The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-10
Many More Homes Under
its BIighting Touch.
SIXTY-THREE CASES
These in Addition to Those Already
Reported. The Deaths Yesterday
Were Seven, and the Cases
Under Treatment Two Hun
dred and Sixty Five.

(By the Associated Press.)
New Orleans, Aug. 9.-The report
of fever conditions by Health Board
of New Orleans up to six o'clock
this evening is as follows:
New cases So.
Total to date, 679....
Deaths. Z.
Total to date. 119.
Sub foe; (new) IL.
Total to date, 1870.
Cases under treatment, 2t5.
The daily number of new cases is
swelling largely because Federal con-
troll has overcome the diSinciination
of doctors to make known the cases.
Surgeon White returned today from
Slidell and went to the originally in
fected region to survey conditions. He
also visited the Emergency Hospital
forces.
Actual control of sanitary work to-
day passed to the marine service and
DR.. Gessner was placed in charge.
Advices from Mississippi indicate that
the people of the rural regions are
growing restless under the severity of
the quarantines which have cut of,
supplies
Secretary Hunter, of the Mississippi
Board of Health announces himself
as utterly opposed to the shotgun
quarantines throughout Mississippi a
saner spirit It's man Testing S>self
since the Federal government has TAX
en- charge of the situation.
Among the cases in the last official
report is one within half a square of
Newspaper Row, in a lodging house
in Commercial Alley. This is the sec
ond case that has been reported from
the same quarter.
Street Cleaning Campaign.
4 great street cleaning campaign
was inaugurated here early today and
continued until nightfall. Besides the
paid laborers of the city and the pris-
oners from the jailS and houses of de-
tention. thousands of volunteers went
to work to give New Orleans thor
ough scrlrbbing Hundreds of carts
and wagons were employed in carrying
off refuse. The State Board OF Healtu
was i'm receipt of adviceS from num-
Der of parishes today notifying it OF
their disposition to modify quarantine
regulations. A number of boards have
conferred at Lafayette and decided not
TO interfere with the movement OF
passengers from non-lnfected points
who have health certificates and from
infected points if they have served
time in detention camps and Deen re-
leased by the Marine Hospital Service
Restrictions were taken off freight
provided it is shipped in fumigateo
cars Additional appeals have come
from the Smaller towns for relief sc
that they may obtain food supplies
and ice. Guridan, La, and Logans'
port La, are among the towns thus
complaining. The latter is on the
Texas border and because of the TeXas
quarantine has not had a train fol
seven days. Its supplies are nearly
exhausted.
All foreign immigration into New
Orleans is to be stopped until after
the fever is stamped out. Large num-
bers of Italian immigrants were eX-
pected here in September and October
but as the bringing in of thousands
of unacclimated persons would be &c
supply fresh material for the fever
the immigration bureau will arrange
for the diversion of the ships to other
ports, unless by that time there is no
longer q trace of the disease here.