Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-10-01
QUARANTINE MAY Be
RAISED OCTOBER Is
So Declares the Health Author
tiles at New Orleans.
PEOPLE ARE RETURNING TO CITY
The Report for This Week Will Show
the Smallest Number of New Cases
and Deaths of Any Week Since the
Fever Was Declared Epidemic.


New Orleans, Sept. Threatening
weather prevailed here with a fore
cast of rain. No marked change char
acterize dthe fever situation. During
the night there was but one death
pointing to another low record for the
"a hours. There was the usual small
installment of new cases early in the
day.
DR. White started on his trip over
| the Southern Pacific railroad today
leaving Surgeon Richardson in charge
Two suspicious cases were report
ed today at McDonoghville, the termi
nus of the Texas and Pacific on the
other side of the river.
The relatively small number of new
foci that are now appearing in the
daily reports of the marine hospital
service is regarded as one of the best
signs Of the certain decline of the fe-
yer here. 1t shows the restricted
spread of the disease The sanitary
officers are not always able to prevent
bCCCAANIt1J AAACNlAOA III a nOuSE Oh Il
square within which there has been
sickness, but the efficiency of the cam
paign for the destruction of mosquitoes
is found in the feeblenAss with which
the disease now moves into new local
tiles. In the matter of new cases the
week ending today will show the larg-
est measure of improvement since the
fever started.
President Souchon, of the state
board of health, and DR.. White, of the
Marine hospital service, give it as
their opinion that quarantine against
passengers may be safely raised after
the 18th of October, and DR.. Souchon
gives mis- reasons therefor in the let
ter that he has sent out to the various
parochial health officers. He SAYS
the Introduction of a case of fever into
a parish after that date in view of the
early approach thereafter of frost.
would to practically nothing because a
secondary case could not develop until
two weeks thereafter.
DR.. Sonuchon says such cases could
be isolated and cared for without diff
ficulty, and points to the fact that
New Orleans is now receiving an aver
age OF three or four cases a day from
the country without concern, the label
iAy of the cases making it easy to pre-.
vent secondary infection.
The country reports continue to he
OF most encouraging character. Elk
cept at Patterson, where the list
sWelled yesterday, the new cases were
very few, and there wa snot a single
death reported. In the entire state in
Guiding New Orleans, there were only
two deaths for the day and one of
these was leftover fatality from
Thursday.
Only three white cases dremain at
Tallulah, and barring Patterson. there
is no longer considered to be an un-
controlled nest of infection anywhere
outside of New Orleans.
The influx of people into New Or
leans continues, many report business
men ana nndnclers being among those
who are returning. The first theatri.
cal advance agent of the season turned
up yesterday, and the hotel registers
begin to snow sprinkling of drum
mers from the north.
The report of the citizens organiza-
ton in the Thirteenth ward shows that
$4,000 was subscribed and $4,000 ex-
pended in sanitary work. This is one
of the smallest wards. There are II
wards altogether in the city, and each
subscribed to a local fund indepen-
IDENTIFY of the subscriptions to the gen
eral fund, 1t is estimated that $50 900
was raised and spent in this way,
bringing the total of money gathered
to make the fight against fever nearly
s400 600.