The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-08-15

cn i'm the situatioa-Au susn,-
~ cs are Reported In lie
List-Preachers q,
INC churches Toua~ Will .s,,, An.
peal for Assistance I'M
the sn'cction-Ncws From >..,.,.,.
the City Contains Nothing StartIlns.
New Orleans, August I2.-Followiny
Is the official report up to G D. m.
New cases, los.
Total cases TO date, 913.
Deaths, 8.
Iotal deaths 70 date, 142
New sub foci, 25
Total sub foci. lSs.
cases under treatment, 34s
Ihe figures today speak for them
selves 1t was record day all around.
The only feature of the report that
can be taken as encouraging is ;ha.
very few of the cases are above Cana.
street. DR.. Perkins, chief of the corps
or medical inspectors, reported forty
three of the new cases. Thsse
cases are among large batcr
which had been reported as sIs-
piclous and whicn he investigated to-
day. Only nine of the new foci are
above Canal street - ~ae
Assistant Surgeon Berry who was
stricken with the fever night before
last is reported rs dong well.
News from outside of the city con-
tanned nothing startling. There was a
secondary development on Ardoyue
plantation in Terrebonne parish. he
son OF the overseer being stricken TO-
day. An emergency hospital has peen
provided and the case is isolated.
= suspicious case was reported from
Lafourche crossing, in LaFourche par
Ism and Surgeon E. Guiteras has been
asked TO go there from Patterson to in
vestigate. This case is one of an Ital
ian who harbored a refugee three
weeks ago. The refugee was sick but
recovered and the Samaritan is now
stricken twenty days after.
DR.. Tichinor, wno is at Bon Ami in
Calcasieux parish reports that the sus
picious case reported yesterday in the
detention camp is positive and has
been isolated. The situation at Pat
terson is unchanged. There have been
two new cases and no deaths today.
Record breaking numbers of new yel-
low fever cases, los. and of new fever
centers, "a, were reported today
through the exertions Of marine hospit-
al inspectors. Today's death list Of
nine yellow fever victims equals yes
terday's record, which surpassed pre-
vious records of the present visitation.
The public, however, having recoa-
ciled itself to expect a heavy list for
several days to come was undismaysd
by the report, and the health oficers
saw no occasion ID concede a retrogres-
sion In the situation.
1t Is submitted that ali the cases cm-
braced in the daily official totals az
not actually yellow fever, Even at the
emergency hospital, to which the
worst cases go, numbers Of cases have
been finally diagnosed as malaria, or
typhoid fever. But all suspicious cas- =
are turned in by inspectors and doc
tors and go a. once into the yellow
fever list. There Is no correction Of
the total IL careful diagnosis shows The
suspicious cases to be not yellow fever.
DR.. Whites appeal 10 physicians to
report suspicious cases today had
marked effect The number of doctors
who visited the marine hospital ofices
to report cases was larger than at any
time since the fever appeared The
marine hospital service has made go
good an impression that confidence Is
inspired among uneducated classes
and there is more willingness TO report
cases TO the health officers
An unscreened cistern is now an ex-
ception among small property holders.
but is not novelty In some of the
more fashionable quarters. Today an
davits were made against q number Of
men of high standing for failure TO
screen cisterns.
One OF those who died today OF yei-
low fever was Carl A Schaai, news
paper reporter. Schahi covered asst z:i-
ments In the infected quarter and Iiyad
nearby. His wife was stricken with
yellow fever some time ago and hS
assisted in nursing her back TO heal:n
before he was stricken. He came from
Fort Wayne. Indiana, several years
ago and was thirty years old.
Preachers Of various churches tomor-
row will renew appeals for assistance