The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-18
PLAGUE SPREADS
EAR|T|H[R SOUTH D |! !. TIL:
Thirteen Cases Of Yellow Fever
Nov Under Trcatmentsin
Mississippi City.
II. LEEvIL i ALSO INFECTED E:;I.El
New Orleans Record.
(By Associated Press,)

NEW ORLEANS, August 17.--While
the daily number Of now cases OF yellow
fever In New Orleans has risen during
the last thrco days. reaching seventy
seven to-day, the deaths are still few
Only three of tho fourteen new disease
centers reported to-day are above Canal
Street 4A ms y, 5 W
Z Rather alarming news from outside of
New Orleans continues to come in. La
Fourche Parish health officers report
widespread Infection In the Lcevillc
fishing settlement ut tho mouth Of
Bayou La Fourcho, eighty miles south.
There are probably one hundred cases
of sickness there and DR., Stark to-day
diagnosed six out OF thirty as yellow
fever. lie classed tho others as II mild
type OF yellow fever or as dcngue
These fishermen and oystermen have
been in close communication with New
Orleans, 5E5
dispatch from Gulfport says that
| there nre four now cases at Mississippi
| City, making thirteen now under treat
mcnt. Tho discovery Of this nest or
infection on the mississippi coast OF
such long standing. since July 30th, mas
caused a good deal of perturbation IN
Mississippi, and there is now a fear
that cases may appear where least ex-
pected
III Situation Quiet.
Aside from the fact that the system.
attic work of the Federal authorities and
| the full compliance by physicians With
| Dr., Whites request for the report or
| every suspicious case, again developed u
stout total OF new cases of yellow fever
In New Orleans to-day. the situation
i was quiet.
The announcement by scientists that
clear water In back yard cistcrns Is the
e fhyorltc breeding place Of the stegomyi:
! MOSQUITO has aroused q demand for tht
destruction of tho clsterns and led tt
! q petition to tho water and sewerage
board asking that that body give precc
| dcnce to the water system In pushing IL
plans to completion. The board replied
to-day that Il modern water system. car
| ryng running water into every house
would be inadvlsablc, because It Wo.fi'
| result In more standing water IN tht
present open gutter sewers.
Tho State Board Of Health had dis
patch from Rayn. SAYING That there WA!
new case OF fever there. Rayn IL IN III
| center Of the rice region
1 Fever in Mississippi.
The announcement of tho discovery q
nine eases of yellow fever at Mississippi
City, within three miles OF Gulfport, til
terminus Of the Gulf and Ship Island roa
and the fact that the fever has been !
existence there since before July goth, til
time when the announcements were MAJ
here, is expected to soften somewhat II
sever criticism OF Misslslpp!ans Of Ne
Orleans for falling to find the local IL
lection earlier, BE fore 1t was known thu
there was fever here, there were frequel
reports of It's existence on the gulf coas
hut the inspection has been so rigid aloT
the coast for n month past by Alabam
mississippi and tho Federal authorize
that the denial Of fever at AississiE
City or elsewhere Was cecepted.
The family in which tho fever fir
appeared at mississippi City, arriy,
there from New Orleans, july I'd and Il
\ fever is stated to have been In Misslsslp
l since the Goth, The family is that
Major Gee. Of Carrollton, Miss, vi
1 stopped week in New Orleans. on the
I way to Mississippi City Only one of 4
4 cases Is seriously H. Troops have draw
/ a Gordon around the Infected section. al
every effort will be made by Surge
Wasdin, OF the Marine Hospital Servis
10 confine the disease.