Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS. [ARTICLE]

FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.

Yellow Jack Causes Southern Cities to Establish a Quarantine.

The Texas State health department Friday night received information of one death from yellow fever at New Orleans. State Health Officer Blunt at once ordered a rigid quarantine against New Orleans on passenger and freight business, to continue indefinitely, and all,border stations were notified to refuse ad-

mission to any person or freight from that port. Owing to one death by yellow fever I* New Orleans and two other cases declare ed there, Mobile city authorities proclaimed a quarantine against persons, baggag* and freight from New Orleans entering Mobile County. Quarantine is also proclaimed against Key West. Owing t* the yellow fever at Key West; the Navy Department has decided to withdraw th* force at the naval station there. Th* army garrison will go to Fort McPherson, Ga. The Indiana State Board of Health received a report of the death of a man in Knox County from yellow fever. Th* man had lately returned from Cuba. Th* case is pronounced certainly yellow fever, the patient haying all the even to turning yellow and having th* black vomit. Doctors say there would be no danger whatever of the spread of yellow fever in this latitude if the disease were introduced.