The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-27
Six More Died in New
Orleans Yesterday.
SEVERAL NEW CASES
But Now Men of Science are Organ
izing the People and Results are
Manifest, as the Infection in
the Original Focus is Ap-
parentIY Dying Out.
(By the Associated Press.)


New Orleans, La, July 26.-Six
deaths from yellow fever were re-
corded today up to six p. M, making
a total to date of ~.
The number of new cases reported
yesterday, but complied today Is IL,
making all told to date 1G5.
There are now 10 foci of infection.
The organization of forces for fighs-
ing the spread of the infection and
for a campaign of education and praC-
tical application of the mosquito eX-
termination plans, has been completed
and besides one hundred men put Oh
as extras to clean cutters by the city,
$50 men are working as a part of the
system of sanitation. Citizens are be-
ing organized in wards and these
ward clubs will form precinct clubs
and q house to house canvas will be
made to assure the screening of every
cistern and the oiling of every cess
pool and water pond. The business
men have provided the funds for this.
work, and as the people are aroused
to the necessity for action, there will
be no let UP.
Yielding to the sentiment OF the
community the State board of health
Monday adopted new regulations for
the fruit ships providing that they
should remain six days at sea, between
the last port and New Orleans, and
requiring fumigation at port of de-
parture, and fumigation here after the
discharge of the cargo. Yesterday
the steamship AnSelm of the United
Fruit Company, was allowed to come
UP after being at sea four and a half
days, and according to the ships pa
pers, she stopped at the quarantine
station exactly forty minutes, during
which time her crew of forty-one men
were examined and passed. This
aroused the people to action, and this
forenoon Mayor Behrman, Attorney
General Gull, Ex-Governor Heard and
Colonel Charles Janvier waited on
President SOuchon, of the State board
of health and insisted that the regu-
lations be made Immediately affective,
regardless of the fruit ships at sea on
the way up. The board of health de-
sired TO give these ships an opportuni-
ty to come in and then put the new
regulations into effect
DR.. SOuchOn, after the conference
decided to put the regulations into i'm
mediate effect and so instructed the
quarantine officers. Later he sum-
moned the fruit importers to his
office and explained the matter to
them. Naturally they objected, but
they realized that the sentiment Of
the community was such that per-
sOnal considerations would not be al
lowed to enter into the present emer-
gency. The people are convinced that
the infection was brought here by the
fruit steamers, and if it became neces-
sary to. make regulations so stringent
as to drive them away in the present
feeling, such regulations would be en-
forced.
While handling the present emer-
gency some thought is being given to
the future and on all sides there is a
sentiment that nothing shall stand in
the way of future immunity from mos
quito fever, as it is called now. In
view of the many quarantine compli-
cations which have arisen Dr. Sou
chon has called a conference here
next Sunday of the health officers of
Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama
to discuss quarantine regulations and
devise a system by which travellers
can be admitted with certificates of
the Marine Hospital Service. Surgeon
White, who is in charge of all the
government work, will be present and
participate.
The work of locating the detention
camps is progressing though it has
been slower than at first anticipated.
The residents of Kenner, fourteen
miles from New Orleans, on the Illi-
nois Central Railroad, objected to the
camp and it will be located at Hara-
han, and Gravity Yards.
The locations Of the camps have
been fixed and supplies are now being
sent to them
The infection i'm the original focus
seems TO be dying out as fewer cases
are being reported from there, which
is hopeful sign, indicating that the
modern methods have been effective.
The work is now to locate the new
fOci and treat them in the same man.
ner.
Physicians are now reporting all
cases of fever whenever there is the
slightest suspicion, rigid sanitary rules
are applied. with the result that up
to noon there has been no spread of
any case from any of these new foci
These which are developing are all
traceable directly to the original focus
i'm the Italian quarter.
The Emergency Hospital was opened
today and patients removed to it in
q screened ambulance
DR.. John Guiteras, now professor of
Pathology of the University of Ha-
vana. but formerly of the Marine Hos
pital Service and who represented that
service here during the fever of 1897,
mas been ordered here by the Cuban
government and will arrive tomor-
row.
The people who manage to live with