The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-22
Jack Frost, the Yellow Pests Dendli-
est Enemy, Almost Certain to Visit
the Plague Spots before LONG,
DECREASE IN FRESH CASES
ONLY NINE AT NEW ORLEANS AND
ONE AT MOBILE YESTERDAY.
Unnecessary Alarm at st. Louis.
Where n Suspected Case Was Diag-
nOsed as Intermittent Fever.

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 21-There were
nine cases of yellow fever reported to the
Board of Health this afternoon at o'clock,
when the days work of the physicians end
ed There were, however, no deaths re-
corded. and the doctors all agreed this
evening that the situation was steadily I'M
proving. The fever at present. instead of
developing into a malignant type, is as
mild, if it is not milder, than when it 1irst
appeared here, as witness twenty-seveu
cases in two days without single death.
Tonight the inspectors of the Board of
Health reported that most of the cases that
had come under their observation were
progressing most favorably. There are only
two cases which give the attending ply
sicians any reason for alarm. These are
the new cases to-day:
Joseph Roth, No. 1924 Clouet street.
Fred Gund, No. 5335 Marais street.
Mrs. MeAndrews, No. 12G Howard street.
Child of Judge Lea, No. 1910 Dublin street.
Bartlett, No. 1888 Baronne street.
Miss Nellie Scannell, No. Ill Berlin street.
G. W. Wood, No. 14S5 Octavia street
r. f. Reynolds, No. 1903 Coliseum street.
S. +. Joor No. 1868 Laura street.
Some new places of infection are includ ID
in these eases, but it is stated to-ngnt that
each one OF the patients is doing well and
that there is no immediate danger of fa-
tai termination in any of these cases. Up
to the present time there has been little
dread of the fever. Sporadic cases are APP
pearingy about town, but the Board OF
Health thus far has been enabled success
fully to quarantine each case that has ap-
peared. Confidence locally is steadily in
creasing. There never was large measure
of apprehension in New Orleans, but tha
city seems now to have settled down to the
belief that there is absolutely no danger
of an epidemic, and that within q very brief
space of time, even before frost, the physi~
clans will have succeeded in completely
stamping out the sickness. A number Of
cases were discharged yesterday and to-
day, and the total number of cases receiv-
ing strict attention to-day does not exceed
ten.
The improvement is partly due to cold
wave, the thermometer at 6 O'clock this
morning being 81. Incubation of yellow
fever germs requires a sustained Fahren-
heit temperature of 70, and If the present
cool spell continues conditions promise
steadily to grow better DR.. J. Touatre.
an experienced yellow fever physician and
a member of the board of experts. says
in an interview that 1.-The records since
1858 show that yellow fever has never been
declared epidemic in any year after its ap-
pearance here inside of two or three
months. That was the case in 1853 1858, 1861
and 1878. The history of the epidemicS of
the last half century prove that all epi-
denies waned with the tlrst cold of October,
disappearing almost entirely in November.
II We add month to the period of incEba~
ton for infectious foci TO establish then1-
selves, we are brought almost to the end
OF October to have an epidemic. An epl-
demic at that late date is out of the ques-
rEnnafra a n
instances where fever broke out in August.
September and October only to be quickly
stamped out by the frost before it had as
sumed the proportions of an epidemic.
Following is the official daily bulletin OF
the Board of Health: THE Board of Heath
of the State of Louisiana officially an-
nounces the status of affairs in New Or
leans as regards yellow fever to be as fol-
lows: During the twenty-four hours end
Ing at p. m. Tuesday, Sept. Il, there We're:
Positive cases of yellow fever, 8; suspicious
cases under investigation, 3; deaths, none.
Total cases yellow fever TO date, 6I; to-
tai deaths from yellow fever to date 6. The
majority of cases under treatment are re-
ported as doing well. Nearly all the nrst
cases have recovered Among the new
agent of the Illinois Central. Mrs. VIM
berly, wife of the candidate for collector
of the port now in Washington, is among
the suspicious cases.
ing it's baggage inspection at trains ana
steamboats, 1t will require at least five
hours each day In Whlcn 10 90 TINS WORK
of inspection, and the railroads have issued
notices to outgoing passengers TO have all
their baggage at depots and landings at
least five hours before the departure OF
their trains and steamboats,
Half a dozen towns to-day, by telegraph
and telephone notified the authorities here
that they had concluded to Withdraw their
restrictions against the receipt of freight
from New Orleans. The circular issued ny
President Olliphant and DR.. Carter, of the
Marine Hospital Service, seems to have
reached all sections of the State, and au-
thorities in the smaller towns seem to hare
decided that there is no danger In receiv-
ing from New Orleans properly fumigated
freight