Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-27
FORTY-FIVE DEATHS
Yellow Fever Epidemic at New Orleans IL
Spreading.
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K FATALITIES REPORTED TUESDAY
leven New Cases Found, Making Hundred
and Sixty Five to Date.
TEXAS oUARANTlNEs ALL LOUISIANA
officers of Three States Will Meet to
straighten Out Complications
ALL FoCl TRACED TO FRENCH MARKET
Crowded section of City where SAINT
tation e. Poor Said TO BE
Place of origin of
Outbreak.


NEW ORLEANS. July 26.-six deaths
| from yellow fever were recorded today up to
! s p. m, making total to date of forty-hve.
| The number Of new cases reported yester-
day, but compiled today, is eleven making
] all told to date 165. There are now nine
| teen foci Of infection. The organization OF
forces for fighting the spread OF the infec-
ton and for a campaign OF education and
practical application of the mosquito ex-
| termination plans has been completed, and
| besides 100 men put on as extras to clean
| cutters by the city $50 men are working as
part OF the system of sanitation Citizens
are being organized In wards and these
| ward clubs will form precinct clubs and
house to house canvass will be made to as
sure the screening of every cistern and the
oiling of every cesspool and water pond.
Tho business men have provided the funds
for this work and as the people are now
aroused to the necessity of action there
| will be no let up. Yielding TO the senti-
ment of the community the State Board Of
| Health today adopted new regulations for
the fruit ships. providing they should re-
| main six days at sea between the last port
and New Orleans, and requiring fumigaton
at port of departure and fumgation here
after the discharge Of the cargo. Yester-
Fruit company was allowed TO come up
after being at sea four and half days, and
according to the ships papers II stopped at
the quarantine station exactly forty min
utes, during which time its crew of forty
one men were examined and passed. This
aroused the people to action and this fore
noon Mayor Behrman. Attorney General
GuioR, former Governor Hard and Colonel
Charles Banvier. waited on President Sou
i CHI of Gtata ~ pf nd In
sisted that the regulations be made imme-
diately regardless of the fruit ships at sea
on the way up. The Board of Health de-
sired to give those ships opportunity to
come in and then put the new regulations
into effect. DR.. Souchon after the confer
ence decided to put the regulations into
immediate effect, and instructed the
quarantine officers. Later he summoned
the fruit importers to his Office and ex-
planned the matter to them. Naturally
they realized the sentiment OF the COM
munity was such that personal reasons
would not he allowed to enter into the
present emergency. The people are con-
vinced that the infection was brought here
by the fruit steamers, and II It becomes
necessary to make the regulations so strin-
gent as to drive them away, in the present
feeling such regulations would be enforced.
While handling the present emergency
some thought is being given to the future
and on all sides there is a sentiment that
nothing shall stand In the way OF future
immunity from mosquito fever, as It is
called now
Quarantine Complications.
In view of the many quarantine compli-
cations which have arisen, DIR. Souchon has
called conference here next Sunday of
the health officer Of Texas. Mississippi and
Alabama to discuss quarantine regulations
| 4
, be admitted with certificates Of marine hos
pital service. Surgeon White, who is in
charge of all the government work. will be
present and participate. The work of locat-
, ing the detention camps is progressing
though 1t has been slower than at first
I ticipated The residents OF Kenner, four
, teen miles from New Orleans, on the Illi-
nols Central railroad, object to the camp,
and 1t was located at Hanrahan, near the
railroad gravity yards. The location of the
, other camps have been ixed and supplies
, are being sent to them. The infec-
tion of the original focus seems to diminish,
, as fewer new cases are being reported
J there. which is a hopeful sign. indicating
that the modern methods have been ef-
1 fective. The work now is to locate the
new foci, and treat them in the same man
ner. Physicians are now reporting all cases
of fever, and wherever there is the slight
est suspicion rigid sanitary rules are ap-
piled with the result that up TO now there
has been no spread of any case from any of
these new foci Those which are devolp-
ing are all traceable directly to the original
focus in the Italian quarter.
e The emergency hospital was opened today
, and patients removed TO II II a screened
t ambulance DR.. John Guteras, now profess
t sor Of pathology Of the University OF Ha-
n vana. but formerly Of the marine hospital
service, and who represented that service
e here during the fever OF 1897, has been or
70 dered here by the Cuban government and
n will arrive tomorrow.
T. Close Inspection in Progress.
( WASHINGTON, July 26-In his advices
:. from New Orleans to the public health and
y marine hospital service today Surgeon
g White says that house-to-house inspec-
e tion is being conducted in the portion OF
the city which II affected by yellow fever
This section includes forty or fifty blocks
, He also says that general screening for
protection against mosquitoes is promised
I Passed Assistant Surgeon Joseph Gold
berger has been ordered to Vicksburg
Miss. and Shreveport, La, with instruc-
tions to run down all rumors Of yellow
fever cases IN those cities All cases OF
p fever are TO be screened until positive
4 diagnosis is arrived at
The officials OF the Marine Hospital ser
e vice are investigating reported suspl-
? cious case Of feyert which is said to have
d developed on the line OF the Texas Pacific
railroad about seventy -hve miles from New
! Orleans. No report from the physician
= sent 70 examine the case has been re-
\ | ceiVed.
y Surgeon General Walter A. Wyman, who
p has been to Honolulu on business connected
~ with the service, will return TO Washing
!, ton tomorroweand take active charge Of the
measures undertaken by his bureau TO cope
= | with the :ever.
J. Texas QuarnntineH LOuisiRna.
, HOUSTON, Tex, July 26-As a quaran-
v tine has been declared against the state OF
Louisiana because % IT'S slowness in quar-
antining New Orleans. physicians and
m guards have been dispatched 10 the LOUIS
lana border, Dr.. w. l.. Cook Of San Marcos
J. being in charge Of the sabine river camp.