The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-23
YELLOW JACK SPARES WOMEN
FIVE TIMES AS MANY MEN DIE
IN NEW ORLEANS.
Last Sundays Fumig cation Was Not Enough
and the Process Must he Repeated
Sugar Famine In Mississippi. Alabama
and Tennessee Due to Quarantines.

Sugar Famine In Mississippi, Alabama
and Tennessee Due to guarantees.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22.-The doctors
have reached the conclusion that the
Italians are more liable to yellow FEVER
than any other race and have 1t In a more
violent form, and that the high mortality
among them Is due to that fact as much
as to their mode of life. On the other
hand, the returns prove clearly that women
are comparatively safe, the deaths from
yellow fever being five times as great
among males as among females, although
there Is large female majority in New
Orleans.
The difference is due to the fact that
the men, for business and other reasons,
are compelled to go about more, and there
fore run greater risk Of being bitten by
the infected mosquitoes. The women who
remain at home avoid the risk, especially
in the uptown residential sections, where
there are few if any infected mosquitoes.
This and all the evidence proves the
fever infection theory beyond all question.
The fever record shows that the mortality
to-day is IA per cent, % per cent. still being
under treatment and SO per cent. discharged
as cured The proportion of deaths TO cases
grows steadily less. it having been less than
10 per cent. in recent cases.
The United States Marine Hospital Service
has declared that last Sundays fumigation
was not sufficient and that there must he
second fumigation next Sunday and
Monday.
An Italian arrested yesterday for carrying
a concealed weapon brought to-day before
the court for sentence was found to have
developed a case OF yellow fever IN the
night. He was sent to the fever hospital
and disinfected. All the detention camps
are filed to their limit and there are 5sl
applications on file of persons who wish 20
enter these camps, but who will have TO await
their turn. There seems to be little likeli-
hood of getting rid of the yellow fever at
Patterson and Riverside until 1t burns
out,
DR.. Guiteras, who made the investigation
at Riverside finds that the fever has been
prevailing there for two months, 1t lie
impossible to say how many have had 1t.
There are now fifty-fve under treatment,
and it is estimated that fifty others had 1t
and recovered before the existence OF the
fever there was reported. As there are
only $50 people in all on the plantation he
| presumes it will soon burn itself out. Az
| Patterson there have been ninety-eight
cases to date, nearly half OF which have
| and there have been only five deaths to zoo
cases at these two places.
The fever is reported at Bayou Pigeon
| in the lower end of Iberville parish. 1t is
| in the midst of the swamp, headquarters
| for the ewampers and loggers, and will be
difficult to reach. A physician has been
sent there.
The first case has been reported In st
Bernard, which lies Immediately below
| New Orleans and has had no quarantine
| against the city. The victim Is an Italian
woman who died Of yellow fever without
medical attention, and who leaves two
children sick of the fever. The disease
has also appeared in ST. Tammany, which
had no quarantine against New Orleans
In Jefferson, just above New Orleans, the
fever has appeared at ten places, with
thirty-one cases and five deaths.
The Louisiana State Board OF Health
backed by Gov. Blanchard, has succeeded
in opening two more railroad lines, the
Louisiana and Red River Railroad tc
| Shreveport, which was closed by the quar-
antine of Bossier parish, through which
it runs, and the Missouri and Louisiana
| Railroad, which was stopped by quarantine
| in Tensas and Madison parishes.
sugar famine is reported in Mississippi
Alabama and Tennessee, due to the quaran-
! tines against New Orleans.
| Arkansas has quarantined against the
entire State Of Louisiana.
! Nine deaths and fifty-seven new cases
! was the record here to-day.