The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-02
Campaign on Mosquitoes.

The war against stegomyia still con-
ttnues and the oiling Of cutters and els
terms goes on with great energy and per
sfStence, though light rain storm this
afternoon caused a Temporary. SUSPENSION
of the work and will doubtless require the
forces to go back over much of the gut
ter territory they have covered to replace
the OIL washed away. Meantime an effort
Is TO be made to remove all ponds where
water stands and serves a breeding
place Tor the insect To that end an or
dinance was introduced in the city eoun-
Gil tonight providing that all vacant lots
more than six hours shall be filled to the
grade required by the city engineer 8
surveys Fine or Imprisonment is to be
the penalty.
The business districts continue to exert
every effort to secure some notifications
or the quarantine regulations. which have
had the effect of bottling up the city
commercially. With that object in view
President SouChon. of the-state board of
health. who is in thorough sympathy with
the efforts TO secure a relaxation of the
subordinate ouarantiue In I olIjsiana to-
day issued a proclamation on behalf of
the state board Of health to all the par
fishes and municipal health officers He
Ommends the acceptance by subordinate
officers Of the marine hospital health Ger
tifiCatcS to through passengers from
northern points transferring in screened
coaches to New Orleans. He declares
that passengers from New Orleans after
detention of five days IN marine hos
pltal service camps. who are given certi-
ficates should be admitted without de
teution into all parishes and towns OF
tho handling of freight:
Freight All Funigated.
While recognizing the pressure under
which certain localities have quarantined
New Orleans the state board of health
earnestly deprecateS such restriction as
ehAfiN N-ie''i',s'N 49, '->f'-N-1s' 10
ter; anu recommends that no SuCh re
strfcuons be imposed after it becomes
known that all freight cars from New Or
leans are being tumlgated by the United
States public health and marine hospital
service before leaving the city"
DR. White Of the marine service, spent
most Of the day on the gulf coast, in an
endeaVor TO get a site for detention
Camp on the Louisville &, Nashville road.
NO permits are being issued to any person
TO enter the AvOndale detention camp
when such person intends going to or
through Texas, owing to the Texas de-
mand for five days detention at the Sa-
bine river
The detention camps at Avoudale and
Slideh are reported to be filled. though
those who occupy them are uncertain as
10 Nhetuer tneN can reStcn tnelr deStih-
atoms when the period OF detention IS up.
People who live in the infected district
here find difficulty i'm getting away at
all gentleman who applied for health
certificate giving Europe his destin-
alton. was refused It yesterday because
of has residence in this quarter.
The public is being impressed with the
fact that. while doctors generally are
convinced that the best possible treat
naent foF the. sick is ObtainsbIe AZ the
emergency hospitals. there is no intention
10 force patients to go there whose fam
ed at home. This is being done TO induce
the prompt report of cases Of fever in
their incipient stages So far as the
health authorities are concerned. they say
that every case even OF suspicious fever
is now being promptly reported. No re
ports have come today Of cases outside of
New Orleans which might have developed
from Italians who scattered when the
health boards first started I'm TO treat the
disease SO vigianS have been the local
authorities in all the small towns OF
Louisiana and other states that it is not
believed that many more such cases will
be reported
New Points of Infection.
the lower part OF Piaquemine parish. on
the west bank fifty miles below the city.
DR. V S. Schayot, parish health officer,
Terdav-one at Sunrise, one a Empire ole
at OStrica one a Point Celeste and two
a. Vaccare These persons are all fish
eruoen or truck farmers and three of them
arc Austrians Lieutenant Colonel l. NJ.
Maiison during his inspection of Fort st.
PbiIip recently discovered a case of fever
miles from, the fort. but the patient was
Tsearlv we'll at the time.
Anofher case of infection is on AraGyne
attenuation Terrabonne parish, between
Houma and Schriever
west Nego just across the river from
A,,bon mark jefferson parish. where there
&c small settlement. has developed two
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