The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-26
New Orleans More Optim-
 iStic Than Ever.
WHITES ANNOUNCEMENT
Action Taken as to IndiS-
 criminate Travel.
Mortality Rate Continues Encouraging- Iy Low and the slight Increase in New Cases Causes
 No Worry.

New Orleans, Aug. 25.--Following is the official report up to ?. m. Friday:
 New cases. s5; total cases to date. l.- s65: deaths. 6; total deaths to date, SSls new foci, IS: total foci to date. S1S; cases under treatment, 2S0.
 The figures show a slight increase in the number of new cases over yes- terdays report and if there Is any par ticular cause to assign for 1t it has been the excessively warm weather the past few days, which has been most favorable for the development of the infection. The increase is so slight. however, that 1t does not in any way affect the hopeful feeling of those e1i- gagged in the campaign which is pro-
 gressing with every degree or har- mony and promise of success
 Professor Boyce. of the LverpcoA School of tropical medicine. who has come here to study conditions and ex- tend the benefit Of his advice. ex- pressed himself as surprised at the man. ner in which the citizens and the au- thorities. Federal, State and city. were CO., operating in the present emergency and he echoed the hopeful feelings of the others.
 New Orleans has received one case of fever which appears to have come from Memphis. The case was woman who came here Aug. 16 and was taken Ill on the 18th. Her case was reported as suspicious two days later and some time after this a diagnosis of yellow fever was made. She is Mrs. Grucio and is stopping with relatives far down
 town. It was manifestly not contract
 ed here. owing to the early develop ment of the disease after arrival. Deaths and New Feel. The list today shows seven new foci up town and three more in Algiers. Of the deaths one was sailor at the Marine Hospital. another very old man at the Emergency Hospital and one child in the Peters Avenue neigh
 horhood. The others were Italians. Following is summary of reports | from the country:
 No definite news came from Leeville. l Amelia or St. John; Patterson repcxkw nine new cases: Hanson City has i've | new eases; Morgan City reports ons case. traced to the Amelia nest of in- | lection; Lake Providence has two new cases and one death; Mississippi City reports one new case; Gulfport, Miss, three miles west of Mississippi City.
 and where Dr. Wasdin makes his head quarters in conducting the campaign , in Mississippi, reports three cases in the northeastern section of the city
 in a boarding house. The origin of
 the cases is unknown. but 1t is be- lieved they came from Mississippi City.
 President Souchon of the State Board,
 Surgeon voil Ezdorf. Surgeon Guiteras and Dr. c. L. Horton will go to Patter-
 son in the morning on special train Dr. Souchon intending to take sur
 vey of the situation to determine
 whether the State should take charge of the situation there entirely. That
 will very likely be the outcome of the
 visit. Surgeon Corput made another
 trip to St. Charles Parish to look into
 the situation and found things in good
 shape there.
 As to Travel
 Action was taken today at meeting of the State Board of Health to enable the Federal authorities to put stop to
 indiscrlminate travel between infected
 points and New Orleans. the idea be-
 ing. as already pointed out in these dis
 patches, to prevent Italians and others from returning to New Orleans from settlements where the fever now ex- ists and causing fresh infection here This action was desired by the Marine
 Hospital Service in the belief that they
 are now controlling the fever and that
 there Is a possibility of reducing 1t to
 insignifcanee. if not of eradicating it entirely. by the first of October. The resolution Is general in charac- ter and authorizes local health officers of infected localities to prohibit the introduction into their communities of persons acclimated, or said to be in-
 
 | troductlon would add to or increase the prevalence of the disease. Persons known to reside regularly in an infect ed locality in Louisiana are to be ad- mitted into their homes when they fur nish satisfactory proof of residence. It
 was expected that the resolution would interfere in no way with travel be- tween New Orleans and points In St.
 Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes, where the many families of New Or leans now find an asylum. No one will be prevented from coming from the Mis- | sissippi Gulf Coast provided they have not been in the infected zone in Mis-
 sissippi City. As result of this res olution the health officers will be en- abled, with the cooperation of the railroad companies, to prevent an in- gress of Italians and members of other nationalities, negroes, tramps. and oth- CT irresponsibles from all those points
 where nests of fever have been devel- | oped.
 Situation Unchanged. The yellow fever situation today was regarded as having undergone no change. Dr. Whites announcement that if the people will faithfully screen and. disinfect and obey the regulations which have been made and to report cases promptly it is possible that there l will be an entire cessation of the infec- ! ton within the next thirty days has spread a most hopeful feeling through l the community. There was some rise in the number of new cases today over yesterday. but the health authorities said no unfavorable conclusions were to be drawn from that fact and that there
 was likely to be variation of this char acter from day to day, The fact that the deaths per day do not exceed these in the comparatively slight visitation of the fever in 1897, and are insignificant in number in comparison with those or | 1878. is still the principal basis for
 widespread optimism that prevails. A visit to the Emergency Hospital today also confirmed what has heretofore been said, that certain proportion of the eases there as elsewhere in the city de- Velop Into malaria or dengue in tho course of treatment.
 If was announced today by Dr. White that when the new emergency hoe~ nital to be located in McD0nough school No. IS. is in full running or l der the present hospital In Dumaine