The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-24
OUTBREAK OF YELLOW
 FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS
CITIZENS AND OFFICIALSDETER-
 MINED ID PREVENT AN EPIDEMIC


 Measures--Governmen win Aid in the work-An the Cases Thus Far Com fined within n Limited Arca--Quar-
 antine of the City-Detention Camps
 to be Established on All the Railroad
 Iines--AlI Freight Cars to be Fumi-
 gated to Kill Mosquitos.
 New Orleans, July 2S.-The following statement was given out to-day by City Health Officer Kohnke:
 During the past week or more a number of cases of fever have occurred within a limited area in section of the city occupied almost exclusively by a foreign population.
 No cases of the fever are known to exist outside of this area. save two or three which are directly traceable to 1t, and the infected area, few squares in extent is under vigorous disinfeetion.
 Tt is expected that the measures adopted and operated will be success ful in eradicating the infection. the na- lure of which Is suspected to be yellow fever, though the autopsy findings in lonly one case determined this as 2 con- lclusion
 To-day a meetingsof leading citizens with the mayor and the head of the lstate and of the health departments adopted measures evincing determina- Ition to prevent further admission of the infection or spread of that which exists and a confidence that 1t can and will be stamped out entirely
 The quarantine situation affecting the icity is not serious. in that 1t applies only to persons and baggage and this will be relieved by the immediate es- Establishment of detention camps on the { lines of all the railroads, where travel CTS who desire to go to the quarantine they may remain five days and secure certificate of non-infection from the marine hospital service. Surgeon J. H. l Whitesof the United States marine hos pital service to-day arranged for the establishment of camps within forty eight hours at the following points: l Slidell, on the Qneen and Crescent; \ Avondale on the Southern Pacific, and Texas and Pacific; Kenner, on the Miss4 .tissippi Valley and Illinois Central, and Waveland, on fhe Louisville and I Nashville.
 Dr. Haase, city health officer of Memphis, and Dr. Tabor. st srrs F 2 5. officer of Texas, and four doctors rep- I Iresenting local boards in Texas, arrived here to-day and participated in a gem eral conference at which Governor {, Blanchard came here from the state N military eneampment to consult with I the state and city authorities on the situation and to offer all the resources of the state to stamp out the disease. The visiting health officers expressed themselves as willing to accept the cer- < tificates Of the marine hospital service l for travellers who have been detained in the detention camps.
 Freight traffic will not be interfered
 with in the least, the only regulation \ required being that freight cars shall # be fumigated with sulphur to kill mos
 quitoes.
 I Dr. Ross of Austin, Texas. has been
 detailed by Dr. Tabor to remain here
 and represent the state of Texas with
 the consent of the local authorities,
 who have always expressed their will
 lingness to facilitate other boards of
 health in acquiring information about
 the situation here.
 NJ President Souchen of the Louisiana
 board of health said tonight: { Wa
 have nothing to conceal. We have rel
 strieted the infection to the territory
 where it seems to have developed and
 any board of health is welcome to send
 a representative here to observe the
 situation as it exists