The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-17
FEVER SITUATION is BETTER.
SURGEON GENERAL IS ENCOURAGED
BY THE OUTLOOK.

Very Few Cases Have Developed in
Louisiana and Mississippi-Key
West, Where IL Is Worst, Has Had
334 Cases and Twenty-One Deaths.
Reports as to SmalI-Pox-MOrtal-
ity Has Been Very Heavy in Plague
Stricken Countries.
Washington, Sept. 16.-The scanty devel-
opments of the yellow fever situation this
week have given Surgeon General Wy
man of the marine hospital service much
encouragement
The fever has made its appearance at
only one new place, Pass Christian, Miss,
and but one case exists there
The fever is confined to three states,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida
In Florida not case has reached the
mainland, but the situation in Key West
is quite severe, thirty cases being report
ed to-day.
DR.. Trotter reported from Tampa to-
day that he had made a house to- house
inspection in Port Tampa and Port Tampa
City, and had visited st. Petersburg, but
had found nothing suspicious
No one is allowed to leave Key West
without going to the detention camp at
Dry Tortugas, unless he is certified as an
immune.
Egress is not prevented from New Or
leans, but there is steamship inspection
there of boats bound up the river and no
passengers are taken.
Surgeon General Wyman has sent DR..
McGruder from New Orleans to jackson.
Miss, to confer with the authorities there
relative to a train inspection service
through Mississippi His surgeons are
competing the observance by the state au-
thorities of the treasury regulations for
the isolation and guarding of cases at 9TH
er points.
SaVannah's Quarantine.
\ dispatch received to-day from DR..
Brunner at Savannah, says that that city
has quarantned against passengers, fruit
and manufactured clothing from New Or
leans, Mississippi City, Pass Christian and
Jackson.
For the week there have been 100 new
cases and five deaths at Key West, MAX
ing S54 cases and twenty-one deaths since
Aug, 81
There has been one case at Miami. one
case and one death at Port Tampa City:
seven cases and two deaths at New Or
leans; one case at Jackson, and five cases
and one death at Mississippi City
In the public health report, issued this
week, Colorado is reported to be free from
smallpox after an epidemic from March
to the middle of August, during which
time there were 25S cases and thirty-six
deaths
The total number of smallpox cases in
the United States this season was 1,OS1.
The reports received through the consuis
show that yellow fever is prevailing in
Argentina, Brazil, Colombo, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Mexico and San Salvador
Most of the countries only report the
deaths, and reports for the last two
months show GA deaths Between June
10 and Aug. 26, the date of the last report
from Santiago there were 206 cases and
forty-six deaths in that city.
Severity of the Plague.
In the bubonic plague stricken countries
the mortality has been very heavy Out
of 1882 cases in Hong Kong there were
1.420 deaths, and at Tamsu, Japan. out of
2,4S6 cases there We're 1866 deaths At
Oporto, Portugal, the most westerly point
touched by the plague. out of fifty lone
cases up TO Aug. q, there were eighteen
deaths
The marine hospital service is taking ev-
cry precaution TO prevent the introduction
of the plague either from Southern Europe
or Africa, where it has gained a foothold.
OF from tHe EaSl tnFougn tne port OF san
Francisco. All steamships from Italy,
Spain and Southern France are inspected
before sailing for the United States
Thomas II. Heeman writes a most inter
esting report from Odessa of the precau-
tions taken in Russia against the introduce
ton of the plague, in which he says that
there is a general belief in that section of
Europe that with the advent OF the Paris
Exposition the bubonic plague will be
spread all over the continent of Europe
and may even reach the states of North
and South America.
RRuNSMICN,S QUARANTINH