The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-08
THE FEVER
 DYING OUT Slowly But Surely Fight
 is Being Won. CASES UNDER TREATMENT Their Number Now Steadily
 Reduced. Crescent City Situation Continues to show Gradual Improvement and Optimistic Feeling ia in Evidence.

New Orleans. Sept. 7.-ofhcial report to ID. m. Thursday:
 New cases, s6; total cases to date, 2,l7T; deaths, 6: total deaths to date. 30ai new foci. 9; cases under treat mert, sos; cases discharged, 1.5e5.
 The record continued within the figures in which daily encouragement can be drawn from the figures. There are several names in the list of new cases today which are out of the ordinary. One is Father Green. of the Jesuits' College and another is Sister Willy. the superior of the hotel Dien, a private sanftarium conducted by the Sisters of Charity, and which has had quite number of eases of fever. x George ". Mott, Jr.. son of the presi- dent of the Citizens Bank is another case. There is q case reported from a revenue cutter, lying at the foot of Egania Street near the United States Barracks. Of the deaths only one bore an Italian name and that death oc- cured in Algiers. Of the others all but one were down town. The num- ber of cases under treatment ts being steadily, but slowly reduced.
 News from the country contained nothing of special interest. The State Board sent nurses to Patterson, Bayou Bouf and Lake Providence, though both the latter places are asking for more nurses. The following reports were received:
 Leeville. total to date. Sz5; deaths, 3s; now under treatment. 92: discharged. 200. La Rose, 1 new case; Terre- Bonne Parish: Report for three days. Belle Grove, cases; Noise settlement, , cases. St. Bernard Parish: Terre aux Boeafs. 2 cases; near Slaughterhouse, t2 cases. Patterson, new cases Tal- luiah. IS new cases; Kenner, cases, death; Hanson City. cases, Donald Pecan Grove. i death: vicksburg, 3 cases; Matches, i case; Gulfport,s new cases,
 The spirit of the people of New or leans is best shown by the following extracts from correspondence between Colonel Charles JanviAr. president of the newly organized Public Health As- sociatlon, and Rev. pr. Beverely War ner, whom he invited to become mem Der of the governing committee.
 pr. Warner In replying 10 the. invi- tation said: T believe 1t to be a moral and commercial necessity that tho policy heretofore pursued by the business and health authorities of this city in their dealings with the first reported case of yellow fever should be reversed. I could not serve on board that Is not absolutely committed against the policy of concealment. as believe that policy contrary to morals, a menace to the public health and fatal to commercial prosperity"
 To which Colonel Janvier replied in part:
 When science was groping about in the dark striving to solve the vexed problem Of yellow fever transmission, there might have been some incentive to suppress the truth in the hope that in some way the trouble might be sud denly cured and the harm averted, which publicity would have done; but in the light of the present, when it is positively known that the trouble can be instantly cured if instantly detect cd. there can be no incentive for the suppression. but on the contrary every incentive to tell the truth. If this were not to be the policy of the New Orleans Health Association I for one would not be connected with 1t, for I feel that the suppression or conceaIment of the truth would be a crime for which tarring and feathering and subsequent hanging would be mild
 Comparative Statement.
 September Is now sufficiently ad- vanced to give assurance to the medl- cal authorities that their expectation that the fever would not take a bad turn during the month will be realized. During the first six days of Septem- her. 1878, there were l,496 new eases and ATS deaths, while during the same days this year the total of new cases has been 193 and of deaths 21.
 pr. Whites appeal to the public to continue it's precautions against the fever transmitting mosquitoes with the same energy and the same thorough ness that would be the case if the fever was prevailing more generally and with A far greater degree of mortality, has mel with so general a response that there is reason to feel that the disease wui not again this year be able to concentrate itself In any particular sec tion Its grip has been loosened on the originally infected area and the ap- pIication of stringent measures to souares which become infected with one or two or a few cases in enabling readily handle the situation through out the city
 Rv Sunday it Is believed a full and complete official record of the number of foci reported in the aggregate since tho boginning of the fever, the number rsmoved after being declared free of inTection and the number still existing wiII he prepared for announcement and n,h1ication. There have been nearly | soo foci reported up to date. of which It ,s estimated 25O have been declared U,,tbin the past week or ten days. In this connection Dr. White has instruct od bis representatives in each of the r,arAs to furnish him by Saturday the ,otaI number of infected houses in each u,or5 uU,,, the number of infected houses st,li ,,nder observation and the number os tr fected houses released after the aLt..ietb dav from the last case.
 Attbough the deaths today exceeded .,aao ,,f inc day before. the excess was
 n smau that the report as to new
 es and deaths was considered to be n.ost hopeful character. The deaths @or many days have not reached the .tn,,,m of thirteen. established in
 i',11,'st and with the steady reduction
 Aus eesss 1t Is not expected that these
 nI,,.as u,iIl again be approached unless
 ns I,a ta,er assumes suddenly a virulent
 type. ,.. 70 AEo.,..a.oa.
 e.a annrehension existed here when
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