The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-10
NuCHQUARANlINE BRUTALITY
.yUDGE GAUDEL ASSAULTED BY
LOCAL HEALTH OFFICERS.

w.oo IN Mama led Louisiana state Beard
Of Health Promises TO stop Outrsses
-yardaman Attacks Blanchard. but
says Mississippi Won't Retaliate.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. e.-The Louisiana
State Board Of Health announces It's inten-
ton TO break up what II styles the unbear-
able situation produced by the brutal and
senseless guarantees, and cites the case OF
Judge j. l.. Gaudel as an instance. Gaudel
IA Judge OF the district court which In
clldes the parishes Of Jefferson. st. Charles
and st. John the Baptist. He held court
in Jefferson, from which no returned to his
home, in St. John, provided with the necee-
gary certificate from the health officers
of Jefferson. He was Informed that st.
John no longer recognized those Jefferson
certificates and was brutally assaulted by
the health officers. OF these, he said,
many are grossly illiterate and unable to
read the certificates. The detention camp
IL without protection from the rain. and
in it he found his daughter-in-law, feeble
woman, and a child, manacled by the
health guards.
The yellow fever emergency hospital
established by the citizens committee and
operated by the city Board Of Health was
turned over to-day to the United States
Marine Hospital Service. It Is in the heart
OF the Italian quarter and has been Of great
benefit to the Italian sick. Five thousand
Italian immigrants were due to arrive
here from Palermo early next month.
The sailing Of the immigrants' vessel will be
delayed on account OF the fever, and they
NAV come by way OF New York.
The baseball trustees OF the Southern
League have been saved by transferring the
New Orleans team to Meridian. Miss, and
the Shreveport team to Chattanooga.
Many Of the games have been cancelled.
Two cases Of yellow fever are reported
from Tallulah, Madison parish. La, on the
vicksburg. Shreveport and Pacific Rail-
road, about twenty miles from vicksburg.
The Mississippi State Board Of Health re-
ports suspicious cases Of fever from Yazoo
City and Holly Springs. traceable in both
cases to New Orleans.
A case of yellow fever is reported from
St. Gabriel. Iberville parish. This is near
Bayou Goula. There have been three
cases in oil there. The disease Is being
held we'll in control there.
Algiers, the fifteenth ward Of New Or
leans, has been singularly fortunate. II Ia
on the other side Of the Mississippi. Two
cases of yellow fever broke out there
early in the epidemic, both fatal. BY the
inspection OF passengers on the ferry boats,
it has been possible to prevent any recur-
renee Of the disease.
While the Louisiana Legislature and the
New Orleans City Council have agreed to
give 500 600 and $50 600, respectively. to
the yellow fever fund, it is not probable
that all or any large portion of these ap-
preparations will be needed The offers
we're made in order to show the interest
Of the State and city in the New Orleans
situation and to guarantee the funds. 1t Is
thought the popular subscription will suf-
fee to cover all expenses. Most Of the
subscriptions are made with the promise
10 double them should it become necessary.
Rapides parish and most OF the Red River
section showed recovery to-day for the
first time in week. Nat chitoches has not
yet been 80 favored and reports great injury
to the cotton crop from the oaterpillars,
1t being impossible to get Paris green with
which to kill them. SUPPLIES got throug h
The town was nearly down to half rations.
Physicians and nurses have been sent to
Bon Ami in Calcasieu parish, where several
cases Of fever have been reported. The
quarantine having shut down the Southern
Pacific Railroad, it has been impossible
heretofore to send the relief asked for.
Gov. vardeman repudiate the suggestion
OF some Of the Mississippi press that he
should retsliate on Louisiana with g quaran-
tine embargo as a punishment for the act
Of Gov. Blanchard in Selling the Mississippi
quarantine ratrol beats.
Retaliation In such emergencies Is the
weapon Of the small minded, soul quenched
and cowardly man. says Gov. Varda man.
Regardless Of the bad faith which charac-
terizes the conduct Of the Louisiana health
officers. or however mendacious and sour
rilous any criticism Of me may have been
and it was infamous-or whatever may have
been the spirit which inspired or tho mo-
tive hehird the acts and utterances Of Louisi-
ana Governor, the Mississippi State Board
Of Health will not be guilty Of anything
even tainted with the spirit Of retaliation.
Such perfidious acts hurt only tho man or
men who commit them
The arrival OF fruit vessels at Mobile from
Eocas del Toro, Panama, with bananas
and yellow fever aboard. led to the deten-
ton of the vessel and the removal Of the
sick sailors to the quarantine station. In the
case Of the steamer Harold of the United
Fruit Company the entire cargo Of bananas
was dumped into the bay. Bocas del Toro
has claimed to be free from yellow fever.
This episode ia doubtless responsible for
the increased bitterness against the Central
American fruit.
Montgomery, Ala, has prohibited the
Importation OF bananas from anywhere,
following in this respect the embargoes
to Chattanooga, jackson and other places.
Mounds, III. near Cairo, has complained
OF the Illinois State Board Of Health gainst
the banana trains from Mobile, which arrive
there daily. The fact that these trains
are accompanied by Italian messengers
has increased the popular prejudice and
opposition.
DR.. White is endeavoring to persuade
the Mississippi authorities to adopt a uni
form system Of quarantine for the State.
accepting the health certificates Of the United
States Marine Hospital Service.
The new law requiring the screening Of
cisterns to prevent mosquitoes breeding
In than, md tho acroop{nu ~ thnoa oicE