The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-28
CUTTING OFF The FEVER CITY
MORE RIGID GUARANTEES PUT
Up AGAINST NEW ORLEANS.

MORE RIGID GUARANTEES PUT
Up AGAINST NEW ORLEANS.
Twenty zone Cases OF Yellow Jack Outside
the Original Infected District-Mem.
phls the Only CIT y OF Fever Experience
NEW ORLEANS. July 27.-There are now
twenty-one cases Of yellow fever outside
OF the original infected district In the
Italian quarter, but most Of these are OF
Italian refugees In the immediate neigh
borhood. They are scattered, and there
Is no other established focus Of infection.
Quarantines were made more RI gid to-day.
In Baton Rouge the City Council quaran-
tined against New Orleans. The city Board
of Health had refused to do 80. Bay st.
Louis Miss, which had hitherto refused
to quarantine against this city, gave in
to-day to Gov. vardaman and the Mis-
sissippi State Board Of Health, and now all
Mississippi is quarantinsd against New
Orleans. Inspectors we're stationed on the
Mississippi Sound coast TO warn of New
Orleans vessels. Three vessels we're
stopped and sent to Ship Island quaran-
tine station, the authorities refusing to hear
any explanation In q proclama ton Gov.
vardaman appealed to all Mississippians to
stand by the State authorities and the
State quarantine, and his address has rallied
all the smaller towns, which we're first
tempted to continue business with New
Orleans
The Texas quarantine is now In force
against all Louisiana. 1t will be let down
In favor OF Shreveport only, the Texas
health authorities being convinced that the
Shreveport quarantine against the rest
of Louisiana ia effective. Galveston has
a special quarantine against New Orleans,
but the rest Of Texas Is satisfied with the
State quarantine. DR.. Tabor, the Texas
Health Officer. who has charge Of the entire
quarantine service for that State, does not
believe that it will be possible to remove
the guarantees until late In the fall.
Stringent guarantees against New
Orleans vessels are reported from all tho
Gulf and Atlantic ports as far north as
Philadelphia.
Memphis is the only Southern city which
suffered from yellow fever in the past
that has refused to quarantine against
New Orleans. and it has persisted in this
refusal Tn spite Of the threat Of Mississippi
to quarantine it II 1t continues open to
New Orleans.
In spite Of the guarantees, little panicky
feeling is exhibited anywhere in the sur
rounding country, except at Bunkie, La.
where a death from fever Of an Italian
from New Orleans was reported, and from
which place there has been general exodus.
The departures from New Orleans are not
one-ffth as great as in any previous year
In which yellow fever was announced,
and the population Of the city is probably
greater than before the announcement, as
$500 Or io,c1G persons at the Mississippi
seacoast resorts returned to the city
after the guarantees we're declared 30
as not to be separated from their families.
An optimistio feeling prevails that it
will be possible to crush the fever by get
ting rid Of the mosquitoes and the cam
paign rs hoing conducted on that line.
The ork - cleaning UP, Of screening
ciste' rs, putting oil on ponds, DC, ia now
we'll il progress every V ard being organized
for that purpose. Some 5000 men are
already employed in sanitary work in addi-
ton to the city and board of health en-
ployees. Saturday will DO cleaning up
holders will work together to put the city
in sanitary condition and get rid OF the
mosquitoes.
The yellow fever hospital was opened
in the infected district yesterday. and to-
day thirty Of the poorer patients, all Italians,
were moved there. There is famine in
wire netting for screening cisterns from
mosquitoes and big orders have been
placed in New York to-day.
The Standard Oil Company has placed
Its wagons at the disposal Of the citizens
committee and has helped to get rid Of
the mosquitoes. The enforcement Of the
new quarantine rule making the detention
of freight vessels from Central America
six instead Of five days, as formerly, has re-
suited in some Of the lines transferring
their business to Mobile, the Mobile and
Alabama health authorities agreeing to
admit them on the shorter detention. A
proposition to transfer some OF these fruit
vessels to Galveston was rejected by that
city on the ground that they had introduced
the fever into New Orleans, and Galveston
did not care to take the risk. Such in
vestigation as has been made indicates that
the fever was brought into New Orleans
from Honduras or Belize.
A proposition to quarantine all the
Central American ports was rejected
the fruit importing companies opposing
it. The Louisiana Board OF Health
yielded on that point yesterday, but the
Alabama board still refuses to do so.
While DR.. Souchon, president Of the
Louisiana State Board Of Health, believe
that the fever was introduced from Belize
from which port 225 yellow fever refugees
came to New Orleans his theory is not &C
copied by all. Cases have now been tracee
hack here as far ~ June %, or even 10 JUNE
Is, hut the board Of health did not become
aware OF the existence Of the fever until July
Is, this failure being ributed to the fac
that The first cases we're Of a mild type anc
occurred exclusively among Sicilians, who
do not call in doctors Another cause OF ths
introduc ion Of yellow fever this year Is
due to the use Of Norwegian vessels viii
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