Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-04
NO NEW FEATURES
IN FEVER SITUATION
There Has Been No Clash Be.
tween State Troops.
GOV. vARDAMAN's STATEMENT
Strict Quarantines Are Being Placed
Against Those Places Where the Dis
ease Has Appeared-Much Excite
ment Prevails Over the South.

FS0ihS1 : HOSS TldSSS WHSTS IHS LIS
ease Has Appeared-Much Excite.
ment Prevails Over the South.
New Orleans, August 3.-The fever
situation presented no new features
today. There were early reports OF
two deaths at the Emergency hospital
and the prospec twas that with mum
bers of very seious cases rooted out
yesterday by the inspectors there
would be still more fatalities record
ed during the day. No physical clash
has been reported by the armed forces
OF Louisiana and Mississippi and there
was an increasing likelihood that good
sense win prevail and that hereafter
there will be no trespassing by the
people OF either state on the preserves
of the other. There is not sign of
amelioriatiOn in the quarantine condi-
tions, though the marine hospital SER
vice is gradually bringing about a
better understanding with the author
tiles in other states to the end of
enabling travellers to proceed to their
destinations after due detention One
hundred thousand copies of Dr. Whites
letter concerning the inability OF
freight to carry infected mosquitoes
and $4,000 of Major Walter Reeds mos
quito tests in Cuba have been printed
in circular form and began to go out in
today's mail to every city and cross
roads in the south.
Aside from prosecuting vigorously
sanitary measures all the energy of
the commercial public here is being
devoted to the effort to educate the
panic-stricken people of the south that
they run absolutely no~risk of infec.
t1on through commercial intercourse
with New Orleans Re-oiling and
screening of. cisterns went forward
with great vigor and enthusiasm to-
day, Not all those who have been
assessed on their BUSINESS rating for
contributions to the citizens fund to
assist i'll stamping out the disease have
answered, but there is ample money
in the hands of the citizens commit.
tee to meet the large expenditures re-.
quired by the campaign.
Italians Conceal Their Gases.
Concealment until their cases are al
Host hopeless and utterly inadequate
treatment until they fall into the hands
of doctor, are considered as partly
responsible for the heavy mortality
among the unfortunate Italians who
fall victims to attacks of yellow fever.
1t is said Investigations have shown
that heavy food, like maccaroni and
bananas, has been taken by members
of the race after the fever has fast.
ened its clutch on them. That means
almost certain DEATH for in the treat.
ment now prescribed by the doctors,
no solid fOd of any kind is given
during seevral days of a patients ill.
ness. Milk is the principal diet with
alkalin waters and the juice of water.
melon to work on the kidneys. To al.
lay nausea the doctors pprescribe
small pieces of ice to be dissolved in
the mouth.
Many of the Italians die because
they do not get this treatment until too
late. Comparatively few outside of
Italians have been attacked and some
of these exceptions are alreday on the
streets little the worse for their i'll.
ness. The situation today continued
to be viewed with something like opti.
mism by those imediately in charge of
the fight. The public is warned not
to be alarmed by the number of cases
and deaths that are more numerous
than they were a week ago and the
doctors are saying that for some time
probably, even with the most favorable
progress, there will be cases and ia.
talitfes. But so long as there is mo-
serious infection in the modern sec.
tion of the city, that is the large dis.
trict which lies above Canal street,
the doctors refuse to believe that there
is any change of the disease assuming.
a general epidemic form.
The excitement in the country is not
allayed but seems to have grown more
acute with the discovery of cases all
other points. In this connection the
doctors here are disposed to question:
whether all the cases. that appear can
properly be traced to New Orleans.