The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-27
Daily Record Shows No
 Material Change. FIGHT AGAINST 'SQUIT0
Salt Now Aids in Work of
 Determination.
Festive stegomyia Will soon Be Driven From the Cutters, Where He Took Refuge When the
 Cisterns were oiled.

New Orleans, Aug. 26.-Oficia1 report up to 6 p. m. Saturday:
 New cases, today, 47; total cases to date, 1.712. Deaths today. 10; total deaths to date, PAP. New foci today. 12; total foci to date, sso. Cases under treatment, 243.
 change in the situation aside from the slow improvement. The number of deaths is not at all surprising in the face of such intensely hot weather as has prevailed during the past few days. The new foci are about equally di- vided above and below Canal Street. Of the deaths two occurred at the Char ity Hospital and two at the Emergency Hospital.
 The campaign against the mosquito has been conducted from every possible direction, the latest being the salting of all the gutters on cross streets Five hundred tons of salt have been put in the gutters during the week, the idea being to make solution Of 1-Z per cent, which has been proven to be ann pie to destroy all the wigglers. Since the screening of the cisterns. the steg- omyia mosquitoes have taken to the gutters for breeding places. hence the special lains to make even these places impossible as breeding places.
 
 Officer of Memphis, has entered such vigorous denials about the woman. Mrs. Frank Guercio, who came here and de- veloped the infection within two days, Surgeon White has gathered evidence in the form of afidavits. One is an afldavit signed by Dr. Heber Jones himself. dated Memphis. August IA. stating that the woman was there on that date. She signs another affidavit to the effect that August Is she left for New Orleans. arriving in the fore noon of August IS, and was taken sick on the night of August IT. She swears that she was in Memphis one month North Fourth Street, coming direct to New Orleans.
 Discovery Led to others.
 It also developed today that the dis eovery of . case on Chestnut Street. In this city. traceable directly to Gnlfport, resulted in the discovery of the three cases at Gulfport Friday. This case came here from Gulfport last Monday and was taken sick Monday night. She lived in the northeastern part of Gulf port. Surgeon White reported to the Surgeon General and he in turn wired Surgeon Wasden, who finally unearthed three cases in that part of Gulfport yesterday. Surgeon White has been advised of the assignment of Assistant Surgeons Guthrie and Devalin to duty here. They will arrive in few days Surgeon Won Ezdorf has been assigned to duty to diagnose cases in tiIe country par ishes as an expert. Today he went to Patterson and returned tonight with pr. Souchon's party.
 President Souchon and party return ed tonight from Patterson and Issued a proclamation taking charge of the sit uation there on behalf of the State Board of Health. Dr. c. l.. Horton was placed in charge and was also commissioned as deputy sheriff by the sheriff of St. Mary Parish. Anoth- CT letter was received by Dr. Stark from Leeville at the mouth of Bayou Ia Fourche. Dr. Devron Is in charge here with Dr. Marcour as his assist ant and pr. R. W. Seay of Grand Isle as his voluntary assistant. Dr. Dev- ron reports 223 cases of yellow fever now under treatment and a total of twenty eight deaths to date. Eecessi- ties of life are being supplied by the people of Thibodeaux. Surgeon von Ez- dorf will go to Leeville tomorrow.
 The following reports were received from the country:
 death on Delizen plantarion; Amelia. St. Mary Parish, seven cases; Bayou Boeuf, across the bayou, one case; Elizabeth plantation, Iberville, one case and one death; Hanson City, six cases and one death; Kenner, one case and one death-an Italian patient jumped into a well and was drowned; Pecan Grove. St. Charles, three cases; Shrewsbury, one case. Lake Provi- dence asked that Dr. Krauss be as- signed to permanent duty there and Surgeon General Wyman agreed to t. Mississippi City reported no new cases but GuIfport has found four more mak-
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 Keeping Firm Grasp.
 Except in 1853, September has been the month yielding the largest number of fatalities during visitations of yellow fever. and the Federal authorities are therefore, taking steps to maintain their present control of the situation September frequently brings increased precipitation. causing stagnant pools of water, the overflow of cisterns and destruction of the effects of oiling With stormy weather there will be in- creased danger of damage to cheese cloth screening. All these conditions will have a tendency to add to the propagation of mosquitoes and pr white today urged upon all the work CTS. volunteers and others. to increase their vigilance so that every rainfall that may come will be followed by re- Dewed oiling of cisterns and salting oi cutters and rigid inspection of screens finder, the Brandao ordinance 1t Is re- ouIred that every cistern shall be ecreened with wire of not less than 1S mesh by the 1st of October Because Of the fact that there was a complete famine of wire in the hardware estab- Iishments when the fever appeared and tbe anti-mosquito ordinance was passed nernnission was given to do all the Screening with cheesecloth. Large sup niles of wire, however. are now coming to the city and all the police agencies will he put to work with view to hav- ing landlords replace the cheesecloth with wire and thus secure permanent protection against the mosquito.
 pr. White. discussing the meteor oligical conditions and their effect upon the fever. said today that while q drouth lasting six weeks would un- doubtedly cause much suffering and de- privation, because 1t would cut on a large part of the drinking supply of the community, it would be a most val, uable, not to say the greatest. ally oi the health authorities in the light they are engaged in. for it would prevent tht birth of countless stegomyia Wnich you'd be bred with month of heavy