The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-09

New Orleans, Sept. S.-When the
board of health met tonight DR.. Oil
plant had no additional cases to re-
port as having occurred in New Or
leans and was able to say that the local
situation had vastly improved and
that there were no present prospects
of evil results following the death of
the Gelpi children, The public pulse
here is vastly stronger and New Or
leans is almost ready to declare that
it has had a scare for nothing. Dr..
Oliphant and his staff have slept but
little in the past rs hours and have
fairly honeycombed the city for sus-
picious cases of fever without results.
Deep interest has naturally been felt
here in the outcome of the examination
of DR.. Guiteras, who arrived at Ocean
Springs this morning. Under instruc-
tons from the superintendent OF the
Louisville & Nashville, Dr. GuiteraS
was put off in the woods a couple of
miles from Ocean Springs. It was long
thereafter before the doctor ran up
against the quarantine trocha, and
the distinguished visitor had fully to
establish his identity before he was
permitted to run the line. On his ar
rival in Ocean Springs DR.. Guiteras
went Immediately to work and in per-
son Investigated a number of cases of
the prevailing sickness. He found only
two cases, it is said, that deserve the
term doubtful or suspicious" and
said he hoped to be able to wire the
result of his examination to Washing
ton this evening. In the meantime a
correspondent wired to the city that
he had learned from a source that
was satisfied, after his examination,
that no yellow fever had existed or did
exist in Ocean Springs.
The local physicians are not pre-
pared to say what an opinion of DR..
GuiteraS counter to that expressed by
the four experts who declared the four
cases they investigated were yellow
fever, would have.
A thorough canvass of the wards of
Ocean Springs, completed late this
evening, shows that there has been 749
cases of the prevailing fever since July
8. There are now 81 still sick. The to-
tai deaths have been nine and in sew
eral instances physicians certificates
show the fever was complicated with
other diseases.
There are believed to have been only
two deaths due to yellow jack. At the
suggestion Of DR.. Cant every house
where there has BEEN sickness or is
now is being fumigated.
DR.. Cant says whether the prevailing
disease is yellow fever or low malaria,
it is certainly contagious.
Final arrangements to handle the
Biloxi and Ocean Springs mail were
completed today The railroad man
ayers sent over a mail carrier today.
and the pouches will be taken by trains
both ways after the bags have been
fun1igated. After Dr. Guiteras has
completed his investigation, a quaran-
tine detention station will be estah-
lished. Those who are in will be de-
tanned at the station until they are con-
sidered worthy to be given clean bills
of health, and Will then be permitted
to go to their homes.
There are 50 residents of New Or
leans who are tied up in Ocean Springs.
anxious to get away, and some Is from
other places.
Biloxi people are not absolutely con-
WINGED that the fever there is yellow
jack. DIR Harrotson has SO pronounced
the cases, but when he has completed
his investigat ton at Ocean Springs, DR..
Guiteras will be asked to visit Biloxi
and determine positively whether DIR.
Harrotson has correctly diagnosed the
disease.
Some $50 people we're brought to New
Orleans by the morning trains from the
coast. There were very few passengers
on the evening trains and both Pass
Christian and Bay. st. Louis have been
depopulated, SO far as summer visitors
are concerned.
All coast trains on the Louisville &
Nashville We're discontinued today, and