Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-29
WILL GIVE YELLOW
JACK A HARD FIGHT
New Orleans Officials Working
to Eradicate Disease. s
THE SITUATION WELL IN HAND
Every Precaution Is Taken to Prevent
Spread of yellow FeVer-One Case
Reported at Tampa, Fla.-Outside
Offers If Aid Refused.

1ngg "A hours was maze 10 Ine SlaIe
health board today making total
of FOG cases and A deaths to date. OF
the 26 new cases all except one are
Italian. The exception of a negro
living in the infected district. None
of the new cases is above Canal street
and all of them with one exception at
1922 st. Ann, in the rear of the city,
is in the district embraced between st.
Ann and Hospital and Burgundy aud
the river, included in which is the orig
iDaI infection. The majority OF the
cases reported are from the French
market section.
Two deaths, Nuncio BrocatO and
John Nalio, occurred in the vicinity
of the market.
The Louisiana state board is in ses-
sion today. 1t will quarantine the state
against New Orleans with the excep-
ton, per haps of the parishes of st.
Tammany, Tangipahoe and Jefferson,
contiguous to the city, some Of these
towns desire communication with New
| Orleans.
| The authorities who are handling
| the fever situation here have so thor
oughly perfected their organization
that they feel confident every case of
fever, even though not thoroughly de-
veloped, will be promptly reported, and
go upon the official records. So thor
ough has been the inspection of the
city that is believed every existing
| case has been rooted out and is now
included in the 205 cases, which have
been announced. Many of these are
| on the road to recovery, and it is eX-
pected tha twith the perfect scietific
| treatment that has been arranged for
| here will be reduction in the mortal
| ity rate which, in the early stages of
| the disease has been admittedly high.
The most annoying feature of the
situation now is the dispositiong of
practically every town in this state
as in the adjoining states to tighten
| the quarantine against the city. This is
due to the feeling beyond the city that
200 cases means a serious situation
/ and the fact that the escape of Itai-
ians from the infected French MAR
ket center has resulted in the appear
ance of cases of fever at various
points.
One case has been reported at Tam
pa of an Italian refuge from New Or
leans and there are reports of cases in
LaFourche, Ascension, st. Mary and
Plaquemines parishes.
Shotgun gurads are now being put
on public roads in parishes outside OF
New Orleans to turn back every Ital-
ian who makes his appearance and the
bars have been put up all over the
state against that nationality in par
ticular.
Two Italians who managed to board
Mississippi Valley train yesterday,
were locked in a car which was side
tracked at Baton Rouge last night and
sent back to New Orleans today.
Here in the city and elsewhere the
Italians are suffering through a mark,
ed reduction in the fruit business in
which they are largely interested.
There is a popular misapprehension
that fruit from the tropics is capable
of transmitting the infection and some
of the towns are already including
fruit among their quarantined articles.
In New Orleans many people are re-
fusing to patrOnize the Italian peddlersI
and fruit stands. Rev. DR.. Beverly
Warner, who recently returned here
from Philadelphia, today opened OF.
fees in one of the prominent office
buildings. He has been chosen sd.
perintendent of wards in the great cam.
paign of cleaning and sanitating the
city. All wards will make daily re-
ports to him. Screening and oiling els
terms is to be popularized in a novel;
way. Thousands of lapel buttons have
been ordered to be given to those who
have followed this regulation of the
board of health. The buttons areI
plain white with life-size stegnomyiaI
fascita pictured in the center andI
surrounded with the words:
MY cisterns are all right How are
yours?"
Governor Blanchard has returned to
the state capital from Alexandria en-
campment and has placed himself into
hourly communication with the state
board of health. He is unable tel
come here because Baton Rouge and
the other towns have made their quar-
antineS so rigid that if he did he
would not be able to get away again
and the states business would con
sequently suffer. The governor said to
believe there was the slightest justi
fication for panicky feeling in the
state. He is in perfect touch with
the local situation, and he thinks thatI
If there is thorough cooperation OF
the people with the medical authori
ties there is no danger of a serious
spread of the fever in Louisiana, evens
If additional isolated cases occur out
side of New Orleans from the flight
of the Italian population
The reported case at Bowie, on the
Southern Pacific in LaFourch parish, 1
has been confirmed. The case wasH
that of an Italian who fed from NewI
Orleans Upon his death the author.
flies promptly burned the building
which he had occupied
The Italian societies have issued an
address to their countrymen. They
say:
If any of your family should get
sick, don't hid that fact, but call at
once for relief. and it will be forth
coming. It is of the utmost impor-
tance to know of the very first attack
of illness. If you are without means.
81 II you are IN any way pushed ".