The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-27
WEATHER ALLY Of
YELLOW |. FEVER ] L.
fen Deaths From .Fcve1r. Report '',rt,.
ed Yesterday ii1 New II.
Orleans.
MEMPHIS DE. DENIES MES STORY 7 ].F (
Officers Express Indignation
Over Reported Inv Investigation
5s,.. ' Of City.
New Orleans Record.
\ (By Associated l'rcss.)

NEW ORLEANS, La. August 2G.--
The Increased number OF deaths to-day
liz not regarded as surprising In the face
OF such Intensely hot weather as has pre-
vailed during the last few days.
q Health officers day finished the salt
Ing OF all cutters on cross rstrccts 500
tons OF aalt have been put In the cutters
during the week. the Idea being to make
a solution OF two and a half per cent,
which has been proved to be ample to
destroy all the wrIgsicrs.
II developed to-dny that the discovery
q or "A cascIof yellow fever on Chestnut
Street New Orleans, trnceable directly
to Gulfport. Miss. resulted In the die
covery&of the three cases at Gulfport on
Friday. s
To Increase Vigilance.
AS September. owing to much rain. is
the month yielding The largest number
OF yellow fever talftics In New Orleans,
Or. White to-day urged all the sanitary
workers 10 Increase their vigilance, 20
that every rainfall that may come will
be followed by renewed olllng OF cistorns,
cistcrn screens. Or. White, discussing
meteorological conditions and their ef-
feet on yellow fever. to-day said that n
8 drought OF six weeks would undoubtedly
he the greatest ally Of the health officers
In The fight agasnst yellow fever.
Ton deaths were recorded during the
last twcnty-foury hours. exceeding any
daily number during the present scotlrge,
except the second days, August 18th and
August 18th. on each OF which twelve
deaths we're reported. n. 81
All the schools were To have opened on
September 25th. but Il Is nnnonnccd tina
the opening date Will be extended to Oc-
tober Cd.
Health Onlcer Auroin, OF Assumption.
to-day reported two cases Of yellow fever
1T Bayou Bocuf, and seven cases I
Amelia.
Memphis Case.
Dr.. White to-day teegraphed TO Dr..
Helscr Jones. ut Memphis, the result
or his investigation Of thc8caAe OF Mrs.
Frank Guorco. the woman Ill with yell
l0wtfeYer,E whom he believed TO have been
infected III Memphis. Onta report of the
Marina gHospltalg Service to tliIs effect,
Jackson Miss, and n number Of other
towns imposed qnnrantines against Mem
phis.
Memphis officers are reported to nave
EXPRESSED Indignation over the report,
saying that the woman reached there on
July eth with other Italians: that al
had been kept under observation; that
no sickness developed In the house she
visited and that she left there Two
weeks ago. ana must have contracted Tho
fever on her returnSto New Orleans, Or.
White has from the woman the certiti-
cate issued TO her by DR.. Jones on Aus
gust l4th, to the effect that she had been
in no infected point for thirty days.
having lived with Mrs. Vincent Gnerlco
IN Memphis for the thirty days preced-
ing August 1s,. She left Memphis on
AUGUST l5tli reached New Orleans ~ ~
noon on August 10th, and was taken III
on August nth
Mrs iGucrico Is convnlescent. IT was
OH the basis of the fact that she be-
came III so soon after reaching Now
Orleans from Memphis that Or. White
called tho attention of8 she surgeon
general TO the case. The woman, since
reaching New Orleans. according to hel
statement, has not been in the infected if etc:
region.