Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-10


New cases ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~
Totals cases to date .....................S,A2
P Petai deatbs 70 date al
New foci ,...,.......s....'.''s %
Cases under treatment. ISL
Cases discharged ................-....'...'2,o
The low record and the anticipated early
approach OF cold weather caused DIR. White
20 issue orders to his forces to discontinue
Ill general oiling and other anti-mosqulto
work all general block fumigatlon except
in blocks already begun. There are ex-
ceptions to this where there are still nests
Of Infection.
martyr in the fight against yellow
fever, Dr. c. NJ Stanley, formerly Of North
Dakota, died at his plantation home on
Bayou Baralia as the result of relapse
from yellow fever his illness extending
over the last two weeks. DR.. Stanley came
kere With his family about three years ago
FROM the northwest
Reports from the country:
Patterson. nine new cases; one death.
Kenner, two new cases; one death. Bayou
Natchez. one suspected case; one death.
Barataria one death. Amelia, two new
cases. Gretna, one case; one death. Willis
wood. two new cases; one death.
Results of Sanitary Campaign.
The good results Of the sanitary cam
paign, carried on in New Orleans under the
leadership of the United States Marine
hospital service, are made patent in the
recent health reports of that city for Sep
TENDER and the first week of October The
campaign has been both practical and edu-
cational; intended. first. to improve the
sanitary condition of the city by draining
ponds and other bodies of stagnant water,
screening the cisterns and water tanks 80
/ Incoming breed
ing places for the mosquitoes; cleaning the
streets and cutters better, and removing
| trash from the houses and yards, and fumi-
| eating all buildings wherever practicable,
| for the purpose Of getting rid of all noxious
\ insects and disease germs; and secondly
| this, in an educational line-the delivery
| OF practical and, IL possible, illustrated
| lectures showing the beneht and necessity
Of sanitation; what should be done, and
| how IL should be done, in order to preserve
the public health.
These lectures in New Orleans, arranged
and directed largely by the clergy and
| the women, were aimed mainly at the
| poorer and more ignorant classes, the
| Italians, negroes and others who sinned
against the laws OF health through lgnor-
ance Of what they ought to do, rather than
through design.
seen in the recent health returns Of
New Orleans in the decrease not only
Of cases of yellow fever and deaths from
that disease, but in sickness of all kinds
In August there were 217 deaths from yell
low fever, of which 80 were whites; in
September when the population of The city
was larger-many of the summer wanderers
having returned, the deaths from yellow
fever numbered i'll, of which 102 were OF
| whites, a decline of more than one-half
Not only was there an improvement in yell
low fever, but in all diseases. The total
deaths in August were 1875, in September
576-15s lives thus saved by sanitation in Q
! single month.
Decrease In Death Rate.
The first week in October shows that tn,
Improvement has been continued. The
death rate In New Orleans for that weel
was only 1912 per 1000 for the total popu
lation, and only 1910 for the whites. Thi'
is a lower mortality than that Of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia or any othe
larger northern city and much lower thar
that Of the southern towns.
There died in New Orleans during tina
week only 121 persons eight of the death
being by accident and eighteen from yellow
| fever, leaving only ninety-five from al
other causes. Malarial fever, one Of tn
r | curses of the south, was completely elm
( mated by better drainage, and the same 1
y | true of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet feve
= and other contagious diseases, ousted b.
Y fumigation There were only seven death
: from all diseases OF the lungs and respira
I tory organs, tuberculosis, pneumonia, bron
s chitis, etc, or less than one-quarter Of tn
: average although 1t was damp wee
with frequent rains. The result was du
q to better drainage and to fumigation.
4 II the record then made can be maintaine
Q for the year It will mean the saving o
e $500 lives annually In New Orleans and tn
I. prevention Of g 200 cases OF illness In tina
d city.
r Such are the results of the sanitary cam
n paign in New Orleans, carried on unde
the stress of the yellow fever. This worl
lead and directed by the marine hospits
! service, has not only checked the fever
New Orleans. but it has accomplished othe
n health wonders there, and there is a marke
sanitary Improvement throughout the sou /
west.
Wherever It's influence has been Re
federal intervention and control has n'
le only proved effective in the matters {
II epidemics, but in spreading hygienic trutf
II and in improving sanitary condition
lie throughout the south showing how thou
Al ands OF lives and millions of dollars
$ property can be saved to the south al
" nually.
II PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct. s-The followir
W is the summary of the yellow fever situ
10 ton, as given out tonight by the Sta
T. Board of Health:
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