The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-05
Flags Lowered and Crews and Of.
ficers Taken Prisoners-Pr Presi-5
dent Directs Surgeon General
Wyman to Act Promptly .s
On Appeal From New
Orleans. i.5
New Orleans Record.
(By Associated Press.)i

10Y <ASSOClaCGQ# E>reSS.
NEW ORLEANS LA, August with
no Intention OF. admitting the fever sit-S
Suation to be beyond control, but In the
hope OF reviving confidence here and I
elsewhere In the South. official and busi- 4
ness in terests to-day decided to send q
request to President Roosevelt to have
the United States government assume
full charge OF the struggle now In prog
rcss to wipe out yellow fever from New
Orleans and louisiana The publ 6 ap- /
proves the action taken, Expectation ISL
that within tho next two days Surgeon
General Wyman, with all the resources
Of the government, will be enlisted ac-5
lively in the campa lgn.3 S5s8 5ss
The decision to ask the Federal gov.
ternmsnt ITO take control was. 4 reached 1
at meeting of the city officials and
Others held late to-day at the Cotton
Exchange. It was the. concensus off the !!
meeting that government control would
restore II confidence throughout tho otherg
States In the South & and the belief was
expressed that Surg on-Generalss;NVy IA Vynla u,
would be able to send q force iFoE s:physi -
clans 10 New Orleans 5thoroughlyBe eqI 'pped
for the handling OF the yellow fever IT
utltlOt', because OF their S3eHpeFlelct 61Hu6
unquestonuble facilities to &# enforce az
scientific campaign against the fever
rs When local health officers first took u
charge OF the situation 1t was hoped 4
that the fever could be stamped outSS
within u reasonable time, butss3 thc94 ln-S
lection has spread and SO heightened x
have the people become in the South
over the Increase In the number Of ca ses 4
that New Orleans Is threatened y$th "a
10 ofsE a Of 2
radical quarantines. sf s{ {ljs N 3s;3 5 MI
a telegram signed by the Mayor and
others present, was addressed 81 to GoV-tE
ernor Blanchard, telling him Of the ao-s5
ton taken. e, fs5 # s3l,5s .3 @ 7,
At conference at the City Hall i \
was decided that Mayor Behrmtln should
Issue a proclamation requlrlng every
business house IN the city lNE! to 4 close on
Wednesday so that employees might take I
hand In tho general cleaning moye- i
me,,t. Merchants are to be 4 q sked to
furnish carts to carry away refuse,
thousand carts will ba required IN the
work. A special appeal also is to abe i
addressed to househouders. asking them "
to CO. operate In tho sanitary campaign 4
by thoroughly cleaning back yards. 4
Progress Of Fever Yesterday.
5$ To-day the Board OF Health instituted
a new rule requiring its inspectors to
make prompt report OF cases, ~ g M tnttt <
order was due the fact that twenty new
cases for to-day were announced carly
in tho afternoon. Yesterday the oclocR
lrerort showed seven new Gases ard two I,
deaths, while at G o'clock there wera re-
3pcrtcd "a cases and five deaths. III
TIE Inspectors had turned their cases
III. n punches late In the evening and
t.c evening report had disauieting ef-
foe. Oh the public which had been leo ~
the afternoon report to believe that the
situation was Improving. t5
a The report for to-day up to 9 T. NJ. was
as follows: Newacascs ,43; Total cases to
date. ATS; deals tt-day. s; total deaths
to date, So new sub-focl, 10; total SUP llf,' l
foci. 10. y
Hundreds OF persons are temporarily
moving from New Orleans to st. M
many Parish the only near haven TO Y
which they can go. Yellow fever has
never developed In St. Tammany& q
Parish during the most serious epidemics,
A thorough Inspection of the red light
quarter to-day disclosed not suspicious
case OF fever. /, L h VI
Business houses nre foellng tho effects
of tho quarantine, There has been a re.
duction In business and trade Is quiet,