The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-07
Resemble Stsg0Tnyia But Have
 Caused No AIarn
REPORTS STILL FAVORABLE
Women of New Orleans Have Aided Greatly In the Work of Oversee ing the Fumgation and
 Screening.
FEVER SUMPTION AT 6 p. M.

NeW cases = =. -. =. 51 Total cases to date. 2. =. .2142 Deatns. .......... Total deaths to date. 2e8 NeW Iocl... ..- ....s.... Cases under treatment. .......... 317 Cases discharged. Q. -. ...... 1527
 New Orleans, September 6-There was nothing of special interest in the fever beyond the small number of cases reported, and the few deaths re- ported. A heavy rain and wind seems to have filled the city with mosquitoes. but they are not the stegomyia though re- them in many respects. They are causing much discomfort. and some anxiety, for the similarity in the mark Ings leads the average citizen to believe that all the precautions about screen- ing and oiling have been futile. This is an ungrounded fear however. because the pest that Is now In evidence is much larger than the stegomyla being species of swamp angel.
 pr. White Opposes Quarantine.
 There has been some demand here for A quarantine of the city against tho on account of the nests of in- lection outside of the city, and the danger nf re-infectlon but Dr. White Is opposed to such a move, and does not believe if would be effective He is taking every precaution, however, and the avenues of ingress to the city are being watched. A guard has been put on the Mississippi Valley trains, whose duty It Is to watch all passengers from infected
 Al. md iFan 10 health certificates.
 Country Cases.
 There was no bad news from the eeuh- try. Dr. Brady, state board medical n- spector. visited the three cases on Estelle plantation and the three on Woods plan tation in Jefferson parish reported Tues day as yellow fever, but declared fiye or them malaria and one typhoid. Other reports were:
 Jefferson parish. Kenner-Four cases, Hanson City five cases, three deaths; KintIns camp. two cases; Fishers Camp. two cases Shrewsbury. one death
 St Bernard parish-Terre aux Boenfs. one case, near slaughter house, one case.
 St Mary parish-Patterson, 12 new rases five came from Belleseln plaSta- tion; Amelia, six new cases; Tallulah. 21 cases in all; Lake Providence, cases.
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 Mississippi City-Two cases discovered during convalescent period.
 Vicksburg-Two cases, one death.
 Pearllngton--One new case.
 Contiued Rains Falling.
 Dr. Whites warning to the people or New Orleans to be on their guard aBainsl frequent and excessive rainfalls durns sentember, which would tend largely o the breeding places of stegomyia bids fair to be borne out so far as precip- Itation is concerned though the reduction in the number of new cases Of fever dur ing the past ten days does not indicate that the mosquitoes are taking adVan- taze of their opportunities. After lore noon of clear and pleasant weather heavy rain again set in today flushing gutters the city and creating fresn ponds and pools in every vacant lot.
 For ten days past there have been show prs nearly every day. Infection however. Ia spreading more and more slowly and the conclusion drawn Is that screening of cisterns oiling and salting or gutters and Immigration of premises have ac- complished the destruction of millions Of mosquitoes which otherwise would now be depositing their larvae in the new fresh breeding places provided for them on every side.
 Record Again Favorable.
 Today's record was again a favorable one with diminished number of new cases and deaths. While new foci con- tinue to appear they are offset by the elimination of foci from which there has been no secondary infection during the thirty days set as minimum limit by the federal authorities The fever has not pcen entirely whipped out of the originally infected district but that section Is no longer honeycombed with eases as 1t was A few weeks back and the results show how efficient has been the disinfec- ton conducted by the marine hospital au- thcrities An inspection of the maps in Dr. Whites office shows the fever is dy- ne out fin the forty-four squares which formed the original focus and has now become widely scattered. In the twenty 'cur hours ending yesterday there was not A single new case In this area. Spo- .adic cases will probably continue to ap- pear in the district but it has ceased to De the pest hole it was six weeks ago.
 One of the peculiarities of the situation now Is that there are two strikes in prog -ess in both instances the struggle is for better pay and better hours than prevailed before the fever. The strikers are team ,ters and painters. Both have had plenty If work to do but they regard the present ,etback to business as ephemeral and ooking forward to a big revival when the lever Is stamped out. they are making demand for large concessions. The year las been an exceptionally active one In building operations and though the quar- ,ntines have interfercd to some extent n holding back material the winter prom ses to be extraordinarily busy in con- giving plenty of work for painters.
 Women rave Aided Greatly.
 The woman's organization, formed some ime ago of prominent members of the sex 1as made reports of the work done by It's In each ward. One wom- m visited houses in 150 blocks. Others covered almost as large an area One reported that she had personally super intended the fumigating of thirty houses i, which negroes resided The ladies who volunteered to make the canvass and plead for disinfection went into all sorts
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