The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-16
NEW CASES DO NOT BRIGHTEN PEOPLE Had Expected September to be
 Worst Month REFUGEES IN BAD SHAPE Many Who Fled From TaIluah and Lake Providence Are Now Desti-
 ute at Various Points
 In the North.
REFUGEES IN BAD SHAPE
FEVER SITUATION AT 6 p. M.

FEVER SITUATION AT p. M. New cases... e.. =. .......... 45 Total cases to date. .......... .2oOo Deaths. .....'.... Total deaths to date. ..... ........ 551 New foci... ... ........... Cases under treatment. .......... 3so Cases discharged. -. ........l844
 New orleans, September 15,-The num- Der of new cases continues larger than was hoped for. but this has not had any dispiriting effect on the people. The same air of hopefulness and confidence that the disease will eventually be stamped out exists, and it is recalled that September is always the worst month for visitations such as the present During the latter part of August, when the situation began to look so bright Dr. White warned the people in several of his speeches, that the worst was still ahead of them, and he pointed to the September records Of previous epidemics
 There has been some talk about the possibility of the grand encampment or the Knights of Pythias scheduled to meet in New Orleans in September, lsO6, being transferred to some other city but in response to a letter from Colonel Blakely, pr. White wrote the following statement:
 ..That with the work now being done in the city at the present time and prof ected for the future, l see no reason for changing the place of meeting and I am strongly of the opinion on entirely logical grounds, that New Orleans will be in better sanitary condition in 1906 than in any other previous year in her his- tory, which has immediately followed an outbreak of fever"
 Promises to Be Success.
 The diamond festival gotten up by great popular movement for the purpose of completing the fund for the fever campaign, gives promise of being great success. It Is confidently predicted that the net proceeds wll reach s2o,000
 Passed Assistant Surgeon M. J. Rose nau has arrived here to study the fever scientifically
 Country Cases.
 Country reports were little more en- couraging there being fewer eases, and fewer deaths reported than for some time. LaKG ITONluenCc IS nOW utSitiOuo of having the state take hold of the situation there, just as has been done at Talluah and two more physicians will be sent there.
 The reports were:
 Wills Wood, two cases.
 St. Rose, three cases.
 Kenner, five cases
 Terre Bonne parish. six cases.
 Patterson, nineteen cases.
 Tallulah, enghteen cases; one death.
 Lake Providence. fifteen cases.
 St. Bernard, six cases; one death at Italian village.
 Mississippi.
 Gulfport, one case; Soria City. one case; Hamburg. two cases; Natchez, three cases; Vicksburg. one death.
 Much Sympathy for Refugees.
 While the fact that numbers of the refugees from Tallulah and Lake Provi- dence fleeing north had developed yell low fever at Cincinnati and other points created no surprise here, owing to the haste with which residents of the strick- en towns got away The news that fifty or more of those who reached Cincinnati were found to be pennlless and likely to be stranded far away from home and friends created much surprise and great deal of sympathy.
 The local doctors have believed that where communities were infected to the extent of Tallulah and Lake Providence those able to leave ought to do so in or der to reduce the material on which the fever might feed. When 1t first appeared here many of the physicians advised their wealthier patients to go to other climates for this very reason, but in the opinion of the medical profession, as of citizens generally, flight was inadvis- able for those unprepared to maintain Al t.. tt.ur ,fs were likely to develop the fever where physicians were unfamiliar with the dis ease and were pretty sure, therefore, to suffer from the want of care so essential in It's proper treatment.
 The consequence was that the bulk of the population remained in New Orleans. In Tallulah and Lake Providence, how ever, when it was announced to the pub lie that partial depopulation was deemed necessary to the stamping out of the disease promptly. there was a panic and many hastily packed their belongings and boarded the special trains who were ab- solutely without funds and who are cer- tain to suffer more severely than if they had arranged to go out into the country and remain until the sickness was under control.
 Doctors Unfamiliar With Disease.
 While it is not believed that the fever can gain foothold in any of the north ern towns to which the refugees have gone, much apprehension Is felt for those who develop the disease, since they will be beyond the reach of trained yellow fe- yer fighters. Meantime advices from both of the stricken towns are to the ef- feet that the doctors have performed wonders in the matter of organization and have brought about n partial resto- ration of confidence and are hopeful of soon getting the upper hand of the dis ease. The doctors and nurses who are on the ground under the direction of Dr. chassaignac are for the most part men and women of experience, and under their treatment the disease. 1t Is hoped. will soon be robbed of It's fatal character.
 The New Orleans situation showed some signs of Improvement today with better record than on yesterday. The diminished number of fatalities from Au- gust remains the brightest phase of the situation. The weather today was warm and clear as it has been for two days past and the indications are for con tinued absence of rain. With dry wealth CT there is certain to be a reduction of cases. The drastic steps taken yester- day by Dr. White fin the Caseux case has had already good effect and there is promise that his remorseless prosecution of those who suppress cases in the future will put stop to the era of conceal ment.
 Passed Assistant Surgeon N A.. Rose