Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-01

tive women, held a meeting today and
rendered the services of its members to
the health boards. city authorities, and
captains of various ward organizations.
Though generally people are willing to
submit to the regulations of the health
authorities, there are sumo who refuse
20 believe in the mosquito theory and who
oppose the olling OF cisterns and the clean
ing Of their premises. The Era club mem
bers have volunteered to proselyte among
this class of the community. .......
The mosquito ordinance will be passed at
the meeting OF the council tomorrow. II
will require landlords to screen cisterns.
Fine or imprisonment Is the penalty for
failure TO obeg the ordinance. Very few
houses in the city are without cisterns
and 5000 OF $1,000 Of them will have to be
screened The city is novA spending some
S16.OOO00O on a water and sewerage system,
which when eomploted, will require the
abandonment Of all alsterns. It-will, how
ever, be two or three years before this sys-
TEN is finished
Distress in New Orleans.
Much distress is appearing among the
Italians. growing out OF the fruit business
from Louisiana on account of guarantees,
and relief work is one of the tasks to which
tho Italian societies and citizens COM
mitteees will now have to address them
selves. While the six-day detention
order OF the Board Of Health lasts 1t is
expected all the lines operating fruit
steamers into New Orleans will divert their
ships to Mobile, and this will have the
effect Of throwing 1900 laborers, many of
them Italians, out Of employment. The
average Italian house has half a dozen
children, and sometimes the children num-
ber a dozen and, with that many to feed.
the head Of the family can not long remain
in idleness without having to appeal to
public charity Under the circumstances
these Italians not in the fever district are
asking that they be given employment by
the health authorities In the sanitary and
other work how going on, in order that
they may not become public charges.
meeting of representative Italians has
been held and permanent organization
formed. campaign of relief and of edu-
cation into the hygienic requirements of
the situation has been decided on 1t was
also resolved to follow the adyice tele-
graphed by Ambassador Mayor des
Planches and TO address an Italians in the
city verbally and by circular. asking them
to pay ready Obedience to the regulations
imposed by the health authorities.
Italians Raising Funds.
Several thousand dollars has been raised
for relief and other work All the societies
having decided to abandon the banquets
and other entertainments they had planned
and apply the funds set aside for these
purposes in helping their countrymen in the
present emergency.
The health authorities are very much
encouraged by the excellent work that is
being done at the emergency hospital, and
they believe that when the results of treat
ment given there becomes known that
families will readily consent to having
their patients sent there
T. V. RandaEzo, one of tho convalescents
from an attack of yellow fever, has re-
lated his experience in a public card for the
beneft of his countrymeE. He says when
he discovered he was suffering from the
disease he followed the Doctors advice and
went Immediately 70 the hospital In few
days he was discharged as practically we'll
Half dozea others have already been dis
charged FROM the hospital and sent TO the
departments and yards of the charity hos
pital to spend few days in recuperation
1t Is generally agreed among scientists
familiar with yellow fever that on the
character OF treatment depends largely tn,
death rate, and with the treatment pro
vided in the hospital II is thought ther,
can be great reduction made in the deatf
ratio among the Italians.
Country stiII Afraid.
While the feeling here is constant!
growing more hopeful there is apparentl!
no abatement OF the excitement anC
panicky feeling In the country districts o
Louisiana and Mississippi. Local business
houses are beginning to feel the effects o.
the scare. They are receiving letters from
the travelling men telling OF the cancella
tion OF orders in Mississippi and elsewhere
because OF tho reluctance OF the eountr,
people 20 patronize stores which receive
goods from infected districts. In this con
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