New-York tribune., 1905-08-20
FEVER GROWS In STATE.
Disease Likely to Last Until Frost
Comes.
YESTERDAYS FEVER RECORD.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

New-Orlcans Aug. 19.-The yellow fever sit
uaton in New-Orleans shows material improve
ment to-day inside the city. Outside of the city
conditions seem to be steadily growing worse
Although comparatively few new cases were re-
ported to the State Board OF Health to-day the
stories sent out by the physicians who have been
sent to take charge OF the various infected dis
tricts are anything but encouraging.
The total in the State, outside of New-Oreans
up to 8 o'clock tonight was 344 and thirty
deaths If this continues to increase at the rate
it has the thousand mark will be passed within
the next week,
Seven new of yellow fever were reported
tonight from Patterson. La. No new cases de-
veloped at Mississippi City to-day. Two new
cases were reported from Kenner, La, and one
at Madisonve. in the heart of the ozone belt
Of st. Tammany Parish, where a of yellow
fever has never before been known. Two addi
tional cases also reported to the State
board from Terre Haute Plantation, in st.
Charles Parish, where DR.. Corput. OF the Marine
Hospital Service. is in charge.
In the country districts physicians afraid
OF the disease and not taking the proper
steps to fight II.
DR.. Juan Guteras who is recognized as the
greatest expert in the world on yellow fever,
takes anything but an optimistic view of the sit
can be stamped out before frost. He was asked
yesterday for a statement of his opinion after
a week spent here in consultation with the local
officials He said:
L can hardly express an opinion vet but I
am certain that it will be a long hard fight
There is no chance of any early victory. The
disease gained a start in this city which 1 can
not understand before the first step was taken
TO check it. Everything possible is being done.
but up to the present time all that has been ac-
complished is to keep the disease from spreading
at the rate at which it did at the beginning"
1t ran of its own free will for two months,
and it is wonder that it did not gain greater
headway than it did"
DR.. Guiteras refused to say the disease was
under control here. although he said that to a
certain extent it being confined to the
original foci or their immediate neighborhood.
THE Marine Hospital people have stopped its
great strides, and that is ALL said Dr. Guiteras.
L am afraid 1t has gone too far to stamp it
out before frost. Now we are keeping down to
the work of preventing its spread to new foci,
and are succeeding. My opinion. after weeks
study of the situation is that the disease this
year will not be bad as 1t was in 1878 and I
can hold out to the people of the South the
comforting fact that the yellow fever of 1905
will be the last which will appear in this
form in the United States
The people Of the city are beginning to believe
that Dr. Leach's arsenic theory is all that K
might he in the prevention of yellow fever. One
of his disciples, who took the treatment for nine
days, thought he immune, and is at the
point Of death with the fever at the hospital
Another woman, taking the full treatment, has
a bad case. DR.. Leach says he will be bitten
with a stegomyia in the presence Of a committee.
but he will be prevented from securing the de-
sired stegomyia, If possible. In other words, DR..
Leach will be bitten by mosquito If the en-
tire city objects, for he says, the theory of
arsenixation must be upheld.
The marine hospital officers this morning Is
sued an order stating that all urns in the many