The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-14
DEATH RATE
 IS VERY LOW Fever Fatalities COmpara-
 lively Few. EFFECTIVENESS OF WORK Reports of Infection in C0un-
 try Districts. Situation at Pensacola Improved Meridian Quarantines Whistler,
 Though There is no Pest
 Existing There.
EFFECTIVENESS OF WORK

New Orleans, Sept 13.-Oficial state ment to p. m. Wednesday;
 New cases, 43; total cases to date, 2.41s; death. 4; total deaths. s24; new foci, &; cases under treatment, 303; cases discharged, 1.7s7
 The average of new cases continues 6 little higher than was expected, put it is not causing any alarm, as there was ample warning that September could be looked for to iniate the hst little. As a matter of fact there is real cause for congratulation in the fact that the list is not much greater than it is The deaths are still very low, indicating 8 death rate Tor the past month of much less than 10 per cent.
 Of the deaths today. one was really from cerbro-spinal meningitis. but 1t followed an attack of yellow fever. Another was Sister Mary St. Celina Of the Mount Carmel convent, whose case was reported a few days ago. Two deaths occurred in the Emergency Hos- pital.
 Another evidence of the effective ness of the work being done by the Marine Hospital service is the state ment by pr. White that there is not now A single case of yellow fever un- der treatment in either the Sixteenth or Seventeenth Wards, which comprise the upper section of the city, known as IcarrolIton, There have been quite a number of cases in those districts, but the infection seems to have been eliminated. There was very serious nest of infection near the City Park which existed from the very beginning of the discovery of the fever in the city and it seemed to defy all the eff forts of the sanitarians to exterminate It. Finally the original case was found and there has not been single case in that neighborhood since Sep tember 1st.
 The plans for the subdivision of the Ninth Ward into two have been com pleted, Assistant Surgeon Guthrie be- ing placed in charge of the lower division, which will also Include part of St. Bernard. es,
 The Country Infection
 Two new points of infection were re- ported today outside of the city. One is at Lecompte, in Rapides Parish. and the other is Berwick, across the bay from Morgan City, in St. Mary Parish. Dr. Chassaignac reports from TaFulah that out of forty-two blocks. thirty six are infected but the people have mani fested new hope and have gone to work with will.
 Other country cases were: Patterson, 16 cases, death; Alexander, case; La- fayette, 1 case; St. Elizabeth Plantation. 3 cases; Kenner, l case; Hanson City, 4 cases; St. Rose. 2 cases (outside of town); Barrataria, 1 case; Clarke Che- niere, cases; Tallulah (two days), 2S cases, death; Terre Bonne Parish, -four days), Crescent Farm, 16 cases; Ardoyne, cases; Belle Grove. cases, death; Rebeccs, 2 eases.
 Mississippi-Hamburg 1 case: Gulf port, case, death; Natchez. cases.
 Because the authorities at Whistler, Ala. refused to allow Dr. Tackett of the Mississippi State Board to see some sus- picious cases, the Meridian Beard of Health quarantined Whistler.
 There Is a report of five suspicious cases at Dameron and Whites Levee Camp. near Kemps Bend, in Pensas Par ish, and three physicians from Natchez will go there Thursday morning.
 The authorities of Donaldsonville have begun the establishment of an emergency hospital, and today the State Board of Health sent up twenty beds.
 Prof. Rupert Boyce of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine sailed for Belize Wednesday morning to make further studies into the yellow fever question. He will return to New Or leans In three weeks.
 ::.::. ~.. The Jump In Cases.
 While the fact that there was again today a large number of new cases of yellow fever did not give the author lties serious concern, the reason for the sudden jump in cases within the past four or five days has heeu the cause of much speculation and con siderable disappointment on the part of the public. The disappointment comes largely from the fact that any Increase Is bound to have a discourag- ing effect elsewhere and therefore pro long the existence of quarantines. Various reasons for the increase are suggested, among them the fact that the physicians are now turning up cases on the slightest pretext owing to the example that was recently made of one of their number, but the federal officers are inclined to believe that the fact that the stegcmyia multiplies more rapidly in September, if rains are frequent, as has been the case, than during any other month. and that over confidence has dulled the zeal of house. holders in warning against the mos ouitoes is responsible for the rise.
 However, tAe death rate Is decreas- ing as the new cases grow more num- erous and 1t is considered possible that the disease henceforth will be so mild as to carry with 1t little danger and a great deal of benefit in immun- izinR those who are attacked by it.
 The persistency with which the few er has stuck to the Port Barrow neigh borhood In Ascension parish has led inc State Board Of HeaIth to decide 
 outskirts of Donaldsonville. Twenty beds and a large supply of mattresses linens, etc, were shipped there today accompanied by Dr. c. Nj Corput and A trained nurse, and the hospital will he immediately established Dr. Cor nut established the hospital at Kenner which drew from Dr. White and Prof Royce the statement that 1t was the most complete emergency institution of its kind they had eyer seen. The Donaldsonville hospital will be similar fin character.
 The Country Cases.
 The State Board is anxious to arrest the spread of the fever in the country and 1t is thought that by collecting all the patients at Port Barrow, Donaldson yiIle and contiguous country in this bosnital the disease can be very quick iv stamped out in that section, which is in the heart of the sugar region. IT Is not improbable that a modern emergency hospital will also be estsb- Iished at Tailulah.
 The death of Sister Mary of St Ce- lima at the Mount Carmel asylum to-