Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-12
Nine Deaths and Sixty.One New
Gases Was the Record
for Yesterday.
SURGEON BERRY FALLS VICTIM
Has Done Valiant Service in Original
Point of lnfection-Expected to Re-
cover-peoplc Patiently Awaiting
Results of Federal campaian-Fu.
neral of Archbishop chappeIle.
(ny Associated press.)

Niy Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, LA, Aug. 11.-Of-
hcial report 10 u. m:
New cases. I'll.
Total cases to date, 500.
Deaths, 8
fetal deaths TO date, 1873
New sub foci. 70.
Total sub foci to date 1G3.
With Surgeon White, of the marine
hospital service, expressing no sur
prlsc at the increase in the number
OF new cases IF fever and expecting
that for some time to come there will
be large quota OF new cases brought
tn light daily, the people of New Or
leans have made up their minds to
await patiently the results OF the Fed
swing
An Assistant in Each Ward.
DR.. White today made his first pub
lie announcement of his detailed or
Sanaation. 1t took the shape or an
assignment of his assistants to each
oil the seventeen wards of New Or
leIansS lhe q 6. are, TWO. medical lnspec-.
tors. assigned to each Of tho larger
wards and one to each OF the smaller
wards. Headquarters arc situated In
the center of the ward and tho officers
in charge will personally employ, the
men whom they need to assist in the
campaign. Nearly all of DR.. Whites
stan has arrived. q
Surgeon r. Berry, of the marine hos.
pital service, has been stricken with
yellow fever. Surgeon Berry Is
Texan but recently has been stationed
In Now York
lie was put in charge of work in
the originally affected area, where
yellow fever has ragged most flercely.
DIR. Berry has been doing service III
disiniecting.
Expected to Recover.
lie was taken sick yesterday and
Today his case developed into one Ut
yellow fever. DR.. Berry today was re-
moved to the Touro inflrmary, where
special yellow fever wards have been
provided and where he is expected
speedily to recover.
On hundred men were engaged to-
day In disinfecting the lower part OF
the city. Every room I'm every house
thus far reported has been trenteI
to one course of dsinfcction and the
whole ground is to be covered again
and again until the mosquitoes dis
appear. Enormous quantities of sui
phur have already been burned in
this work.
There were So patients ut the Emer.
gcncy hospital today The death tate
in this hospital grows less daily aud
ran, patients have been DISCHARGED
as orlcd
Patterson Has Thirty Cases.
Patterson, La, has thirty cases OF
yellow fever and financial and other
assistance is said TO be needed. TO
day three yellow fever nurses were
sent to Patterson by the State board
Of health, The Southern Pacific rail-
road provided private car to carry
| them.
III the presence Of congregation
OF mourners that partly filed the ca
thedral and some priests participating
in the services, mass was said today
for Archbishop Chappellc. Burial in
the crypt of the cathedral followed.
Archbishop Chappellc was the second
head of the diocese to succumb to
the disease. bishop Ncckare, the
fourth bishop of the diocese, died of
yellow fever in 1893. II was said at
the marine hospital offices today that
the detention camps now open are
Filled and that there are long lists of
people who have filed applications 10
80 into camp.