The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-12
Federal Battle Against
Fever in Full Swing
NINE DEATHS FRIDAY
Expecting That for Some Time q
Large Number of New Cases Mill
Appear Daily, New Orleans
Grows Patient. Cases
Outside.
lBv the Associated Press.l

(By the Associated PreSS.)
New Orleans, August 1.-THE re-
port of the New Orleans Board of
Health shows the following conditions
up to six O'Clock this evening:
New cases, 81.
Total eases to- date, .OS.
Deaths, 9.
Total deaths to date, 1873.
New sub-foci, IL.
Total sIIb-foci to date, 163.
With Surgeon White, of the Marine
Hospital Service, expressing no sur
prise at the increase in the number
of new cases of fever and expecting
that for some time to come there Will
be a large quota of new cases brought
to light daily, the people of New Or
leans have made up their minds to
await in patience the results of the
Federal campaign which is now fairly
in swing.
The life of a stegoma mosquito has
not been definitely ascertained. yell
low fever has made so much headWay
when it was discovered and it has
prevailed so generally in the lower
quarters in New Orleans that doubt
less many mosquitoes escaped the dis
injecting crusade. These mosquitoes
may be expected to transmit the dis
ease for several days longer at least.
Failure to report cases has made 1T
difficult for the health authorities to
maintain a complete record of all the
cases in existence.
The campaign of education and per-
suasion, however, is beginning to tell,
and DR. White begins to see light
ahead from the apparent willingness
of physicians to cooperate with him
in making known any suspicious cases
that appears in private practice.
DR.. White today made his first pub
lie announcement of his detailed or
ganization. 1t took the shape of an
assignment of his assistants to each
of the seventeen wards of New Or
leans There are two medical inSpec-
tors assigned to eacn of the larger
wards and one to each of the smaller
wards Each headquarters is situated
in the center of the ward and the off1-
GERS in charge will personally employ
the men whom they need to assist in
the campaign. Nearly all of Dr..
Whites staff has arrived.
Surgeon Berry Stricken.
Surgeon T. Berry, of the Marine
Hospital Service, has been stricken
with yellow fever. Surgeon Berry Is
q Texan but recently has been station
ed in New York. Because he had been
yellow fever in Texas he was thought
10 be immune He was put in charge
Of work in the originally infected area,
where yellow fever has ragged most
nercely. Dr. Berry has been doing
yeoman service in disinfection
He was taken sick yesterday and to-
day his case developed into one of yell
low fever DR.. Berry today was re-
moved to the Touro Infirmary, where
special yellow fever wards have been
provided and where he is expected to
speedily recover.
one hundred men were engaged to-
day in disinfecting the lower part OF
the city Every room in every house
thus far reached has been treated to
one course of disinfection and the
whole ground is to be covered again
and again until the mosquitoes dis
appear. Enormous quantities OF. sui
phur have already been burned in this
work.
There were SO patients at the Emer-
gency Hospital today. The death rate
in this hospital grows less daily and
many patients have been discharged
as cured.
Thirty Cases ut Patterson.
Patterson. Louisiana, has thirty
cases of yellow fever and financial ana
other assistance is said to be needed.
Today three yellow fever nurses were
sent to Patterson by the State Board
of Health.
The Southern Pacific Railroad pro-
vided a private car to carry them.
Governor Blanchard today placed
$50 900 at the disposal of Chairman
Janvier, of the Citizens Committee,
Governor Blanchard, having made ar
rangements for a loan of 100000, will
turn the money over to the committee
in instalments as it is needed
nj the presence of congregation
of mourners that partly filled the ca
thedral, and with some priests partici-
pating in the services, mass was said
today for Archbishop Chapelle. Bur.
ial in the crypt of the cathedral fol
lowed Archbishop Chapelle was the
second head Of the diocese to succumb
to the disease. Bishop Neckare, the
fourth bishop of the diocese, died OF
yellow fever in 1888. 1t was said at
the Marine Hospital offices today that
the detention camps now open are fill
ed, and that there are long lists of
people who have filed application to
go into camp.