The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-15
sion. A number of eminent speakers will make addresses and there will be refreshments in the side rooms Work Among the Poor.

will make addresses and there will be refreshments in the side rooms
 Work Among She Poor.
 Since the fever started the league has had meetings in practically every sec tion of the city. Special attention has been paid to tho poorer neighborhoods, and many addresses have been made to the negroes. Besides, the 4woman's or ganization has sent it's representatives into every precinct to make personal in- vestigations and appeal for co-opera- tion with the authorities in the rules laid down. and the results have been or incalculable advantage to the cause.
 The marine hospital today won ltf fight with Lawyer Humphreys, wh . tried to resist their effort to disinfe i. his house after there had been a cs s of yellow fever Mir. Humphreys
 jected fo second fumigation, when Passed Assistant Surgeon Currse insisted, he swore out an affidavit against the surgeon and his disfnfect- ing force. The city attorney retail ated with an lff1davit against the law yer. The case came on to be tried be- fore Judge Maher today and there was a large gathering of prominent fever fighters present Dr. Currie and his party were discharged and Mir Hum phreys fined. The latter promises an appeal to the Supreme Court.
 Assistant Surgeon Berry today vir- tually Kidnapped one yellow fever pa tient. For some days neighbors have missed Grocer Cazeaux, who runs store at Bourbon and Dumaine. ln- formation to that effect was communi- cated to pr. White. ths Federal authori- ties having for some time believed that fever was being hidden in this section. Today pr. White sent Dr. Berry and policeman co the Cazeaux store.
 @ Both Arrested.
 The doctor Insisted on seeing Case- aux. Cazeaux, fully dressed finally ad- vanced from his residence. pr. Berry immediately took his temperature and was not surprised to discover that he had fever at 102 and was undoubtedly suffering from yellow fever. He said the man would have to go to the emer- gency hospital. Thereupon Mrs. Gaze aux kicked up disturbance and or dered the doctor from the premises. The police officer, however, stepped in and arrested sCazeaux and pr. Berry carried him of to the hospital in his buggy. Sub seIuently, when fumigating gang ap- peared on the scene, Mrs. Cazeaux re- sisted their efforts to. disinfect the house and sue was also arrested.
 The obstinacy of tho people in the lower walks of life in refusing to ad- init the existence of sickness continues one of the most discouraging features OI tne SaLudGOu. iney are 6ppdN deaf to all appeals to reason and the cases are only rooted out when neigh bors grow suspicious or when the per- sistent appearance of cases in a given neighborhood indicates that there Is a suppression of the disease somewhere.
 The fifth death in the adjoining par ish of St. Bernard was reported today. It occurred at Terre- Aux Borefs, the parish seat Elsewhere in the parish the situation is reported to be impfov- Ing except at Corrine, an Italian settle- ment, where neglect of the population to obey the instructions of the doctors has made it difficult to make headway against a spread of the infection. The United States barracks, which Is on the St. Bernard line. stilt remains uninfect- ed,. though fever. eases have appeared
 Unneeesssry Quarantirs. 5sa ssa In a SpeciaI dispatch by the Washing | ington correspondent of The Times Democrat, Surgeon General Wyman of the United states Marine Hospital Ser vice strongly deprecates the idea of freight quarantines. and emphatically declares that not only Is great injus- tice done thereby, but totally unneces- sary harm. Surgeon Wyman lays stress upon ,'unnecessary" harm, for he reiterates, neither freight, household goods nor merchandise of any descrip- ton can carry infection, which he re- | ports is carried solely, only and ex- clusively by the infected stegomyia faciata mosquito.
 "FreiEht of itself does not carry the infection of yellow fever" said Dr. Wy man. Tt may safely be received any where. The infection comes from in- fected mosquitoes, but as an extreme precaution and to satisfy the doubts of l those who still are skeptlcal, freight ! . Hs.a-. Marine Hospital Service. Even this Is of doubtful necessity, but Is being done to give full assurance. There Is abso- lutely no instance that know of where yellow fever has been traced to freight. The fact of the matter is, if the in habitants of those towns which have set up freight quarantines would spend the time and money thus wasted in keeping close watch on suspicious cases of fever. in screening houses and cis- terms and exterminating the stegomyia faciata, and all mosquitoes for that matter. they would be doing themselves more good and others far less harm,
 "It Is gratifying to note, however. l that the people as a whole have accept l ed the mosquito doctrine. and I daily receive assurance to this end. The ablest scientists of the world have made deep, exhaustive and complete tests. and there Is yet to be one instance recorded where yellow fever has been | transmitted by any means other than l the infected stegomyia faciata. To the | people who are so sorely afflicted and with whom all deeply sympathlze. I say. | abandon your useless freight quaran- tines; 1t is a waste of time, money and
 energy. Concentrate that energy on the extermination of the mosquito and you nave the solution of your problem in your own hands"
 1 Tn line with pr. Wyman's assertions l Surgeon. J. Fl. White, in charge for the United States Government of the New Orleans fellow fever situation, says he is having every freight car that leaves | New Orleans thoroughly fumigated in order that all mosquitoes may be killed and that such cars carry an official seal | to that effect.