Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
REPORT TO G p. M.


(liy Associated PrcSs.)
NEW ORLEANS, LA. Aug. 26.-'rhr
Increased number of deaths today is
not regarded as surprising" in the face
al such intensely hot weather as has
prevailed during the last few days.
Health officers today finished the
sailing Of all cutters On cross streets
ooV tons of salt have been put in tn,
cutters during the week, the idea be-
ing Ia make IL solution of 2 IL per
cent. which has hccn proved To he am
PIE IN destroy the wriSylcrs.
Traced to Gulfport.
II developed today That the hiscov-
cry oi Il case of yellow fever on Chest.
nut street New Orleans. traccable iii.
Ircclly To GulinOrl, resulted in the dis.
cuvcry of three cases ut GulfpOrt
on Friday.
IA As September, owing to much rain,
Iiu tao4n.6I,tl. yielding s!,.s iai ;;axi Nun.
her nj yellow fever fatalities in New
Orleans, DIR. White today urged the
sanitary workers Ia increase their
vigilance Sc that every rainfall that
may come will be followed by renewed
Cling OF cistcrns. sailing of cutters
and rigid inspection Of cistcrn screens.
Dr. White, discussing meteorological
conditions and their effect Oh yellow
fever, today said that Il drought of six
weeks would undoubtedly he the great
est ally of the health officers i'm the
light against yellow fever
Almost a Record Breaker.
Ten deaths were recorded during
The last ~ hours, exceeding any daily
number during the present scourge,
except the record days, August 13 and
III, on each Gf which ~ deaths were
reported
All the schools were TO have opened
on September 20. but il is announced
that the opening date will be extend
ell to October ..
Health Officer Auconin, of Assump.
ton, today reported two cases OF vel
low fever AT Bayou Boucf, and seven
cases at Amelia.
DIR. White today telcgruphcd to Dr..
Jones, AT Memphis, the result Of his in
vcstigation of the case of Mrs. Frank
Guerico, tic woman i'll with yellow
fever whom he believed To have been
infected III Memphis.
Quarantine Against Memphis.
On report of the marine hospital
service to this effect. Jackson, Miss
and number Of other towns imposed
quarantincs against Memphis. Mem
phis officers are reported to have cX-
pressed Indignation over the report
saying that the woman reached there
on July u with other Italians, that all
had been kept under observation, that
no sickness developed i'm the houses
visited, and that she left there two
weeks ago AMI must have contracted
the FEVER on her return to New Or
leans. DIR. White has from the woman
tn. i.t.,t a., H. L..
Jones on August =. It. to the effect TINT
she had been in no infected point for
thirty days, having lived with Mrs. Win.
cent Guorico in Memphis. for the
thirty days preceding August /.
Left Memphis August is.
She left Memphis on August Is.
reached New Orleans at noon on An.
gust lG and was taken i'll on August
II.
Mrs. Gucrico is convalesccnt. It
was on the basis of the fact that she
became III SO soon after reaching New
Orleans from Memphis that DR.. Whitn
called tho attention of the surgeon
general to the case. The woman since
reaching New Orleans. according t.,
her statement, has not been In an IN.
fcctcd region.
Memphis Denies Woman's Story.
MEMPHIS. TENN, Aug. 2G-Dr.
llcbcr jones, president of the local
board of health. after further cxami-
nation into the case of Mrs. Gucrico,
the Italian woman who developed vel
low fever after returning to New Or.
leans from visit here, announces that
Mrs Gucrico. according to friends in
this city, left Memphis August 2. Dr.
Jones is advised that the woman
reached New Orleans ms early as Au.
gust 10 and tha! her illness WAS dag.
lloscd MS yellow fever August %. This
allowed ten days for the contraction
ana Incubation OF the fever germ AMI
he Memphis health officers are posi-.
tive that the incubation occurred in
New OrleauS searching iIlvcstiga.