Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-10
SICK SIX DAYS, DIES SUDDENLY.
Physicians Positive That ,PreIate Re ceived Infection From Deadly Mos- auito-Military May Have to
 Enforce Train Service.


 ceived Infection From Deadly Mos-
 auito-Military May Have to
 Enforce Train Service.
 NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1O.-Arch- bishop Chapelle of the Roman Catho- lie. diocese of New Orleans, is dead here of yellow fever.
 Shortly after 12 o'clock yesterday Dr. Larue announced that Archbishop Chapelle had taken change for the worse, that he was critically i'll and that a consultation of physicians would immediately be held. It was found, however, that the case of the aged prelate had passed beyond human aid.
 Mgr. Chapelle was taken i'll on Fri day. He had returned to the city three days before, having just com pleted tour of Louisiana. and an. nounced on his arrival his intention of cooperating in the efforts then in full swing to stamp out the fever. He, however, left his house only on one oc- casion before he was taken sick. That was to take drive with his niece. On Friday he complained of symptoms indicating yellow fever. Dr. Larue diagnosed the case as yellow fever.
 From the first Dr. Larue was ap- prehensive as to the result, Archbishop Chapelle being fleshy, full bNoded and more than sixty years old.
 Although the prelate was subject of scientific treatment and attention, his physique and fatigued condition on his return from particularly irksome trip through the country counted against him. His death, while gener- ally deplored, is not taken as a refuta- ton of the medical fraternity's opinion that with good care and proper treat, ment the number of deaths is not like ly to be large in proportion to the number of cases
 What is held remarkable is that the archbishop should have contracted the disease so quickly, whereas he had spent many years in Cuba and Porto Rico, where the disease is endemic, without having contracted it there. Among the scientific men there is little doubt that the archbishop fell a vic tim to a mosquito during brief visit he paid to the old archbishopric on ChartreS street or from an insect which found its way into his residence in Esplanade avenue, which is not far from the territory within which there has been infection.
 No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral.
 Archbishop Chapelle was born in Mines, France. in 1s42. He began his collegiate course in France and con- pleted it in Belgium, in Enghien. In 1853 he came to this country with an uncle who had been sent by the holy see to negotiate concordat with the republic of Haiti. as
 He then entered St. Mary's semina- ", in Baltimore, to pursue his theo- logical studies, and upon the death of his uncle in Haiti he determined to at- tach himself to the archdiocese of Bal timore. After he graduated he taught humanities in St. Charles college, Maryland.
 The report of the fever In this city for the twenty-four> hours shows: New cases, 63; total cases, 679; deaths, .; total deaths, 119.
 The report of sixty new cases of vel low fever in New Orleans yesterday shows how complete the infection is in the district below Canal street and shows only too plainly the herculean task which the federal authorities have to stamp out the pest.
 It Is the intention of the state board to enforce the state regulations gov erning quarantines with civil forces, and in case of clash with the parish authorities Governoy Blanchard will be requested to send the militia to en- force the state boards mandate.
 The militia will, 1t is understood. be put aboard trains and steamboats to protect travellers from ejectment and detention and prevent the stopping of freight. This, 1t is thought. will start the movement of mails and freight to all points in Louisiana. some of which have been without a train for eight days.