The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
BEST REPORT
 SINCE JULY Fever on Last Legs at Crescent City. NEW CASES 17; DEATH 1 Hard-Worked SanltarianS to
 Get a Rest. Pronounced Optimism in the Air and Sturgeon White Thinks Danger Period Ia Thing of
 the Past
NEW CASES 17; DEATH 1


 cord to p. m. Monday:
 New cases, IT; total cases to date, 3.212; deaths. 1: total deaths to date, All; new foci, 6; cases under treatment, 1s7; cases discharged. 2,614.
 The record of seventeen new cases and one death Is the lowest since July last. The continued low record and the anticipated early approach of cold weather caused Dr. White to issue or- ders to his forces to discontinue all general oiling and other antt-mosqufto work, all general block fumigation. ex- cept blocks already begun. There are exceptions to this, where there are still nests of infection. All house to house inspection will be discontinued after October Is.
 Only two of the new cases are above Canal Street. case was taken off the British steamship Etonian, but it was contracted in the city. as the vessel has been here since the 27th of September. The only death in the city occurred in Algiers.
 Passed Assistant Surgeon c. M. Cor put will go to Patterson tomorrow morning to look over the situation and it is very likely that he will be placed in charge of the work of cleaning up the infection there.
 Reports from the country were: Pat terson, new cases, 1 death; Kennar, 2 new cases, 1 death; Bayou Natchez, suspicious case, 1 death; Barratariar 1 death; Amelia, 2 new cases; Gretna, l case, death; Wildwood. new cases, death.
 Mississippi-vicksburg 6, new cases. 1 death; Natchez, new cases. No new cases at Guifport, Handsboro or Mis- sissippi City. No other points heard from.
 Death of a Martyr.
 A martyr in the fight against yellow Iv nf North Dakota, died today at his plan- tation home on Bayou Barataria, as the result of a relapse from yellow fever, his illness extending over the past two weeks. Dr. Shanley, came here about three years ago from the Northwest, bought the Ida plantation, moved his family, consisting of his wife and two young children, to 1t and began the cultivation of rice and other staples. When. the fever appeared in New Or leans, he refused to leave and when it developed on Bayou Barataria, he volunteered his services to assist in stamping it out He placed his steam launch at the disposal of the authori- ties and for days and nights visited and ministered to the sick.
 Several weeks ago he was himself stricken and was brought to the city and taken to the emergency hospital. He remained there until he believed himself cured and immediately returned to the Bayou to resume his work. EX- posture and the fact that he had ven- tured out too soon resulted in a fresh attack of illness. Two physicians and two trained nurses have been in at- tendance upon him. and up to yesterday there was hope that he would pull through. Death, however. came today.
 Dr. Shanley was a Thirty-second De- gree Mason, and his body is now on its way to the city and will be buried tomorrow from the Masonic Temple with high Masonic honors. His death is greatly deplored, not only in Jeffer- son Parish, among whose people he Iabored. but throughout the city. be- cause of the prominence he had at- tained by reason of his sacrifices in behalf of the unfortunates who fell victims to the plague. ...s
 The continued successful progress Of the Government authorities in their efforts to stamp out the yellow fever A. in New Orleans was again manifested 2 today in the comparatively low report of new cases and deaths. The inces- sant rain and the lack of thorough in- spection on Sunday night naturally have affected the report for today, so far as new cases were concerned, but there was ample opportunity to regis ter all unreported cases today and the fact that the list showed no marked rise was taken as further indication that the disease Is being steadily overcome.
 Last Weeks Good Report.
 The total number of cases for last week was the lowest for any week from the beginning of the epidemic. and there has been continuous de- cline for several weeks past. Further more, the record now compares more than favorably with the record for 1907. Tn that year the new cases and deaths were on an ascending scale during more than the first half of Oc- tober, whereas both are now descend ing.
 pr. White is reluctant to place any time at which the city will be entirely free from fever. owing to the fact that he can not be certain that there has not been and will not be concealment of cases, but he considers that the period of danger is practically past. At the present rate, 1t is considered improbable that the total number of deaths will reach 800. in spite of the fact that the fever first made it's ap- only one-half of the deaths that oc- cured from tuberculosis in 1903 After raining steadily for about thirty six hours the weather cleared late today. Adverse winds and the heavy rains backed the water from the lake into the basins and also sub merged a considerable portion of the rear section of the city. A stop was again put to the sanitary work which had been resumed upon the appear ance of clear weather last week, but while the authorities are urging upon the people to clean and oil again as soon as the opportunity offers. with the same scrupulousness that was exer- eised two months ago, so few mosqui- toes still remain that it is considered that even with some relaxation of viz ilance there is no possibility of a check in the progress that Is now being made in the struggle with the disease.
 The first death in Gretna, the town immediately opposite the city, was re- ported today Less than a half dozen .. eases have appeared in Gretna and these within the past ten days. So thorough were the precautions taken In AuKust~and September that the town has been practically cleared of stegom- sis, and no serious spread of the dis