Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-23
FIGHT ON YELLOW FEVER
Progress in New Orleans Encouraging Il
Marine hospital Surgeons,
DESPERATE SITUATION IN LEEswllE
SiKty-Nine Positive and Fifty-Three
Suspicious Cases Discovered in
Small viIIaEe-InhRbItAnts
Panic stricken.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug 22-Report Of yell
Ow fever situation to 6 u m

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Total deaths ............................ 21l
| TeW Iocl '..''.'...............,.. z
Remaining under treatment ............. Si9
With the fever checked in the city and
plans under way to prevent further reinfec-
| ton from the country. the local situation
is still encouraging. OF the new foci eight
/ are above Canal street, one is in Rosa
Park, fashionable residence park opening
! into St Charles avenue, a we'll known citi-
zen and member Of Governor Blanchard's s
STAFF being the victim. Another case is at
| a boys college, one Of the employees being
stricken. The Rev. Father Eveilhe, pastor
Of St. Maurice church, is another patient
OF the deaths only one occurred up town,
| that Of clerk who had been living here
| nine months.
Many Cases Outside.
The news from outside the city shows
| the continued seriousness Of the situation
| Definite information was received from Dr.
]. A. Devron. the state board physician
sent to Deeville a few days ago. His re-
port shows that the first news received
from there was not exaggerated. During
two days of work there he found sixty-nine
positive cases Of fever ffty-three suspicious
| cases and 145 cases of dengue, He adds:
There are about 300 houses and families
| house here which has not one or more
cases of sickness. The people are COM
! pletely distracted. All seem to have lost
| ambition to work. They are completely
demoralized.
He asks for more doctors and nurses as
the situation is beyond the capacity of one
man. He reports two more deaths since
his arrival
Patterson reports fifteen new cases and
no deaths
St. Tammany parish reports a positive
case on the road between Mandoville and
Lewisburg, which came from New Orleans.
Hanson City reports six new cases. Ken
ner one and Arph plantation two.
There was one death on Elizabeth planta-
ton in Iberville.
St. Rose, in st. Charles parish, has two
cases and one Is dead.
Corinne plantation, in st. Bernard par
ish, below the city. reports one death, an
Italian boy
Mississippi City reports three new cases
and states that the report that the State
board has declared the fever epidemic there
is unfounded.
Prominent Citizen Arrested.
In spite of all the agitation there has
been on the subject, some of the cisterns
still remain unscreened and the police have
received orders TO spare no one who
shows indlsposltion to obey the law
Failure to screen caused Hart Newman
former president OF the New Orleans Base
Ball club and son of Isidor Newman
the millionaire banker to spend a brief
time in cell today. Mr. Newman IS the
head Of the company which owns Athletic
park. Some one discovered that there were
three unscreened cisterns on the grounds
and made an affidavit against him. When
the DOliCa aH i, CarnpdnIat gtr
offices today Mr.. Newman ordered them
out and then barred the doors. The Do
licemen disappeared and Mr.. Newman went
to police headquarters When he reached
there he was arrested and locked up. Later
he was released by Inspector Whitaker.
Mr.. Newman was indignant at his arrest.
He said he had made large contributions
to the citizens fund and had paid to
screen a large number OF cisterns that
he did not own in his ward and had sim
ply forgotten the cisterns at the park.
Scared in Country Districts.
Some of the country towns are seeking to
avoid a clash with the state board of health
in the matter of quarantine in a manner
calculated to be damaging to New Orleans.
Lake Charles is an instance. The fea- of
fever is so great there that the people re-
fuse to accept any freight whatever from
here.
Among today's telegrams to the mayor
was one from Democratic Campaign Man
ager Thomas Taggart, Of Indianapolis, Ind !
Mr. Taggart wrote of his sympathy and |
offered large contributions OF water from |
French Lick for the hospitals and for the |
poor patients. The offer was accepted.
The management OF the New Orleans |
baseball club does not expect that any Of |
l. T.
to take advantage of the protection offered |
by the national commission. The New
Orleans games have been transferred to |
Atlanta and the Shreveport games to |
Chattanooga, The New Orleans players |
are being kept on the rolls at their full /
salaries, in spite OF heavy losses that the |
management is suffering.
More Precautions at Cairo.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Aug. 22.-The new quarantine |
order which requires everyone before en-
tering Cairo TO secure a permit viii go |
into effect Saturday morning. These per-
mits must be secured from either'the state |
or city officials, they will be issued by T A. |
Fuller, chairman of the Cairo Board Of |
Health or by Secretary Egan OF the State |
Board of Health, requests addressed TO them /
viii be acted upon promptly The health !
officers were busy today Issuing certificates,
over 1000 being taken out, mostly by peo- |
pie going TO Chicago and ST. Louis on the 4
excursions. The health officers here believe |
they inspected a steamboat last week that |
carried the yellow fever 10 Gregory, Mo. |
Early one evening they met a small boat a |
few miles below Cairo and an INSPECT 1r |
boarded IT, The boat was from Natchez, |
Miss. and was In very flthy condition. |
The boat was unprovded with certificates |
and was very much dilapidated in appear |
ance, While the inspector was aboard, two |
men left the boat in skin. The captain /
was asked about the men and he stated |
that they were sick with malaria and de- !
sired to go ashore. The inspectors launch /
gave chase for the men, but they were not \
Overtaken and succeeded In landing and |
escaping in the woods. The steamboat |
was watched, but as it carried no lights,
IL soon disappeared and It is thought pro-
eeeded up the Mississippi and carried the |
yellow fever into the railroad camp at
Gregory. Mo.
Automobile Races Abandoned.