The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-29
FEVER BEING STAMPED OUT
 - Number of New Cases is
 Still Small. CRESCENT CITY SITUATION The Suspicious List Also
 Very Light. Educational Campaign for Fiorids, Which Is Considerably Alarmed Over Progress of Disease
 at Pensacola.
CRESCENT CITY SITUATION

to 6 D. m. Thursday:
 New cases. 2s; total cases to date. 2.9l1; deaths. {; total deaths to date, 3sl; new foci. S; cases under treatment, 261; cases discharged. 2,2s6.
 The indications of a larger list of new cases today, because of the large list of suspicious cases reported the day before, were verified. but at that the number of new cases is small, and shows that steady decline can be ex- pected henceforth.
 The list of suspicious cases reported today Is verey light, and foreshadows very light report Friday. Only i've of the new cases are above Canal street. while the greater proportion Of the others is down in the Seventh and Eighth Wards. Two new cases. were brought in from Jefferson Parish. one of them coming iron, Harveys Canal. One was taken to the Emergency Hos pital and one to the charity Of the deaths ali but one were below Canal Street. r 4
 Surgeon won Ezdorf returned to the city today from Tallulah and left at p. m. for Jacksonville. Fla, to carry on an educational campaign in that State, which has been considerably alarmed over the spread of the fever fin Pensacola. The President of the State Board of Health wrote him special letter of thanks for his mag nifcent work at Tallulah. .
 Surgeon White will leave for a tour along the Southern Pacific road Satur- day morning. for the purpose of com sulting with the parish and local au- thorities on quarantine matters. The situation has reached that stage in the city where he can absent himself with out danger to the great work he and his forces have been doing.
 The country reports were as follows: TailuIah and vicinity, new cases; near Napoleonville, 2 positive, suspicious cases; Alexandria, 1 new case; Terre Bonne Parish, 1 new case; Baton Rouge. 1 new case; Patterson, new cases, 2 deaths; Kenner. new eases, death; Baryataria country. new cases.
 l"l Decline of DAaease.
 prbOuxh~ today fever report ssliEhtIy fRpped that of the proceeding twenty J f6ur hours, the figures were SO much lower than those of a week ago as to carry assurance of the strong improve ment that has set in and which is be- lieved by the authorities to augur the steady decline of the disease during the coming month. making it probable that the fever will practically have been eliminated at the time of Presi- dent Roosevelts coming. The food ing of certain sections of the city yes terday by reason of the terrific down. pour of rain was thought by the au- tnoTlJleS Jo nave been m part TeSpon- sible for the small number of cases that were reported and large access sions to the list were looked for today, but with the water all practically drain ed of today and the inspection service again in full force there was little diff ference in the aggregate. Dr. White has always declared that when all the centers iof infection where within his knowb Age the results would promptly show h the rapid reduction of cases and t e reports for the past three days give the impression that few remain undiscovered
 The rain continued intermittently to- day and the day was generally dreary one. The federal authorities, however, were inclined to believe that the storm had done more good than harm.
 "Fortunately. the rain was sufficient ly heavy to clear out the gutters and drains and to wash all the water hitherto stagnant into the swamps and the lake" said Dr. White. All mos quito larvae which were in that water have been washed out into salt waters and destroyed. After you get beyond a certain point. the heavier the rain the better. When this rain is entirely over. if people will faithfully oil the surface of all standing bodies of water. I think there will be comparatively few stegomyia left in the city"
 As to Pensacola.
 Dr. von Ezdorf, who came here today from Tallulah and left tonight for Pen sacola, believes that proper organiza- tion in the Florida city will soon get the upper hand of the disease. Ii did so at Tallulah, he said, and if assist ance had been sent there more prompt ly there would perhaps be no fever at all there now. When the physicians reached TaIlulah its people were In a perfect panic. but they were soon taught the value of organization and had demonstrated to them the value of the mosquito theory and the result was the early control of the disease.
 Dr. Beverly Warner Is preparing for another general cleanup day as the result of a conference with a commit tee of the medical society. Co-opera- ton by the ward organizations will be given. There are three reasons for this final cleanup" said pr. Warner. 'Tn the first place the President is have on for him her best bib and tucker. In the second place. refugees are now pouring into New Orleans and they ought 10 have a hand In putting the city in good sanitary condition. And in the third place. by carrying out the plan we are preparing no oppor- tunity will be left mosquitoes to breed
 
 so many fewer cases of yellow fever to handle"
 No additional reports have been given out concerning the progress of the search for the yellow fever germ. The probability is that there will be nothing further on the subject until the close of the fever unless some extraordinary discovery is made. Microscopicai diagnoses of yellow fever are being made at the emergency hospital, but the best information obtainable is that the experiments have not reached a point where conclusive results can be acknowledged.
 Italian TmmlgratiOm.
 Tn the first stages of the fever, when 1t was confined to the Italian district and the members of that race were charged with responsibility for the ex- tent of the pestllence. owing to their eoncealment of it. there was strong feeling engendered against the move ment of Italian immigration through