The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-02
CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT IS REPORTED AT NEW ORLEANS

l that it cannot get beyond control The fight is being excellently handled from | & scientific standpoint. The bulk of our population remains here, undisturb- ed and confident of success. and we hope | to turn this present visitation. by | demonstrating that the fever can be successfully fought, into a positive ad- vantage"
 Manager C. H. Ellis of the United Fruit Company is expected here tomor- row when 1t is expected that the com pany will make an announcement as to its plans. After it became apparent that the fever was here and that rigid detention would be required for all fruit ships, Mir. Ellis went to the head of fee of his company in Boston for con sultation with the officials there. He has stopped at Mobile on his way home and it is expected that he will make arrangement there for at least the tenn porary transfer of all the fruit steam CTS owned by the company.
 The public is being impressed with the fact that while doctors generally | are convinced the best possible treat ment for the sick Is obtainable at the | emergency hospital. there is no inten- | tion to force patients to go there whose families feel that they can be properly l treated at home. This is being done to induce the prompt report of cases of fever in their incipient stage. So far as the health authorizes are concern ed, they say that every case. even Of l suspicious fever is now being promptly reported. Some sensational statements have gone out through private letters and in special dispatches giving the inn pression that the full extent of the | situation here Is not being made public, Tha tis stated to be in no sense a fact. l Every doctor is under pledge to re- port all cases immediately and there is no desire to misrepresent the daily l statement of cases or deaths.
 Watching the Italians.
 No reports have come today of cases outside of New Orleans which might have developed from Italians who scat tered when the health boards first started in to treat the disease. So vigilant have been the local authorities In all the small towns of Louisiana and the other States that 1t Is not be- | lieved that many more such cases will I be reported. Wherever strange Italians have appeared in other commu- mites they have been isolated and put | under observation.
 l Some falling off in port charges has | been reported by the dock commission | which controls the city wharves. That | Is due to the diversion of the fruit | traffic and to the fact that some tramp i steamers have quite possibly been sent l to other points to avoid detention after l leaving here. The fever means a heavy financial 1 loss for the New Orleans baseball club. With a winning club and many home l games to be played there was a promise of large receipts during the balance of the season. The transfer | of the team to Meridian means that the high priced club will be run with a daily deficit It Is considered impro- bable that the team will be seen here | again for the Southern quarantfnes against passengers are not likely to be taken off until there Is assurance that the fever has been completely stamped out. .'. .5.+.
 The State Board of Health received official notice of the appearance of the fever in three other parishes today, but 1, as the victims are all Italians or Aus l trians. and the connection with the in- fected district in New Orleans has been established, there is no alarm felt over the news.
 One of the new points of infection is the lower part of Plaquemine Parish, on the west bank fifty miles below the city. Dr. V. H. Schayot. parish health officer. reported six cases from that vicinity yesterday-one at Sunrise I l Point Celeste and two at Vaccaro. These parties are all fishermen or truck farm CTS. and three of them are Austrians. l %.. -sr+ Left to Inspector. -: 1 pr. P. B. McCutcheon, the State Med ical Inspector for the First District, has every confidence in the ability of Dr. Schayot to handle the cases effectively | and will leave them to him. Lieut. Col I. M. Maus. on his inspection of Fort St. Phillips recently discovered a case five miles from the fort, but the pa tient was nearly well at the time.
 Another point of infection Is on Ar doyne plantation in Terre Bone Parish between Houma and Schriever The State Board was asked for doctor and two nurses. and Dr. McCutcheon Is ar ranging to send some one there. .rs.
 Westwego. just across the river from Audubon Park, in Jefferson Parish where there is small settlement, has developed four cases among Italians | who refugeed there from the infected district in the city. Dr. Wilson was sent there to investigate on behalf of the State Board. One is dead but the other is doing well. -:...
 It was beginning to be feared that Dr. Brady. who was sent to Lake Prov idence by the State Board, had been marooned somehwere. as not word had been heard from him since he left l three days ago. The quarantine up in that part of the State are extremely rigid and it is doubtful if company of militia could break through, let alone a physician who has already handled | several cases of the fever He sent a dispatch from Vicksburg today saying l he expected to arrive in Lake Provi- dence at p. m. but nothing has since been heard from him,
 The Texas scare has evidently grown some in the last day or two. Monday the quarantine against the whole State | of Louisiana was reinstituted. and to- day Dr. Tabor practically put an end tc communication between the two States and to trans-continental traffic well President Souchon received the follow Ing telegram from pr. Tabor:
 Texas's Quarantine. .-# | On account of continued spread oi yellow fever, Texas has declared quar- antine against the entire State of Lou isina and will require detention of all
 persons from or through New Orleans six days on Texas border"
 Following the receipt of this tele- gram, Surgeon White of the marine hospital service announces that no more persons would be received at the Avon dale detention camp. which was design ed for western travel over the Texas and Pacific and Southern Pacific roads
 This announcement of Dr. Tabor Is in
 terpreted to mean that even after g person has remained i've days in tho detention camp, he will have to spend
 six days more at the Texas detention camp at Echo. making eleven days
 President Souchon issued a procla
 nation designed to relieve the embar'
 rassment caused by parochial quaran.