The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-15
JACK FROST
Alone Can Stamp Out the Fever Germs ss
New Orleans-Four Deaths and Thirty
five New Cases Were Reported Monday.

Alone Can Stamp Out the Fever Germs &c
New Orleans-Four Deaths and Thirty
five New Cases Were Reported Monday.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 12-From the
returns there is little hope in the yell
low fever situation. The board of
health is daily demonstrating that
with fair show it is possible for
modern science to restrict and stamp
out the disease. But the people who
must suffer from strict application of
ing that the pathway of the board OF
health is beset with difficulties. If
there was strict compliance with the
health laws, if prompt report was made
of cases, the fever germs would quickly
be wiped out. But it begins to look
now as if from 80 to 40 cases and from
four to six deaths will be daily report
ed until jack frost puts in an appear
ance. Monday, as on nearly every day
since the fever first appeared here,
about fifty per cent of the fatalities
was traceable to neglect and
disposition to hide cases until it was
too late to do anything to save life.
The case of Ribert Hite was reported
Monday. He had been i'll some time.
People in the vicinity of where he lived
knew he was i'll. Yet no report was
made to the health authorities and
the announcement of the Hite case
was almost contemporaneous with his
death.
The official bulletin, issued Monday
night, says there were four deaths and
35 new cases reported during the day.
The most important feature of the
news as to the new cases was the fact
that four people were found to have
been stricken at the Jewish home, a
well-known local charitable inStitu-
ton. The officials of Touro infirmary
agreed to receive the cases and they
were az once taken to that hospital,
which is largely supported by the He
brew population, although non-sec-
tartan.
Two cases were also reported to have
developed at the Hotel Dieu, another
private hospital. Both of these hos.
pitfalls have heretofore had cases,
and the physicians in charge
have been successful in treating them
and in combining the disease. Another
new case appeared in Algiers, on the
opposite side of the river. A majority
of the new cases Monday presented
pew foci of infection.
At the board of health Office Monday
night there was bitter criticism Oh
Galveston, Tex, AMI the Texas health
authorities for their failure to send a
lire regarding the situation in that
city. When suspicious cases were re-
ported here the Louisiana board OF
health at once telegraphed the fact to
all the leading health boards of the
country and the result was general
gu arantine against this city. Calves
ton was one of the first cities to raise
the bars.
DR.. Guiteras on Saturday pronounced
several cases of yellow fever as exist
ing in Galveston, but not line has
reached DIR. O6phant relative to '3hese
from the Texas health officers. The
only official information which Dr.
Oliphant has received was from Sur g,eon
General Wyman.
A party of about fifty Italians
reached the city Monday morning
coming, it is said, from New York, or.
ders were given by the board of health
to prevent their locating themselves In
the city limits and the health officers
were instructed to have them sent to
one of the camps of detention.