The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-18
WILL CLOSE HosrrTAL.
No Longer Need for the Emergency
 InstftutiOn.

| ss New Orleans, Oct. 16.--Further evi- dence that the marine hospital au- | thorities believe the extinction of yell I low fever in New Orleans to be a mat ! ter of only a short time was given to- day when it was announced that no further patients would be received for treatment in the emergency hospital. There were in the hospital today only | twenty-three under treatment and when these have been discharged as cured it will be finally closed. The population of the hospital has been decreacing for some time and many of the nurses and doctors have been relieved from duty within the past few days. The fever has grown so mild
 that little dificulty Is experienced in treating cases even in the humblest
 homes and only the very poor. and few of them, have been finding an asylum in the rospital. the cost of operation
 of which has been one of the heaviest
 items in the campaign.
 Dr. White believes that the cases
 will run low from now on until the fever finally disappears and he con-
 siders that when the present patients
 have been released. within the next ten days or q fortnight, there will be practically no fever left.
 Today's record was an exceptionally low one. due partly to the fact that yellow fever. ia wearing itself out and partly to the fact that suspicious cases
 are not included in 1t. It has fre- quentiy been pointed out In these dis
 patches that New Orleans was being credited with more yellow fever than she actually had and that the actual results which Dr. White and his forces
 were achieving were not apparent to the country because of the fact that suspicious eases that developed Into
 other diseases were being promiscuous-
 Iy reported along with yellow fever.
 Dr. White frankly admitted the
 swelling of the daily lists, but defended
 1t on the ground that public safety I was superior to private convenience. Now he sees no necessity for misrep- resenting the record and the figures from now on will show how magnifi- gently the service has overcome the disease.
 The services of eleven acting as- sistant surgeons. recruited from the ranks of local physicians. were dis pensed with today as a result of the consolidation of various ward organtza- tions Forty-one officers are still en- ! gagged in the fight, sixteen of them | members of the service and the other | twenty-five, local physicians. Dr. | White. in dispensing with their ser vices. paid high tribute to the work |
  here He said every one of them had | measured up fully to the requirements i of the service and they had proven | their ability to have command In a | fight such as has been fought here. i
 Orders were issued today for the closing of the Avondaie camp which | has been jointly operated by the marine | hospital service and the Southern | Pacific and Texas and Pacific Railroads. The last detained will be admitted into | the camp tomorrow. The camp will | discharge It's last inmates October 24 | For some time past It has been used | as a clearing house for laborers. skilled | and unskilled. going Into the sugar. districts. By the date mentioned. grinding will be in full force and 1t | Is believed that the plantations will be | amply supplied with labor. If they | are not, 1t Is promised there will be, by that time no longer any severe quar- antines maintained against New Or | leans by the sugar parishes.
 Probably the last case the courts will | have to deal with in connection with was that of Dr. Rufus Blue. who was charged with having invaded the Law Ter home In the Third Ward and in- hicted considerable damage by the of his Immigration. It was shown in the testimony that the federal authorities believed that the | Lawler home was the fo&ll point for the infection in its neighborhood and that Dr. Blue and his force were ac- by the police and were operating in accordance with law when they made the invasion. Dr. Blue was 
 Although the bacteriologists who have been at work at the emergency hospital still refuse to talk, there Is to be little doubt that they have failed to make a complete success of their hunt for the yellow fever germ and unless 1t has already been found they will have little further opportuni- ty to prosecute their studies. At the beginning of the epidemic, when pr. Archinard started his work, yellow lever cases of the most malignant were numerous in the hospital, but the fever s now so mild that material upon which to work Is lacking.
 Preparations have practically been completed for the Presidents visit, which is to take the form of a jubila- Ion over the success of the fight against the fever. The attendance rom the surrounding country promises o be large, the decorations are to be n an extensive scale, the luncheon is O be numerously attended. and the President. when he reaches here, will lee nowhere evidence of the existance If yellow fever.