The herald., 1897-09-27
PATIENTS
RECOVER
But Only to Make Room
for Others
| DISINFECTlON BY EXPERTS
FAILS TO CHECK THE SPREAD OF
FEVER
|
DIsINFEcTIoN BY EXPERTS
The Only Hopeful Feature Of the Epi-
demic Is the Small Percentage
Of Deaths

EDWARDS, Miss, Sept. 26.-There
has beer one death from yellow fever
here today-that Of Mrs. Noblin.
The following cases are reported since
II o'clock last night
Whites--Mrs. Levi, Mary Sagler, Mrs.
Drumgood. Mr.. Duke Askew. Caroline
Brown, Mrs. Sadie Martin, Lee Martin,
Esther Harris, Eva Harris, Mrs. Ethel
Crister, DR.. William Champion, Mrs. s.
A. Harris, Mrs. w. H. Harris, Waverly
Birdson, Mrs. ]. B. Graves, Mrs. Paven-
kott, ]. w. Berber, little daughter of j.
L. Boxtel.
Colored-Alf Beard, Willie Brown,
Annie Make, Rosa Sweeper, SamTnie
Thomas.
New cases today, %; total to date,
176; deaths for the day. 1; total deaths
to date, 7.
A new case developed at Champion
Hill, that of DR.. Champion, and the case
is a serious one.
Another case is reported at Queens
Hill.
A few more strides and the fever will
have stricken the entire town OF Ed
wards.
Mrs. Ethel Crister, the only drug
gist in town, was tawen this morning and
Dr.. Hunter, of the state board, has been
wire6 for and druggist immune from
the diseases. Only three or four cases
are considered serious. and these are
receiving the best of attention from ply
sicians and expert nurses
Among those taken with the disease
today was c. r. Barber, representative
of the Associated Press. and one of the
wealthiest men in Edwards. Some days
ago Mr. Barber advised the Jackson Of
fee of the Associated Press that he fear
ed he was taking the disease. but that
it was his intention to send the news as
long as possible.
| Fred johnson, an immune operator
from Tallulah, Ala, has been sent to
take the nlsce of Mr.. Barber. and he
AT NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 26.-To-
day was the quietest of the week in New
| Orleans, and the fever situa ton, in
spite of the appearance of rather a
| large number Of new cases, may be said
| to have shown much Improvement.
| Fifteen cases were recorded on the books
of the board Of health, but there were
| no deaths, and there have been no deaths
since Friday. The authorities received
! reports during the evening from nearly
every patient now under trea tment, and
| they were all to the effect that the cases
are doing well, and that no patient is in
any imm danger. Some forty
cases were reported tonight as being
rapidly on the mend, and number of
| them will be discharged during the
week.
One of the most dangerous cases that
has appeared was discharged today 1t
was that ON Madison street, in the
neighborhood of the French market,
where the conditions were considered to
be such as to warrant the fear that the
disease would spread. Unusual pre-
cautions however, were taken, and the
authorities quarantined the case and
improved the sanitary conditions Of the
| neighborhood, so that the fever in that
vicinity seems to have been stamped out
completely. At Oakland Park deten-
ton camp all the refugees who have
been given quarters were declared to be
we'll, no sickness having yet appeared
ir, the camp.
Todays record of new cases: e. Toma,
G.. G. McHardy, A. Goldman, Lou Law
ler, Michael 'Dwyer, James Gray, Percy
and Susie Matson, - Bronson, Andrew
and Miss Pizzo and a servant, Arthur
Blake. Emma Schlosscher and Mrs. w.
H. Williams.
The new cases are, as usual, scattered
The most important are Mr.. McHardy
wealthy insurance man. and Mrs. Will
liams, wife of General w. H. Williams,
a we'll known newspaper man. There are
now four cases in the Williams resi-
dence, but they are all reported to be
doing we'll. E. Toma is the brother Of
the man who died of yellow fever last
week and lives in the same premises.
A number of children are among the new
cases. Prof. Metz has a large number of
formal 6iehyde genera tors now at work.
Today he burned in the street the bed
clothing and other articles in the house
in which the man Series died on Con-
stance street, the clothing first having
been subjected to formaldehyde disin-
fection. Some loss is being suffered by
the poorer classes whose effects have
been burned. Prof. Metz said tonight
that he was hopeful of getting the city
to make an appropriation to cover such
generators at the railroad depots and
baggage is being promptly and thor
oughly disinfected before 1t is put on
trains.
The local charity organizations are
taking steps to relieve all cases of desti-
tuition that are presented. The board of
health supplies medicines and the char
ity hospital physicians and the charity
%,.x- fr,v
poorer classes.
Mrs. A. McCubbage died this morning
in Ocean Springs of yellow fever. She
had been sick several days and her case
has already been reported.
There have been o new cases at Ocean
Springs. Reports from the detention
camp say that about ten refugees from
New Orleans have arrived there and
eighteen from Biloxi. There is no sick
ness in the camp save one case of sciatic