The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-01
NOTHING ALARMING IS SHOWN
 IN YELLOW FEVER SITUATION

Railroad and tho effect of the announce ment of the Case there will doubtlef be followed by the bottling up of t E town. Meantime every precaution the infection. Tho State Board s Heal fs now in communication S l every health board in the State q q has directed immediate telegraph , a- formation of the discovery of eve : ls- picious cases. No other case 1T Ie ou- l is;ana has been rspsrtcd in the lSS two or. three days. s Hs ,, 7 s.f It is generally believed hero, that. when the present sickness passes, New Orleans will not seek to res sain the fruit trade which has now been diverted | to Mobile unless the fruit companies are willing to submit to reg gulaticns which will make impossible the tn- troduction of fever. It Is almost
 universally the opinion that, important
 as this trade has developed to be. it is not sufficiently profitable for the city to run again the risk of a recurrence of the present experience, which. viewed from the most optimistic side. will ultimately cost many times the value | of one seasons fruit business.
 May Have to submit.
 It is also considered probable that public sentiment in Alabama and Mis- l sissippi will require Mobile to take | suCn pfecauLl0HS LHG UfdIlcE Ol uC- tention that the fruit companies will eventually find themselves forced to submit to the same regulation in all Southern ports. The fact that the regulations have not been sufficient 1 ly severe is shown by the fact that among the cases now under treatment | is that of the engineer of the steamer Origen, who was i'll with the fever | when his ship landed last week. He ,f aA in Central America but it did not become fully developed case of yellow fever until after he had been removed to his resi- dence. 4
 The appearance of the present sick ness is expected to retard the elaborate plans in process of formulation by the Crescent City Jockey Club for the re- construction of its track. The plans contemplated a thoroughly modern grand stand and all the other accesso- ries of a perfect plant. but architects and engineers who were due here 10 take up the work are reluctant to come at this time. It is not anticipated that the fever will cause any post ponement of the opening of the regular winter racing season.
 The health authorities here. In lieu of using flags, have decided to post small cards on houses where fever exists The cards bear the informa- ton 'Thts house has yellow fever. The authorities. while giving daily the number of cases and deaths, and Keep ing a record of names and locations ac-
 cessible to the. public. have not. de- sN~ed to publish these reports. How ever, there has been some public de- mand for a designation of each focus, so that people generally might be warned and take the usual precautions against exposing themselves unneces- sarliy. to the infection. ss s.- New orleans Freight Excluded. That sanity in the country districts with respect to quarantines Is not tn- creasing, Is evidenced today by dis- patch from Port Gibson. Miss, on the Mississippi Valley road, which an- nounces that the town council there
 today met in special session and passed
 a resolution excluding all freight from New Orleans. Other towns have taken similar action and business men here are apprehensive that the quarantine
 infection will spread and that there
 will be continued contraction of the
 districts into which New Orleans may
 sell its goods. Meanwhile the decla-
 ration of quarantine by the State of
 Louisiana against the city of New Or
 leans has opened practically the whole
 of the State to the commercial enter
 prise of Texas and other States. which
 are expected to invade territories here
 tofore exclusively controlled by New
 Orleans merchants.
 The marine hospital authorities have
 not yet been able to arrange for a de-
 tention camp on the Louisville and
 Nashville at the Mississippi State line. Since they were driven away from
 Waveland, the Federal surgeons have
 been trying to locate a camp at Dun
 bar Station. but efforts in that direc- ( hat nnf onoraGQfrI1 In
 meantime, it is not at all certain that
 Louisianans caught by the quarantine
 and who went into the detention camps
 in order to get to their homes in the
 country will be out of trouble when
 their period of detention is up. Some
 of the parishes are reluctant to receive
 people from Neys Orleans, even after
 they have undergone five days medical scrutiny in a non-infected camp. The
 State Health Board has had its atten-
 tion directed to this matter and will
 seek to overcome the difficulty.
 The Era Club composed of represen-
 tative women. held meeting today and
 rendered the services of its members to
 the health boards. city authorities and captains of the various ward organiza- tions Though generally people are willing to submit to the regulations of the health authorities. there are some who refuse to believe in the mosquito
 theory and who oppose the oiling of their cisterns and the cleansing of their
 premises. The Era Club members have volunteered to proselyte among this
 class of the community.
 The Mosquito Ordinance.
 The mosquito ordinance will be pass
 ed at the meeting of the Council to- morrow It will require landlords to
 screen cisterns. Fine or Imprisonment
 is the penalty for refusal to obey the ordinance Very few houses in the city are without cisterns and forty or fifty thousand of them will be screened. The city is now spending some sl6,000,000 upon a water ard sewerage system which when completed, will require the abandonment of all cisterns. It. will, however be two or three years before this system is finished, and in the in terval the screening and oiling pro-
 cess will be essential if the breeding places of the fever-bearing mosquito are to be wiped out.
 pr. Richardson of the marine hos pital service, who is in charge of the Immigration. oiiing and screening of houses in the original focus of infec- ton, and whose forces are also mak-
 ing outside inspections, reports that
 up to date he has made 2.640 inspec-
 tions and found 39 cases of fever. most of which were sent to the emergency
 hospital in the screened ambulance. Tho controversy between Governor Vardaman of Mississippi and Governor Blanchard of Louisiana is waxing warmer. Today Governor Blanchard
 gave out a statement to this effect:
 The statement of the Governor of