The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-26
WILL STAMP OUT
THE FEVER BY
OCTOBER |
MeSSageOf Hope Given by Surgeon
White to the Stricken
People of New
Orleans.
BY Associated Press.

New orleans, Aug. Z5.-lt all houses
are properly disinfected end screened
there are reasonable hopes Of com
plete cessation of yellow fever on Or
before October !, was the message OF
hope given by Surgeon White to a
meeting that filled St. PauPs Episcopal
church, and over which Bishop Ses-
sums presided. If the citizens will
I but do this, the doctor said, they will
deserve the commentator of the civ
iiized world.
DR.. White said the federal medical
officers were now engaged in making
d complete sanitary survey Of the city.
Il was their purpose TO acquire stat
tistics covering every nabitable pOr-
tiOn of the municipality. DIR. White
appealed for courteous treatment OF
and cooperation with his inspectors.
He said the service was trying to To-
cate every focus. That was necessary
if the campaign was to succeed com
pletely and the urgency of cooperation
was evidenced by the fact that only
today a hitherto unknown focus in a
generally infected section was Giscoy-
cred, a focus that the service had been
searching for for some time. At the
beginning of the fight the doctor sal
there were 100 of these unknown foci,
five times the number that the Havana
authorities admit would swamp them
and create an epidemic in that city.
The record shows, he said, what had
been accomplished in running them
down.
1t is anticipated that when the au-
thorities feel that their system is per
feet there will be an effort to weed
out the cases of malarial and dengueI
fever from actual yellow fever, and
when that comes to pass the evidence
will be clear of how successful has
been the work Of controlling the dis
ease.
To Keep Trains Moving.
Gov. Blanchard continues his efforts
to keep the wheels Of trains moving /
in Louisiana. He has put himself into |
communication with railroad officials |
wherever there is any interruption to
service and has ascertained that the
roads are anxious to maintain service
if permitted to do so by the various
communities. The governor expects
to get the Memphis. Helena and Louis
lana in operation again n a day or .
two. Unless he succeeds many people .
in North Louisiana who depend on this
line will suffer for the necessaries CT
life.
President Souchon of the state
board will go to Patterson, La, on Sat
urday 10 investigate conditions there.
The people Of that town would like
the state board to take entire charge,
and it may do so. The Patterson few
er is so mild that with sufficient ply
sicians and nurses and "a strong exc
cutive head 1t is thought the danger o.
fatalities can be minimized.
Considerable trouble is had with the
Italian community at GOOd Hope, La ,
near the Mississippi Valley road i
short distance above New Orleans. An
emergency hospital has been erected,
but the Italians are N rebellion
against it and there is not sufficient
police force TO compel them to sub
NIT to the regulations. i is not i'm
possible if conditions fail to improve
that the governor will be asked TO
send a force of troops INTO the par
ishes above New Orleans to enforce
obedience to official authority.
DR.. Ehlert left here today and was
joined by Health Officer Aucoin of AS
at ShTiever. They will go
to Bayou Boeuf to investigate condi-
tions there DR.. Chassa;gnac yosteT-
day discovered a large number Of cases
at Bayou BOeuf. They cad not pr5-
viously been reported because there
is no physician at the settlement. The
focus was established through com
between Bayou BOeuf an
Patterson.
Prof Robert BOyce of Liverpool has
had a conference with DR.. Walker
and has agreed 20 fill some lecture en-
He will speak at Tempt
Sinai Monday night.
Complaint has been made to Alto"
ney General Guion OF the treatment OF
a party of civil engineers engaged to
assist in the building of the Iron
Mountain road bet ween EudOra, Ark
and Gilbert, La. 1t has taken the partS
four weeks to get from Bay City
Texas. to Eudora. At McGehee, Ark,
they were kept In their car for thirty
hours without water or food in the be-
lief that they bad come from New Or
caDS