The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-29
YELLOW JACK
IN NEW ORLEANS
Health Officer Thinks
Str e t Clearing
i selesS
FEVER IS SPREADING
To the Gulf Coast Through Ital.
ians Leaving in Lussers-
Over 200 Cases in New
Orleans
FEVER IS SPREADING

The fever situation at New Orleans
grows no brighter with each days
reports. But if reports are true rm~
true condition of the fever in the eitv
IS worse than it was five days ago.
From the daily press of yesterday:
With the cases reported today the
aggregate since July I3 rups close to
200. These are included Ia twenty
to twenty-five foci, foci nu1ner oae
including the section around the
French market where the fever first
appeared and where large propor-
ton of the cases and fatjIities have
occurred. This section runs from St.
Ann to Barracks street and from
Charters to the river, incLiding about
forty city blocks. Italians here are
notoriorusly prone to avoid physi-
clans and the fever got a foothold in
the district before it became known
to the authorities No precautions
were taken to destroy the MOSQUITO
and the Scourge spread with such ra-
pldlty that out of the cheap and
crowded lodging houses the Italians
who could get away fled in mort.L
terror, some going to friends in other
sections of the city, some by rail to
surrounding towns. anu some by lug
gers into the settlements along the
coast
The result is the appearance CT
cases of fever in various parts Of
town, but principally below Canal
street in neighborhoods of the proper
classes.
Six hlndred corner groceries and
saloons in New Orleans are owned
by Italians and many of these readily
gave shelter to their fear ar-stricken
comrades.
Almost every instance of new fo-
Gus outside of the French market dis
trict is that of an Italian who escap-
ed therefrom or some one of diff
ferent nationality whose business
was in that section There have been
ten foci above Canal street, trace
able to the original and one in Al-
giers.
The Algiers case was that of an
American boy, proving fatal whose
employment was in the district.
No subsequent case has appeared
i'll Algiers So far as the heahlth auth
critics, were able to discover today,
no case has thus. far developed from
outside of any of the outlying in
fection and with very few excep-
tions the cases and deaths have been
among the Italians.
| The absence OF spread from the
[ outside foci, notably those above Ca
nal street and Algiers, is considered
to be due entirely to the fact that tht
patients have been perfectly screen
ed and scientifically treated and prem
ises thoroughly disenfected after deati
or recovery.
A great cleaning campaign ha
been inaugurated here. Every war'
is being thoroughly organized wit
precinct organizations radiating fror
the major body.
In every meeting resolutions hav
been passed calling for complet
scrubbing and disenfection sof tn
ward to go hand in hand with the OH
ing of the cutters, pools and cistern'
Yet while it is considered that n
harm can come from the most thol
ough cleaning that New orleans IA
had since Ben Buffers time, the me
of science do not think that the clean
ing will prevent single case of feve
Cleaning up the street and remo'
ing dirt from gueets is energy throw
away, declared President Kohnke {
the city board of health to deleg'
ton of citizens who called to consu
with him on the subject.
You ought to put every man yc
can get HoId of screening cisterr
and draining standing water fro
premises.
a tomato can half filled with wat
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