The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-08
Fight Against Fever Un-
der Federal Control
FUNDS ARE ABUNDANT
There Were Thirty-Two New Cases
Yesterday and Eight Deaths and
Four New Sub-FOci Were Dis
covered. Panic in
ParisheF.
(By the Associated Press

New orleans, Id, Aug. 81 lie olll-
cial report. giving a summary of the
fever conditions at New Orleans up to
O'Clock this evening. is as follows:
Ne" cases D.
Total to date 800
Deaths today
Total deaths to date :. :. :. -. 1i5
New sub feel :.
Total sub foci 10 date =. 81
With the Marine Hospital Service
and the authority of President Roose-
welt placed in complete control ut
noon of the scientific fight to eradicate
yellow fever from New Orleans before
frost, the campaign against the scour-
age today took fresh life. With ample
funds. the best available medical tall
ent and an army OF willing workers
at his back, DIR. j. II. White, surgeon
in charge, hopes for SUCCESSFUL ter
mination of the struggle.
During the day DR.. White received
formal orders from Surgeon General
Wyman, informing HIM that the Fed
eral government had decided TO as
sumo the task prepared for it. DR..
White then visited the State and the
City Boards of Health, where he COM
muniCated the news To Presidents
Souchon ana Kohnke, and arranged
for the transfer of control of the work.
me cit yand the State boards pledge
II the assistance possible to Or.
White. DR.. White said the transfer
Of details would be gradual SO that
here might be no interruption of the
york now in progress.
1t was announced that the Marine
hospital Service would soon take up
ne receiving and compiling OF daily
rports. A false impression has pre-
,ailed in some quarters that all the
not made public,
a3d i'm order that there may be perfect
hndenee throughout the country DR..
tlite desires that hereafter statlst-
I'll announcements of the situation
thalI be made under Fedral super
{ision.
The " +. Figures Correct.
Dr. White says that the figures on
me yellow fever situation carried daily
h the Associated Press have been cor
rect.
There was prompt response today
to the appeal of Chairman Janvier of
tbe Citizens Committee, for additional
subscriptions to the citizens fund to
Tho end of raising the $250,00O desired
nv the government. In addition Mr.
Janyier today telegraphed to Governor
C;Ianchard, asking the States assist
ance in securing the money desired to
fight the fever. Unsolicited checks
have teen sent from other parts of
tho couatrV and III whole fund VIII De
fully subscribed, it rs believed, before
il is wanted.
An evidence of the panickly feeling
i, the courtry parishes is shown in the
exneriepce of the Cumberland Tele
nhonn ConDany. At Arcadia. La, the
man in charge of the telephone Office
He'd when the fever began 10 spread.
The telephone company tried to MI
the nosition. put Arcadia refused to
IN, work and the
service has been suspended. similar
situation paryaiis at Baton Rogue
The Baton Roge telephone exchange
serves much of the surrounding coun-
fry and ali that region is without tele-
phonic communication.
Five eDatns There.
The death reported on the Bell plan
tation in jefferson parish, across the
Mississippi River froIp New orleans
is the fifth that has occurred mere
showing the heavy mortality from the
fever. wheer ADEQUATE attention is not
given Five Italians fed from New
orleans to the Bell plantation and an
have died of yellow fever. ne Vlclll
ity has been thoroughly isolated ana
disinfected.
one incident out of the ordinary is
the death of Emile NJ. Lopez's. a poA'
After his death had been reporte'u lhe
Board of Health gave permiss ION TO
hold the body twenty-four hours be
fore burial. While the boy lay IN a
coffin the neither embraced her dead
son and thought she detected signs OF
life. Physicians disproved her susplc~
ions.
1t will probably never be possible to
estimate the losses which New Or
leans has suffered financially, through
the diversion Of business, Suf the
heavy tax. on the people by the pres
ent situation is shown by the fact tina i
besides tho money already spent by the |
Boards of Health and the $250.000 to |
be raised Tor the government thous- |
ands of dollars have been subscribed
and extended in ward sanitation.
Some docking houses report that a
number of towns have quarantiped
against drugs. In 1897 the quaran
tine was ec<a.ral over the South
against every character of freight, in
Guiding medicines. bEt this year many
towns have excepted certain classes of
freight, and most of them are glad 70
get medical supplies.
DR.. Guiteras, of tie Marin@ Hospita
Service. spent the day III southwest
Louisiana. investigating reports OF
suspicious cases. one of them in ST.
Mary rkrish.
Mr. Eugene Crews Dead.