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Day
24
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Orleans, Sept. 21.- The local fever situation was greatly improved Tuesday by a matcrially lower temperature, the thermometer at 6 o'clock being 62. Incubation of yellow fever germs requires a sustained Fahrenheit t.emperature of 70, and if the present cool spell continĂșes, ccnditicns promise steadily to grow better. While eighteen cases were reported Monday at least nine were properly to be accredited to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and cnly one of these cases was of anything but a mild type, the exception being an unaccllmated stranger. Dr. Touatre, an eminent and experienced yellow fever physician, and a member of the board of experts, Eays in an interview that the reccrds sinee 1853 shcw that yellow fevt.-r has never been declared epidemie in any year after its appearance here inside of two or three months. That was the case in 1853, 1S58, 1867 and 1878. Waned witli Cold Weattaer. The history of the epidemics of the last half century prove that all epidĂ©mica waned with the flrst cold of October, disappearing almost entirely in November. If we add a month and a half more to the period of incubation for infectious foei to establish themselves, we are brought almost to the end of October to have an epidemie. An epidemie at that late date Is out of the question. Dr. Touatre produces a number of instances where fever broke out in August, September and October, only to be quickly stamped out by the frost before it had assumed the proportions of an epidemie. The government put in effect Tuesday its baggage inspection at trains and steamboats. It will require at least five hours each day in which to do this work of inspection and the railroads have issued notices to outgoing passengers to have all their baggage and handbags at depots at least five hours before the departure of their trains and steamboats.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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