Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-26
YELLOW FEVER Is SPREADING
Thirty -Four Deaths Reported at New
Orleans Since July l3,
FIFTY CASES NOW UNDER TREATMENT
Emergency Hospital Equipped and
Detention Camps EstRblished-
Suspicious Cases on Vessel
nt Mobile.

NEW ORLEANS, July 25.-Tonight, in
response to the request of the State Board
Of Health, the City Board of Health com
piled the figures Of suspicious and. actual
cases of yellow fever and deaths and the
figures as issued by the state board show
between July 13 and July 2l there were
about 100 cases. suspicious and positive
and twenty deaths. Since then there have
been hfty-four cases and twelve deaths up
to July "A, making all told 14 cases and
thirty-two deaths. Today there were two
deaths, making thirty-four to date. There
are about fifty cases under treatment.
DR.. George B. Young of the United States
marine hospital service has been assigned
TO take charge of the inspection Of trains,
to cooperate with the states and localities
which have instituted quarantines, and he
will make his headquarters in Jackson.
Miss.
Emergency Hospital Equipped.
The emergency hospital on Dumaine
| street was equipped today and placed in
charge of DR.. Hamilton P. Jones, who had
charge of the isolation hospital in 1897. He
/ has his assistant DIR. L. ]. FACET,
noted yellow fever authority. The advisory
committee OF the City Board of Health
began active work today and will have
] lilllltuldlc CudIBb VI lilb Mulh VI LSAlIAihb
out the new foci of infection and carrying
out the sanitation and isolation, should any
develop 1t will also have general super
vision over the campaign of education and
the cleaning up of the city, screening Of
! cisterns and houses etc.
Surgeon White and Surgeon Guiteras of
| the marine hospital service have completed
all plans for the establishment of the de-
| tention camps along the din1sent railroad
trunk lines and have selected the phy-
I sicians in charge, who have already Sc
lected their assistants. The equipment is
on the way. In view of the complications
over outside and inside quarantines, the
state board will tomorrow quarantine the
state against the city of New Orleans and
such territory in the Immediate vicinity of
New Orleans which desires to maintain
open communication with the city. This
will result in relieving the quarantine
which Mississippi has placed against the
whole state, and which Dr. Tabor of
Texas threatened. Lieutenant Colonel
Maus, U. S. A, has sent his report to
Lieutenant General Chaffee as to the sol
diers at Jackson Barracks. and tomorrow
will inspect Fort St. Philip. He sees nc
reason to remove the troops.
Suspicious Caves at Mobile.
| Mobile, Ala, luly GO-lJl mem
Goldthwaite, health and executive officer
Of the quarantine board of Mobile Bay
returned today from his visit to the quar-
antine plant in the lower bay. and ha:
made the following statement relative tC
the reports that have been in circulation
in regard to fever at the quarantine plant
, The steamship Colombia arrived at tn,
quarantine plant Sunday morning, and fou
/, | of her crew were taken and placed in tn,
/ screened lOgDital. The cases were no
diagnosed as yellow, fever and were hell
as matter of precaution for observation
, The Colombia proceeded to the city, wher
she was unloaded under police supervision
and with an extra medical inspection ol
tion, thirty miles below the city, befor
, Upon her return to the quarantine sta
e the vessel was remanded with the sicl
TO Ship Island quarantine station, whcl
is sixty miles or more west of Fort Morgan
and In the gulf OF Mexico.
e Surgeon WasdIn Ordered to Front.
r WASHINGTON, July PA report re
= ceived here today from Surgeon White o
4 the public health and marine hospita
t service, who is stationed at New Orlean
and who. under instructions of the actin
= surgeon general. is engaged In an effort
I determine the exact condition with regar
d to yellow fever in that city, says that tn
city authorities concede twelve cases an
: I eight deaths, nut ne duuS lidN ehSAN piO1
d ably are many more cases. Those so ia
# observed are of vIrulent type.
4 Surgeon wasdin, stationed at Memphis
g who rendered signal service during th
d epidemic at Ocean Springs in 1897, has Ell
8 tered upon careful inspection of cond
e tions along the gulf coast from Mobile
= Pass Christian, Miss, and Past Assistar
Surgeon Young has been ordered froi
); Chicago to Jackson, Miss, to confer wit
: the Mississippi health authorities relatiy
e to train inspection.
DEPoRTEE ENDS HIS LlFI