Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14
THE YELLOW VIEWER.
NO APPARENT SPREAD OF THE
PLAGUE IN TEXAS.
SHARP CRITICISM OF GUITERAS.
Houston Doctors Take the Govern
ment Expert Severely to Task-Re-
In Deaths.

Lee, whose attack was more pronounced,
| Is said to be improving rapidly.
DR.. Mason and Policeman Fem are
without fever this evening, and NcGon-
| nell Is up and about.
No more suspicious cases have been re-
ported. The Board OF Health met this
morning and conferred with the Advisory
Board. with view to visiting all sus-
picious cases and enforcing health ordi-
nances. The meeting was quite warm,
and DR.. Guiteras came I'm for liberal
amount Of severe criticism on the part
OF the board.
The Mcdonnell case was discussed at
some length. with the view Of showing
how Absurd was the diagnosis that pro-
nounced his case one of yellow fever.
1t was stated that Mcdonnell was up, and
DR.. McElroy. who claims him as mis- pa
tient, stated TO the board that he never
had fever: that he was just off OH a de-
bauch, and had the dengue. and the rash
incident to IL, but that the amount OF
whiskey he had been drinking since he
had been diagnosed by DR.. Guiteras as a
suspicious case precluded the idea that
be had had yellow-fever.
NINE DEATHS AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS. October 13-This was
the record-smasher in the number OF
deaths In a single day from yellow-fever
since the disease was first reported in
New Orleans. II is difficult to find the
cause, except in the fact that conceal
ment neglect, and rebellion against the
authority OF the Board of Health have
made it difficult for the physicians to give
proper attention TO cases. At o'clock TINS
evening there had been nine fatalities re-
corded during the twenty-four hours.
Heretofore the highest number of deaths
in any one day has been six.
At the Board of Health tonight there
was some discussion among the physl-
clans as to whether the disease had as
sumed suddenly a more virulent form, or
whether an aggregation of circumstances
had sent up the list of deaths. Prominent
doctors say they do not believe the dis
ease has become more malignant in type
They believe that the fact that on some
days there have been four or five deaths
on succeeding days no deaths. then four
or five again, goes to prove that the fever
has been as eccentric before as Ii is now.
Among the deaths reported some are
of the better class of people Edward A.
Day, aged 16, lived with his mother, who
kept a fashionable clearinghouse on
Prytania street Another death was that
of Antonio Corvajo, the agent of a steam
ship line running between this port and
Palermo He was a native of Italy, and
since the fever appeared had been active
among his countrymen. On the 10th of
the month DR.. Formenti was called TO
see him. lie had then been sick for three
days He died this morning.
Two deaths occurred to-day in the
Touro Infrmary. The cases had not
originated in the institution, but had been
removed there from other places in the
city. A death was also reported I'm the
Isolation HOSPITAL.
One Of the deaths IN to-day's record
was discovered about 2 O'Clock last night.
The others were reported at different
hours to-day.
PROMINENT VICTIM.
Among the new cases, the most promi-
nent is that Of Hunter c. Leake, general
agent of the Illinois Central railroad.
Mrs. Leake was stricken two days ago,
and her husband must have taken the
disease from close attendance upon her.
Or. Spruell is also among the cases re-
ported.
Three cases in the list to-day developed
at the Charity Hospital, one coming
from Algiers and the other two from
the lower section OF the city. All three
were removed TO the Isolation Hospital.
To-day's record:
New Cases-Christian May, Giavanni
Cucia, Belle Phillips. John Johnson. Frank
Haveleg, James Barrity. Louisa Lugen.
W. Buff +. A. Mills. Stephen Sangoi,
Minge Dixey, Ed. Hubcner. Joseph Bell,
Hunter c. Lsake. Miss Maud Mallett. DIR.
]. Spruel, Miss l.. Peasants, j. f. Coset,
Annie Wimbush. Miss Mary Dickinson,
II. To-
toria Dick, Mrs. Hoffman. Walter Bleu
heller, Herbert Bleuheler, and Homer He
bert.
Dearhs-Salvator Fortan. Antonio Cor
veja. Edward c. Ray, Giovanna Circia.
Isadore Scheurer, Charles Saur. A. La
Buzze, Henry f. Wells. and Joseph Satt.
A very large number of recoveries were
reported to the Board of Health to-day.
Some of them were of people who had
been i'll but few days.
CASE IN PLAQUEMINE.
The Board Of Health tonight received
a letter from Health-Oficer Johnson, OF
Plaquemine parish. saying that ID. Labo-
ny had died Of yellow-fever. The death
was regarded as suspicious, and after
death an autopsy was held which proved
the death to be from yellow-fever.
Plaquemine parish Is located below New
Orleans. and extends to the Gulf, and
there Is much interest taken In the de-
velopment of a case Of fever in the parish.
from the fact that within its limits the
Sicilian immigrants were unlOaded last
week.
SEVEN NEW CASES AT MOBILE.
MOBILE, ALA, October 13-Seven new
cases in the city proper and six brought
into the city from Magazine Point. three
miles out, make up the record of to-day.
fobf Na
for the past seventy-two hours.
Total cases to date, 1i2; deaths, 90; re-
coveries, 50; remaining under treatment,
42.
New cases to-dayi Joseph Edmundson,
Mrs. r. F. Mehter. Ambrose Lew. Syl-
vester Agee, Frank Lyons, j. Haley
and Fuller Henderson.
The six cases from the steamship Kate,
now in the City Hospital, are Lewis Utz.
Joseph Muscat. Miacomo Regbert, Hanna
Johnson. Hans Olsen, and George Olsen.
Three more cases were to-day reported
ON the steamer. They are convalescent
and are declared tonight to have had
yellow-fever The crew will be placed In
n house across the river and the steamer
fumigated.
DEATH AT WAGER.
r. Settles. superintendent of the Wager
Iumber Company, at Wager, Ala, died
there last night OF yeliow-fever. One new
case has developed. Settles was from
Ohio He had been South some time Re-
cently he and his wife paid visit TO
their home. but he returned alone when
,ha vellow-fever was announced In the
south. leaving his wife behind him.
YUMA-EDwARDS
rAcYsON MISS October l3-The-