Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-22

New loci o55o
Cases remaining under treatment........ S2S
Though there was an increase today poth
in the number of cases and of fatalities
hopefulness continued to pervade the fed
eral headquarters touching the local yellow
fever situation. The Monday list is al
WAYS larger. It was so during the epidemic
of 1873. That is attributed to the fact that
the work Of inspection is not as thorough
on Sunday and only the reports which
come from physicians are TO be depended
on.
In today's list of fatalities two deaths
appear as having occurred in the Marine
hospital They were sailors admitted to
that institution. Another death was in the
French asylum on st. Anne street, where
a half dozen cases have been reported to
date These are the two public institutions
outside of the hospitals in which cases OF
fever have had to be handled.
Numbers of merchants were visitors to
DR.. White today. Their object was to ask
| his intercession in the matter of an ameli-
Grafton of restrictions placed on freight by
towns like Lake Ponchartrain, which de-
sires no intercourse with New Orleans. DR..
| White had Just returned from Mobile where
he laid fully before the officials the measure
| of precautions that have been taken to
prevent the transmission of mosquitoes In
freight cars. The Alabama officials ex-
| pressed themselves as entirely satisfied with
| Dr. Whites representations and are indis-
| posed to place any restrictions against
| freight. Local merchants believe that Dt.
Whites Intervention may bring many of
the smaller communities to recognition OF
the harmlessness of receiving merchandise
from infected points.
'lsy Panic Among. Prisoners.
I hav. on
/ at the Second criminal court were thrown
into something of a panic today when a
genuine case OF yellow fever was discovered
in the dock The man was found i'll among
a number Of prisoners and the doctor who
was called promptly diagnosed the case
q. as yellow fever. The screened ambulance
Immediately carried the man to the emerg-
ency hospital. A flying squad was sent
for and the dock and court room thoroughly
disinfected.
The patient was an Italian who was ar
rested on Saturday night and remained ir
prison until today. The jail will, therefore
be fumigated.
So much discussion arose from the opera
, tion of the camp at Slidell that Dr. White
today ordered It to be closed. Those nov
detained there will be permitted to stay
their time out, but no others from here
) been built by the government. 1t is thu
: first of it's kind ever completely erected anc
| maintained by the marine hospital service
the buildings being especially constructeC
B. for the purpose.
The marine hospital service today orderet
house to house inspection of screen worl
and to see that sanitary orders were bein
complied The work Of rai disipfection infect CON N
loaf Inn avf
, Three Cases at Gregory, Mo.
, GREGORY, Mo, Aug 21.-Three cases o.
I yellow fever have developed here within
the past twenty-four hours All are Ital
ians. One victim has died and the two
other cases. discovered this morning, are
said to be very low
| The three infected Italians with otbar,
of the same nationality, were brought ur
the river to Gregory recently from Green.
vile, Miss. and employed at track work
| by the Burlington railroad. Yesterday one
of the men, taken suddenly ill., was re-
ported dying and when physicians arrived
} they promptly reported the patient was
suffering from genuine yellow fever He
was isolated promptly, but died within a
few hours. Today two more OF the ItaI-
ians were reported infected with the dis
ease. They were also isolated, as were
the other Italians brought from Mssis-
sippi p.
Excitement is intense and much indigna-
tion is expressed that the Italians were
permitted to slip through the quarantine
lines. Gregory is a lumber camp on the
| Mississippi river fifteen miles from Keo-
-kuk. Ia .r.
Cairo is Almost Isolated.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Aug. 21.-The state and local
health officers today adopted the Memphis
quarantine plan and also not to recognize
| certificates issued at Paducah Bowling
/ Green, Fulton and McCracken county, Ken
lucky and Birds Point, Mo The action
taken against Birds Point brought the Mis-
sissippi county authorities over from Char
! lesion, Mo-, to consult with Secretary Egan
/ of the State Roar OF HaaIth ora r. G.