The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
INFECTED FEVER
 AREA BORROWING Former Birmingham Man Dies
 in Pensacola PLAYERS ARE LEAVlN C Opinion of New Orleans Has Been Changed Entirely By Their Long
 Engagement There.
 Other Fever News.
OFFICIAL RECORD TO 6 p. M.
At New Orleans.
At Pensacola.

Under treatment. ..... ...... .178 Cases discharged. ... ... =. .184 New Orleans, October 16-The first prac- tical evidence of the approach of the wind-up of the yellow fever fight here was the Issuance of an order by Surgeon White today consolidating several of the uptown wards, and materially reducing the forces in that section. These wards are consolidated: Second and third, under pr. Blue; first and tenth. under pr. Fostx; eleventh and twelfth, under Dr. Smith; thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth and sev- enteenth, under Dr. McKeon.
 The downtown wards will be similarly treated in few days.
 Of the new cases today only four are above Canal street, and two In Algiers. Of the deaths one occurred in Algiers and is the wife of Rev. MT. Nerman, a well-known Lutheran minister. One new case was brought into the city from St. Bernard parish.
 Country Cases.
 Dr. Brady has returned from tour of inspection in the Barrataria and Grand Isle districts, and reports that there have been 199 cases and seventeen deaths with nine cases still under treatment.
 The county reports were:
 Amelia and Bayou LOulse, three new cases.
 New Iberia, one new case.
 Lafourche Crossing, one new case.
 Cote Blanche and Belle Ami, for the week, eight new cases and one death.
 Near Plattenvile three new cases.
 Terre Bonne parish, for the week, thir- teen new cases and one death.
 Patterson, one new case; plantations nearby, seven new cases.
 Mississippi:
 Vicksburg. eight new cases.
 Natchez, three new cases.
 Gulfport, one new case.
 Port Gibson. one new case.
 Record Only Yellow Fever.
 Believing that yellow fever in New Or leans Is now absolutely under control and that there is no longer any reason to fear further spread of the disease, pr. White representing the marine hospital service considers that hereafter the in- clusion of cases other than yellow fever
 
 for the sake of the truth of the record. At the same time he believes that not a single actual case of the disease should be suppress. Accordingly Dr. White has written the following letter to President Le Boeuf of the New Orleans Madical society:
 My Dear Doctor-I would be very glad if you will make a request of the secretary to do something which l be- lieve to be now necessary in order that the city may get even-handed Justice from the outside; and that is, all physi- clans having any doubts in their minds about the diagnosis of case of fever be requested to call upon some member of the board of experts, the diagnosis of which board, or any member thereof will be unqualhedly accepted by this office and in this manner provide In each case an exact diagnosis, so that here after the number of cases may be neither more nor less than the exact number oc- curing In the city. We do not wish to either increase or decrease the show ing in any manner not absolutely Tn ac- cordance with fact, but we know we nave reached the period when the luesuon oi suspicious cases may be done away w'-1'
 Medical Society Endorses Plan.
 The committee of the medical society has cordially indorsed the suggestion o pr. White. which has been mace m v,ew of the rapid decline of the nhmper of cases during the past two weeNs.
 Dr. White believes that at east 'til ne.. cent of the cases now peing ie- ported come from outside infecteu Poin.s aeainst which New Orleans has not guar antinad In a statement of the situation he says: ,o oo,-
 .I feel there is much cause Tor con pratulation and entire Justification TOT the statement I make that VlctorS mas been won and that unless frost comes earlier than it did In 1897 November lS) if will come. so far as yellow fever m New Orleans is concerned to no pur' pose, for, guarding untoward accluen,s there Is every reason to believe tnat the yellow fever cases will cease to De noticeable factor in the city pelore tht date of the 1897 frost.'
 The record of cases today was agalf low and the deaths also low. The fact that only eight new cases were report ed on Sunday gave reason to expect much larger quota today, but the repor' turned out to be in harmony with the low figures of the past week.
 No news came today of the raising oi more uuarantines than those already an nounced Several orders raising quaran tine. however. went into effect bringing numbers of country people into the city warm spell succeeded the cold snap oi last week, and that Is regarded as ex plainlng why more towns and parishes have not acted Dr. White considers il moi improbable that a fortnight hence will see the last of the Mississippi re strictions.
 Laborers Are Coming.
 Laborers are now coming from the wes on east bank lines and transferring acros. the river just above the city to the South ern Pacific to be carried into the sugar district number of additional mills are scheduled to begin grinding within the next ten days. Among those wht have applied for and received health cer' tificates were about sixty members of two theatrical companies. who played her' last week. They go from here to points outside of the quarantine zone, the cer tificates not being actually needed. bu the players took them as souvenirs. Som,