Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-08-02
MANY NEW CASES DEVELOP DAILY
.Twenty-six New Cases Are Reported
and Number Of Deaths Grows, but
the Men OF Science Still Think the
Situation Not Beyond control-All
5 But Two of New Cases Italians.

New Orleans, Especially New cases
reported up to s p. m. Sunday, 27.
Total cases to date, 2S3.
Death to-day, 3.
Deaths to- date, 81.
New foci, 4. 8
Total foci, Al. .
Of the deaths, one occurred at the
Emergency Hospital and was one of
the cases transferred there. That instl-
tuition now has 19 cases under treat
ment and discharged its first patient
as cured.
The State board of health divided
the S7ate into districts, comprising
half dozen parishes each, with a
medical inspector in charge of each,
and will Immediately investigate all
rumors Of yellow fever cases which
come to light outside of New Orleans
and that part Of the State which is
now included in the city for quarantine
purposes.
There is no foundation for the re-
port Of the case near Borgan City aud
that the body and house had been
burned. 1t has been thoroughly investi-
gated.
Although the unofficial reports
made public showed larger number
of yellow fever deaths than Friday,
when there were only two, and the
appearance of a number of new cases,
the men Of science wbn are warning
against the yellow fever plague ended
last weeks labors confident that the
situation was still well in hand, and
with no immediate prospects Of becom-
Ing alarming. Saturdays official report
OF Fridays progress of the disease
shows that the entire quarter above
Canal street was free from single
new case, and that the fever was only
spreading in the poorer habitations OF
5 the down town quarter, with new cases
isolated except in the heart of the
French Market quarter.
ss VII lCTINdS MOSTLY ITALIANS
~ The health authorities continue to
hold also that the plague remains an
Italian infection. all but two of the 26
cases reported being of that national
ity. Almost without exception since the
beginning Of the fever, those who have
fallen victims to the disease have been
of the poorer classes of the population,
many Of them not long residents OF
{ the United States, and, therefore, un-
acclimated.
For several years the planters of
Louisiana have been re- facing the ne
groes with italian labor, and there has
been a steady flow of immigration
from Sicily and other parts Of Italy to
Louisiana Many Of the immigrants
have remained in New Orleans, find
ing employment in the peddling Of
fruit or in the work of unloading YES
sells at the fruit wharves. It was among
: these that the fever first appeared, and
to their lack of acclimation and the
inadequacy of their treatment has
been largely due the heavy mortality
that has characterized the present WIS.,
itation Of the scourge. Fridays deaths
have been principally of Italians. In
two or more cases in the last two
days deaths have been reported Of
persons who were only reported the
day previously as having taken the
fever. There have been concealed
cases, which the emergency officers,
with the assistance OF surgeons, have
disclosed.
The first in the Emergency
Hospital occurred. The hospital was
opened Friday with 13 cases, and an
equal number was added Friday. Into
the hospital are sent the worst cases
OF unfortunates found without COM
forts or medicinal attendance in their
homes.