The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-27
Greatest Precautions Being Taken
 Throughout South
FRUIT STEAMERS WATCHED
New Orleans Is Thoroughly Aroused and Sanitary Measures Are Being Conducted systematioally-var-
 daman Issues Address.

New Orleans, July 2e-six deaths from yellow fever were recorded today up to s D. m, making total to date of forty-two
 The number of new cases reported yes terday, but compiled today, is eleven, making all told to date 165.
 The organization of forces for lighting the spread of the infection, and for a campaign of education and practical ap- plication of the mosquito extermination plans has been completed, and besides 100 men put on as extras to clean gutters py the city $50 men are working as part or the system of sanitation. Citizens are being organized in wards, and these ward clubs will form precinct clubs, and a house to house canvass will be made to assure the screening of every cistern and the oiling of every cesspool and water pond The business men have provided the funds for this work, and as the people are now aroused to the necessity of action there will be no let up.
 Regulate Fruit Ships.
 Yielding to the sentiment of the com munity the state board of health Mon day adopted new regulations for the fruit ships, providing that they should remain six days at sea between the last port and New Orleans, and requiring Immigration at port of departure and fumgation here after the discharge of the cargo. Yester- day the steamship Anselm of the United Fruit company was allowed to come up after being at sea four and a half days, and according to the ships papers, she stopped at the quarantine station only forty minutes, during which time her crew of forty-one men were examined and passed.
 Aroused People to Action. Y This aroused slie peopie b action, and 'this forenoon Mayor Behrman, Attorney General Guion, ex-Governor Heard and Col. Charles Janvier waited on President Souchon of the state board of health and insisted that the regulations be made inn mediately effective regardless of the fruit ships at sea on the way up. The board of health desired to give these ships an opportunity to come in and then put the new regulations into effect. pr. Souchon, after the conference, decided to put the regulations into immediate effect, and so Instructed the quarantine officer. Later he sumoned the fruit importers to his office and explained the matter to them. Naturally they objected. but they realized that the sentiment of the community was such that personal considerations would not be allowed to enter into the present emergency.
 The people are convinced that the in- lection was brought here by the fruit steamer and if it becomes necessary to make the regulations so stringent as to ', drive them away. in the present feeling Rsuch regulations would be enforced. ItWhile handling the present emergency some thought is being given to the future md on all sides there is a sentiment mt nothing shall stand in the way of tsuure immunity from mosquito fever, B 1t is called now.
 Calls Health Officers Together. 2 Tn view of the many quarantine com plications which have arisen Dr. Sou- ehon has called a conferencehere next Sunday of the health officers of Texas Mississippi and Alabama to discuss quarantine regulations and devise sys- tenn by which travellers can be admitted with certificates of the marine hospital service Surgeon White. who is in charge of all the government work Will be present and participate.
 The work of locating the detention camps is progressing. though 1t has been slower than at first anticipated. The residents of Kenner, fourteen miles from New Orleans on the Illinois Central rail- road object to the camp and 1t was located at Harahan. near the railroad gravity yards. The locations of the other camps have been fixed and supplies are now being sent to them.
 Is Hopeful Sign.
 The infection in the original focus seems to be dying out fewer new cases are being reported from there, which is a hopeful sign indicating that the modern methods have been effective. The work now is to locate the new foci and treat them in the same manner. Physicians are now reporting all cases of fever, and wherever there is the slightest suspicion rigid sanitary rules are applied, with the result that up to now there has been no spread of any case from any of these new foci Those which are developing arc all traceable directly to the original focus in the Italian quarter.
 The emergency hospital was opened to- day and patients removed to 1t in a screened ambulance.
 Dr. John Guiteras, now professor of pathology of the University of Havana, hut formerly of the marine hospital ser vice. and who represented that service here during the fever of 1S97 has been ordered here by the Cuban government and will arrive tomorrow