The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
FREIGHT IMMUNE.
1t Cannot Garry Fever Infection
1t Is Asserted.
Circulars to That Effect Sent
Out From New Orleans.
OLD NOTION EXPLODED
Negroes Victims of Yellow Jack
Same as Other People.
Story of Shooting at Lumberton
Is Denied.
OLD NOTION EXPLODED

New Orleans, Aug 1.-ThOuSandS
of circulars are to be sem through the
south by the business MN of this city
containing an emphatic declaration by
D. S. White, of the U. S. marine hos
pital service, that freight cannot carry
yellow fever infection
A number of tenders of assistance
from nurses and doctors in other
parts of the country have been re-
ceived and declined. The italians who
formed an organization have opened
headquarters in the heart of the orig
inally infected district and are filling
requests for relief. Immunes have
been appointed to visit the stricken
district and report the number of sick
and the number in distress.
The colored organizations are doing
good work in cooperation with the
health auth orities.s There has been an
to yellow fever. That, however, is not
a fact, though DR.. Walter L. Cohen,
who has investigated the records of
other epidemics,7 declares that the
black members of the race are less
susceptible thanare the mulattoes.
Governor Blanchard has arranged with
the authorities here for the fumigatiop
of passenger coaches that run between
points in Louisiana. Many medical
men in the interior think the stegoy-
mia can be carried by cars and that
there is danger of transmission of
fever unless .disfnfection of the
coaches is resorted to, Lafayette has
decided to take no freight from New
Orleans unless the cars are diSinfected.
At Alexander notice has been given
that no boats from New Orleans will
be permitted to land. Port Gibson,
Miss, has appointed vigilance COM
mittee to guard against the entry of
strangers. Pass Christian has shut
herself up completely. Utica, Miss,
has sent word that She wants no mail
that is not f6migated.
The canning industry on the gulf
coast has suffered severely by reason of
drastic quarantines, The oyster can
ming season is closed but the season
for fruit and shrimp canning is on. Can
ners have found it difficult to get the
raw product but arrangements are being
perfected whereby the craft engaged in
the industry Will be registered and in
spected and their officers and crews
given eertifica tes so that they may COM
municate with the Gamers without
trouble, providing they do not touch at
an infected point. DR.. LIE Baron, in
charge of the detention camp at Lum-
berton has wired here that the report
that five italians were shot or killed by
guards there was false and that not a
shot was fired either by guards or Ital-
ians.
Little change characterized the yell
low fever situation today. OF the five
new foci mentioned in the official re-
port of the board of health, in the pre-
ceding "a hours only three are above
Canal street in widely separated dis
tricts and traceable to the original zone
of infection. Today's reports of con-
valescents is especially encouraging
and it is becoming evident that with
careful treatment the present vista
ton of the fever will be shorn of many
of its terrors. Reports from the bed
sides of those other than Italians was
to the effect that the disease was
steadily yielding to treatment.
All Suspicion Removed.
New York, Aug. Practically all
suspicion that yellow fever exists
among persons under detention who
have been taken off steamers from
southern ports in the past few days
was removed today.
| Seven first cabin passengers taken
from the Proteus from New Orleans
yesterday were released today. The
| health officer announced also that five
men taken from the freight steamer
Ell Sud and seven members of the
| Seguranca crew, who were taken to
the detention hospital i'll last Satur-
day, will be freed today.
Sent to the Hospital.
| Havana, Aug. 1.-The majority of
the 81 passengers arriving here today
on a vessel from Tampa, Fla, are
Cubans. Twenty-seven of them were
sent to the detention hospital. The
| others are immuneS.