Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-08-03
40 VICTIMS OF
DREAD FEVER
Two Additional Deaths Are
Reported in New
Orleans.
SANITARY CONDITION is BAD
Bulk of Deaths Occur in the Foreign
Section-Business of City Not Seri-
ously Affected BY Quarantine Ban
of Other States.

New Orleans, La, July 27.-Six
deaths from yellow fever were re-
corded yesterday up to 6 p. m, maxi
ing a total to date of forty-five. The
number of new cases reported on
Tuesday but compiled yesterday is
eleven, making all told to date 1c5.
There are now nineteen foci of infec-
ton. The organization or forces for
fighting the spread of the infection
and for a campaign of education and
practical application of the mosquito
determination plans, has been COM
pleted and besides 100 men put on as
extras to clean cutters by the city, $50
men are working as part of the sys.
tenn of sanitation. Citizens are being
organized in wards and these ward
clubs will form precinct clubs and
a house to house canvass will be
made to assure the screening of every
cistern and the oiling of every cess.
pool and water Eond.
The state board of health has adop-
ted new regulations for fruit shipping
providing that they should remain
six days at sea between the last port
and New Orleans, and requiring FUN
igation at port of departure and fun
igation here after the discharge of
the cargo. The people are convinced
that the infection was brought here
by the fruit steamers, and if it became
necessary to make the regulations
so stringent as to drive them away,
in the present feeling such regula-
lions would be enforced. While
handling the present emergency,
some thought is being given to the
future and on all sides there is SEN
timent that nothing shall stand in the
way of future immunity from mos
quito fever, as it is called now.
New Orleans, July 28.-All the ply
sicians engaged in the battle against
the yellow fever scare yesterday join
ed in expressing their belief that
while the situation has been and is
serious, enough ucces has already
been achieved in the application of
the methods applied as the result of
the work of the Reed commission in
Cuba to justify the hope that for the
first time in the history of the cOun-
try what threatened to be a malig-
nant epidemic of yellow fever will be
stamped out before frost comes and
that New Orleans will be spared the
horrors of the epidemics of 1853, 1867
and 1878 here and a century ago in
New York and Philadelphia. 1t is the
opinion of DIR. J. Fl. White, in charge
of the marine hospital forces and Of
the state and local health officials,
that if destruction of the stegomyia
checks the spread of the disease and
enables the gradual eradication of the
cases in hand and those which may
be expected to appear for some time
to come in the infected sections, the
present visitation of the plague will
have been a blessing in disguise,
since it will have demonstrated the
ability of science to control the most
virulent outbreak of the fever in the
south.
With the cases reported yesterday
the aggregate since July 10 runs close
to 200. Deaths to date number 46.
New Orleans, La, July 29.-An Of
fetal report of twenty-siX new cases
of yellow fever and two deaths &C.
curing in the preceding twenty-four
hours was made to the state health
board yesterday, making a total of
206 cases and forty-four deaths. OF
the t~wenty-six new cases, except one,
all are Italians. The exception is &c
negro living in the infected district