The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-07
Encouraging Fever Record
 Continues.
THE NEW CASES ARE FEW
Nothing of Special Interest
 Develops.
Heavy wind and Rain in Crescent City Fills Place With Mosquitoes, But They Are Not Ste
 gomyta Variety.

New Orleans, Sept. e.-ofhciai report to p. m.. Wednesday.
 New cases, 31; total cases to date, 3.142: deaths. 4; total deaths to date, 3ee: new foci, 6 cases under treatment. SIT; cases discharged, 1,527.
 There was nothing of special inter est in the fever situation beyond the small number of cases reported and the few deaths. heavy rain and a wind seems to have flfed the city with n1os Quitoes, but they are not the stegomyia though resembling them in many of the markings. They are causing much discomfort and some anxiety because of the similarity in the markings, leads the average citizen to believe that all the precautions about screening and oiling have been futile. This is an un- grounded fear. however. because the pest now in evidence is much laFger than the stegomyia, being species of 'swamp angel"
 There has been some demand here for q quarantfne Of the city against the country on account of the nests of infection outside the city and the dam ger of reinfecrion. but Dr. White Is opposed to such a move and does not believe 1t would be effective. He is taking every possible precaution, how ever and the avenues of ingress to the city are being watched. A guard has been put on the Mississippi Valley
 
 sengers from infected parishes along that line and wise their health certifi- eates.
 There was no bad news from the country. Dr. Brady. the State Med ical Inspector, visited the three cases on EeteIIe plantation and the three on Woods plantation Tn Jefferson Parish reported Tuesday as yellow fever. but declared five of them malaria and one typhoid.
 Other country reports were: Jeffer-. son Parish. Kenner, four cases; Han son City, five cases. three deaths: Kin tins Camp, two cases: Fishers Camp, twe cases; Shrewshury, one death. St. l3Sfnard Parish: Terre aux Boeufs, one case near daughter house, one case. St Mary Parishs:- Patterson. twelve new caSes, of which i've came from Belie-' sefn plantation; Amelia, six new cases; Tallulah, twenty-one eases in all: Lake Providence, nine cases Misslssippi: Gulfport, two cases; Mississippi City, two cases; Vicksburg, two cases, one death
 Millions of Pest Slain.
 pr. Whites warning to the people of New Orleans to be on their guard against frequent and excessive rain falls during September, which would tend largely to multiply the breeding places of stegomyia. bids fair to be borne out so far as precipitation is
 
 number of new cases of fever during the past ten days does not indicate that the mosquitoes are taking advantage of their opportunities. After fore noon. of clear and pleasant weather heavy rain again set in today flushing |, cutters throughout the city and creat- Ing fresh ponds and pools in every va cant lot. For ten days past there have been showers nearly every day. In- lection. however. is spreading more and more slowly and the conclusion drawn is that screening of cisterns. ofling and salting of gutters and fumigation of premises have accomplished the de- struction of millions of mosquitoes which otherwise would now be depos- lting their larvae in the fresh breeding places provided for them on every side.
 Todays record was again a favor able one with a diminished number of new cases and deaths only slightly above recent days. While new focI continue to appear they are offset by the elimination of foci from which there has been no secondary infection during the thirty days set as a mini mum limit by the Federal authorities. The fever has not been entirely wiped out of the originally infected district, but that section is no longer honey combed with cases as 1t was few weeks back and the results show how eticient has been the disinfection con ducted by the marine hospital. authori- ties. An inspection of the maps in Dr. Whites office shows the fever Is dy- ing out fin the forty-four squares which formed the original focus and has now become widely scattered Tn the twen- ty-four hours ending yesterday there was not single new case in this area. Sporadic cases will probably continue to appear fn the district but 1t has ceased to be the pesthole 1t was six weeks ago
 
 One of the peculiarities of the situa- tion now is that there are two strikes in progress. In both instances the struggle Is for better pay and better hours than prevailed before the fever The strikers are teamsters and paint CTS. Both have had plenty of work 10 do but they regard the present set back to business as ephemereal and looking forward to a big revival when the fever is stamped out they are making demand for large concessions. The year has been an exceptionally ac- tive one in building operations and though the quarantines have interfered to some extent in holding back mate rial the winter promises to be extra ordinarily busy in construction, giving plenty of work for painters.
 The women's organization, formed some time ago of prominent members of the sex has made reports of the work done by its representatives In each ward. One woman visited houses in 15O blocks. Others covered almost as large amounts of territory. Ore re- ported that she had personally superin- tended the fumigations of thirty houses in which negroes resided. The ladies who volunteered to make the canvas and plead for disinfection, went Into all sorts of neighborhoods and re- ceived both courtesy and rebun, but the net result of their work was large pr. White and Dr. Warner both testl- fv to the invaluable assistance that has been rendered in the campaign by the women's organization, many represen- ,stivs society women having foregone vacations to remain here and assist in the campaign.
 A great deal of interest is felt in the decision of the supreme body of the Pvtbfans in the matter of whether the hienniaI, gathering fixed for next fall shalI he transferred from New Orleans. tae arrangsments for the eneampment