The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-27
More Talk of Germ Than
 of Disease.
YELLOW FEVER SITUATION
For Three Days Lists Have
 Been Small.
Optimistic Feeling among Authoritie, at Crescent City Continues to Grow as the Pest is Slowly
 Conquered.

New Orleans, Sept. 2S,-omcial re- cord to p. m. Tuesday:
 New cases, 31; total to date, 2,Ss9; deaths, 5; total deaths to date, 375; new foci. !; cases under treatment, 2S6; cases discharged. 2,23S.
 With three successive small lists of new cases, 1t begins again to look as though the situation was improving. For the past three days the suspicious list has been unusually small but Tues days suspicious list is large enough 10 warrant the belief that Wednesdays re- port will be larger than for the two preceding days. A group of four cases among nuns in the convent of Perpetual Alteration on Marais Street was re- ported by the attending physician. The infection there was discovered three weeks ago through the death of sis ter and a few days ago two more cases developed there. Now four more are reported. The living rooms had been fumigated, but the chapel, which, it has since been discovered, Is infected. had not It will be fumigated early wed nesday morning. case was taken to the Emergency Hospital from the par fish prison, the patient being woman prisoner. Besides the parish prison case, there are only three cases above Canal Street. One case was brought in from Barrataria and taken to the hospital Of the deaths two occurred in the hospital and the others were down town.
 The country news was mesgre and indicated no new points of infection. The reports were: Kenner. new cases, 1 death; Patterson, new cases: Bunkie, death; Lutcher, 1 new case; Grand Isle, 3 new cases; Tallulah, new cases.
 The Fever Germ.
 Mere interest centers here now in the question whether or not the yellow fever germ is to be discovered as the result of the investigations that are In progress than fin the fever itself, but the public Is left in much uncertainty by the vagueness of the disciosures that have thus far been made to tbe public ana inc fact that apparently two sets OF more of bacterloIogists and physi- clans are engaged in the hunt for the microbe. It is apparent that they have not been working together and there was evidently considerable surprise among many of the medical fraternity when preliminary results of the inves- tigation were made public by one set of investigators through the pages of the American Medical Journal.
 pr. Pothier has headed one set Of in vestigators. He has had access to the emergency hospital, but has done most of his work in the laboratory of the ehSPity hospital of which institution
  of investigators Is headed by Dr. P. E. Archinard, who holds high rank as bacteriologist. pr. Archinard's work has been principally done at the emer- kepcy hospital where Drs Rosenau and Goldberger have also been watching the experiments. .. .s. ......
 pr. Pothier in his report says a care ful study of yellow fever blood has shown a regular occurrence of certain cells hitherto either unnoticed, which seem to be undergoing developmental changes and which can be demon- strated in the stomach of recently infected stegomyia. In thirty-hve separate cases these cells have only once been found after the third day, and then on the fourth. It is admitted that the stegomyia only becomes in- fected If he bites the patient within the first three days of Illness. pr. Pothier makes no claim that his in vestigations have established the germ. hut he says that if this same cell is found in the body of the mosquito dur ing the twelve days of her infection and if it tallies in every respect with the cell fin the human blood he will be able to announce the discovery.
 pr. JOnes's Announcement.
 Dr. Archinard has written nothing for the medical journals nor given any thing to the public, but Dr. Hamilton P Jones, in charge of the emergency hospital, was understood to represent him when he made public announce ment two weeks ago of belief that dis cnveries made at the hospital would lead to the Identification of the germ. Financially. now, 1t is intimated that inc Archinard investigations have de- yeloned much of value, though neither Dr Archinard nor his representatives Iay claim to the discoverey of the germ. They are said to have found the blood cells reported by Dr. Pothier, which it is inttmated are the germ of Sanarelli and similar to the cells reported by pr. Joseph Jones, long the dean of the profession here, in his memoirs of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. but they have not, 1t Is believed. advanced to that point where the problem may be considered to have been solved. Dr. Archinard said today to the Associated Press that he was unable at this time 10 make any statement whatever Of the results of his investigations.
 Though the deaths were more numer- oua than since Saturday the fever situa- ton today was regarded as showing unmistakable signs of improvement Cases were reported very infreauently during the day and the total for the twenty-four hours was exceedingly favorable The deaths were on or balow Canal Street, as indeed were A large majority of the cases reported, and every day shows better conditions above that dividing line In the lower section of the olty the physicians con sider the disease to be we'll in hand. with the probability that October will see it's entire removal.
 Isolated cases are still appearing where people are neglecting to call physicians and risking the development of concealed centers of infection. Dr. White today had Surgeon Berry en- EaRed in an investigation Of two such eases with the promise of ahidavIts against them. Dr. White is disposed to overlook the transgressions Nof the poorer classes, but he is determined that no one who is able to have a doc tor shall fail to make report of cases
 Mrs. CaEeux's Case.
 In the instance Of Mrs Cazeux whose husband died in the emergency hospital after he was taken by force, the Federal authorities are willing that there shall be only a nominal fine in view of her willingness to plead her resistance of the ofheers.