The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-05
WADE IN WATER TO
 REACH PATIENTS Coffin is floated for Six DOCTORS ARE HAN DICTATED The Country Situation Is Now Causing Much More Apprehension Than
 That In New orleans-Gen.
 eral Fever News.
DOCTORS ARE HANDICApPE[ [
OFFICIAL REPORT TO 6 p. M.

1 Total deaths to date... 4uo
 New foci -. ..... ......
 Cases under treatment. :. .... 1e4
 Cases discharged. ....... .2ooo New Orleans. October 4.-Difficulties
 which the doctors and others have had | to contend with in fighting the fever in l the interior of Jefferson parish were dis | closed today in a report made by fumi- 1 gators and screeners who returned from a tour of the Barataria district. The ex- cessive rains during the past thirty days have filled up the swamps and together with adverse winds. have put much land l ordinarily dry, under water. In conse- ouence immense obstacles have had to
 be overcome in reaching the widely scat tered patients Dr. c. M Shanley, who Is again seriously i'll. was in charge of section of this territory. and In company
 with his assistants was sometimes forced to wade waist deep in water to reach per sons who were ili In the instance of the death of Mrs. Pizzani, the box which con tained the body had to be fioated for a distance of six miles before a dry spot l could be found.
 Water Is Very High.
 Today's reports from Barataria are to the effect that the water is as high as It
 was during the Hymelia Crevasse. when the floors of buildings were flooded. These overflow conditions are greatly responsi- ble for the increase in cases which has
 been reported from the bayou sections.
 Dr. Brady of the state board Of health
 was today sent for tour of the Bara- taria settlements, and Dr. Weaver has been detailed by the parish to take up the work which Dr. Shanley had been do- 1 ing Dr. Shanley's present environment is 1 so bad that Dr. Brady will make an ef- l fort to bring him to New Orleans for | treatment at the emergency hospital. l It is probable that now the situation In New Orleans has improved so distinctly
 that an appeal will be made by the Jef- ferson parish authorities to the marine 1 hospital authorities to take charge or l the infected district along Bayou Bara- I taria and Grand Isle, where also there
 has been a considerable spread of the l fever Today a force of twenty men were i sent from New Orleans to Gretna, the ] parish seat of Jefferson. on the opposite l side of the river to fumigate houses Tn
 
 ] cases of fever.
 l The report of new cases for the day In | New Orleans was again moderate. and ] though there was slight increase or the l deaths there was no actual decrease in | the steady progress of the federal au- | thorities to control the disease.
 There was death today In the emer- gency hospital. the first in several days. While the state board of health is re- ceiving many encouraging responses to ! its suggestion of the abrogation Of quar- 1 antinea by the 18th of October. some Of | the parishes. 1t Is evident. will keep l themselves bottled up until there Is q | frost
 Shreveport Is Cautious.
 Dr. Ashton Blanchard son of Governor | Blanchard who is the health officer of | Shreveport came here to study the fever l in the Emergency hospital. said today | that he would leave for home on Sunday
 but would have to go all the way to 1 Nashville in order to get there. Shreve- 1 port requires seven days detention in d | non-infected point. and makes no excep- | ton even in the case of Its health of- | ficer Having been in New Orleans for l couple of weeks. Dr. Blanchard Is re- | quired to proceed to non-infected terri 1 tory The doctor said there would be no | lifting of quarantine by Shreveport until l frost. The city has spent thousands of 1 dollars in protecting itself. has kept the | fever out of It's limits and refuses to | take any further chances It's greatest 1 fear of infection. If quarantines were re-
 moved. would come from the eastern sec 1 ton of North Louisiana, where a great
 deal of infection has been spread from | Tallulah and Lake Providence.
 1 That the Italian quarter, the original in- | lection of the yellow fever. Is practically I clear of the disease was made plain to- | day by the establishing of the headquar- l ters of inspectors in that place.
 | Only isolated secondary cases are now I apprehended. and all the work needed to I be done can be handled by neighbor- | ing headquarters.
 l President DeFuentes of the state rail- | road commission said today that he had | instructed Secretary Barrow to call a | meeting of the commission ten days after l the ouarantines have been lifted.
 l Much business of importance is pend | ing before the commission but its work | has been completely suspended since the | fever appeared.
 It was officially announced by Presi- | dent Boyd today that the Louisiana State | university at Baton Rouge, the opening of | which has been delayed by yellow fever | quarantines. will begin its next annual
 session or Wednesday. November 1. Freight Business Injured. | Vice President Thornwell Fay of the | Southern Pacific railroad has written a 1 sympathetic letter to Secretary Mayo of l the Progressive union. in which he says that while nominaly there are few restric- | tions to prevent freight moving. yet the | fact that quarantine exists in this part | of the country Is being used by soliciting | of the country Is being used by soliciting agents of competing lines | in an attempt to divert the rout- | ing of freight through New Orleans, 1 and that the railroads at interest have | felt the effects. MT. Fay thinks the quar- | antines this year have made apparent the | necessity for national quarantine law. | Private telegrams and the conference had today by Congressman Davey and Meyer and Postmaster Woodward with the President make 1t practically certain that the Presidents visit will terminate at o'clock on the evening of October 26. necessitating the elimination from the programme of entertainment the banquet which was to have been given at that time. Committees of arrangements are' therefore, revising their programme Figures Show Coincidence. There was nothing out of the ordinary | in the local fever situation beyond the coincidences in the figures which show | 400 deaths to date, and an even 25OO cases | discharged. Only two of the new cases are above Canal street. Five cases are report cd by Dr. Meraux. the health officer or