Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-09


today there were % cases of yellow
fever and two deaths.
New Orleans, Sept. S.-With only
one death reported early today ana the
normal number OF cases from the car
ly morning report of the physicians
the yellow fever situation continued tt
bear a favorable aspect here today
The death occurred yesterday but the
certificate was issued too late to be
included in yesterdays total
DR.. Brady returned today from a
trip to Plaquemines parish. He found
thre cases of yellow fever at Wood
land, a settlement of 300 people, about
25 miles below New Orleans.
Previously there had been one deaf
and there were nine conyalescents.
The infestion came from the DuMaine
street district in New Orleans.
Fair weather prevailed today and the
forecast was for its continuance. There
was a rising temperature.
Busy Killing Mosquitoes.
Though many have disappeared
enough of the soIicitans mosquitoes
which invaded the city two days ago
remain to make life intensely disa-
greeable, the insects constituting more
Of plague than the fever itself. The
reason given for the stay of this mos
quito is that all the salt and oil has
been washed from the cutters by the
recent excessive rains and the wealth
er being still too unsettled to permit
of doing the work ovsc again. While,
however, the whole city has been made
miserable, Health Officer Kohnke
looks upon the matter philosophically
Il believe" he said. that the salt
marsh mosquito has been blown in
upon us for a special purpose to make
us fumigate and kill him. He will
not last more than ten days"
Conditions in the Country.
Conditions in the country show inn
provement here and there. No new
points of infection have been report
ed and the disease is being held in
check or wiped out in other sections.
There has been no recrudescence at
Bayne, Shreveport or Bon Ami, AMI
there are no new cases at Bunkie or
Alexandria Tallulah, hake PGov1-
dence, Patterson and Leeyille are now
the points most infected.
Or. Tichenor reports that there are
81 positive cases at Tallulah, that the
town, that the condition is serious and
that it will take strenuous efforts and
prompt assistance to stamp out the dis
ease. A reassuring factor at Tallu-
Iah, however, is that the disease has
shown no signs of Great virulence.
At Leeville the average of new cases
eighteen days ago was IL. 1t is now
four
AtLeeville 16 persons who have not
yet had the fever, so that the material
for new cases is not abundant. Al
Patterson while there is a batch of
new cases daily, the doctors have be
taught so well how to handle them
that most of them are recovering.
At the beginning of the campaign
here it was stated by the official fe
yer fighters that the stegomyia was to
be feared principally during the day
light hours, biting seldom at night
Health Officer Kohnke, however, made
thi simportant statement today:
The stegomyia is day mosquito
but it has recently been discovered
that shortly after the twelve days
infection it also becomes a night mos
quito and bites at night We did not
know this until very recently"
In connection with the investiga-
tions that have been in progress here
concerning the origin of yellow fever.
Professor Boyer, who was member of
the United States commission which
made the experiments at Vera Cruz.
made an important announcement to-
day
II believe we are about on the road
to the discovery of the cause of yellow
fever" said Professor Boyer.
Camps Have Become Useless.
With regard to the closing of the de-
tention camps, Dr. White has given
the following to the press:
Il wish to say that the usefulness
of these camps has almost entirely
ceased, because of the refusal of local
boards of health to admit parties even
after they had spent the full period
in detention camp, and it Is mani
festly irrational to expend time and
money in OBTAINING people who would
not be allowed to enter places to which
they might wish to CO."
No Fever at Corinth, Miss.
Jackson, Miss, Sept. 8.-Secretary