The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-29
CLAIM TO HAVE YELLOW
 FEVER UNDER CONTROL
FWENTY-SIX NEW CASES, HOW- EYER, REPORTED IN NEW
 ORLEANS.

Health Authorities Hold That the
 Plague Remains an Italian Infection
 All but Two of the Cases Reported
 Yesterday Being of That Nationality
 Almost without Exception the Vie
 tims Are of the Poorer Glasses Health Board AIIays Fear That All
 the Cases Are Not Being Reported.
 New Orleans, July 2S.-Although the unofficial reports made public to-day showed a larger number of yellow fe- ver deaths than yesterday and the ap- pearance of a number of new cases, the men of science who are warning against the yellow fever plague ended the days 1abors confident that the sit uation was still well in hand, and with no immediate prospect of becom" ing alarming.
 The health authorities hold that the plague remains an Italian infection, all but two of the 26 cases reported to-day being of that nationality. AL most without exception, since the be- ginning of the fever, those who have fallen victims to the disease have been of the poorer classes of the popula- tion, many of them not long residents of the United States and therefore un- acclimated.
 For several years the planters of Louisiana have been replacing the ne- groes with Italian laborers, and there has been steady flow of immigration from Sicily and other parts of Italy to Louisiana. Many of these immi- grants have remained in New Orleans, finding employment in the peddling of fruit or in the work of unloading ves- sels at the fruit wharves.
 The first death in the Emergency hospital occurred to-day. The hospi- tai was opened yesterday with thirteen cases and an equal number was added to-day. Into the hospital are sent the worst cases of unfortunates found without comforts or medical attend ! ance in their homes.
 Tn order to remove any impression that may exist in the public mind that all the cases of yellow fever are not being reported, the city board made this announcement to-day:
 .ISs't up to now, cases reported to the city board as suspicious and occurring in the infected locality have been re- ported as such to the state board, but have been treated as yellow fever, whilst cases reported as suspicious in other localities are investigated prior to reporting to the state board. In future, however, all cases reported as i suspicious to the city board will be in- ,vestigated before being reported to the state board irrespective of locality" :"
 A number of the cases reported to- day were above Canal street. One under observation is that of a nurse who had rendered heroic service in nursing the unfortunates in the heart of the infected French market quar- ter. During her employment she was bitten by mosquitoes and apparently contracted the disease. The other cases have also been traced to the original infection.
 The Louisiana state board of health met to-day and finally ordered quar- antire of the state against New Or- leans. That action became necessary to protect all points in the state from being quarantined against by Alabama, Texas and Mississippi. Three parishes and one town in another parish were granted communication with New Or leans. They are contiguous to the city, many of their people do business here, and they would suffer more harm by being cut off from the city than by having the three states put up the bars against them.
 In spite of all that is doing to reas- sure them, many Italians are still greatly frightened and desperately seeking to get out of the plague cordon. The superstitious among them feel that they are victims of a divine visitation If wrath