Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-01
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Yellow fever summary:
/ NV cases up 10 Il y. m. Il.
/ Cases 10 date. 3ni.
Deaths 10 Il D. H., 5.
/ Teal deaths To date g..
| Sew toci. >.
! Total roci. 46.
OF the five dca,h; reported above
three occurred in the emergency hes
pital and all OF the five bore Italian
names.
]! Another new case was discovered
| outside I'll the city, being that of an
j Italian WHO left here week ago witt
bsevcral others and took up his resi-
ttlCncc in Morgan City. On their III
f,rival there they were quarantined unG
I. enc of hem was taken sick four day.
aso. To-day DR. Tarlcton. president OF
: thc ST. Mary parish board OF health
3Df, Goldberg, of the Marine lluspita
1l!!servicc. and two Morgan City physi.
:cians diagnosed the case rs yellow
.levor.
~ Nothing has been heard from DR.
! l.lady. who has gdnc to Lake pruvi-
Sf:.!,ys, uphpslf@ Nicksburg to Inyesti
hatc reports OF ING suspicious case
there.
1t is said that when the present
sickness passes, New Orleans will noe
seek 10 regain The fruit trade, which
new has been diverted to Mobile, I'm
less tho fruit companies are willing /,
submit To regulations which will make
Impossible the Introduction Of fever
Viewed from The most optimistic side
the present scourgc will ultimately
cost many times the value Of one scl
sons fruit business. Moreover, il i;
probable illai public sentiment in Ala.
hama and Mississippi will require the
authorities Ia take such prccalition a.:
Ia fruit steamers thai the fruit com.
panics will eventually find themselves
forced 10 submit In the equally strict
regulations in all Southern ports.
The fact that the regulations mt
New Orleans have not been sufficient.
ly severe is shown by the fact that
among the cases now under treatment
is that OF The engineer of The steamer
Oriaen who was i'll of yellow fever
when the ship landed last week. III,
had contracted yellow fever in Cen
trail America, but the disease did no
fully dcvclup until he had been re
moved To his home.
Reasonablcncss in the country will,
respect TO quarantincs is not incrcas
ing, as is evidenced today by a dos
patch saying that Port Gibson, Miss
would exclude all freight from Now
Orleans. Other towns have taken
similar action and business men ar,
apprchcnsive that the quarantine in
lection will spread and that there
will he continued contraction of ter
rtory in which New Orleans may dc
liver goods.
The declaration of quarantine h,
Louisiana against New Orleans ha.
opened nearly the whole State To III.
commerce Of Texas and other States
allowing outsiders to invade tcrritor,
heretofore controlled by New Orleans
merchants.
The Era Club, composed of repro
sentative women. today rendered III,
services of its members TO the city t.
poselytc among those persons who re
fuse tn believe in the mosquito theor
and who oppose the oilng Of tho els
terms and the cleansing of their prem
Uses.
a mosquito ordinance probably viii
he passed by the city council tomo.
row. 1t will require landlords 4
: screen cistcrns with fine or impri.
"nmcnt as the penalty for refusal. Fc,
I houses in New Orleans arc withou
cistcrns and $4,000 csterns will hay
: to be screened.
't Suspicious Cases 1T New York.
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