The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-11
A CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT Only IS New Cases Shown in Fever Report. SCIENCES SPLENDID WORK New Orleans Death Rate is
 Still Low. Let-up in Heroic Labor of Sanitary Forces at Crescent City-Pest
 May Be Stamped Out Be-
 fore Frost.
SCIENCES SPLENDID WORK

New Orleans, oct. lO.-Ine OlHclsii rc- cord to D. m. Tuesday was as follows; New cases, IS; total cases to cate, 3.230; deaths, 4; total deaths to date' sI5; new foci, g; cases under treatment, 1sI; cases discharged. 2.GS4.
 Three of the eighteen cases are above Canal Street, but only one of them rep- resents a new focus. that one being far up on Prytania Street, There were only two admissions to the Emergency Hos- pital, and one of them turned out to be tertiary malaria. two patients were discharged. and there were no deaths there. All of the four deaths were down town. and two of them were Ital- ians.
 The family from Rosetta, Miss, who were admitted to the hospital in deten- tion, are still In good health, and the average period for the development Of infection has passed. They will remain there until Thursday.
 Surgeon Whiee went to Covington and Abit:i Springs to look into the sit uation there and says there is nothing alarming in it. Another case was re- ported from there by the health officer, who says he traced 1t directly to New Orleans.
 For the first time in a week. new point of infection was reported from the State. Two cases were reported from New Iberia. which up to now has apparently been free from infection. An unusual question was put up to the State Board in con 1ection with 1t. A man who lived in the infected neigh borhood was m another rart of the city when the city health authorities put on the quarantine. When they discovered him outside the lines they tried to force him to return to his home, but he re- fused and appealed to the State Board. The attorney Of the State Board gave it as his opinion that he could not be ha@ in ia could keep him ur der observatton.
 Ths country reports were as follows: Kenner, 5 new cases; near Pfatrenviilas 2 new cases; Barrataria. new ease; ~oyington, 1 new cases New Iberia, ?
 1s Tns reports ,l from Mississippi Nj We're as follows: vieksburs, { new Gases: Nat chez, 6 new cases; Port Gibson, new cases; Guifrort. new eases
 Sanitary Employees Out.
 As result of the order of Dr. White putting an end to the general disin- lection and olling by the Marine Hos- pitaI about three hundred men em- ployed by the service will be immedi- ately dismissed. Other discharges will occur within the next ten days The order of Dr. White has no refence to the citizens cleanup and disinfection set for Saturday and Sunday. and householders generally are asked to
 
 maintained and that oil is deposited where necessary. but the Federal au- thorities consider the fever now to be so completely under control that 1t Is unnecessary to do the general work for which large forces of men have been employed. For many weeks past, wherever a new focus has appeared, every house in the square has been repeatedly disinfected and this sys- fo,, l,aa o0ufrIhtftad taFr1iv tn the de- struction of mosquitoes and the grad nal suppression of the disease. but these extraordinary precautions are no longer deemed essential. because. aside from the fact that the sickness is waning. under the mosquito theory stegomyia which become infected from now on will not be able to transmit the disease for twenty days after infec- tion. which will carry the fight close to the frost period. Cases are still ap- bearing and will continue to appear for some time, but they are generally secondary or tertiary infection and new foci are exceedingly few. There | may be from now on fluctuations In the | number of deaths from the diminish ing number of cases under treatment, | due to extreme temperature changes, l but Dr. White believes that the crisis | has long since past and that there Is | A probability that practically every | case will have disappeared before frost. | Many sections of the city are now so | free from infection that there is to be still further consolidation of ward or- ganizations.
 4 Successful Fight.
 Even If sporadic cases do appear until frost comes the Federal officials deem that the fight has been almost complete success. for the fever has been brought under control under the most adverse conditions and almost stamped out at a period when 1t is usually rag ing fercely and with death rate com narativefv small, the probability now hains that the total number of deaths ,viIl fall under 500 for the entire period of the epidemic.
 Drhe credit Is due in every way to .ho neonIe of New Orleans" said Dr. wbtte today. They deserve the nraise. They assisted us in every con ceiveble manner. All we had to do
 rss to say what we wanted done and with rare exceptions II was uone m trice. The people of New Orleans nave tawgbt the world lesson. and think if will not soon be forgotten.
 TIC city escaped without rain to- day and there is prediction or colder weather tomorrow. Frost warnings py tbe weather bureau promise mantle " e ,hita over parts of Arkansas and Ta"s tonight, while lower tempera-  lures are forecasted for all over Lou sJana The change In the weather slanEi sitions is expected to bring com ,oarctaI advantages in the shape of more nor general resumption of business Tha bodv of pr. c. M. Shanley. who died at Barataria yesterday, martyr to science and devotion to ms people; pmried %% with high Mansonic honors.
 pr. White. accompanied by Assis- .ant Surgeon T. F. Richardson went to Gretna today In an automobile and from fir that point toured some of the country which is nov osn,te nnaer the con Ii.nrovements IroI @ is general in Jefferson, at Grand, Grand Isls ,5s fsTsr sHe " '.saas p.aa, control at both places. An ad- Sitionai nurse was sent to willswood today. u.,.x
 The State Board of Health today raised the quarantines against Glen wild and Riverside plantations In St. LecomDta in Ranfdea \