The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-15
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Practically All 81 New Orleans
Below Canal Street Now
Infected.
FEWER CASES YESTERDAY !: !! | Y
Authorities Declare Situation IS
More fIopeful-Worls
Continues VI.
New Orleans Record.
nv Associated Press

(By Associated Trcss.)
& NEW ORLEANS, La, August little
figures for this day arc surprisingly small.
considering that nineteen Of the cases
reported to-day really belong to yester-
days list, having come II after the clos
Ing of Sundays report. Monday ns 5usu-
ally been n heavy dizzy for new cases on
account of holdovers from Sunday, anu
II the number of new cases for the next
few days continues small, then It can be
said that the situation Is really improv-
Ing. OF tho new foci, four nre UP town
and four below Canal Street.
Widespread Infection.
with the exception OF IL few squares all
New Orleans below Canal Street Is now
generally Infected. While most havoc hAs
heen caused in this portion of New Or
leans, where foreigners live, the disease
has spread 70 many places places IN what IS
known Is the American quarter above
Canal Street. B Most of tho cases in the
American quarter ore isolated, however.
Health officers are still unable to assert
whether the high water mark of.pdaily-
new cases Inns been reached. About fiji
teen per cent. OF all these thus far
stricken with yellow fever have recovered,
tie deaths being about one in every six
persons infected.
The Marine H ospltal service Is extend
Ing It's MD to any outlying place Whler IS
yellow fever appears, and efforts are
daily being made to perfect the inspection
and Isolation. The Marine Hospital SER
vice will take general charge OF the
street and house sanitation. While yellow
fever Is not filthy disease In itself,
experience shows that persons who live
in unsanitary surroundings are much more
likely to die of the disease when they
contract. than those who live in bettor
invironnent
Z Prosecute Violators Of Law.
Prosecution of those who have not paiu
obedience to the anti-mosqulto ordinunce
is also to be participa ted III BY Federal
officers Sweeping orders have again been
issued 10 the police to prosecute all LAM
lords and agents who fail to screen els
terms. & The result of the order was the
making Of {, large number of atiidavits
by, the police to-day. IN one uptown ward
the Citizens Committee swore out eighty
aftiduvits for violation Of the screening
law, some Of them against men Of Prom
inence and wealth.
Removal of fruit trade from New Or.
leans has thrown many Italians out o.
work, and tile Italian societies now duily
give three meals to all INDECENT persons
who apply at the charity restaurant IL
the French quarter
Oystermen are now in fear that they
will bio unable to open the fishing season
on September LIST, as usual, OF, account Q
tho quarantine. The Board OF Trade de
clnres that grain exports Will In no wise
suffer on account OF the yellow fever.
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All six theatres are preparing to opcr
in September. Two theatres 1laye stool
companies and probably Will have III
trouble In opening.
Surgeon White went to work to-day OH
tho reorgnnized plan, all the fumignting
and screening being done from the dis
trlct Headquarters Instead of the cen-
trnl headquarters, rs heretofore
Surgeon Guiteras returned tonight
from Patterson, La, where he has beer
In charge OF the fumlgatlon and screen.
ing and organizing the community tc
| fight the Infection. lie reports the situA
| ton there M encouraging, The people
arc thoroughly alive to the necessit
OF tho work mapped out by him.
| Assistant Surgeon Berry Is on the roat
to recovery,
Cases Elsewhere.
The health officer Of Plaquemlnes Par
| ish to-day reported to tho State Boart
| Of Health that there were twelve case
Of yellow fever Mt u point four miles O
Polnte-a-la-llalch che. In Plnduemines FAR
4 ish.
Included In the deaths OF the prcvlou
twenty-four hours was that Of negro
Very few cases have appeared however
among tho negro population. case
reported from Spanish Fort. n forme
summer resort on Lake Pontichartrair
where there now Is u large colony 9
fishermen, It is the first case that ha
appeared there No new cnse has bee
reported at Mllneburg. near Spanish ror
for two weeks.
Shipment Of Bananas.
An arrangement between the fruit lm
pqrters and the Marine Hospital and pull
lie health service has been arrived i
permitting the shipment Of bannnns frol
Chnlnette, seven miles below this cit.
A positive order prohibiting the shipmer
, of this fruit from tho city was Issued
} few days since, The present agreemcl
provides that bananas may be brolgf
to Chalmct,e and transhpped from TIN
! point. the cars CARRYING them to be care
fnlly screened and the work to DO dor
under tho supervision OF an official {
the public health service.
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Quarantine Raised.
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