The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-29
THE MOBILE SITUATION
TEN NEW CASES AND ONE DEATH
REPORTED.
The Infected District In Receiving .
Thorough ClcnninE-Weather II
Peculiarly Had.

| MVUlie, Ala, scptt'mDer zb.--Tne NOUN re-
port today showed what has been the Of.
feet Of the excessively hot weather OF the
| past ak days. The number Of cases re-
corded for the past twenty -four hours was
ten, all of the patients taken Ill from the
| 23d 10 the 26th and all but one in the In
named Losing, who camc from Scranton
and is cared for In the marine hospital.
| The new cases are j. b. Eastburn, I'll
Savannah street; Willie White, corner New
Jersey and Marine; Frank Bear, 1853 Savan-
nah; Mrs. Daniel Petty, Cedar, between
Monroe and Esiava; George stoutze. War
ner and Charleston. removed to city hos
pital; s. j. LOSING, above referred to. and
Carrie Healy. Augusta near Charles: LIZ
| zie Teet. Sl2 Savannah; Thomas Wayn-
| right, FranklLM near Canal.
The one death announced was that Of
Miss Alma Kersh, Savannah street, re-
ported last night,
The discharged are. Mrs Carroll, Willie
Goodloe George Mayfield and Pauline Vio-
lett.
The boards summary is Ga cases, 0
| deaths, 80 rccoyeries and % under treat
| ment The ratio OF deaths to cases IL IA
per cent.
Brother Symphroryan died at 2 o'clock
this afternoon at the Industrial Gardens
| on La Fayeite street. The report at noon
today OF the board states that there are
two boys In the Industrial Gardens suffer-
Ing from fever, but does not announce their
cases as yellow fever 1t IL understood,
however, that such IL the nature OF the
sickness.
The work OF combating the disease goes
n q lnsf a. to.
district has been cleaned and dislnfectod,
the yards, sinks and drains. streets and
cutters and the districts adjacent are now
receiving alike careful treatment. Com
munication with the houses wherein there
Is sick people ie stopped so far as It IL
possible to do where there arc 80 many
places to guard. n isolation aud disin-
iectants viii avail there is nothing the
board can do that viii he left undone to
stop tho fevers further advance The only
serious overnight so far was IN letting the
teachers or ~. V!ncent's school In tho In
iected district move TO tho Industrial Gar
dcDs. This was done before there was an
embargo In force. such as now prohibits
people from moving out Of the infected dis
tricta into other parishes OF the city.
These teachers left on the 10Th the day
before Father Murray was taken sick in
tho rectory OF St. Vincent They did not
visit the rcctory, but they had been sleep.
INK In the house next door aud II now SCENE
that they have been the Instruments of
establishing n new foci OF infection on La
Fayette street
inc exodus, so called, has apparently
come to standstill. But four passengers
leit ON tho Mobile and Ohio this afternoon
ana more than half dozen on the Louis
vile and Nashville this morning. The ex-
pcnse OF carrying Oh the quarantine here IL
bearing heavily on the city and county
I'he authorities, recognizing that the quar-
anime for the protection of the State Mt
large from the further Introduction of fever
from mississippi, think that this expense
should be borne by tho State. Accordingly
the mayor, the president OF the board OF
health and the president of the council
nave joined In a telegram to the governor
asking that the State maintain the ouar-
nntine here against the places outside the
state under the direction OF tho health Of
iicerB OF the city and county. No reply
has yet been received
In view OF the existence OF the camp of
detention at Fontainbleau and the mn
preaching establishment OF q similar camp
~ Mount Vernon, Ala, the board here has
decided that II will receive no more people
at the boards camp at Grand Bay who de-
sire to pass through the detentio for the
purpose OF obtaining health certificates
put only persons who are seeking to enter
mobile from outside infected districts, The
paraphernalia for the camp at Mount YER
non left Atlanta today. The camp will be
ready the latter part OF this week.
indian summer Is prevailing In this 10.
CAVITY. the sun shining through haze,
out with great Intensity OF heat The
nightfali Is exceedingly sultry. but by o
y. M the temperature changes radically.
and later becomes quite cold so that heavy
| bed covering Ia required.
the weather Is regarded as peculiarly bad
for the sick and the record seems to show
.nat II Increases the activity OF the infec-
| tion.