Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-01
IuY FIVE DEATHS REPORTED YESTERDAY
0 NEW CASES OUTSIDE CITY
One of Them at Morgan, La, and One at
Lumberton, Miss
QUARANTINE LINES DRAWN CLOSER
Passengers Coming Through New
Orleans VIII Not He Permitted to
stop In Alabama-CleRn-
Ing In Continues.
NEW ORLEANS, July Sl.-The oficial re-
nnrt Of the NellnM feyer situation shows:

NEW ORLEANS, July S1.-The official re-
port OF the yellow fever situation shows:
New cases up to 6 p. n.......,..............I q
cases TO date.'...'..'''''''
Total deaths to date .............,...,,...... b2
New foci .......,.............. ..........'.'''''''
Total -
OF the FIVE deaths reported above three
occurred i'm the Emergency hospital and all
five bore Itdlian names.
Another new case was discovered outside
of the city. being that of an Italian who
left here a week ago, with several others,
and took up his residence in Morgan city.
on their arrival there they were quaran-
tined and one OF them was taken sick four
days ago. Today DR.. Tarleton, president
of ST. Mary's Parish Board of Health; DR..
Goldberg Of the marine hospital service
and two Morgan City physicians diagnosed
the case as yellow fever, and 1t was so an
nounced. Nothing has been heard from DR..
Brady who has gone to Lake Providence.
opposite vicksburg to investigate reports
of two suspicious cases there.
The Picayune's Lumberton, Miss, spe-
cial says: "Drs. wasden and Donald de-
clared a case Of yellow fever here yester-
day evening. The patient who is an Italian,
| is doing we'll and will soon be up. There
are no other cases, not even suspicious
one Fortunately the infected house is now
practically isolated and only FIVE others
were with the sick man or in any was ex-
posed
DR. Richardson OF the marine hospital
! service, who is in charge of fumigation,
oilng and screening of houses in the orig
inaI focus Of Infection and whose forces
! are also making outside inspection, reports
that up to date he has made $50 inspec-
tions and found thirty-nine cases OF fever.
most of which were sent TO the Emergency
hospital in the screened ambulance
! Alabama has taken a new tangent. The
| following dispatch shows even more strin-
gent restrictions than ever before at
! tempted
! Alabama health authorities decline 70 al
low passengers coming from points beyond
New Orleans that are not infected, who Will
be transferred from train to train In New
and protection, to get off al point OF desti-
| nation In Alabama They are very rigid
! with their quarantine In this city CBirming-
situation Under Control.
BY the end Of the present week the off,
cials in charge of the yellow fever
situation believe they will be able TO
speak with authority as to their
ability TO control and eradicate the disease
in advance of the coming Of the frost.
Daily the system OF inspection and report
is becoming more perfect and by that time
not only will It be possible to tell precisely
the extent OF the fever, but period will
have arrived when no more new cases
traceable to the original infection may be
expected There was no accurate census
OF the population OF what ls known as the
italian district at the time OF the fever
outbreak and in spite OF the most pains
taking efforts It is still impossible to locate
all who escaped from that zone when the
result OF the autopscal investigation be-
came known. Ever since then Italians have
been slipping out of the district after night
fall, but the number of escapes is becom-
ing fewer and with increased vigilance in
the course of the next day or two, the
exodus will have been completely sup
pressed.
General communication with the district
has stopped and only those expose them
selves TO infection whose business requires
their presence in the territory where the
fever has ragged most OF the time. Within
the next week. therefore, II is probable that
the health authorities will be able to put
their fingers on every man who has left the
danger zone. and II there is then the same
absence Of spread from the outlying infec-.
tion as has been shown heretofore, the au-
thorities believe they will be able grad
ually TO destroy each focus As a matter
of fact the foci are not actually as nu-
merous now as they are represented 10 be
in the daily reports. In a number OF In
stances where the fever was reported to
have appeared some time ago. the case has
either been cured or died without further
infection OF the house or vicinity.
Three Deaths During Day.
Three deaths occurred in the emergency
hospital today, the number of patients in
which has been largely increased. All cases
found with no relatives TO care for them
are promptly removed to the institution
where the most elaborate modern arrange
ments have been made for their treat tment
President souchon received advices to-
day that the Wilmot case at Morgan City
had been pronounced yellow fever Nor
gan city is eighty miles from New Orleans
on the Southern Pacific railroad and the
announcement OF the case there will doubt
less be followed by the bottllng up of the
town. No other case in Louisiana has been
reported in the last two or three days.
VIII Lose Fruit Trade.
It is generally believed here that when
the present sickness passes New Orleans
will not seek to regain the fruit trade
which has now been diverted 10 Mobile un-
less the fruit companies are willing to
submit to regulations which will make i'm
possible the introductioh of fever. It is
|
ant as this trade has developed to be, Il
is not sufficiently profitable for the city 10
run against the risk of recurrence of the
present experience, which, viewed from the
most optimistic side, will ultimately cost
many times the value OF one seasons fruit
business II is also considered probable
that public sentiment in Alabama and Miss
: issippl will require Mobile 10 take such pre-
2; cautions in the matter OF detention that
the fruit companies will eventually find
' themselves forced to submit 10 the same
r regulations in all the southern ports.
That reasonableness in the country dis
n tricts with respect 70 guarantees Is not
increasing, is evidenced today by a dispatch
. from Port Gibron. Miss. on the Mississippi
Valley road, which announced that the
u town council there passed a resolution ex-
, cluding all freight from New Orleans.
other towns have taken similar action.
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