Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-20
SIXTY TWO NEW CASES
+ NEW ORLEANS WAS THE DAY THE
FEvER-EeHr DEATHS SIXTEEN suBFocI-ToTAL
NUMBER AND Deaf HIS SMALL BY COMPARISON WITH
FORMER YEARS EPiDEMlcs

New Orleans, Aug. 19.--Oficial re-
bort to p m. yesterday
s New cases, 81; total to date, 1885.
Deaths, 5; total to date, 1888.
co New foci, 16: total to date, 27S.
ss Number of cases under treatment,
N5.
I'D The figures for the day show moth
ing of special interest. Eleven of
Ssfhe sixteen foci are above Canal
$xtreet. Two cases have appeared in
aaaxhe French asylum on st. Ann and
Derbgni streets, making five in all,
Bss That is the only asylum infected to
late. Of the deaths two were in the
Emergency hospital. One occurred at
lgiers.
sas News from outside the city contin.
slles unfavorabe Dr. Brady, the medi-
sCal inspector of the state board, who
I6 also health officer of Jefferson par
Nh, spent most of the day in his own
parish on still hunt and found sever
II cases. He found one case in Han
Gon City, two cases in Shrewsbury,
i've miles from New Orleans, and one
case in McDonoughville, across the
liver from New Orleans.
He also visited Pecan Grove planta-
ton in ST. Charles parish and found
I'VE cases in two houses.
Patterson reports six new cases
md no deaths.
A1exandria's one patient, G.. J. Hay
4el died today.
DIR. Goldberger of the marine hos
pltal service has been assigned to
take charge of the work at Alexan-
dria.
8 DR.. J. A. Devron left for Thibo-
deaux this morning to visit the nest
~ infection at the mouth of Bayou
IN Fourche. 1t will be impossible to
hear from him for at least three days
There were no new cases at Mis-
siasippi City.
Situation Is Hopeful.
Though the number of deaths today
from yellow fever exceeded those of
each of the past two days. the total
N&s so small in comparison with
years when real epidemics prevailed
that the situation continues to be re-
gA1ded as infinitely more bright and
h0peful than a month ago. when it
nr1t became known that yellow fever
had taken a firm grip in one of the
most thickly populated sections of the
city. At that time, Notwithstanding
revealed warnings, no steps had been
e4 to profit by the example set by
HAvana, and long before, in spite of
the appeal eff the New Orleans medi-
Cal society, the city council refused
ia pass DR.. Kohnke's mosquito ordi-
nance, which would have caused the
landlords to screen their cisterns and
thus have largely restricted the
breeding grounds Of the stegomyia.
lew Orleans Was Unprepared.
At the outbreak of the fever
New Orleans was in a distress
ipGlF unsantitary condition and
All The conditions seemed favorable
ter an exceptionally high death rate
tnSAugust which always heretofore
haasbeen one of the most fatal months
ct the epidemic season. The fact that
under all the adverse conditions the
feEer has been prevented from attain
in& &he proportions of seriously ia
tai Hpidemic is considered little less
til femarkable. Nothing at present
Indicates any change from the present
mill form of the disease and the
he08eh authorities are inclined to be- /!
lteNA that so thorough are the prepa- |
rafaohs already made for the future
th1 barring entirely unexpected con-
dtE1ns, there is no further occasion !
fo1 larm.
long the new squares that have !
be& infected is that in which the !
:atl1 me and civil district courts and |
&t SOuis cathedrals are located. |
I'M kofore the fever has fringed it |
witIlt invading it, but number of /
pe6Te are now down with fever in a
row 0f houses standing next to the ,
ciVA Aistrict court building Extraor-
binary precautions are being taken to T
prevent any further infection of the |
False Reports Circulated.
considerable feeling has been arous-
ed over the circulation of reports
attributed to representatives of rail
road Tines which do not operate into