The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-04
MORE HOPEFUL ASPECT.
Scientific Fight Is Slow and Tedious
Work.

Scientific Fight Is Slow and Tedious
Work.
New Orleans Aug. 3-AIthough there
was a large increase of new cases and Il
considerable spread of infection, there
was a diminution in the number of fatal
tiles today and the yellow fever scare
was regarded as having a hopeful as
pect. The authorities have not concealed
their expectation that for some time
there will be a daily average of twenty to
twenty-five cases and prOportionate
number of deaths, owing to the extent of
the main infected territory, and anything
as a distinct assurance that the situation
is still under control Carrying on
scientific fight of this kind is a SLOW and
tedious work, but the confidence of the
authorities and the enthusiasm of the bulk
of the public show no impairment
Hope to Avoid Clash.
Though the announcement that Cover
nor Blanchard had actually ordered the
II in the MOSQUITO fleet OF the oyster
commission to the Louisiana Mississippi
boundary attracted attention. there is alb
solutelY no apprehension that any serious
collision Will occur. Hope generally is
expressed that Governor Nardaman's in
structiOns TO his guards not TO trespasS
upon Louisiana territory will be rightly
observed.
In addition to putting the naval brigade
on ships Governor Blanchard today wired
to the sheriffs and district attorneys of
st. Bernard and Orleans parishes with a
view to invoking the assistance of the
civil authorities To clear Louisiana waters
of any armed invaders. To the sheriffs
he sent this telegram:
You will take sceps Immediately to cap
ture and arrest all armed vessels and
those found with in that part OF
Lake Borgne in your parishes, so that the
grand jury may act Consult the district
attorney and call upon Commander BOs-
effect capture. Go with Bostick expedi-
ton through the lake"
War on Mosquitoes.
With view to inaugurating more thor
ough cleaning movement and strengthen
ing me sFRs OF the the neaith agIn
Behrman called conference at the city
hall today. Opinions we're expressed by
Heath Officers kOhnke, by DR.. Beverly
Warner in charge of the ward work and
by Chairman JanVier, of the citizens
committee that while yellow fever was
now known not to be "A filth disease and
that the most perfect cleaning of the city
could affect i'm no wav the fight against
the disease. it being the concensus of
scientific opinion that yellow fever is only
transmitted by the mosquito. d general
sanitary movement would be certain to
have a fine moral effect, and would enlist
the sympathy and active assistance of the
public in putting into effect the precau-
tons deemed necessary to destroy the
breeding places of the mosquito. The re-
suit of the meeting was the appointment
of committees that Will take In hand and
carry out most comprehensive plans of
sanitary work
Inspectors at Work.
The inspectors who are at work search
ing out cases Of illness are having many
strange experiences There still exists
d Widespread antipathy among the ignor-
ant classes to making public cases of
sickness and a great deal of the inspect
or S time IS taken UP in running down
suspicious cases. which are communicated
by the citizens to the board of health.
The announcement that "A large amount
of money has been deposited here to the
order of the marine hospital service sur
geons has created a false impression
an
of work and who are seeking jobs in
connection with the movement to stamp
out the feVe~. The marine hospital Of
ficers have been besieged with applicants
for various positions, and there is appar-
emily widespread belief that the govern
ment IS 10 turn loose a golden stream
in the plan OF fever eradication. 1t is
expected that no money is to be spent by
the government in sanitary work here.
The government is not in control of the
situation, nor does it expect to be. All
the funds that il Will put out will be in
the esta btshment and maintenance of de
tention camps and in any disinfeCtion of
cars or steamboats, that may be re-
quired.
Spread the Infection.
One of the good results that is ex-
pected TO follow the present misfortune
of the city will be a vast extension of
the powers now lodged in the board of
health in the matter of enforcing sani-
tary and hygienic assures. No one
seems to have had any idea until the de-
deplOra bic conditions that have existed in
the Italian quarter. Hundreds Of people
have been found crowded into ramshackle
tenements. some OF them built perhaps a
century ago and surrounded with none of
the essentials of the most primitive sani-
tatiOn and hygiene The district has been
a rich field for the planting of epidemic
disease and there is a strong demand
that laws shall he passed and enforced
10 feNCluuonlZe tneSc conditions not only
in the present infected area, but i'm othtr
parts Of the CITY 1t is not improbable
also that the movements to bring Italian
immigrants here on Il large scale will
suffer, partly by reason of the terror
which the present infection has spread
OF the entirely unwarranted prejudice
which sec--,S to have arisen against ex-
tensive colonization. With the negroes
flocking to tho city. Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi planters have had difficult prob
TO till their fields. Thousands of Italians
have in recent years replaced negroes I'm
Italian is usually an excellent laboreT,
there has for some time been a strong
movement to provide srch facilities in
the way of an Immigrant station as would
divert TO this gateway a larger proper
tion of Italian immigrants.
Good Results to Follow.
Much surprise was expressed at the
state board of health when a dispatch
Alexandra. announcing the appearance of
a case of yellow fever there
Rapides parish had taken extraordinary
measures 10 keep out the infection and
IL was thought that none of the fugitive
Italians would be able to pass the Gordon
OF guards with which she had surrounded
herself The Alexandra case was traced
20 New orleans. and that opens W. the
question of the efficiency of certain quar-
antines established in the country par
ishes. The period of incubation of yellow
fever is five days. and this Italian. there
fore. must have got into Rapides within
that time, although the quarantine has
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