The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-03
CORDIAL GREETING AWAITS PRESIDENT New Orleans is Pleased with
 His Decision MONDAY WAS GOOD DAY The Fever Is Spreading Rapidly In Natchez-Georeia Quarantines
 Against Mississippi-Other
 News of the Situation.
OFFICIAL REPORT TO p. M.

t. Cases under treatment. ...... zo4 Cases discharged. ........<4+T
 New Orleans, October 2.-The announce ment through the Associated Press or
 President Roosevelts decision to visit New Orleans on his forthcoming trip to the south caused profound gratihcatoh today and it is regarded as certain to give fresh stimulus to the fight no" III progress to drive out the fever pe1ore the end of the present month.
 The Presidents refusal to be swayed by the fear of personal risk, which so many influences have pressed upon hiiii' has further commended him to the people of Louisiana and there Is on every sde a disposition to make his reception mark edly cordial in appreciation of the sym pathy he has shown for and active assist ance he has given to the city and state in the passing crisis.
 Pushed With Enthusiasm.
 Mayor Behrman said today that tne arrangements for the reception would DO pushed with enthusiasm and that he felt supreme confidence that the President would find himself as safe in New Or- leans on October 26, as if he were In ms own home. If he desires 10 do so during his brief stay, the President will be per- mitted to visit the emergency hospital, which pr. White and his associates or the marine hospital service regard as perhaps the place in the city most cer- tainly proof against the danger or in- lection. It is expected that when he comes the President will desire to visit pr. White and learn from him personally something about the struggle that has been so successfully carried on and pr. White will take that opportunity to ex- tend an invitation to him to visit the hospital.
 Since it's establishment not single case of fever has developed among any or those who have been connected with tne hospital. whether in it's old location or in its new. There have been on duty, among patients suffering from the worst phases of the disease from twenty-five to thirty nurses, male and female. nearly all or them non-immunes, and an equal number of doctors, many of whom also have never had the fever, yet not a single one or these has developed a case. Both doctors and nurses have participated In replt-
 ton of the experiments carried on by
 Major Reed near Havana, of non-im- munes sleeping in the soiled bedclothes and of otherwise subjeeting themselves to infection, but all have escaped and their experience has been to the medical
 men the strongest confirmation locally presented that alone through the agency
 of the stegomyia is the fever trans mitted.
 Eoan's Statement Dsproved.
 In connection with the visit of the Pres ident wide circulation has been given to a protest of Dr. J. A. Egan of the Ill.,
 inois board of health, to the American
 ,..otat tfr in, rvhi
 Ega1A states that "the history of yellow fever in the south clearly indicates that
 the number of cases in September is no
 index to the spread of the disease later
 in the season." in order to reassure the country it Is pointed out that the record
 that Dr. Egan is unfamiliar with the official statistics.
 With two exceptions in all the serious
 epidemics that have occurred September
 has been the worst month The excep- tions were 1858, when out Of the iS4S deaths, 5133 occurred in August, month earlier, and 1855, when 1886 deaths occur red in August against STA in September. In 1847 there were 1000 deaths in Septem- Der, 19S in October 1853, September 9S2, October 147; 1854 September 1234, October 49O: 1854 September STA, October 97: 1858, September 22O4, October 1137 1867. Septem- Der 167, October 1072; 1878. September Bo. October 165. In 1867 the deaths dropped to lU3 Tn NONemDer anu III 1910 lo i1's these occurring early in the month. It VIII thus be seen that there has always been a rapid decline in the fever after Sep tember. In the years mentioned the mos quito theory was unknown This year there has been a scientific fight on the basis of that theory and the result mas been that there were less than half the
 deaths in September than ther were in Au- | gust. with every promise that tle disease | will finally disappear during the current | month.
 Encouraging for Monday. Today's report was the most encourage | Ing in the matter of new cases for any | Monday since the fever started. For sev- | eral weeks the Monday reports have been | large due to the incompleteness of the | inspection on Sunday. Today's report | may therefore. be taken as indicating | the progress the federal authorities are ] making in narrowing the opportunities | for a spread of the disease. New Or | leans people have been flocking home for | two weeks past and some check In the work of driving out the fever was ap- | prehended from the fresh material afford | ed but the figures show weakening of | the plague all over the city. The death | list today was also encouraging. In- | cluded in 1t was the death of baby in l the charity hospital. It had been re- | moved from St. Bernard parish with it's
 
 The trip of Dr. White, which Is to a great extent In the interest fo relaxation | of Quarantines, carried him to Lake Charles today. From there he will go to Shreveport and thence return to New Orleans over the Texas and Pacific. When the tour is finished he will have passed through fifteen to twenty parishes. He has met with an excellent reception every where and there is promise that much good will result. It Is certain that what ever obstacles remained to the shipment of laborers into the sugar districts will have been removed The doctor will prob- ably be here on Thursday.
 No Cases Are Concealed. In view of intimations that there has been suppression of sickness in some of the asylums, Dr. c. J. Lopes today issued a statement that there has been abso- lutey no concealment of fever cases at Mount Carmel Convent, of which he is the attending physician and that there is only one sister who is sick there now. There has been no other case for four teen days. It is thought that by the end of the present week the convent will be entirely free from infection.
 With the exception of four all the public schools opened today with & large enrolment of pupils. Two of the schools not opened are in the originally infected district. The others were not ready for the opening.
 The third of the theatres to open, the Orpheum. had full house tonight. Man ager c. E. Bray came from Chicago to be present. MT. Bray said he found here none of the signs of the epidemic of which he had heard so much elsewhere.