The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Many Wealthy Citizens Are Arrested for Persistent RefusaIs to Have csterns Screened As Ordered
 By Authorities.


 ~%>>~~~%%~-~-%>-~-s The foregoing figures for the day are surprisingly small. considering that nine- teen of the cases reported today, really belonged to yesterdays list having come in after the closing of Sundays report. Monday has usually been a heavy day for new cases on account of hold-overs from Sunday, and If the number of new cases for the next few days continues small, then it can be said that the situ- alton Is really improving. Of the new foci four are up town and four below Canal street.
 Surgeon Whites forces went to work today on the reorganized plan, all the fumigating and screening being done from the district headquarters, instead of the central headquarters as hereto fore.
 Assistant Surgeons Mullans and Green reported for duty today. Surgeon spor- ling of the navy arrived here today to look after the interests of the navy men who are at the naval stations.
 investigate Country Cases.
 
 Assistant Surgeon Corput went to St. James parish and found a case at Lutcher, a large lumber town. This case is traced to Reserve plantation. The parish health officer of St. Charles re- ports that Diamond and Goodhope plan tations have each one suspicious and three positive cases. He says that on the Goodhope place the Italians are vio- lently opposed to the inspections, but he will call on the sheriff to enforce qnis authority
 Two more cases were discovered today on the Wildwood plantation in Jeffer- son parish. Another case has developed at Port Barrow in Ascension parish. There are two cases at La Fouche crossing in La Fouche parish, which are isolated. on fatboat in the bayou.
 Patterson reports three new cases and no deaths. Plaquemine parish, below the city. reports two new cases at Pointe Celeste, four miles above Pointe-a- La Hache, one of which Is dead. All other cases in that parish have recovered, and the Pointe Celeste cases are the only sec- ondary infection which has developed. An early report received by the board of health said there were twelve cases there, but this was a mistake In trans mission.
 Situation Is Encouraging.
 Surgeon Guiteras returned tonight from Patterson, La., where he has been in charge of the Immigration and screening and organizing the community to fight tl-e infection. He reports the situation there as encouraging, and the people thoroughly alive to the necessity of the work mapped out by him.
 The situation In regard to the fruit business shows some signs of a solution. It Is believed that the surgeon general will withdraw his prohibition against shipment of the fruit north, if an arr rangement now under way can be com pleted to have the fruit vessels unload at Chalmette. a point below the city. The Norwegian steamship Sapphir from Colon Is now held up in quarantine and two cases of sickness were taken off and placed in the detention camp at the quarantine station near the mouth of the river. It is reported here that case of sickness was taken off another ship recently which Is still detained at quar- antine.
 Assistant Surgeon Berry Is on the road to recovery.
 Bulk From Below Canal Street.
 Partly as a result of left over cases from Sunday and partly from the fact that the inspectors were able to put in full days work there was again a large number of new cases of yellow fever reported today the bulk, as before, com ing from below Canal street. That section is now very generally infected though there are some areas of 1t which have thus far entirely escaped.
 Slow progress is made by the disease in what Is known as the American por- tion of the city and with few exceptions the cases there are isolated. Both above and below the fight against the sickness Is being prosecuted with the greatest en- ergy by the federal physicians with the q 1.x.s.. 1f whom have been taken temporarily into the marine hospital service and given the title of acting assistant surgeon.
 The health authorities are still unable to assert whether the high water mark In the matter of the daily aggregate of cases has been reached and they consider 1t too early to hazard a guess at the extent of the victory which they expect to win, but with a large proportion of the cases responding to good treatment they do not believe there is any chance that the disease can approach the propor- ton of any of the serious epidemics of the past. though the population of New Or leans Is almost double what 1t was in 1878.
 Friction Among Doctors.
 Some friction has existed in scattered quarters where local doctors have re- sented the activity of the inspectors in eases which they have themselves report ed. but Dr. White is displaying great tact in handling the situation, is constantly smoothing out the wrinkles and hopes within few days to have so perfect a working system that the cause will no longer exist for dissatisfaction.
 Concerning the statement that drug zfsts have been prescribing for patients in order that families might avoid report ing sickness to the authorities, Dr. White said today that he did not consider it within the line of his duty to prosecute druggists who prescribed without doc tors certificate. but that he would act 0ovsrds them e hs would towards .physi-