The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-09

and Ocean Springs The Louisville
and Nashville officials and State au-
thorities viii soon wipe out the plague.
Baton Rouge, the State capital IS
the latest town to declare quarantine.
OUTLOOK MORE HOPEFUL.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-Surgeon-
General Wyman says the yellow fever
situation looks decidedly more hopeful
to-day. No new cases have been official
~ reported to him, although there are
newspaper reports of three new cases
at Biloxi. He has wired DR.. J. J. Lemon
at Biloxi concerning this report.
Dr. Guiteras, the yellow fever expert
from the University of Pennsylvania,
reported his arrival at Ocean Springs
this morning. He will investigate the
outbreak. The Surgeon General has
formally rendered the aid of the Marine
Hospital service to the State and health
authorities Of Louisiana and MISSISSIPPI
pi and DR.. Oliphant, President Of the
Louisiana Board of Health, has been
requested to telegraph daily the fever
situation.
He wired this morning the fact Of the
death at New Orleans yesterday and
added that there had been no new
cases since.
This afternoon Surgeon-General Wy
man received the following reassurils
telegram in answer to a message ask
ing DR.. Lemon, President Of the Board
of Health at Biloxi, Miss, concerning
the report in the morning papers of
three yellow fever cases at that place:
"BILOXI (AIiss), Sept. 81 have best
reasons to believe from reliable parties
that it is malaria. LEMON"
1t is believed that DR.. Wardin meant
himself TO report three new cases, prob
ably the three at Biloxi.
George A Haines this morning tel
egraphed from Waycross, Ga, that the
| Detention Camp outfit at that place
had been loaded and shipped by fast
freight, in accordance with the Sur
I geon- Generals order, to about twenty
miles east Of Ocean Springs, where the
camp viii be established. Surgeon
/ General Wyman expects the outfit to
/ reach Ocean Springs in twenty-four
hours
/ DR.. Richardson will assume charge
Of the camp as soon as it arrives.
The procedures of the Federal officers
under the law and the treasury regu-
lati0ns is plain The regulations are
for just such emergency. Under the
law State and municipal authorities are
required to enforce the regulations anG
the State authorities are to see that
they are enforced. But if the States
fail or refuse, he National authority is
to be exercised.
Surgeon General Wyman reported to-
day to the Secretary Of the Treas
that the supposed yellow fever silva
ton in the South had very much in
proved The Surgeon-General said
that the authorities had the matter
well in hand and he anticipated no
further trouble. In case of necessity,
the Marine Hospital service has $476.
900 which could be used to stamp out
the disease.
YELLOW FEVER IN CUBA.
WASHINGTON. Sept. SIN his last
report to the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital, Service Sanitary In
spector Drummer at Havana, complain
ed of the number Of persons who apply
for certificates to so to the United
States, but who are not admissible I'M
der the regulations. He gives the fol-
lowing illustrations:
L found one family who applied for
certificates to go to Tampa, Fla. bear
I ing papers which stated that they were
born in the Province of Pinar del Rio,
and on being questioned, stated that
they lived in the country all their lives
until two years ago. when they came to
the city. They had never had yellow
fever. When told that they could not
to return a few days later bearing an
official statement that they were born
in the city of Havana and had resided
here for some time. They were again
rejected, when a physicians certificate
was furnished that had attended them
during an attack Of yellow fever They
We're then rejected for the third time.
This is but one of similar cases and is
described to demonstrate the difficulty
of the work here, the persistency of the
facility with which persons can get off,
cial papers to suit the requirements Of
the occasion"
Or. Drummer says that yellow fever
has increased slightly over the week
previous OF the thirty-one deaths
recorded but one occurred among the
civilians, the others being among the
I Spanish soldiers.
The deaths from enteric and PERM
cfous fevers have steadily increased
each week.
The Inspector at Santiago de Cuba
says that he has been informed of the
existence of beri beri at Guantanamo,
and viii investigate.
/ PRECAUTIONS AT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. S.-The quar-
antine officers at this port are on the
lookout for vessels from Panama and
Central American ports. and will take
/ every precaution to prevent yellow fe-
Yer being brought into this port. They
are acting on the belief that the fever
in Louisiana came from the isthmus.
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CUBAN WAR.
Little Hope for the Island Until
the Conflict is Over.
! NEW YORK, Sept. S.-Consul-Gen-
/ eral Lee. in an interview to-day, said