The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-29
A CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT Gradually SuppresSing the
 Yellow Fever. MONDAYS GOOD RECORD Diminution in Number of New
 Cases. Authorities at New orleans Keeping 5 Up Their Determined Fight Against
 the Disease, and Results
 Are Being shown.

New Orleans. Aug. 2s.-<Foliowing is the official report to 6 p. m. Monday.
 New cases, 45; total cases to date, LIST; deaths. 5; total deaths to date, 26o; new foci. IS; total foci to date. 420; cases under treatment. 1s1.
 The daily record shows q continued dimunition In the number of cases. Monday is usually a very heavy day, the figures for the past three Mondays being in the sixties. so today's record Is a source of qualification. following upon the low record of Sunday. Of the deaths, one was child in Algfers and the others were down town. One is Sister Mary Engelhesta of the Convent of Perpetual Alteration. on Marais Street, and her case was not reported until her death. It is the first from that institution, though there have been several cases In that nelghborEood.
 There was nothing startling in the news from the country. Acting on the request of the people of Natchez. Sur geon Guiteras will be sent there to- morrow by pr. White. This morning Surgeon von Ezdorf left for Leeville and Surgeon Guiteras made another trip to Patterson, to inaugurate a fu- migation campaign under the new aus- pices prevailing there.
 The people of Lake Providence want to depopulate the town of negroes, ow- ing to the prevalence of the lever among that element and asked for tents to house them in on the outskirts.
 Reports from the country tonight are:
 Patterson, six cases: Eighth Ward of Jefferson Parish, one case; Shrews- bury, one death; Kenner, four cases; Hanson City, two cases and one death' Donaldsonville, one case. This IS a new development and is traced to PoFL Barrow, across the bayou. Port Bar row. one case; St. Rose, three cases; Pecan Grove. one case; New Hope. one death. Gulfport reports one new case and Mississippi City, none, Natchez makes no report of new cases. the people deciding to await the arrival of an expert before accepting the state ment that there was yellow fever there. Escatawpa, Miss, near Moss Point, re- ports four eases.
 What DevrOn Found.
 pr. Devron. the physician of the State Board in charge at Leeviile, In the course of a report on the situation there. says:
 T found things worse than pr. stark could have seen them few days before. The people were in a panic. They had no medicine no doctoL ana they were dying from too much ex- perimentinE with different remedies which they thought might do. l find that more than half the population of 500 people Is sick; they are distracted and many are on the verge of lunacy from fright and grief"
 Confidence has been restored among them since Dr. Devron's arrival and ne now has two assistants and half dozen nurses, and the people of Thib- dodeaux have sent down boat load or provisions.
 Though New Orleans Is now in the midst of a period usually critical in yell low fever epidemics, there Is no pres ent indication that the Federal author ities are to lose their grip on the stt- nation. Monday always shows an in- crease over Sunday in the number of new cases. because the Sabbath Is good deal of holiday for the inspect ing force and only the doctors are to he depended on, but today's total was regarded as confirming the opinions ex- pressed a week ago that there IS nttie further chance that the disease will get away from those who are fighting 1t so stubbornIy. The weather this morn ing was unseasonably cool. following hot spell on Sunday, but it was not followed by heavy mortality and the fact that the majority of deaths con- tinues among the foreign population makes it certain that the medical forces are succeeding almost without exception in the treatment of cases reported promptly where the patients folloW the advice given them.
 Dr. White, who disappeared on Sun day without intimating to thJ public or to his subordinates where he was go- ing returned today. He declined to say where he had been, but volunteered the information that he had made no dis coverles and that his trip developed no news.
 Under Thorough Control.
 So thorough Is the control here be- lieved to be now that 1t Is expected that within the next ten days pr. White will be enabled to reorganize his forces. dt- viding the city into districts instead of wards, and reducing the forces Of workers now employed, the subsidiary citizens organizations in the wards having demonstrated their ability to do much of the work which ordinarily would have to be done by the service. There is no intention to take one man off duty who can perform efficient ser vice, but Dr. White desires that there shall be no criticism on the score of wastefulness of funds put at his dis posal.
 Unusual interest attaches to the de- velopments in connection with the dis covery of fever at Gulfport. Governor Vardaman some time ago issued a proc Iamation in which he announced that there would be proceedings against doc tors in Mississippi who suppressed the existence of yellow fever there. The case of Mrs. Collins. which resulted in the acknowledgment by Gulfport of in- lection there, Is taken to indicate that yellow fever was present at Gulfport some weeks ago. Mrs. Collins reached here from Gulfport last Monday even ing She was taken i'll on the train on her way over Dr. LeBouef, President of the New Orleans Medical Society. was called on Tuesday and saw at once that Mrs. Collins was suffering with yellow fever. pr. Parham was also called and on Thursday both doctors announced that the diagnosis was complete. She was very i'll but is now out of danger.
 Mrs Collins expressed surprise when she was told that she had yellow fever. She said she had lived in a house about a mile from the railroad station. close to a house in which two young men had been Sick Just fourteen days prior to her attack. She said that for aavaraI days she had noticed four or five