The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30
Situation is Not Regarded
 as Alarming.
SEvENDEATHS YESTERDAY
All Are Traceable to the
 Original Focus.
With Perfect Harmony Among Them N the Men of Science Continue Hopeful Battle Against
 Yellow Jack.

New Orleans, July 2s-The following is the yellow fever report up to p. m today:
 New cases, 29; cases to date, 256; deaths today. 2: deaths to date, 54; new foci, 3. Deducting the number or deaths and the number of recoveries. it Is be- lteved that there are not more than 75 cases under treatment, If that many.
 Considerable encouragement Is drawn from the fact that only two new foci have developed. One of these Is a nurse who attended a patient at a hos pital. and the other is in the vicinity of Milneburg, where there had been a suspicious case recently. but which had been spirited away before the authori- ties got hold of it., There Is a large !. colony of Italian fishermen there and cases among them have been looked for.
 The increase in the number of deaths and cases of yellow fever today Is not at all a source of anxiety. All but one of the deaths are Italians or Austrians who hailed from the original focus of infection. The exception is a white man who died at the charity hospital. Of the new cases there is only one point of infection among the better ele- ment of the population, and that has been traced to the original infection.
 Considerable confusion was caused by the receipt of a telegram from Gov ernor vardaman, which was interpreted to mean that through travel out of Louisiana would not be permitted to cross the State of Mississippi. The State Board of Health and the marine hospital service began to devise a plan which would remove the embargo or make as little inconvenience as possi- ble. Later in the evening a telegram nfar of the Mississippi Health Board which made the matter pretty clear. It read as follows:
 The Explanation.
 Tt is not necessary for passengers from infected points who do not expect to return South to have health certiff- cates, but all people out of New Or leans who expect to return South must have q health certificate. Health cer- tihcates simply showing date of leay- ing New Orleans, signed by State, coun- ty or municipal health officer will do."
 No further points of infection have been discovered outside the city except near Waggaman. in Jefferson Parish. where Dr. Brady was sent by the State Board.
 Louisiana will not quarantine aga inst Lumberton because of the case at that town
 The question of locating the Louis- vile and Nashville detention camp is still unsettled. The Board of Super visors of Harrison County. Miss, gave permission to locate 1t on a stretch Of waste land called Longshore, at the very western extremity of the State. but the marine hospital authorities do not like the location. The Illinois Gen. tral camp at Harahan was put in opera. ton today and for awhile will accom- modate ten persons day. Publications ta1n from President Souchon of the Lou1si- ana Board of Health to a Philadelphia physician to the effect that the present prevalence of fever threatened to be as bad as 1879 is most emphatically de- nounced by Dr. Souchon as canard He says he never sent any telegram which could be- construed into that statement and his views on the situa- tion are instead very hopeful.
 Although there was a consideraDle increase today in the number of deaths in the twenty-four hours ending at 6 D. m., the yellow fever situation here tonight was not regarded as alarming. Tonight closed the first week Of the campaign since autopsical investigation disclosed the prevailing sickness here to be yellow fever. and 1t was the be- lief of those engaged in the work or irving to save New Orleans from an ac- tual epidemic and of demonstrating by the slow eradication of the disease the correctness of the mosquito theory, that progress had been made.
 To Original Source.
 There has been a large addition to the number of cases pre- yailing in the section below Canal Street. with con siderable distribution of new foci, and there have appeared during the week a dozen cases above Canal Strfet, but no reports are at hand of spread of the r-~ H< 1rtt xyt n the new cases can still be traced to the original source.
 The succ ess of the physicians in pre- venting serious outbr eakS in new neigh borhoods In which the disease has ap- peared is of course taken to mean that practical resuls are being obtained from the thorough system of screening which Is now in vogue. So thoroughly has the work been systematized that instantly a case Is reported represent atives of the board armed with screens and disinfectants are hurried to the house of the sufferer and every precau- tion is thereafter taken to make him or her immune to the attacks of the stegomyia. Meanwh hile good results are showing from the eslablishue ent of thr emergency hospital. which is serving to relieve certain districts of serious cases and thereby enabling expeditions dis infection of infected premises.
 Much hope Is drawn rom cOnulllons now and those in 1878. when the last serious epidemic occurred. The first csse to appear then was brought by ship and landed Tn the vicinity of St. Marv's Market. From that center the fever rapidly spread into every section of the city and thence through the States of Louisiana and Mississippi, be- sides reaching and almost devastating Memphis Here the deaths reached high water mark of over hundred in one day and thIhgl the city was all most depopulated 1000 lives were swept away The present fever has now ad- nlittedly been here for three weeks m a severe form. but the spread outside of the Italian quarter has been so slight that thera are rot seventy-fv3 cases of the 230 or more reported outside or the original gore of infection.
 The Detention Camps.
 Dr. White announced today that three of his detention camps organized to en- able persons who want to leave the city an opportunity to meet the quarantine requirements of other States. are in full operation. The third to be opened was that at Harahan, where acomm 'da- tions were provided for ten persons daily. Dr. White said in connection with the requirement of health certif-