Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-29
REAL YELLOW JACK
EVE NEW CASES REPORTED AT
LAREDO, TEX, BUT NO
= DEATHS.
Persons Desiring to Leave Must Spend
Ten Days Under Surveillance
In Detention Camp.
THE SITUATION WELL IN HAND.

been no deaths in this city from yel-
low fever, but five new cases have
been pronounced by the experts who
are in charge of the situation
A light rain fell for about tire
hours, increasing the unia4orableacsa
of the situation.
Orders have been issued to the rail
road companies prohibiting the sale
of tickets to any points north. This
step was taken because the authorities
intend to establish a DENTON camp at
Sanchez station, five miles from here,
where all the passengers who wish to
depart for points north will be com
PEELED to spend ten days under sur
veillance. The detention, however,
does not apply to through passengers
who wish to depart for points beyond
the yellow fever district in Mexico, the
only thing eXacted from such passen-
gers being certificate from a United
States consul in Mexico, showing that
they have not been in an infected dis
trict within ten days.
Drs. Guiteras and Tabor have per-
fected the organization Of their forces
to carry on the work of placing the
city in sanitary condition by send
ing out four gangs in charge Of com
petent physicians, whose duty it is to
supervise the disinfection of all the
houses within the neighborhood where
yellow fever patients have died and
where cases now exist. Federal and
state officers are working in harmony,
but there is a difference Of opinion as
to whether or not tie disease is con-
tagious
Dr. Guiteras, in an interview, urged
the necessity of fighting the mosquito
as the only means of stamping out the
disease. He said this theory OF
stamping out the disease was accepted
by the International Medical congress
held at Havana in 1901, and although
there are many learned men who do
not accept this theory he is thoroughly
convinced Of it's correctness. He said
that if the city had been thoroughly
drained before the advance of yellow
fever from Mexico there would have
been no spread of the disease here.
Tol hot ho 1Io1inyyn1 hN
fever could be transmitted by infec-
tion and that while the mosquito un-
doubtedly communicated the disease,
he thought it could be acquired by in
fection as we'll. AS there are many
things not absolutely settled to the
minds of all men of science, he said 1t
would be we'll for the Inhabitants OF
the city to take every precautlon, both
against infection from contact with
the disease and from being bitten by
the yellow fever mosquito.
Every case of fever has been isolat-
ed and the doors and windows of the
houses covered with mosquito netting
to prevent further spread Of the dis
ease from the patients under treat
ment.
Little information of a reliable ma
ture can be learned from Nuevo Lar
edo, but it is reported tonight that
several cases developed there today.
:r ole hof nj
the patients are not protected from
the mosquitoes, several of the medical
gentlemen there not believing in the
transmission of the disease by this
means.
A number of people left town today
for Satillo and other high points in
Mexico, the only outlet now left open.
It is hoped and believed by the ply
clans that the disease will be stamped
out before it spreads much further.
Reports from Linares say that the
yellow fever is little improved. Twen-
ty-two deaths have occurred there dur
. ing the past three days. The agents
of the superior board of health are
doing all they can to control the dis
ease. Patients are isolated as mucn
as possible as soon as they are found
and large force Of men is being kept
busy working to improve the sanitary
condition of the city.
r, <ho %owpc rorth of inoros fhe
mot appeared. The Monte
sfeat tAs eity is