The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Fever'S Course About Run
 in New Orleans.
MONDAYS FINE REPORT
People Glad That Mir. Roose-
 welt is Coming.
Natives of Crescent City No Longer Fearful Concerning Yellow Pest, Are Returning
 In DfOveS.

New Orleans, Oct. 2.-ofhcial record to p. m. Monday:
 New cases, 19; total cases to date, 2.042; deaths, 8; total deaths to date, 3s4; new foci, 6; cases under treatment 204; cases discharged, 2.444.
 The small report today is generally regarded as cause for congratulation. The Monday and Saturday reports have been the heaviest as far back as the re- cords go, and the fact that todays list of new cases is down in the teens shows that the fever is practically stamped out. This view is further confirmed by the number of cases under treatment, there being only 204, of which thirty nine are in the Emergency Hospital
 There are no specially prominent names in the list None of the infected asyIums or convents reported any more cases Two cases were brought into the city, one from Chalmette. in St Bernard Parish and one from Abita sprines. in St. Tammany Parish. No additional cases are reported from the last named parish, but Dr. Brady has been sent over there again to invesu- gate the case reported yesterday rom Madisonville. All of the deaths were below Canal Street
 Passed Assistant Surgeon T. D. Barry, who has been in charge Of the original infected district ever since the Marine Hospital Service took charge. was to- day ordered to Gulfport to report to Surgeon Wasdin. He will be placed in charge at Scranton and Moss Point. where quite nest of infection has been unearthed.
 Country news was not a. all disquiet- ing The Marine Hospital Service found eleven cases on wiilswood plantation in Jefferson Parish, over which they have recent yassumed charge. Abita Springs. new case; Wiflswood planta- ton, II new cases Patterson, 20 new cases in two days, i death; Kenner, new cases; La Fourche crossing, new cases; Pointe Ia Hache, case; Wood lawn plantation, 1 case; Amelia, Bayou L'Ourse and Boeuf, i2 new cases and no deaths in seven days.
 Glad Roosevelt ia Coming
 The announcemeft through the As sociated Press of President Rooseveif'S decision to visit New Orleans on his forthcoming trip to the South caused profound qualification today and 1t IS regarded as certain to give fresh stim- ulus to the fight now in progress to drive out the fever before the end of the present month. The Presidents refusal to be swayed by the fear of personal risk, which so many inhu- ences have pressed upon him. has fur ther commended him to the people of Louisiana, and there is on every side disposition to make his reception markedly cordial in appreciation of the sympathy he has shown for and the active assistance he has given to the city and State in the passing crisis. Mayor Behrman said today that the arrangements for the reception would be pushed with enthusiasm and that he felt supreme confidence that the President would find himself as safe In New Orleans on October 26 as If he were then in his own home.
 If he desires to do so during his Ut l. mitted to visit the emergency hospi- tai, which Dr. White and his associates of the marine hospital service regard as perhaps the place in the city most certainly proof against the danger of infection. It is expected that when he comes the President will desire to vis- 1t Dr. White and learn from him per sonally something about the struggle that has been so successfully carried on, and pr. White will take that op- portunity to extend an invitation to him to visit the hospital. ..
 Since its establishment not a single case of fever has developed among any of those who have been connected with the hospital, whether in its old loca- tion or in it's new. There have been on duty among patients suffering from the worst phases of the disease. from twenty-five to thirty nurses, male and female, nearly all of them non-im-
 
 tors, many of whom also have never had the fever. yet not a single one of these has developed a case.
 Proved StegOmyia Theory.
 Both doctors and nurses have par ticipated in a repetition of the experi- ments carried on by Major Reed near Havana. of non -immunes sleeping in the soiled bed clothes and of otherwise subjecting themselves to infection, but all have escaped and their experience has been to the medical men the strong est confirmation locally presented that alone through the agency of the ste gomyia Is the fever transmitted
 In connection with the visit of the President wide circulation has been given to the protest of Dr. J A. Egan, of the Illinois Board of Health. to the American Public Health Asso- citation, in which Dr. Egan states that the history of yellow fever in the South clearly indicates that the num- Der of cases in September is no index of the spread of the disease later in the season." In order to reassure the country 1t is pointed out that pr. Egan is unfamiliar with the official statis- ties. With two exceptions, in all the serious epidemics that have occurred September has been the worst month. The exceptions were 1853. when out of the 7,S4s deaths. 5,133 occurred in Au gust, a month earlier, and in 1855, when 1,2s6 deaths occurred in August against STA in September In 1S47 there were 1000 deaths in September. 19S in October; 1853, September 9s2 October 147; 1854, September 1.234, De- tober 4so; 1855. September STA. October e7: 1858. September 2.2o4. October 1,1S1; 1867, September 1887, October l,O72; 1878, September 1.7so, October 1,065 In 1867 the deaths dropped to 103 in No vember and in 1878 to 147. these oc- curing early in the month.
 It will thus be seen that there has always been a rapid decline in the fe- yer after September. In the years mem tioned the mosquito theory was un- known. This year there has been a scientific fight on the basis of that theory and the result has been that there were less than half the deaths in Eeptember that there were in August with every promise that the disease will finally disappear during the current month.
 Today's report was the most sncour- aging in the matter of new cases for any Monday since the fever started