The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
DEATH RATE
 REMAINS LOW New Orleans Situation Not
 DiScOuraging. CHINESE NAME ON LIST Lee Ming, Supposedly an Immune, SuccumbS. Vessels for American Ports Must Be Fumigated and Carry Pratique
 from Authorities--Reports
 from County.
CHINESE NAME ON LIST

| port to p. m Friday:
 New cases. 37; total cases to date,
 2.7e2; deaths. 4; total deaths to date,
 359; new foci. Is; cases under treat
 ment 3l5; cases discharged. 2,090.
 Of the new cases only two bear any | resemblance to Italian names. The first time a Chinese name has appeared on the list was today. The Chinese were supposed to bc immunes, because the pungent odors exhaled by opium | smokers are not relished by the mos quitoes. This discovery of this case. l however, indicates there have been others which have been successfully | concealed. The victim Is Lee Ming, and he was found dead in a joss house | on Elk Place. where he had been taken by his countrymen, who hoped i to appease the wrath of his ancestors. Surgeon Blue, who has had experience in dealing with the Chinese during the plague in San Francisco. unearthed the case. and an autopsy confirmed the diagnosis.
 Among the new cases is the chief clerk of the inspector of police. Ten of the new cases. and six of the new foci, are up toown. Algiers is credited with six of the new cases. Of the deaths. one, a man who contracted the fever in a lodging house on Chartres Street. and had 1t developed while he was in a detention camp. He was sent to the emergency hospital, with fei- low workman who developed the dis ease at the same time.
 It Is necessary that all vessels leav- ing New Orleans for American ports be fumiEated and carry a prstique from the responsible health authorities. This work is done by Dr. Thomas at the quarantine station. but henceforth the certificates will be issued by the mas rine hospital service. This afternoon pr. White went down to the quaran- tine station on the Porto Rican steam CT Arkadian, to look into the service and arrange for the issuance of the certificates.
 The news from the country reveals no new points of infection and quite satisfactory condition of affairs at the existing points. Dr. Brady, who has been up the Texas and Pacinc Road. and confirmed the diagnosis of two cases at Crosse Tete in Iberville Parish, reports that there have been thirteen cases there, the first being back to August 12. Three more eases have been discovered on Cheniere Caminada, the settlement on the main- land near Grand Isle, which was storm swept in 1893 and a thousand lives lost. These cases have been traced to Bee- Vile. OIHeT hOpOANS Patterson. nine new cases; Kenner, nVe new cases; Tallulah, six new cases; Houma, three new cases. ..
 FIuctuatIOBs UnImpOrtaDt.
 With the death list varying so slightly from day to day the fever re- mains unchanged In the view Of the authorities, who now attach no im- portance to fluctuations in the number of new cases that are reported today Todays report showed an increase over yesterday in the matter of new cases. but the deaths were again ex- ceedlngly few. On September 10 there were seven deaths. That record has not since been duplicated. The high- est number of deaths since the fever started was on August z when there were thirteen. There have not been double figures since that date. The conclusion drawn from the low mortal ity is in part that having got out nf tho Italian district the fever has ap- peared in a milder type and In fact that there are not actually as many cases of yellow fever as the daily re- ports indicate, q considerable per cent age of tfre cases being a less serious form of illness. Where persons take the fever and recover, the authorities consider them advantageous in hay ing been immunized.
 While 1t has been practically decid- ed to open the public schools Monday week most of the high institutions of learning will remain closed until a month later. All of these. including many private schools attract pupils from the country districts of Louis jana and from the surrounding States. Many of their pupils who live here are absent from the city. While 1t is felt that there is no longer danger from the minglinR of students In the school rooms. the higher institutions having deferred their openings by previous announcement cannot take advantage of that fact It was announced today in a telegram from President Perkins of Leland University, who is in Boston, that all three of the negro universi- ties will remain closed until November 1. Many of the professors in these schools are unacclimated persons who live in the North and East and are re- luctant to come here at this time.
 still Supplying Funds.
 Though the ordinary emergency ap- propriation of the State Board of Health is about exhausted, Governor | Blanchard from the funds at his dis nosal is enabling the Board to continue | jts work of relief in the country. To- dav the Board dispatched three addi- l ,ional nurses to Patterson, where much | fever still prevails. considerable | portion of the population of that town. | however, ndS hlIOahJ hdu tue IeNSE. | The mortality has been very light 1 among the natives. The first death of a Chinaman from ! yellow fever was recorded today. The | yIctim Lee Ming, was found dead in | bis room in the Chinese quarter, which | is contiguous to the central police | haa aadouarters Dr. Blue of the marine | hosnital saw the body and thought the man had suffered from yellow fever. n1,ipg 10 the fact that thIs is a con> Iosted neighborhood, where d con eeaied case would be apt to be exceed tneiv dangerous, he asked an autopsy h't inc coroner The autopsy confirm oS Dr Blues opinion and the authorI-
 lies will treat the Chinese neighbor- bood to a strong dose of dlsinfection.
 Tbe case of fugitive glad to get
 hant, to the scene of his crime was pre- ao..tad today when Joseph Melleek was
 -Ie..ad bv detectives as he stepped s,s Louisville and Nashville train
 Meiieek eii was employed at J. s. Der
 sS haie inc safe for several hundred SailsTs and boarded a train for Mobile