The San Francisco call., 1905-08-14
Physician at New Orleans
to Demonstrate Efficacy OF
Arsenization as Preventive
of the Yellow Fever
MOSQUITOES WILL
BITE HIM TODAY
Experiment Will Be Watched
by Federal Doctors and
French Government Asks
Consul for Special Report
Special ri.paten to rh. Can

Special Efepatcn 10 inS SaiL
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1s.-omcial
report to o. M:
New cases. so.
Total eases, 9c3.
Deaths. II. \
Total deaths, 154.
New sub-foci. II.
Total. 2Oc.
DR.. Reginald b. Leach of st. Paul.
\ Mimi, who has come here al the invi-
tation of the local physicians to prove
! the efficacy of arsenization as pre-
ventive of yellow fever, will allow him.
/ self to be bitten by an infected mos
quito of the stegomyia faciata type to-
| morrow morning. He has made ar
| rangements with the marine hospital
service to enter the emergency hospi-
tai where there are mosquitoes inocu-
| lated with the blood of persons af
! flicted with genuine fever He VIII
come IN contact with several steg-
| omyias TO make sure that his system is
! inoculated. Then he will return to the
st. Charles Hotel, where he will await
the development of the mosquito poi
son, which he claims will not have any
! effect on a person properly treated
! with arsenic according to the accepted
arseniZation theory.
| The experiment which DIR. Leach will
| conduct will be watched by the Gov
erlfsnent surgeons with great deal OF
! care The French Government has in
structed the local French Consul.
/ Maurice Damurs, to make a special re-
| port on the case, which, il successful,
will prove that yellow fever cannot be
! transmitted to persons protected with
the arsenic preparation.
The heavy increase in the number of
! cases which began four or FIVE days ago
! is beginning to manifest itself in the
I;et tnh p.af1 10 a6 n
| grow steadily for the next few days. The
| number of new cases to-day seems
| small in comparison with yesterdays
record but it is really nineteen short,
! as that number of cases was turned in
by an inspector just after the hour for
| closing the report
These will figure in o-morrow's re-
port.
BANKER is STRICKEN.
Among the cases to-day is Louis
| Cueullu Jr cashier of the Peoples
Bank. Another case is Maurice Kenny,
! eX-Councilman and member of the
Legislature. Two of Kenny's daugh-
ters were stricken yesterday Only
| FIVE of the new foci are above Canal
street.
Assistant Surgeon Corput mas concud-
! cd pretty thorough exalnna ton of con-
! ditions in Algiers, that part of New Or
! leans on the west bank of the Mississippi
! River. There had been two cases In
Algiers since the outbreak. DR.. Corput
reported to-day that he had not found
| single suspicious case, which indicates
| that the prompt steps taken to screen
and fumigate the original cases have been
! effective.
The great cause for the spread of the
! disease has been the concealment of cases
/ and the change of residence of people
! who have been infected.
Physicians who persist in not reporting
cases are TO be prosecuted.
Patterson. which is the largest center of
infection outside of the city, reports
three new cases to-day and the first
death.
Assistant Surgeon Berry has passed the
crisis in his attack of fever and now is
ON the mend.
/ While the Italians are gradually becom-
ing pacified, they are still inclined to run
away and to conceal illness which devel-
! cps in their families. They are not adj
lnitted to most localities of Louisiana,
no matter how many health certificates
they have.
NOT WORSE THAN 1907.
While the mortality rate in the early
| stages of the visitation indicated that
the type of yellow fever was particular
! ly malignant, it is now apparent that II
is not much worse than the fever in 1897.
| The death rate, acCOTulnS 10 l1e OIHCldl
record which shows 963 cases and 154
deaths, is just Is per cent During the
last two weeks in July the death rate
appeared to be % or 80 per cent.
| WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-Passed As
sistant Surgeon Won Ezdorf of the Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service has
been ordered to proceed from Colon to
New Orleans for duty in The campaign
against yellow fever. He is an expert
in yellow fever matters.
4 CAIRO, Ills, Aug. 13.-Trouble between
Health officers of Illinois and Kentucky
over yellow fever inspection to-day was
settled during a conference of officials of
both State Boards. The grievance of
the Kentucky officials was that Illinois
health officers went into Kentucky to
board trains and put off passengers not
supplied with health certificates.
Illinois officers asserted that in many
Kentucky towns health certificates were
| issued at a certain price to all who ap-
Piled
Illinois officers agreed to send all pass
engers through North who are not provid-
! ed with certificates and Kentucky officers
agreed to restrict the Issuance of health
1 certificates by Kentucky doctors