The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-16
NEW ORLEANS REPORTS ONLY TWO
Scranton, Miss. Has Pour Addi-
tional Genuine Cases.
QUARANTINE BEING EXTENDED
Malls from New Orleans 20 Texas
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close OF the days Investigations by tho
board OF health Mt 6 o'clock this evening
tho fever situation. so FAR at least as New
Orleans Is concerned. waA considered to
have materially improved and there was
lcss anxiety than at any time since Monday
among the health officers, encouraging
them to believe that they had by no means
lost control OF the situation and that It was
quite within the range of probability to ex-
pect that in short time the superior
quarantine and sanitary methods ON
pioycd Will prevail aud crush out the
bronze visitant. II is not easy to fluid a
physician who Is prepared to hazard an
opinion that New orleans stands In immc-
diate fear Of an epidemic.
During tho day there were twenty cases
reported to the board OF health for ipyas-
tigation two were reported as suspicious
and as requiring further diagnosis; four
teen were found TO bc harmless cnses OF
fever. and two were pronounced genuine
yellow Jack. or these two one IL the case
OF an old French butcher. Herman Oar
tots, living on Madison street In tho I'M
mediate vicinity OF the French market
and whose case was prematurcy reported
last night as yellow fever. Physicians who
had seen the case yesterday had no doubt
Of It's nature. hut II was only today that
an official report was made properly clasr-
Ing the case, The second case today Is
that In the Touro infirmary, one cf the
semi private hospitals OF the city. The
latter patient was taken TO the hospital
Monday from poydrns and Rampant streets
In this city. These two Nses reported to-
day are the only ones which the physicians
have been unable to truce to Ocean Springs
and IN The French market case II is posi-.
lively krown that tho patient has not beer
out OF the city for months All tho experts
who have Z sited them have declared botl
cases to ic genuine yellow foyer. At qsourt
there arc some 200 sick people and the ut
most caution is being displayed In order
to prevent any possible spread Of the dis
ease. Likewise In the Madison street case
unusual methods are being resorted 10 by
the sanitary officers TO circumscrlbc the
limits Of the Infection. because both OF
thoae locations are naturally considered as
more dangerous than any reported In the
city at the present time.
When tho report was made tonight that
only two cases had been reported. one Of
which was left over from yesterday. and
that most OF the suspicious cases had been
unjustflably reported. there was n marked
Increase in the feeling OF confidence among
the health authorities.
Millions OF gallons OF water have already
been pumped through the streets. and with
the general situation showing as much I'M
proyement as II does tonight, confidence Ia
steadily being strengthened. The only
hardship lies In the fact that the city Is 30
completely quarantncd that It Is hardly
able TO ship pound OF freight. with the
result that some OF the railroad shops and
factories have begun to reduce their forces
until the quarantine embargo In raised
Surgeon Carter OF the marine hospital
service arrived In New Orleans this morn
Ing and during the day called ON President
Oliiphant OF the board OF health. In re-
ply 10 an INQUIRY he said that he had been
ordered from the Mississippi coast and had
been told that he would find n letter
awaiting him giving him his instructions.
when he called at the local Office OF the
marine hospital service Acting Surgeon In
Charge Norman said that the letter had
not yet put in appearance. 1t Is under
stood that DR.. Carter comes here to make
a general survey of the situation and 10
establish II necessary camps OF detention
from which people who want to get away
that the fever should grow worse In New
Orleans.
When President Olliphant reached his Of
flee this morning he found letter warn
ing him that people were going TO Atlanta
from the infected points on the coast and
that II was their purpose TO get Into New
Orleans by return trains from tho Gate
CITY, The result was the institution VI
a modified quarantine against Atlanta, re-
curing health certificates from All per-
sons who might attempt to come into New
Orleans FROM the Georgia city with proper
affidsvits that they ,ad not been in in.
fected places recently The superintend-
ents OF railroads were notified OF this or
der and provided hist OF Names Of some
people who hsd gone to Atlanta, and who
Is was feared might try to return to this
CITY.
The rain and stormy weather since Sat-
urday has had the effect Of Increasing the
number Of cases at Ocean Springs. Con-
ductor Johnson OF the Louisville and Nash
vile. who was iust preparing to get away
to Cincinnati. was stricken today with three
others. One new case was reported at
Biloxi this morning. II Is that Of Rev. G.
r. Emory. pastor Of the Methodist church,
rrtalr4ur fhra. In that family Yesterday
there existed Ia Biloxi forty-nine cases.
or these nineteen were yellow fever. six
were suspicious and DIAGNOSIS as 10 twelve
was reserved. There has been no deaths
at Biloxi.
Lake Charles announces tonight tight
quarantine. The town Is one OF the inrg-
about eighty miIee from the Texas border,
It's MAYOR this afternoon Issued proclam-
alton decRar1ng that alx peElQQ found eIr.