The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-05
FIftv-AYt New Gases Pile Up
 in New, Orleans
DR BERGE PLACED IN JAIL
hopefuIness of Fever Situation Was Shown by the Great Number Witnessing the Labor
 Parade.
FEVER SITUATION AT 6 P. M.

 Total eases to date .. .......... .2ofs Fetal deaths to date ............ ZsS Cases under Treatment ......... SIS Discharged .... ............ i4os New Orleans, September 1.-The num- aer of new cases reported today Is such
 jump from the daily reports of the past week that it naturally causes some comment, but 1t is accounted for by the slct that several physicians whose names had no appeared on the list very frequent ly heretofore were all there today. The arrest and confinement of Dr. Berge on account of failing to report three cases is believed to have had its effect on others who were only reporting severe cases with the result that not only all cases of yellow fever were reported, but many cases which were distinctly not yellow fever were put on the suspicious list.
 Of the deaths only one was up town, and he was the only native on the list. Dr. White has signifed that 1t would be we'll to have all cases of malarial fever reported and treated with screening and 1umlSdLl1S dS ytilOW AcNSh ecoSS "A ANo'' treated, because of the similarity of the transmission of the diseases. The mat ter will be laid before the Orleans parish medical society, and then definite action will be taken,
 Outside Cases.
 Reports from the country showed that the physicians there were busy also. Dr. Brady, the medical inspector of the state board, reported that many country physicians were not reporting mild cases of yellow fever, and he urged the state board to take action by urging them to report all cases, and not wait for black yomit or marked jaundice to form diag- nosis.
 Following are the reports:
 Patterson-Nine cases; one death on Waveland plantation.
 Lake Providence-Three cases, one death.
 st. Bernard parish-one case near Slaughter house.
 Jefferson parish-Kenner three cases, two deaths; Hanson City, four cases McDonoghville-Three cases; Clark Cheniere, two deaths.
 Terre Bonne parish-Moise settlement five cases; Bell grove, four cases; Aer- doyne one case; Crescent farm, four cases; Bayou Terre Bonne, one case. St. Rose-Seven cases.
 Pecan Greve-Two cases.
 Prospect plantation-One case.
 La Place-St. John, seven cases last report.
 Amelia-Eight new cases; Boeuf, two new cases
 Gulfport, Miss.-Five new cases.
 Mississippi City-Two new cases.
 Vicksburg-Two new cases.
 Dr. Souchon received a report from Dr. Tabor of a suspicious case at Louis- vile, in the northern part of Caddo par ish and Dr. Schumpert, the health offi- Ger of Shreveport, is Investigating.
 New Causes Contribute.
 New causes contributed to an increase in the number of new cases today. One was the fact that there is never com plete cleanup of cases on Sunday, leav- ing some to find their way Into the Mon- day list and the other was the arrest and incarceration of Dr. Philip Berge, phy- sician of standing, on charge of hay ing failed to report two Chartres street cases.
 pr. Berge was taken from his house about midnight on Saturday. on his re- turn from his days work, and was not paroled until Saturday afternoon, spend- ing fourteen hours in a cell. Rather than undergo a similar experience physicians were particularly prompt today in report ing cases, seventeen of them appearing in person early In the day at Dr. Whites office Not all of the cases reported are likely to develop actually into yellow fe- yer but the doctors have evidently de- cided to err on the side of excessive cau- tion If they err at all. Dr. Berge. in the meantime insists that his failure to get his information to Dr. Whites office was unjntentional. He communicated 1t to the emergency hospital. When arraigned to- day the doctor was released on a nominal bond.
 Most Physicians Are Cooperating. The great majority of physicians have been zealously cooperating with Dr. White Here and there have been found physicians reluctant to report cases un- less they were absolutely certain of them. Hereafter. however. Dr. White expects to have absolutely no complaint to make of derelictions among the medical profess sion.
 Otherwise the situation is unchanged except, perhaps, for the better, which is evident from the relatively small number of deaths recorded, against seventy-two on the same day in 1878. The authorities still feel that the disease is under con- trol. that not even bad meteorological conditions this month can change present conditions and that practically all the sickness will be whipped out in the course of the month.
 Opposed to Moving Day.
 Dr. White and the advisory committee of the New Orleans Medical society. today sent letter to the mayor in connection with the near approach of moving day. October 1. The doctors say:
 Persons removing from infected local ities may later develop the fever in un- infected neighborhoods. thereby develop ing new foci. Others now residing in un- infected houses may contract the disease by moving into houses where mild cases of fever may have occurred and recovered without medical attention and conse- quently escaping Immigration. Non-im- munes coming into such houses will al- most inevitably contract yellow fever, thereby adding to our present troubles" The doctors urged that the mayor take
 
 fcontlnuod an Second Paoel