The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
NEW ORLEANS THINKS FEVER
 SITUATION IS CONTROLLABLE
city indiscriminateiy. thus largely in- creasing the number of foci.
 Fright of Itallans.

 In spite of all that is being done to reassure thers. many of the Italians 3, are still greatly frightened and desper3 ately seeking to get out of the plagS cordon. The superstitious amse them feel that they are victims "a Divine visitation of wrath. In sSIny cases they have abandoned heir household effects and have slr}s out of the infected territory with Fly the little bedding and the necesss clothes they could carry. Today g3arty of fifteen, men, women and chs Sren, were found on Dauphine Streel They had left t,e Italian quarters. each carrying a little bundle of clothing. They reached an unfurnished cottage and were proceeding to take possession of | it, meaning to make their palettes on the floor. when the health authorities were notified Steps were Immediately taken to send them to some detention camp to remain until their immunity from infection was established.
 The Mississippi authorities, in justi- f1cation of the severe quarantine which that State has established. say 1t be- came necessary because New Orleans people have been resorting to all sorts of methods to set into that State. In some cases they are charged with rid ing to the State line ard discmbarking g and then slipping quietly over the line. An attempt to run the quarantine re- suited disastrously today for E. C. Joul- Han. one of the largest canners in the South, and a prominent resident of Bi- loxi, Miss. MT. Jouillan was in Louis- jana when the quarantine was put on. He thought he might reach his home by the water route without encounter ing the Mississippi guards. When he landed on the coast, however. he was seized by member of the State Ma n.l on,t tn quarantine station at Ship Island In the Gulf for ten days. Yellow fever cases are said to be now in detention on the island. When he is released Mir. Jouil- Ian will be tried for violating the quar- antine law. Two New Orleans drum mers tried to get into Biloxi by back tracking from Atlanta. When they stepped from the train they were inn mediately recognized and apprehended. They accepted the privilege of returning to Atlanta.
 Special Trains offered.
 The Illinois Central has offered spe- cial trains to the Mississippi officials to enable them to enforce the quarantine regulations. Advices received today are to the effect that Mississippi has no in tention of barring freight from New Orleans Owing to the increasing num- Der of local quarantines 1t is practical :. ly impossible to go twenty miles throughout Mississippi without health certificate. Not only in Mississippi but in Louisiana the shotgun quarantine Is again in evidence and there is every indication of a revival of the panicky feeling of seven and eight years ago. Meantime New Orleans is sitting down with increasing faith in the mosquito theory and except for the quarantines and the news in the papers strangers arriving fe.c would have no evidence of | . h. r.f oszxr here.
 Extensive preparations had been made here and throughout Louisiana for the annual reunion of the Louisiana Df- vision of the United Confederate Vet erans and the Sons of Veterans at La Fayette, La. next month. owing to the fact that the whole State has now been quarantined against New Orleans and that numbers of the interior towns are quarantining agaist each other, 1t is more than probable that the reunion will have to be abandoned unless in the meantime there is material change in the fever situation. A sim liar condition prevails in Mississippi. The Confederate reunion in that State had been set down for August 24 at Jackson, but owing to the quarantine a postponemcnt Is considered probable.
 The Marine Hospital Service has laid in large supplies of sulphur. alcohol ana pots 10 De used Tn the 1umlgatlou of steamboats. detention camps, houses. etc.
 We are only fumigating to kill mosquitoes" said pr. J. E. White. ot the Marine Hospital Service; We are not going to fumigate or disinfect any freight. I want to reasurs every business man on that subject If the business men desire freight fumigated 1t will be necessary for them to do 1t thems elves. I am in full accord with my bureau on the subject, which has given me instructions from Washingto today"
 Fear of Mall Transmission.
 During the fever of 1897 and 1898, when the mosquito theory was not at- tempted to be carried into effect, there was a widespread impression that yell low fever germs could be transmitted through the mails and there was gen. eral reluctance outside of New Orleans to receive letters and packages that had not ben thoroughly fumigated.
 The consequence was that the post office department undertook the disin- away from New Orleans freely pune tured and smelling of insecticides. No steps have been taken to resume that practice and 1t is believed that the Gov ernment will proceed on the theory that only the mosquito can carry the infection.
 Rev. Beverly Warner. general super intendent of the volunteer work in the various wards. today issued a letter to the executive officers of each ward as- sociation asking that daily reports be submitted to him of what has been ac- complished the preceding day. the number of houses visited. cesspool, etc, treated. clsterns oiled and screened, and such other details as will assist the Board of Health to an exact knowl- edge of the situation. A ward map has been sent to each ward associa- tion. Large quantities of oil have been donated by the oil companies here to be used in the disinfection of gutters and stagnant water.
 In order to bring before the masses of the people the experiments in Cuba and elsewhere. which have brought the whole medical fraternity into agree ment on the mosquito theory. the Progressive Union today gave to the printer much of the subject matter con tained in the memorial to Major Walter Reed of the United States Army, print ed at Washington, and showing the drastic tests of the theory near Ha- vana and Quemodos, Cuba. There Is also being circulated a statement by Professor George E.. Beyer. professor of biology in Tulane University, of the subsequent experiments at Vera Cruz, which was long a yellow fever pest hole and which has now put into effect quarantine against New Orleans Pro- fessor Beyer was member of the United States commission which con ducted the experiments there. Profes- sor Beyer says: