The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-29
UnaccIimation Causes a
Heavy Mortality.
THE PLAGUE SPREADS
But Only Among Poorer Habitations oil
Down Town Quarter. Quarantine
Of the State Ordered by Its
Health Board Against New
Orleans.
fRv the Associated Press


New Orleans, July 2S.-Although
the unofficial reports made public to-
day showed a larger number of yell
low fever deaths than yesterday, when
there were only two, and the appear
ance of a number of new cases, the
men of science who are warning
against the yellow fever plague ended
the days laborS confident that the sit
uation was still we'll in hand, and with
no immediate prospects of becoming
alarming. Today's official report OF
yesterdays progress of the disease
shows that the entire quarter above
Canal street was free from a single
case, and that the fever was only
spreading in the poorer habitations
of the downtown quarter, with new
cases isolated except in the heart of
tn Frnch markt quarter.
The health authorities continue to
hold also that the pleague remains an
Italian infection, all but two of the
twenty-siX cases reported today be-
ing of that nationality. Almost with
out exception since the beginning of
the fever, those who have fallen vic
Tins to the disease have been of the
poorer classes of the population. many
of them not long residents of the
United States and therefore unaccli-
mated.
Fever Almond Italians.
For several years the planters of
Louisiana have been replacing negroes
with Italian labor, and there has
ben a steady flow of immigration from
Sicily and other parts of NAV TO
Louisiana Many of these immigrants
have remained in New Orleans, find
ing employment in the peddling of
fruit or i'm the work of unloading YES
sells at the fruit wharves. 1t was
among these that the fever first ap
peared and their lack of acclimation
and the inadequacy of their treatment
has BEEN largely due the heavy NOR
tality that has characterized the pres
ent visitation of the scourge.
T2day's deaths have been principal
Iy of Italians. In two or more cases in
the last two days deaths have been
reported of persons who were only
reported the day previously as having
taken the fever. There have been
concealed cases, which the emergency
offers with the assistance of the sur
geons have disclosed.
The first death in the emergency
hospital occurred today. The hospital
was opened yesterday with thirteen
cases, and an equal number was add
ed today. In the hospital are sent the
worst cases of unfortunates found
without comforts or medical attend
ance in their homes.
In order to remove an 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 today:
up to now, cases reported to the
city board as suspicious and occurring
i'm 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
suspicious 70 the city board will be in
vestigated before being reported to the
State board irrespective of locality"
Death of Heroic Nurse.
A number of the cases reported to-
day were above Canal street. One un-
der observation is that of nurse who
had rendered heroic service in nurs-
ing the unfortunates in the heart of
the infected French market quarter.
During her employment she was
bitten by mosquitoes and apparently
contracted the disease The other
cases have also been traced to the
original injection, and the authorities
today said that they had not yet re-
ceved reports of any cases that were
not thus traceable as was that report
ed from Tampa, Fla, and those re-
ported at several points in Louisiana
parishes.
The Louisiana State Board of Health
met today and finally ordered a quar-
antinc 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 Orleans. They are conta-
gious to the city, many of their peo-
pie 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.
Why Mississippi Guaranteed.
The Mississippi authorities in justi-
fication of the fever guarantees, which
that State has established, say it be-
came necessary because New Orleans
people have been resorting to all sorts
of methods to get into that State. In
some cases they are charged with rid
ing to the State line and disembarking
and then slipping quietly over the
line. An attempt TO run the quaran-
tine resulted in disastrously today for
E. c. Joullan, a canon and a promi-
nent resident of Biloxi Miss. Mr..
Joullan was in Louisiana when the
quarantine was put on. He thought
he might reach his home by water
route without encountering the Mis-
sissippi guards.
When he landed pm the coast, how
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