Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-08-15
YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
Plague Continues to Make Headway In
Nav Orleans.

New Orleans.
Although the doctors continue to
make their reports as reassuring as
possible, 1t is doubtful as to whether
there has been a great deal Of improve
ment In the New Orleans fever situa-
ton. 1t Is a fact, however, that the
fever has not spread with the rapidity
that has characterized former epidem-
les and this is very probably due to
the war against the mosquito and pre-
valent filthy conditions.
UP to last night there had been 1,01S
cases Of fever and 166 deaths. The
death rate Is about 16 per cent Of the
people who take the fever. Associated
Press dispatches of yesterday describ-
ed the situation as follows:
Surgeon Whites forces went to work
today on the reorganized plan, all the
fumigating and screening being done
from the district headquarters instead
Of central headquarters as heretofore.
Surgeons Mullins and Green report
ed for duty today.
Surgeon Sporting Of the navy arrived
here today to look after the interests
Of the naval men who are at the naval
station.
Surgeon Guiteras returned tonight
from Paterson, La, where he has
been in charge Of the fumgation and
screening and organizing the colony to
fight the infection. He reports the
situation there as encouraging and the
people thoroughly alive to the neces-
sity Of the work mapped out by him.
tnto o,Nf 10 m
road to recovery.
The health officer of Plaquemines
parish today reported to the state
board of health that there were IL
cases of yellow fever at a point four
miles south of Pointe- ala Hache in
Plaquemines parish.
Included in the deaths Of the pre-
ceding "a hours was that OF negro.
Very few cases have appeared, how
ever, among the negro population.
There is a case reported from Spanish
Fort, a former summer resort on Lake
Pontchartrain, where there now Is a
large colony of fishermen. 1t Is the
first case that has appeared there. No
new cases have been reported at MIL
neburg, near Spanish Fort for two
weeks.
With the exception of a few squares,
all New Orleans below Canal street is
now generally infected with yellow fe-
yer. While most havoc has been caus-
ed in the portion of New Orleans, where
foreigners live, the disease has spread
to many places in what Is known as
the American quarter. above Canal
street Most cases in the American
quarter are isolated, however. Health
officers are still unable to assert
whether the high water mark Of daily
new cases has been reached.
Extending Its Work.
The marine hospital service Is ex-
tending it's aid to any outlying place
where yellow fever appears and eff
forts are daily making to perfect in
spection and isolation. The marine
hospital service will take general
charge of the street and house sani-
tation. While yellow fever Is not a
filth disease in itself, experience shows
that persons who live in unSanitary
surroundings are much more likely to
die of the disease when they contract
1t than those who live in better envi-
ronment.
Prosecution Of those who have not
paid obedience to the anti-mosquito
ordinance Is also to be participated in
by Federal officers. Sweeping orders
have again been issued to the police
to prosecute all landlords and agents
who fail to screen cisterns. The re-
suit Of the order was the making of a
large number of affidavits by the po-
lice today. In one uptown ward, the
citizens committee swore out 80 af-
fidavits for violation of the screening
law, some of them against men OF
prominence and wealth.
Removal of fruit trade from New
Orleans has thrown many Italians
out Of work and the Italian socie-
ties now daily give three meals to
all INDECENT persons who apply at the
charity restaurant in the French
quarter.
Oytsermen are now in fear that
they will be unable to open the fish
ing season on September 1st, as
usual on account of the quarantine.
The board of trade declares that
grain exports will in no wise suffer
on account Of the yellow fever.
All six theatres are preparing to
open in September. Two theatres
have stock companies and probably
will have no trouble i'm opening.