The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-10
LOWEST RECORD SINCE LAST JULY Dr. ShanIey Succumbs to the
 Fever WAS MARTYR IN THE FlGH I Left Emergency Hospital Too Soon. pr. White Thinks That the
 Period of Danger
 Is Past.
OFFICIAL RECORD TO 6 p. M.

aiiNt JhiS idSlt ne loW ItC- ord and the anticipated early approach of cold weather caused Dr. White to is- sue orders to his forces to discontinue all general oiling and other anti-mosqulto work, all general block fumlgation, ex- cept In blocks already begun. There are exceptions to this. where thafe are still nests of infection. All house to house inspection will be discontinued after De- tober 10.
 Only two of the new cases are above Canal street case was takea off the British steamship Etonien, but i; was contracted directly, as the vessel had been here since September 27. The only death in the city occurred in Alsl9fs. Passed Assistant Surgeon C.. M Corput will go to Patterson tomorrow morning to look over the situation, and g very likely that he will be placed in charge of the work of cleaning up the infection there.
 Country Cases.
 Reports from the country were:
 Patterson, nine new cases, one death.
 Kenner. two new cases. one death.
 Bayou Natchez. one suspicious case, one aeath.
 Barrataria, one death.
 Amelia, two new cases.
 Gretna, one case, one deatl
 Willswood, two new cas ss, one death.
 Mississl. .pl reported as follows:
 Vicksburg, six new cases, one death.
 Natchez, eight new eases.
 No new cases at Gulfport. Handsboro or Mississippi City.
 No other points haari from.
 Martyr Passes Away.
 A martyr In the fight against yellow fever. Dr. c. NJ. Shanley, formerly oi North Dakota died today at his planta- ton home on Bayou Barataria, as the result of a relapse from ys:.hw fever, hii illness extending over the past two weeks.
 pr. Shanley cana here about three years ago from the northwest. bought the | Ida plantation, moved his family, con | sisting of his wife and two young ehil | dren, to 1t, and began the cultivation ol | rice aud other staples. When the fevel appeared in New Orleans he refused tt l leave, and when 1t developed on Bayot Barataria he volunteered his services tt assist in stamping 1t out. He placed his steam launch at the disposal of the au thorities and for days and nights Visitee and ministered to the sick. Several week. ago he was himself stricken, and wa brought to the city and taken to thu Emergency hospital. He remained there until he believed himself cured and I'm mediately started to the bayou to resume his work Exposure and the fact 'hat h' had ventured out too soon resulted h fresh attack of illness.
 Win Be Given Masonic Honors. Two physicians and two trained nnrsc' l have been In attendance upon nm, nn' l up to yesterday there was hope that m would pull through. Death, however came today. pr. Shanley was thirty l second degree Mason, and his body Il | now on it's way to the city, and Will o' l buried tomorrow from the Masonic rem ple with high Masonic honors. His deati | Is greatly deplored, not only in Jenersoi | parish among whose people he lapored l but throughout the city because or th prominence he had attained by reason O his sacrifices in behalf of the untorluil ates who fell victims to the plague
 The continued successful progress or th government authorities in their efforts t stamp out the yellow fever in New or | leans was again manifested by the com | parative low report of new cases ant deaths. The incessant rain ana iach thorough inspection on Sunday night nat | urally have affected the report TOT tha day so far as new cases were cohcefheo | but there was ample opportunity 10 reg | ster all unreported cases today, and th | fact that the list showed no marked ris was taken as further indication that tn disease is being steadily overcome. Tn total number of cases for last week wa | the lowest for any week rom tle oe ginning of the epidemic and there ma been a continuous decline for severn weeks past Furthermore the record ho' compares more than favorably with tn record of 1897. Tn that year the new case and deaths were on an ascending scll during more than the first half or oe tober, whereas both are now descending'
 Period of Danger Past.
 pr. White Is reluctant to place any tim at which the city will be entireiy ire from fever, owing 10 the fact that n cannot be certain that there has not bee | and will not be concealment of cases. fe he considers that the period of dange is practically past. At the present rat If is considered improbable that the tota number of deaths will reach boo' Tn spi, of the fact that fever first made us ai pearance In May. Five hundred IS @ onl one-haf of the deaths that occurreu iioi | tuberculosis in 1903.
 Afte, raining steadily for about thirty six hours the weather cleared late to dav. Adverse winds and the heavy ram hacked the water from the lake into th basins and also submerged considerabi nortion of the rear section of the cltS stop was again put to the sanitar work which had been resumed upon tn annearenre of clear weather last week | hut while the authorities are urgin upon the people to clean and oil agail as soon as the opportunity offers wit the same scrupulousness that was exer cised two months ago, so few mos ouitoes still remain that It is considere that even with some relaxation of vigi lance there Is no possibility of chec | in the progress that is now being mad in the struggle with the disease.
 The first death In Gretna, the tow immediately opposite the city was re ported today Less than half-doze eases have appeared in Gretna and thcs within the past ten days So thoroug were the precautions taken in Angus and September that the tow nhas bee practically cleared of stegomyia and n further spread of the disease is expected The death today was of a lady of prom thence in the town. One of. the death credited to the city was in Algiers, whic lies just below Gretna.
 Newspaper Reporters lll.
 In the list of cases now under treat ment are two newspaper reporters. Bot were undoubtedly infected by movin In the districts where there has bee much fever. During the existence of tn fever half dozen newspaper men hay been stricken and five of the six paper