Arizona republican., 1905-07-27
A SOFTER NAME
Yellow Jack HenCefOrth tO| be Called Mosquito Fever
SPREAD Al NEW ORLEANS
The Number OT Deaths Yesterday
 Reached Forty Five-InCreased Pre-
 cautions Taken There and in Ad- joining Regions Against the ScOurge

New Orleans, July 26.-Six deaths ! from yellow fever were recorded today up to D. m making a total to date of forty five. A number of new cases | were reported yesterday but were com | piled today as eleven, making all told | to date 165. There are now nineteen . fOci of infection. The organization of . forces for fighting the spread of the infection and for a campaign of edu- | cation and practical application of the ' mosquito termination plans, has been |, completed and besides 100 men put on i as extras to clean gutters by the city, $50 men are working part of the l system of sanitation. Citizens are be- ] ing organized in wards and these ward clubs will form precincts and a can vass will be made to insure the screen ing of every cistern and the closing of cesspools and water ponds.
 Business men have provided the funds for this wolk. and as the people are now aroused to the necessity of action there will be no let up. Yield ing to the sentiment of the commun-
 ity, the state board of health on Mon day adopted new regulations for the
 fruit ships, providing that they should
 remain six days at sea between the last
 port and New Orleans and requiring
 Immigration at the port of her depart
 ure and Immigration here after the dis charge of the cargo.
 Yesterday the ship AnseIm, of the l United Fruit company, was allowed to come up after being at sea four and One-half days according to the ships papers. She stopped at the quarantine station exactly forty minutes. during
 which time the crew of forty-One men Were examined and passed. This arous-
 ed the people to action and this after noon Q committee headed by the mayor waited on President Souchon of the state board of health, and insisted that the regulations be immediately effect
 i've regardless of the fruit ships at sea on the way up.
 The board of health desired to give 1 these ships an opportunity 10 come in and put the new regulations into ef- ] feet. Dr. Souchon after the conference decided to put the regulations into ef- feet and so instructed the quarantine [ officers. Later he summoned the fruit importers to his office and explained the matter to them. Naturally they
 objected. but they realized that the
 sentiment of the community was such
 that personal considerations would not | be allowed to enter into the present , emergency. The people are convinced that the infection was brought here by
 the fruit steamers and if it became l necessary to make the regulations so ] stringent as to drive them away, in the i present feeling, such regulations would ! be enforced. While handling the pres
 ent emergency some thought is being
 given to the future and on all sides 1 there is sentiment that nothing shall i stand in the way of future immunity 1 from the mosquito fever as it is called ! now.
 ] In view of the many quarantine com plications which have arisen, Dr. Sou i chon has called a conference for next l Sunday of the health officers of Texas. ! Mississippi and Alabama to discuss quarantine regulations and devise a | system by which travellers can be ad- | mitted with certificates of the marine | hospital service Surgeon White who | is in charge of all government work will be present. The work of locating
 the detention camps is progressing, though it has been slower than was
 at first anticipated.
 1 Residents of Kenner objected to camp and it was located at Hanrahan, near the railroad and gravity yards. 1 The locations of the other camps have been filled and supplies are now being sent to them. The infection in the original focus seems to be dying out. as fewer new cases are being reported there. which is a hopeful sign, indicat- ing that the modern methods have been effective. The work now is to locate the new foci and treat them in ,the same manner. Physicians are now
 reporting all cases of fever and wher- ever there is the slightest suspicion
 rigid sanitary rules are applied with
 the result that uo to now there has been no spread of any case from any of these new foci. Those which are
 developing are all traceable directly to the original focus in the canal quar- ter.
 An emergency hospital was opened today and patients were removed to it in a screened ambulance. Dr. John Guiteras, now professor of pathol- ogy of the University of Havana, but formerly of the marine hospital ser vice and who represented that ser vice here during the fever of 1897, has
 been ordered here by the Cuban gov ernment and will arrive tomorrow.