Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-29
Nineteen Of the Twenty New Cases
Among This Nationality,
STATE QUARANTINE AGAINST CITY
Action Taken to Prevent Blockade of
Entire Commonwealth.
GUARDS ARE ARMED WITH sA)TeUNs
Mississippi Taking Extreme Precau-
tiOns 20 shut out All Persons
Exposed to the
Disease.

NEW ORLEANS, La. July 2S-The fol-
lowing report as to the progress Of yellow
fever in New Orleans is up to 6 p. m today:
New cases ............................. Il
Total cases to date .........................22
Deaths today .........................,...,
Deaths to date ,........ az
ENtW loci
OF these deaths today one occurred at
the Emergency hospital and was one of the
! cases transferred there yesterday. The in
stitution now has nineteen cases under
| treatment and today discharged its first
patient as cured.
Although the unofficial reports made, pub
lie today showed a larger number Of deaths
than yesterday when there were only two,
and the appearance of number Of new
cases, the men of science who are warning
against the yellow fever ended the days
labors confident that the situation was
sttll well in hand and with no immediate
| prospect of becoming alarming. Today's
| official report Of yesterdays progress of
the disease shows that the entire section
above Canal street was free from a single
| new case. and that the fever was spreading
! only in the poorer habitations of the down
! town section. with new cases Isolated ex-
cept in the heart of the French market
| quarter. The health authorities continue
| to hold also that the plague remains an
| Italian infection, all except two of the
| twenty-one cases reported today being OF
! that nationality. Almost without exception
since the beginning of the fever those who
have fallen victims to the disease have
been Of the poorer classes OF the popula-
| tion, many of them not long residents of
the United States and therefore unaccli-
mated.
Deaths Among Italians.
Today's deaths have been principally Of
| TtaI In
gency hospital occurred today The hos
! pital was opened yesterday with thirteen
cases and an equal number was added to-
day. Into the hospital being sent the
worst cases of INDECENT Infortunates. 1t
is therefore expected that the mortaltes
in this direction will be unusually high.
In order to remove any impression that
all the cases OF yellow fever are not being
lreported, the city board made this an
nouncement today:
Up to now cases reported to the city
board as suspicious and occurring In the
infected locality have been reported as such
TO the state board, but have been treated
suspicious in other localities are investi-
In the future however all cases reported
as suspicious TO the city board will be In
vestigated before being reported to the
state board, irrespective of locality.
A number of cases reported today were
above Canal street. One under observation
is that of a nurse who had attended un-
fortunates in the heart of the infected
French market district She was bitten by
mosquitoes and apparently contracted the
disease. The other cases have also been
traced to the original infection and the au-
thorities today said they had not yet re-
ceived reports of any cases that were not
| thus traceable.
state Quarantines City.
The State Board OF Health met today and
finally ordered a quarantine of the state
against the city. That action became abso-
lutely necessary in order to protect all the
points in the state outside OF New Orleans
from being quarantined by Alabama, Texas
and Mississippi. Three parishes and one
town in another parish were granted COM
munication with New Orleans. They are
contiguous to the city. many OF their peo-
pie do business here and they would suffer
more harm by being cut on from the city
than having the three states put up the
bars against them.
instructions have been issued TO citizens
generally to report any cases OF Italians
who move into new neighborhoods, 80 that
) they may be returned to houses they have
, vacated or to isolated sections. In spite Of
+ all that is being done to reassure them.
2 many Of the Italians are stlll greatly
frightened and are desperately seeking to
get out of the plague Gordon.
S The Mississippi authorities, in justification
n OF the severe uuarantines which that state
s has established. say 1t became necessary
s because New Orleans people have been re-
y sorting TO all sorts of methods to get into
d that state An attempt to run the quaran-
d tine resulted disastrously today for p. C.
- Joullian, a prominent business man of
| Biloxi Miss. Mr.. Joullian was caught in
Y Louisiana when the quarantine was put on.
He thought he might reach his home by
D water route without encountering the Mis-
sissippi guards. When he landed on the
coast however, he was seized by order OF
General Fredge of the State National
Guard and sent 10 the quarantine station
X at Ship island, In the gulf for ten days.
+ When released Mr.. Joullian will be tried
y for violating the quarantine laws.
"a The Illinois Central railroad has offered
J. trains to the Mississippi of1cials to enable
J. them to enforce the quarantine regulations.
Advices received today are to the effect
y that Mississippi has no intention OF quaran-
Is timing freight from New Orleans.
Many Local Quarantines.
\ owing TO the increasing number OF local
2 auarantnes II Is practically impossible 20
go twenty miles through Mississippi without
a health certificate. Not only IN Missis-
sippi, but in Louisiana, the shotgun quaran-
tine is again in evidence. Meantime New
Orleans is sitting down with increasing
faith In the mosquito theory and except for
. the guarantees and news in the papers one
4, would have no evidence OF the prevalence
: Of any unusual illness here.
During the fever Of lSS7-9s, when the
y, mosquito theory was not attempted 20 be
= carried into effect. there was a widespread
impression that yellow fever germs would
be transmitted through the mails. and as a
consequence the Postofice department un-
, dertook the dlsinfection OF mail matter that
was sent away from New orleans. No steps
have been taken 10 resume that practice
m now and Il Is believed that the government
will proceed on the theory that the mos
quito only can carry the Infection.