the one
infected district bounded by George,
! Palmetto, Bayou and New Jersey
streets. .d 90 tho
infection has been so vigorously con-
Quoted that the board has the satisfac..
, tion of knowing that at the close OIL
| the second week of the outbreak there
were twenty-four new cases as against
thirty during the first week, and that
the disease has not prevailed TO any
/ extent outside of the origlhaiiy lhie e.
cd area. Much detail work mas re-
ceiyed the proper attention OF the
hoard not necessary to dwell upon In
This brief notice, all of which vii, we,
hone aid in ameliorating the condition
of our citizens and inspire them with
the belief that the situation Is not 50
dark and gloomy as II mas peen pam i
excellent. and under the improved SAM
! tary condition in which it is being
placed we may hope that it may so
Mrs. Alma Kirach, Savannah street,
! near Dearborn, died tonight, she was
taken sick on the 2lst ana ahnouhceu
! as a new case on the 10Th. ,,,.
Traffic is resuming here with rapidity.
! The revised quarantine regulations per.
| nit the shipment of many KINDS OF
goods. and there is good lot of cotton
! coming in. The steamboats, are supply
ing the people of the nearby counties
that have modified quarantine. There
is no truth in the report that they are
CARRYING passengers or that. there, is
anything but freight landed from these
! boats. Mobile has very little the APP
| pearance of town undergoing the
fever. -.
| None of the business houses; whether,
! wholesale or retail, are closed, and all
are doing some business, although sew
eral thousand of the well-to-do people
are gone to escape the fever. 1t Is de-
! MED by the health authorities that Miss
Barlow's fance was refused by them the
privilege of attending the funeral.
A SETTLER.