The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
LESS ENCOURAGING IS THE
 REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS

leaders of the city government and decided to call a conference of the council on Thursday at which that body will be asked to authorize him to borrow s5o.o0o for the emergency. Favorable action is assured. With $70 900 originally in the hands of the citizens committee, s220,000 is in sight. Surgeon White put in hard days
 work here and in the afternoon took
 a train for Lafayette. La. to attend a conference of various health boards
 in that section of the State, called with
 d view to securing an amelioration Of quarantine regulations. Dr. White ex-
 poets that by tomorrow night all of
 the additional health officers which the
 government has ordered to New Or leans will be here and ready to begin
 work. Today F. A. Goodman, E. A.
 Morris and B. O'Gorman. pharmacists,
 ordered South by the government. re- ported to Dr. White. Dr. OGorman Is
 in Mississippi. It Is considered not
 improbable that the marine hospital
 service will open a supply depot In
 New Orleans. where medicines and
 medical supplies may be furnished
 to those who are in distress. The cases of fever at Bon Ami. La,
 are to be officially investigated. Here-
 tofore the authorities have been una
 ble to determine the sickness there
 officially owing to their inability
 through quarant!nes to send a doctor
 Today the State Board of Health was
 informed that the Kansas City South
 special train from Shreveport to car
 ry Dr. Goldberger there.
 In order to prevent interruption of
 telegraph and telephone service. the
 State Board of Health today adopted
 this resolution:
 Tn view of the vital importance of maintaining telegraphic and telephonic
 communication it is hereby ordered that line repairers on duty outside infected
 territory be afforded sosolute freedom
 of movement to which end health offi-
 cers and mayors of towns are requested
 to furnish them with proper health cer- tificates."
 Cleaning Day.
 Wednesday is the day set for the gen eral street cleaning movement. There will be a pretty general suspension Of business, all of the merchants volun-
 teering to land their carts and wagons
 and employees to assist in the work.
 Mayor Behrman said the City Hall
 would be closed during the day. Mean time the city Is arranging to continue the large force of special men 1t put to work on Monday during the rest of the week.
 The dlfncuILieS the dulnOTlllcS til- counter in trying to get at concealed cas was illustrated today when Police Officer T. E. Gregson was probably dan gerously wounded while trying to break into q house where there was known to be a case of yellow fever. Gregson was called on to assist the authorities. So stubborn was the opposition of the peo- pie at a house on Chartres Street against invasion by the inspectors that i% h. tn n ,theresult that heavy oaken door fell Lon Gresson and crushed him. He was | removed to tie hospital
 | particunrfE sad case came under ttre | attention of the inspectors during their rounds. An rtaiian family of eight was found. consisting of father, mother and | six children. The mother was first att
 tackled She auccumbed. Thereupon | the father took sick. Today he was a corpse The children have not yet become infected, but they are helpless with both parents gone and will be car ed for by the Italian societies.
 The character of the treatment which patients are receiving at the emergency hospital Is beginning to make itself felt. | The case of David Alderman was cited
 as a result. Alderman called at the hospital, said he was sick, gave his symptoms and was immediately shown to a ward. A policeman was sent to notify Mrs Alderman, who had heard 1t rumored that her son had been for cibly taken to the institution. She sent another son to bring the patient home, but personal observation showed him
 that the sick man was getting as good
 treatment as he could possibly get at home He will stay there and his
 mother has been invited to visit him. r.: No Terror Now. #':+ In 1897 and 1898 the appearance of the fever struck terror into the hearts of the boarding house keepers. The period antedated the mosquito theory and infection at any house meant the
 immediate Tagging and quarantininE of 1t. No one was allowed to leave or to
 enter. Financial losses under the cir cumstances were heavy. Under the
 new system the patients room is screened and the daily life in the house
 goes on as before. At least two large boarding housees here. one of thcm on St. Charles Avenue, have reported cases
 and have suffered no inconvenience.
 Funerals of yellow fever patients and wakes of the dead proceed with little
 obstruction from the health authorities. Science absolutely denies that there Is l any possibility of infection from q | corpse and once the house of patient
 has been thoroughly fumigated and the
 mosquitoes killed. the danger Is consid
 cred to have passed. Today in the in | fected district, where an Italian lay | dead women and children freely passed
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