The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-12
IMPROVEMENT
 IS CONTINUED Ney Orleans Reports Are Better Each Day. S,TAMPING THE FEVER OUT Cases and Deaths Still Grow.
 ing Fewer. pr. White Win Confer Today With Ala- bama Authorities Regarding
 Quarantine Restrictions-
 Country Conditions.
,TAMPING THE FEVER OUT

 record to 6 D. m.e Wednesday,
 New cases, 16: total cases to date. 3,2a6; deaths today, 9; total deaths to date. 417; new foci, l: cases under treatment, ITO; cases discharged 2.650.
 The low record. which is the lowest since July, would have been stili lower but for the discovery of five cases of sickness in one house on St. Bernard Avenue, as the result of the death Of the father of the family without medi- cal attention. He Is Leonard s. Bar rington, an Englishman, and 1t was found that his wife and four children were all sick. The survivors were taken to the emergency hospital, where two were pronounced positive cases and the others held for observation. The other deaths was of a lady whose case had been reported as suspicious some days ago. The only two new cases above Canal Street are near that street, so that for the first time since the fever has been under headway the uptown section reports no cases.
 pr. Whites general order to his force to cut down the number of men in the gangs of screeners. fumigators and in- spectors has been interpreted by many as indicating that there was no neces- sity for the general fumigation fixed for next Sunday. This impression has interfered somewhat with the plans | for that work as Dr. White has issued | statement explaining the importance | of carrying out the general funligat ton. Dr. White left for Mobile tonight to | have a conference with the Alabama authorities in regard to quarantine restrictions. Many of the Alabama | restrictions on travel are still in force, | and 1t Is hoped that these will be re- moved soon.
 other Conferences.
 Saturday morning Dr. White will go | to Meridian for consultation with Dr. Hunter and other Mississippi health au- thorities, including probably Governor 1 Vardaman.
 | The principal news from the country parishes now is the announcement by | the health boards that they will raise the quarantine against Now Orleans october l5 One dispatch from Dr. ! Krauss. the marine hospital officer in l charge at Lake Providence, tells of | armed resistance being made to him in his efforts to remove people afflicted | to the hospital car. This incident oc- cured at Transylvania Station. where | he found two young women refugees l sick in an old cabin.
 Mrs Shanely, the widow of the doctor who died at Barrataria a few days ago, | was brought to the city and taken to Touro Inf1ramry. it Is believed with a case of yellow fever. Her two chill dren are being cared for by friends. The country reports were as follows: Near Bunkie. 2 new cases; Grand Isle, several new cases, l death; Cheniere | Caminada. many new cases; Lucy, St. John Parish, 3 new cases: Kenner. ? | new cases, 1 death; Patterson, new case.
 The reports from Mississippi were as follows: Vicksburg, new cases; Natchez. new cases: Rosetta, 1 new case; Port Gibson, new cases; Gulf l port, 1 new case.
 l Situation Improving. | The cold snap today, the continued l shrinkage in cases and the prediction | of frost tonight in North Louisiana. with the probability that there will foi- | low an early lifting of quarantine re- ] strictions in that section of the State. | all tend to improve the general yellow | fever situation not only in New Or l leans, but throughout Louisiana and ! Mississippi. The weather bureau points out the fact that the frost of today is | considerably earlier than the average and there Is consequently hope that an earlier winter will come with it.
 The whipping out of the fever Is now progressing at a rate that gives gen. eral satisfaction to the authorities and | the fall in temperature is hailed as a | blessing In previous epidemies the l people have not been able to take ad- | vantage of q cool spell because the agency of transmission of yellow fever l was not known to them, and where a warm spell succeeded there was a con- tinuation of cases. and with them deaths until the period of frost arrived. Dr. White. however. thinks that now | If cool weather lasts for a few days,
 the fever will speedily disappear.
 This cool spell" said today, has driven all mosquitoes indoors to hunt the warm places. and if the people will
 only fumigate judlciously now and on Saturday and Sunday there is no req
 son why the comparatively few mos
 auitoes now remaining should not all
 be destroyed"
 Dr. White today Issued a statement
 to the public in which he said that his
 order suspending disinfecting work by
 the Government forces was not intend
 ed to affect in any way the general
 order for fumigation next Sunday. He
 said he hoped that the entire commu-
 nity would respond on Sunday and that
 the effort at mosquito destruction
 would be supremely successful.
 Mosquitoes Alternating.
 Every mosquito now Is seeking to gC
 into Information. and, therefore, thu
 greater number killed now the less vii
 be the danger of sporadic cases in the
 spring, since 1t Is admitted and urged
 by the scientists that if an infected
 mosquito lives through the winter, th'
 first person she bites thereafter will b'
 inoculated and other house mosquitoes
 biting this person will, in turn, mature
 the organism for re-transmission il 1 twelve more days.
 The State Board Of Health today
 despatched four trained nurses to Pen
 sacoIa in response to request o
 Health Officer Porter of Florida. S
 many cases are under treatment ther'
 now that the nurses of experience ar'
 overworked. and appeals for assistance
 were necessary. The nurses who g'
 from here have handled cases of fevel
 during the present sickness, and 1t ii
 expected they will be a great help t'
 inc Pensacola authorities in their fight
 The fve-day table of the distribution
 of cases issued today shows that 0 Ios eases reported in the past five day only twenty-four were in the distric ahoye Canal Street Half of the case are in the seventh. eighth and nintl ! wards in the extreme lower end of th' , city
 The United States tarflcks in thu ninth ward still remain unlnfeeted