The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
New FocI Above Canal Street.


 New Orleans. August 1s.-The figures for the day show nothing of special in- terest. Eleven of the sixteen foci are above Canal street. Two more cases have appeared in the French asylum on St. Ann and Derigbny streets, making five in all That Is the only asylum in- fected up to date. Of the deaths two were in the charity hospital and two in the emergency hospital. One occurred in Algiers.
 News from outside the city continues unfavorable. Dr. Brady, the medical in- spector of the state board, who is also health officer of Jefferson parish spent most of the day in his own parish on a still hunt and found several cases He found one case in Hanson City. just above Kenner, two cases in Shrewsbury. which is five miles from New Orleans. and one case in McDonoghville, across the river from New Orleans.
 Dr. Brady also visited Pecan Grove plantation in St. Charles parish and found five cases in two houses.
 Erecting Emergency Hospital
 Past Assistant Surgeon Corput went to Terre Haute plantation in St Charles parish and supervised the work of erect ing an emergency hospital there. It will be ready for occupancy in a day or two.
 Patterson reports six new cases and no deaths.
 Alexandria's one patient, G. J. Haydel, died today pr. Goldberger of the marine hospital service has been assigned to take charge of the work in Alexandria.
 rf,t.. this morning to visit the nest of infee- tion at the mouth of Bayou La Fourche. It will be impossible to hear from him for at least three days
 There were no new cases at Mississippi City.
 Regarded as Very Bright.
 Though the number of deaths today from yellow fever exceeded those of the past two days, the total was so small in comparison with years when real epidemics prevailed that the situation continues to be regarded as infinitely more bright and hopeful than month ago when 1t first became known that vel low fever had takeen a firm grip in one of the most thickly populated sections of the city.
 At that time, notwithstanding repeated warnings, no steps had been taken to profit by the example set by Havana and long before, and in spite of the appeal Of the New Orleans Medical society, the city council had refused to pass Dr. Kohnke's mosquito ordinance to have landlords screen their cisterns and thus largely restrict the breeding grounds of the stegomyia.
 At that time also New Orleans was in a distressingy insanitary condition and all the conditions seemed favorable for an exceptionally high death rate in Au- gust, which always heretofore has been one of the most fatal months of the ep- demic season. The fact that under all the adverse conditions the fever has been prevented from attaining the proportions of seriously fatal epidemic is consid- cred little less than remarkable. Nothing at present indicates any change from the present mild form of the disease and the health authorities are inclined to believe that so thorough are the preparations al- ready made for the future that, barring entirely unexpected conditions, there Is no further occasion for alarm. Steady Improvement in Conditions. |. pr. White went over some portions Of the infected districts today. He saw few features of the work that have not al- ready been described. Reports to his head quarters from the emergency hospital in- dcate steady improvement there in con- ditions due to the fact that the work is so perfectly organized now that with many of the patients who are brought In there is chance to save their lives At the beginning a considerable proportion of those taken to the hospital arrived there in a moribund condition.
 Among the new squares that have been infected is that in which the supreme and civil district courts and the St. Louis cathedral are located. Heretofore the fever has fringed 1t without invading 1t. but a number of Italians are now dcwn with the fever in a row of ancient houses standing next to the civil district court building. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to prevent any further in lection of the square. Many lawyers daily visit it as do a large number of Catho- lies attending services at the cathedral RsiIroad Men Wrought Up. Considerable feeling has been aroused over the circulation of reports attributed to representatives of railroad lines which do not operate into New Orleans, to the effect that the quarantines against the city have affected the handling of freight passing from the interior of the United States through this port. Letters on the subject which are to be widely distributed have been prepared by freight agents Of the Northeastern, Mobile and Ohio, Illf-