Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27

NEW ORLEANS, August o5.-The in
creased number of deaths today is not
regarded as surprising in the fact of such
intensely hot weather as has prevailed dur
ing the last few days.
Health officers TODAY finished tbe sailing
of all cutters on cross streets. Five hum
dred tons of salt have been put in the gut
ters during the week. the Idea being to
make solution of 2l2 per cent, which has
been proved TO be ample to destroy all the
wrigglers.
1t developed today that the discovery of a
case of yellow fever on Chestnut street.
New Orleans traceable directly to Gulfport,
resulted in the discovery of the three cases
at Gulfport Friday
The yellow fever situation has almost
reached the routine stage and IL the inhab.
fants abide by the appeal of the marine
hospital authorities to fumigate their prem
lses, the short-lived mosquito will soon have
ceased to exist.
Conditions in the infected localities OUT
side of New Orleans are showing general
Improvement.
Irrational quarantines, which have been
a source OF fear and annoyance are grad
usually raising and communication, entirely
suspended in some instances is being res
torec with reasonable safeguards
AS September, owing to much rain is the
month yielding The largest number of yel-
low fever fatalities in New Orleans. DIR.
White today urged all the sanitary work.
ers to increase their vigilance so that every
rainfall that may come will be followed by
renewed oIing of csterns. sailing of gut
ters and rigid Inspection of cisteIn screens.
Ten deaths were recorded during the last
twenty-foar hours, exceeding any daily
number during the present scourge. except
the second days. August Ii and IA. on each
of which twelve deaths were reported.
School Opening on October 2.
All the schools were to have opened on
September %, but it is nnounced that the
opening date will be extended to October =.
Health Officer Aucoin of Assumption to-
day reported two cases of yellow fever at
Bayou Boeuf and seven cases at Amelia.
DR.. White today telegraphed to DR.. Heber
Jones at Memphis the result OF his investi-
cation of the case of Mrs. Frank Guerico,
the woman i'll with yellow fever whom he
believed to have been infected in Memphis.
On a report of the Marine Hospital SER
vice to this effect Jackson, Miss, and a
number of other towns imposed guarantees
against Memphis.
Memphis officers are reported to have eX-
pressed indignation over the report, saying
that the woman reached there on July u
with other Italians, that all had been kept
under observation, that no sickness devel-
oped in the house she visited and that She
left there two weeks ago and must have
contracted the fever on her return to New
Orleans.
Dr. White has from the woman the certit-
cate issued to her by DIR. Jones on August
ii to the effect that she had been in no in
fected point for thirty days, having lived
with Mrs. Vincent Guerico in Memphis for
the thirty days preceding August !. She
left Memphis August 10. reached New
Orleans at noon on August IL and was
taken i'll on August Il. Mrs. Guerico is con-
velescent.
1t was on the basis of the fact that she
became i'll so soon after reaching New Or
leans from Memphis that Dr. White called
the attention of the surgeon general to the
case. The woman, since reaching New Or
leans, according to her statement, has not
been in the infected region.