The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-01


 To on Sunday. The decrease of yesterday cent poi Local Chief Inspector Toe did not re- eelve any additional instructions from the state board of health yesterday, and
 
 medical scrutiny in non-infected eamp The state health board has had it's at tention directed to this matter and will seek to overcome the difficulty
 Will Aid In Work.
 The Era club composed of representa- tive women, held meeting today. and rendered the services of it's members to the health boards city authorities and captains of the various ward organiza- tions. Though generally people are willing to submit to the regulations of the health authorities, there are some who refuse to believe in the mosquito theory, and who oppose the oilng of their cisterns and the cleansing of the premises. The Era club members have volunteered to proselyte among this class of the com munity
 The mosquito ordinance will be passed at the meeting of the council tomorrow. It will require landlords to screen cis- terms Fine or imprisonment is the penalty for refusal to obey the ordinance. Very few houses in the city are without cis- terms and forty or fifty thousand of them will have to be screened. The city is now spending some S-j,000, 900 upon a wa ter sewerage system which when com pleted will require the abandonment of all cisterns. It will, however be two or three years before this system is finished and in the interval the screening and bling process will be essential if the breeding places of the fever mosquito shall be wiped out.
 Status at O'clock.
 New cases up to 6 p. m., 21.
 Total cases to date, 3Of.
 Deaths to 6 D. m, D.
 Total deaths to date, 62.
 New foci, D.
 Total foci, 46
 Of the five deaths reported above, three occurred in the emergency hospital and all five bore Italian names. Another new case was discovered out side of the city, being that of an Italian, who left here @ week ago with several others, and took up his residence in Nor gan City On their arrival there, they were quarantined and one of them was taken sick four days ago. Today Dr. Tarleton president of the St. Mary parish board of health Dr. Goldberg, of the marine hospital service and two Nor gan Clty pnySlCldHSs uidBHpSSd thS N"SO as yellow fever. and 1t was so announced. Nothing has been heard from Dr. Brady, who has gone to Lake Providence, op- poste Vieksburg, to investigate reports of two suspicious cases there.
 Found Thirty-Nlne New Cases.
 Dr. Richardson of the Marine Hospital service, who is in charge of the fumiga- tion oiling and screening of houses in the original focus of infection, and whose forces are also making outside inspec- tions, reports that up to date he has made 264O inspections and found 3s cases of fever. most of which were sent to the emergency hospital in the screened ambulance.
 TNe controversy between Governor Var daman of Missssippi, and Governor Blanchard of Louisiana is waxing warm- CT. Today Governor Blanchard gave out a statement to this effect;
 Another Reply to vardaman.
 "The statement of the governor of Miss issippi answers itself. He was called upon for proofs to substantiate grave charge against gentlemen of high official, pro- fessional and personal standing in this state. Instead of producing evidence sus- taining the charge, he replies that if these gentlemen were not guilty of dissimula- ton and evasion, (his original complaint, they are cefld1IIy SulitJ ol AdANt or neglect of duty. This is a palpable evasion of the issue by the governor of Mississippi. The inference is allowable that If he were now called upon for proof of the incompetericy and wanton neglect of the health authorities of the state he would respond that If they were not guilty of incompetency and neglect, they were undoubtedly guilty of something else. And so on ad infinitum. The issue was made clear and plain. Either the gov ernor of Mississippi must produce proof of his charges, or the public will con- vict him of unseemly and extravagant use of invective, and of fairly amazing disregard of the good name of honorable and high-minded Louisiana public of ficials."
 Regarding Governor vardamans state ment that Governor Blanchard's first statement reminded him more of stage thunder than the murmur of the heavens Governor Blanchard said:
 "The most charitable view to he taken of it is that laboring under an entire misapprehension of my motive. words and action, he Is merely protesting against the entry of the governor of another state into a domain in which he. above all the present governors of the Amer ican states has most conspicuously shone I think I may safely leave to the pub lie judgment a comparison of my own career in this respect with that or the governor of Mississippi"
 Mississippi has again announced that 1t will accept detention camp certificates issued by the Marine Hospital service. Yesterday the railroads and travellers were thrown into a panic by dispatch received by one of the railroad superin- tendents saying that two men with cer- tihcates had been turned back. Today R. s. Hunter of the Mississippi health board. sent out the following notice:
 ''Will accept any certificates issued by Marine Hospital service passing through detention camp"
 Alabama More Strict.
 On the other hand, Alabama has taken a new tangent. The following dispatch shows even more stringent restrictions than ever before attempted:
 Alabama health authorities decline to al- low passengers coming from points beyond New Orleans that are not infected, who will be transferred from train to train in New Orleans under Marine Hospital inspection and protection, to get off at point of destination in Alabama. They are very rigid with their quarantine in this city (Birmingharn).