The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-31
Work of Sanitation Pro-
 ceedS, Diligently.
ENCOURAGEMENT RESULTS
Decrease Shown in the Alarm
 ing Features.
Authorities and Citisens Generally Are Cooperating Heartily In the War Against the Yel-
 low Pest.

New Orleans, July 30.--New cases re- ported up to p. m. today, 2f; totai cases to date. 283. deaths today, 5. deaths to date, 57; new foci, 4; total foci, fl.
 Though this was Sunday. the work of sanitation. fumigation, oii1ng ana screening went on just the same ana will continue daily until the city has been thoroughly screened and made mosquito proof
 The record for today shows little change from that of yesterday, except in the reduction of the number or deaths. The number of new focl IS also again a source of encouragement showing that the spread Is becoming slower and slower
 A new complication was discovered today when Superintendent Curran of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad announced that two passen- gers who had remained the required length of time in the Slidell detention camp and sought admission into Mis- sissippi had been turned back. If the Mississippi health authorities now re- fuse admission to holders of certifi- cates of detention issued by the ma rine hospital service, it will result in the Government abandoning those camps and then travellers will have to either stay here or go to points in the North and East and spend ten days before they can return to Mississippi
 The location of the Louisville and Nashville camp has not yet been fixed. but pr. Guiteras hopes to be in com munication with Adjutant General Fridge of Mississippi who is in charge of the State quarantine on the gulf coast, and finally arrange the matter. The Mississippi troops are now doing guard duty on the coast.
 City Health Officer Kohnke, who is in immediate charge of the situation in the city and who has been subjected to some criticism from various sources. by request today gave out the following statement, which shows how the au- thorities handled the infection as soon as it was discovered.
 The F'irst News.
 "The first intimation of yellow fever in New Orleans was had on July 13. when two physicians reported two cases of illness resembling in their Judgment yellow fever. The cases were submitted to the president of the State Board of Health at his office. The health officer of the city was sum- moned immediately. and the cases re- ported, one being already dead at the time, were by him considered. for sani- tary purposes. actual yellow fever and the premises were treated accordingly;
  ployed were those against yellow fever infection. The diagnosis of these cases being judsed a matter for later con- sideration, the health office immedi- ately instituted an investigation of the neighborhood suspected of infec- ton and this investigation disclosed evidence pointing to prior cases in the same neighborhood.
 All measures were employed against yellow fever infection wherever suspi- cion pointed. In a few days 1t was learned that several squares were in fected approximately to a degree justi- flying the Immigration of every house for the possibly existing infected mosquito. The neighborhood operated on Is almost wholly inhabited by an Italian popula- tion. many of whom are intimately con nected with the handling of bananas and the unloading of such cargoes from fruit ships arriving from Central American ports. Every means were employed from soft persuasion to brutal force to reach infected places and the wholesale Immigration was in progress during a period of ten days or more, during which period an autopsy demonstrated the nature of the disease, which must have begun at some time during the second half of May. From the infected neighborhood at varying times residents removed to other sec
 
 veloped not only in persons in infected district, but residing in other districts at the time of the appearance of first symptoms. .~
 All Cases Isolated. -.s
 Today there are a few cases in per sons not connected in any way with the infected district and all cases of the disease that exist are isolated and secluded with the proper measures of prevention based on the mosquito law of yellow fever transmission.
 .,The spread of the disease has not been as great as was at first feared and hope is entertained that 1t may be con trolled Besides the sanitary work done by the authorities in neighbor- hoods containing cases of the disease. the citizens generally are enthusiastic cally engaged In ridding the city of the yellow fever mosquito by the oiling of water surfaces and the fumigation of dwellings, the object of this being to render barren for yellow fever infec- ton the sections of the city containing at present no cases of the disease. Quarantine measures against the fruit vessels have been made more stringent ! toward the freight from Central Ameri- [ ca, from fruit ports generally infected lwith yellow fever. A fund of money ,'of unlimited amount has been guar tanteed and is being furnished to the health authorities. who are assisted by officers of the public health and marine hospitals service, members of the medical societies and representatives of the monied interests
 The situation Is recognized as one offering an opportunity for the people of New Orleans to demonstrate their willingness. discrimination and ability to care for yellow fever after its identification and no effort of energy or expenditure of money Is spared to at tain skilled results So far as Is now known. no infection has occurred from the cases outside of the infected dis tricts, and the organization will. it is thought, be so complete in a short while that the stamping out of any such secondary infection is not unlike ly. The impression that the authori- ties withheld information as to the ex- tent of infection is occasioned by the necessary delay incident to the investi- gation upon the result of which the official report is based"
 Souchon Aroused.
 President Souchon of the State Board of Health has taken cognizance of Gov eruor yardaman's comments about