The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-05
The Crescent City will not Admit This
in so Many Words, but Says Fed
eral Control OF Situation will
Restore the Peoples Waning
Confidence.
CIV the Associated Press

fever situation to be beyond control,
but in the hopes of reyiVing confidence
here and elsewhere in the South, OIL
cial and business interests today de-
cided TO send d request to President
Roosevelt to have the United States
government assume full charge of the
struggle now in progress to wipe out
yellow fever from New Orleans and
Louisiana. The public approves the
action taken. Expectation is that
within the next two days Surgeon
General Wyman. with all the resources
of the government will be enlisted ac-
lively in the campaign.
The decision to ask the Federal
government TO take control was reach
ed at a meeting of city officials and
others held late today at the Cotton
Exchange.
1t was the consensus of the meeting
that government control would restore
eonfidence throughout the other states
IN the South and the belief was ex-
pressed that Surgeon General Wyman
would be able to send a force of ply
SicianS TO New Orleans thoroughly
equipped for the handling of the yell
low fever situation, because of their
experience and unquestionable facili-
ties To enforce a scientific campaign
against the fever.
When local health officers first took
charge OF the situation il was hoped
that the fever could be stamped out
within reasonable time, but the in
lection has spread. and so frightened
have the people become in the South
over the Increase in the number of
cases that New. Orleans is threatened
win Il serious paralysis of trade by
reason of radical quarantines
a telegram signed by the mayor
and others present, was addressed to
Governor blanchard. telling him of
the action taken.
At conference at the city
Hall it was decided that Mayor
Behrman should issue a proclama-
ton requiring every business house in
the city TO close Wednesday so that
employees might take a hand in the
general cleansing movement. Merch-
ants are to be asked to furnish carts
to carry away refuse. A thousand
carts will be required in the work
special appeal was also sent to
householders asking them to cooper
ate in the sanitary campaign by thor
oughly cleansing their back yards.
Today the Board of Health institut-
ed a new rule, requiring it's inspectors
TO make prompt report of cases. To
that order was due the fact that TWEEN
" new cases for today We're announce
the three O'Clock report showed seven
new cases and two deaths. while at
six O'Clock there were reported 81
cases and five deaths. The inspectors
had turned their cases in lunches
late in the evening and the evening
report had a disquieting effect on the
the public which had been led by the
afternoon report TO. believe that the
situation was improving.
dc of re- r
ly moving from New Orleans to St
Tammany Parish, the only near haven
to which they can go. Yellow fever
has never developed in st. Tammany
Parish during the most serious cpl
denies.
A thorough inspection of the red
light quarter today disclosed not a
suspicious case of fever.
Business houses are feeling the ef-
feet of the quarantine. There has
been reduction in business and trade
is quiet