The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-06
FATALITIES <%-.< ,NLY A FEW 'sN Orleans Death Rate insignificant. INCORRECT REPORTS MADE Cases Supposed to Be Pest
 Are Not Such. Quarantine Newa of More Favorable Character, Disposition Being
 Evident to Modify the
 Regulations.
INCORRECT REPORTS MADE

New Orleans, Oct. 5.-onicial record to D. m. Thursday:
 New cases, 2s; total cases to date, B. 122; deaths, 8; total deaths to date. 4o3; new foci, 6; cases under treatment. 1sS; cases discharged, 2,52e.
 Only four of the cases reported are above Canal Street, thus keeping up the proportion that has been noted for the past month. Of the 193 cases now under treatment, less than 25 are above Canal Street. That means that the up- per part of the city is practically clear of fever. Of the other cases. 36 are in the emergency hospital. which had only one admission today and that case was not sufficientiy pronounced to be declared yellow. Every one of the three deaths was an Italian, and two of them were down town. One of the well known practitioners in the lower part of the city. Dr. l.. Szabary. was ar rested on a charge of falling to report case of yellow fever which was found by the Eighth Ward commander, Dr. Eustis.
 Dr. White is figuring on sending a marine hospital officer to Patterson as we'll as the lower La Fourche country for the purpose of cleaning up the in lection. there, but desires first to be assured of the hearty cooperation of the people in those localities. This Is not always forthcoming. as was evil denced in the case of the Marine Hos pital officers sent to Scranton, on the Mississippi coast, who returned to head quarters. Acting Assistant Becnet, who was sent to Hamburg. Miss, also re- turned to the city. as the result of lack of cooperation of the people of that fflicted community. He estab- lished an emergency hospital there, but could get no one to enter it, nor would they cooperate with him in Immigration and disinfection.
 Country Cases.
 The following reports from the coun- try were received; Kenner, 1 new case; Terrebonne Parish (two days), 12 new cases; Amelia and Bayou L'Ourse (three days).s7 new cases, death, La Pface and vicinity lseven days), 2s cases and deaths; Barrataria, 3 new cases; Tallulah, | new case; Lake Prov idence, new cases. Considerable in- lection has been found in the surround ing country.<
 ississippi-Vlcksburg, 4 new cases: Natchez, new eases; Gulfport, new cases; Port Gibson, 13 new cases, i death. A dispatch from Rosetta says that there yet remain nearly ,ffty per- sons who have escaped, indicating that all others in the town have been stricken with the disease. An urgent appeal was sent to Dr. Hunter for as- sistance, which was given.
 Colonel W. H. Benjamin, one of the best known planters in North Louis- jana, died of yellow fever on his Ath- erton plantation in East Carroll Parish, south of Lake Providence. His daugh- ter Is now i'll with the disease.
 With the number of fatalities daily from yellow fever reduced to almost Insignificant figures. the public has reached the conclusion that the num- Der of new cases is unjustifiabIy large and that there is being included in the official list cases classed as yellow fe- yer that are simply ordinary fever. The Marine Hospital Service oficials admit this as probably the cases, but disclaim responsibility for the errors which occur in the official figures which they furnish. The blame Is placed at the doors of certain physicians, who find their excuse for reporting such cases in pretended fear of arrest if they should make mistake and fail to re- port an actual case. The authorities say that there is no reason why such an extreme view should be taken of the measures formulated for the cam paign against the disease.
 Cases ErroneousIy Reported.
 In support of the claim that cases are enormously placed in the list in- stances are cited where patients whose names have been printed have reap peared on the streets two or three days after becoming Ill and other In. stances where patients said to have yellow fever have been discharged from both the charity hospital and emergency hospital as having had ma In. .La
 In explanation of this condition of af- fairs representatives of the Govern ment say that all physicians have been asked to report promptly every case of fever in which positive diagnosis cannot be made as a suspicious case. Such cases go on suspicious list which Is not issued to the public. Screening and other precautions follow If the case does not develop into yellow fe. yer, no harm has been done. If 1t does. it Is transferred to the yellow fever list. Cases known to be positive are required to be thus certified by the physicians in charge.
 If" says the representatives of the Marine Hospital Service. "certain phy- slcians of the city are so much afraid of prosecution that they will report a suspicious case as a positive case, they harm themselves and the city. The Marine Hospital Service does not in- terfere in the practice of any physi- clan who reports his cases. No exam nation of his patients is made. We rely upon his honor totally. If he choses to harm himself and his city and his patients by reporting suspicious cases as positive, we can do nothing to prevent him"
 The arrest of Dr. l.. Szabary, a we'll known physician. for failure to report a case Is the second instance where local physician has been proceeded against. Tho complainant was Dr. Eustis of the Marine Hospital Service There was no attempt as in the case of Dr. Berger to lodge Dr. Szabarry fin Jail, affidavits being made early in the day SO that he might give bond
 Not Known Till Death.
 Dr. Szabary had as patient Mary Levi, IA years of age. It was not known that she was a sufferer from yellow fever until her death. During her illness no steps were taken to guard those around her on in the neigh borhood from falling victims to infect ed mosquitoes and the authorities con. slider that thereby an unnecessary dan ger spot has been created.
 The Marine Hospital Service and the