Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-17
YELLOW FEVER STATUS
Discovery of Nine Cases in
Mississippi Territory
PROVOKES COMMEN T
BELIEVED DISEASE is LOSING
VIRULENCY AT NEW ORLEANS.
Today's Figures of the Plague-Quar-
antine Restrictions-Screeni of
Cisterns is Continued

| NEW ORLEANS, La, August 1.-THE
announcement of the discovery of nine
! cases of yellow fever at Mississippi City
| within three miles of Gufport the terminus
| of the Gulf and Ship Island road, and the
| fact that the fever has been in existence
| there since before July 20, the time when
! the announcements were made here, is ex-
| pected to soften somewhat the severe criti-
! cism of Mississippans of New Orleans for
| failing to find the local infection earlier
| Before it was known that there was fever
| here there were frequent reports of its ex-
| istence on the gulf coast, but the inspec-
| tions has been rigid along the coast for
month past by the Alabama, Mississippi
and the federal authorities that the denial
| of fever at Mississippi City or elsewhere
| was accepted.
| The family in which the fever first ap-
| peared at Mississippi City arrived there
| from New Orleans July 2, and the fever
| is stated to have been in Mississippi since
the 10th. The family is that of Maj. Gee
Of Carrolton, Miss, who stopped week in
New Orleans their way to Mississippi
City. Only one of the cases is seriously i'll
Troops have drawn Gordon around the
infected section and every effort will be
made by Surgeon Wasdn of the marine
hospital service to confine the disease. All
the towns on the gulf coast, as we'll as the
towns the Gulf and Ship Island road,
have slapped on quarantines.
Disease Yielding to Treatment.
The relative insignificance of deaths here
In the past twenty-four hours, at time
when it was expected that there would be
some increase over the maximum figures
already reported has made fine impress
sion on the local public, confirming the fire.
quently expressed view that the disease is
losing its Virulency in contact with modern
c1r,, 1f
OF the nineteen new squares infected
twelve are Immediately adjoining squares
previously reported as infected, showing the
slight spread of the disease. list of
eighteen suspicious cases reached the ma
rine hospital officers after the report closed
and were under investigation today. A fine
showing made by the physicians, forty
seven of the sixty-six cases being reported
from their private practice. Ten more were
reported by the Emergency Hospital.
twenty-five of the cases were in the origi-
naly infected area. Only five new foci
were above Canal street
Gov Blanchard has wired Chairman Jane
vier of the citizens committee, announcing
that he has complinented Surgeon White by
making him colonel on his staff
Tell him." the governor wired, that 1T
gives me great pleasure to show him this
recognition as a token of appreciation of the
great fight he is making for US in New Or
leans
Some QuaranCines Severe.
Some of the quarantines are tightening
and some loosening. Lafayette, which
was very severe in her restrictions against
New Orleans, now finds herself practically
isolated because there is case there
Crowley has called out her militia to guard
all the approaches to the town. ST. Francis
vile announces that she Will bar all COM
mercial travellers and Italians. The city
council of Lake, in defiance of the state
beard of health, has declared that freight
can enter that town from New orleans or
other infected points, whether authorized
by the state board or not.
In Donadsonvile, which has a large Ital-
ian population, there has been mass meet
ing of Italians which has pledged the race
TO cooperation with the authorities on
guarding against infection.
italian immigration Stopped.
1t was announced by local steamship
agents that two vessels that were ready TO
sail from Italy with Italian laborers who
are wanted on the sugar plantations have
postponed their departure until colder
weather. Shipping agents have issued a
circular denying that quarantine restric-
tions have in any way interfered with the
trade with New Orleans far as trans
Atlantic shipments are concerned.
Large quantities of wire screening are now
being brought into the city for the screening
of cisterns. The screening is so urgently
needed that there is time to ship it by
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