The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-27
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A group of four cases among nuns in the Convent of Perpetual Alteration, on Marais street, was reported by the at tending physician. The infection there was discovered three weeks ago through the death of sister, and few days ago two more cases developed there. Now four more are reported. The living rooms had been fumigated but the chapel which 1t has since been discov- cred is infected, had not. It will be fum- igated early Wednesday morning. A case was taken to the emergency hospital from the parish prison, the patient be- ing a woman prisoner. Besides the par ish prisoners, there are only three cases above Canal street One case was brought in from Barrataria and taken to the hos pltal Of the deaths, two occurred in the | hospital and the others were down town.
 Country Patients.
 The country news was meagre and in- dicated no new points of infection. The i reports were:
 Kenner three new cases, one death
 Patterson, six new cases.
 | Buniie, one death.
 Butcher, one new case.
 Grand Isle, two new cases.
 Tallulah, five new cases.
 l Lafayette, one new case.
 1 St Bernard, one new case.
 Bon Ami, one case, which died l- Mississippi:
 Port Gibson, two cases Vicksburg. four new cases; Natchez, eight new cases, one death; Mississippi City, four new cases; | Gulfport, one new case.
 The summary of the situation in La- Fourche parish, below Lockport includ- ing all the Leevlle section, shows eos cases and 65 deaths, with 40 cases under treatment.
 The infection at Port Gibson is new and there has been much excitement as the result of the announcement. The mayor left the city and Dr. l.. A. Smith has been elected mayor pro tenn. Dr.. Wasdin pronounces the suspicious case at Hattlesburg to be aestivo-au -autumnal fever, the same as the suspicious cases In Jackson
 Interest In Fever Germ.
 More interest centers here now in the question whether or not the yellow fever germ is to be discovered as result of the investigations that are in progress than the fever itself. but the public is left in much uncertainty by the vague ness of the disclosures that have thus far been made to the public and the fact that apparently two sets or more of bac- teriologists and physicians are engaged in the hunt for the microbe. It Is appar- ent that they have not been working to- gether. and there was evidently consid- erable surprise among many of the medi- cal fraternity when preliminary results of the investigation were made pubic by one set of investigators through the pages of the American Medical Journal.
 Dr. Pothier has headed one set of in- vestigators. He has had access to the Emergency hospital but h. has done most of his work in the laboratory of the Charity hospital. of which institu- ton he Is the pathologist. The other set of investigators Is headed by pr. r. E. Archinard, who holds high rank as bacteriologist pr. Archinards work has been principally done at the Emergency bosnital where Drs. Rosenau and Gold berger have also been watching the ex- periments.
 pr. Pother Makes Report.
 pr Pothier in his report says a care a ful study of yellow fever blood has shown a regular occurrence of certain cells hitherto either unnoticed or not de- scribed which seem to be undergoing developmental changes, which can be demonstrated in the stomach of re- centlv infected stegomyia Tn thirty-hve separate cases these cells have only once been found after the third day. and then on the fourth. II Is admitted that the stegomyla only becomes infected IT ne bites the patient within the hrst three days of Illness. Dr Pothier makes no claim that his investigations have estab- } lished the germ. but he says that if this same cell s found in the body Of a mos quito during the twelve days of her in- lection and If it talies In every respect with the cell in the human blood, he Will he able to announce the discovery.
 pr. Archinard has written nothing for the medical Journals nor given anything to the public but Dr. Hamilton F. Jones' la charge of the emergency hospital, was understood to represent him when he made public announcement two wesks avo of the belief that the discoveries made at the hospital would lead to the identification of tho germ. Unofficially now It Is intimated that the Archinard investigations have developed much of value, though neither Dr. Archinard nor his representatives lay claim to the dis covery of the germ. They are said to have found the blood cells reported by pr. Pothier, which 1t is intimated are the germ of Sanarelli and similar to the cells reported by Dr. Joseph Jones, long dean of the profession here. in his memoirs Of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, but they have not 1t is believed, proceeded beyond that point. Dr. Archinard said today . to the Associated Press that he was un- able at this time to make any statement whatever of the results of his investiga- tions.
 Unmlstakable Signs of Improvement.
 Though the deaths were more numerous than since Saturday the fever situation tod was regarded as showing unmistak- able signs of improvement Cases were reported very infrequently during the day, and the total for the twenty-four hours was exceedingly favorable. The deaths were on or below Canal street, as, in deed were Q large majority of the cases reported, and every day shows better con ditions above the dividing line. In the - lower section of the city the physicians consider the disease to be well in hand, with the probability that October will see its entire removal
 Isolated instances are still appearing where people are not willing to call phy- sicians and risking the development of concealed cases of infection. Dr. White today had Surgeon Berry engaged in an investigation of two such cases. with the :. promise of afidavits against them. Dr. v White is disposed to overlook the trans