The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-28
EPIDEMIC IS NEARING END Continued Improvement at < Crescent City. A REMARKABLE FEATURE Only Nineteen New Cases
 Yesterday. Deaths and sub-Foci Were Also Few fin Number, Being Five in Esch
 Instanee--Reports from
 Country.
 
A REMARKABLE FEATURE

New Orleans. Sept. s7.--ofhcial record to p. m. Wednesday:
 New cases, 19; total cases to date. 2.s1s: deaths. 5; total deaths to date. $50; new foci, 5; cases under treat ment, 272; cases discharged, 2,2se.
 The remarkable feature of the report today is the small number of new cases. the smallest reported on any day since the early days of August. The death list Is still holding on, just as 1t always does towards the end of an epidemic. Among the number of dead are two negroes. The young man who was brought over form Abita Springs few days ago died at the Touro Inhrmary.
 Only four of the new cases are above Canal Street. . The chapel of the Convent. of Per petual Alteration on Marais Street was fumigated today. When the matter was laid before Bishop Rouxel by Dr. White, the Bishop readily consented. No more cases have developed in that convent.
 The news from the country showed & steady improvement at all of the old points of infection, though two of the recently discovered points are begin ming to show activity. The country reports were: .'-t
 Patterson, 6 new cases; Kenner. 1 death; Bayou Natchez, new cases; Crosse Tete, new cases; Rosedale, 3 new cases, death; Lake Providence, new case; Barrataria country. new cases; Milliken C days) 10 cases; Re- serve, 1 case; Terre Bonne Parish e days) 17 cases and death.
 Heavy Rains Effects.
 With over three inches of rain, most of which fell within three hours, the gutters and pools all over the city were washed clean of oil and salt today, and with the wind blowing at thirty miles an hour many cheese cloth screens had holes torn in them. Out of doors fu- migation work was therefore complete ly interrupted. the precipitation con tinufng throughout the day, and fresh breeding places for mosquitoes were undoubtedly created in every direction. Orders wefe promptly issued from the Marine Hospital offices that with the settling Of the weather there must be an immediate resumption of the oiling of both cisterns and gutters, the terrific downpour causing the overflow of thousands of the former. .er
 It Is believed by the authorities that the fever IS now within reasonable con trol and that 1t will continue to dimin- ish weekly until 1t is finally wiped out unless there Is inexcusable carelessness on the part of the public in following the regulations set down for them. Even In that event. there is no likeli- hood that it can again attain serious proportions, but there is such a strong ambition on the part of the scientists and sanitarians to wipe it out com pletely before frost that there is an earnest appeal for continued co-opera- tion by all citizens. Encouraging to a high degree was the report today, the number of new cases indicating that the present week will show in the totals the most distinct gain for several weeks. The low record of deaths Is also likely to be main tained, f0r while for the present two days they have been more than for the two previous days. they are far under the daily record of month ago. .. One of the deaths today was actually not to be credited to New Orleans. It was that of Siegfried Neuhaus. Neu- haus with another man found suffering with the fever in an adjoining parish and hurriedly placed on a special train to be sent to New Orleans. On the way here the train struck an OK cart and was wrecked. Both patients were con siderably shocked. but both finally reached Touro In6rmary.
 Work in School Buildings
 Fumigating gangs were today put to work in the various public school buildings with a view to their conn plete disinfection in time for the open ing on Monday. Superintendent Easton, who arrived from Chicago, is cooperating with the Marine Hospital Service in the work. There are about sixty buildings which will have to be treated. Every building has to be thoroughly pasted up before the culi- eide is set fire to, so that the work is large undertaking. The ordinary en- rollment here runs to about 30.000 Su- perintendent Easton expects the Mon day enrolment to be large in spite of the absentees from the city. All tho trains now coming into New Orleans are we'll filled and it Is expected that by the middle of October practically the whole of the population will be at home.
 Dr. White today paid visit to the z Convent of the Perpetual Alteration. thorough disinfection of which had been ordered. It had been stated that school was being operated close to the convent, but pr. White found that the institution was closed. A total of ten cases of fever have appeared in the convent and the authorities are convinced that previously the neces- sary precautions were not taken to destroy infected mosquitoes. All parts of the buildings are being disinfected. with perhaps the exception of the chapel. where fumigatlon may be omitted in order not to wound the susceptibilities of the sisters It is one of the rules Of the order that a company of the nuns must always be
 
 the service of adoration may never cease. This would make it impossi- ble to disinfect the chapel without riskinE the lives of the nuns. The chapel was founded over a century ago.
 Rebuilding Docks.
 Second Vice President J. T. Harahan of the Illinois Central reached here to- day in his private car and went inn mediately to the Stuyvesant docks for an inspection of the work of rebuild Ing there. Every thing has been hur- ricd in order that the road may be able to handle its export trade with out interruption. Mir. fiarahan found the facilities adequate for handling the immense grain. cotton and other traf- fIc which has already started this way While the fever has interfered to some extent with the business of the IltI- nois Central. chiefly local. there has been and will be no Interruption Of through trafhc and Mir Harahan is con yinced that there will be an immense