The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-26
Country Cases.

News from the country shows two new points of infection, one in Aveyelles par ish and another in Assumption parish. The country reports were:
 Kenner, 8 new cases.
 Tallulah and vicinity. new cases.
 Alexandria, new cases.
 Lake Providence, new cases
 Borodine. l case.
 Near Napoleonville, 1 case, 2 suspicious
 Bayou Boeuf and Amelia (six days), 1s new cases
 Terre Bonne parish dwo days). E new oases deaths.
 McDonoughville, l new case.
 Fishers Camp. Barrataria, new cases.
 Patterson, 26 new cases
 Mississippi:
 Hamburg, new cases, death.
 Natchez, 3 new cases.
 Vicksburg, 1 ne wcase.
 Gulfport, 4 new cases.
 Roxie. new case, 1 death.
 Mississippi City one new case.
 The situation at Hamburg is getting se- rious, two of the local physicians, Drs. Gray and Calcote, being down with the fever. suspicious case has developed at Bon Ami in Caleasieu parish, which has had no fever for forty days.
 Hope President Can Come.
 There is a continued hopefulness that the yellow fever will have passed before the time for President Roosevelts visit. Though the authorities do not care to stress the fact that not all the cases that go into the official report are yellow fever confirmation is partially furnished in the low number of deaths which are occurring at this time and which are ftGnrnnnfsffntt fn Ha that were reported during the past two weeks. Doctors IS a rule are now turnins 2 In every case of fever that comes into their practice, and these cases figure in the daily official reports. On occasions where there is remonstrances on the part of the family, explanation is given that the authorities desire to be informed of every possible case of fever and the physician declares his unwillingness to run the risk of arrest and imprison- ment for failure to make report. In many instances this reporting of cases which are obviously not yellow fever cases con- siderable adverse criticism but generally there is accomplishing submission to the rules which the fever fighters have set down, even though the result is that New Orleans Is credited with more fever than actually exists
 Dr. White continues to hold a very ia yorable view of the general situation be- lieving as he has repeatedly said. that there will be a rapid collapse of the fever when every source of infection has been run down. Not a handful of concealed points of infection are believed to be in existence, and with cool weather ap- preaching the early weeks of October will probably see the rout of the disease practically complete.
 Germ Not Discovered. Publications were made here today of the absolute discovery of the germ of yellow fever. Denials promptly followed that there had been any change in the condition of the investigation from that which has already been announced by the Associated Press
 Has any one positively announced the discovery of the yellow fever germ?'' was asked of Dr. Hamilton P. Jones of the Emergency hospital. 'No, that is something which nobody in this wide world knows" replied Dr. Jones. We shall make no announcement until we are positive of our finding. We have found something which some of us be- lieve may be the germ, but none of us knows just what this is, and it will take time for us to determine the value of our findings. There Is no change from the announcement l made two weeks ago at the meeting of the Board of Trade that our scientists had reason to believe they
  pr. Rosenau, who is participating in the investigations as the representative of the marine hospital service. confirmed what Dr. Jones said. Intense interest Is manifested in the work of the bactero- logists and the most exaggerated reports of what they have discovered have been circulated.
 Vast Improvement Noted. Dr. Corput went to Kenner today. He visited the emergency hospital there and on his return he said that there had been vast improvement in that section since the hospital was established. Patients are being constantly received in the in stitution and the centers from which they have come eliminated as sources of in- lection The disease Is showing a de- crease all along the Mississippi Valley road, and it Is believed few weeks will see it entirely stamped out. House moving started on a large scale today. It will grow steadily larger until the end of the ween. It is possible that an infected mosquito will in sporadic fn- stances be carried in household goods from one point to the other, but the fed eral authorities are doing all fin their power to prevent that by securing the Immigration of houses as fast as they are emptied. The tenant needs only to notify the ward headquarters and the work is done for him by the government without charges and with little inconvenience
 Two Theatres Open. Two of the local theatres have opened and are doing a fiourishing business. Two more are to throw open their doors next week. In their case the troupes they play remain only a week and arrange ments have been made to jump them from here to points outside of the zone of infectibility, the Texas authorities re- maining obdurate to appeals made that the companies be permitted to enter that state from Louisiana. It is expected that the remaining theatres will open by the middle of october.