The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
.156 DEATHS FROM TIE FEVER.
NE ; ORLEANS HAS NEARLY 1000
. CASES so FAR.


yellow Jack Losing Its Italian Character
No More shipments Of Bananai
DIR. Leach Finds Men VINO WIN Let
Him Experiment on Them with Arsenic.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. is.--The yellow fever
10 beginning to lose the distinctively Italian
character It had during its frst days. and
In consequence the death rate Is decreasing.
In July II was almost wholly limited to
Italians, there being $50 cases among them,
a. against "a among all the other nation
alities Of New Orleans, and 50 deaths were
Of Italians. against OF other races. In
August there have been $40 cases Of Italians
to 2sS OF other nationalities. Tho Italians
reported cases for tho last three days.
Tho dead number So Italians and 20 Of other
nationalities.
The totals to this morning arc: Italians.
500 cases and 1T deaths, or one In Eve;
other races, SIT cases and % deaths, or ono
In twelve. This classified record does not
include 50 cases and Ia deaths Of to-day.
Next to the Italians stand the Creolee
or French, In cases and mortality, this
being due probably 10 the spread Of the
disease from the Italian to the Creole quar-
tor. There have been worry few cases
among those Of American or English dos
cent and still fewer among tho negroes.
Tho popular belief that negroes could not
have the fever and that Creoles rarely had
1t has been thoroughly dissipated.
Tho Louisiana State Board Of Health
broke down q number Of illegal quaran-
tines to-day. Tho worst case was at Wood
worth. where the track Of the st. Louis.
Watkins and Gulf Railroad was barricaded
with orossties, placed there by the quaran-
tine guards to prevent the passage Of any
tnins, freight or passenger Complaints
como from the lumber camps on Bayou
Black, Terrebonne and other streams In
Terrebonne and st. Mary parish that the
logging business has been practically sus-
pended and the loggers are actually suffer
Of the closure by quarantine Of all COM
nrmioation between them and the rest Of
the world.
bananas have been declared contra
band Of quarantine at Now Orleans The
satisfactorily and mosquitoes may be found
IN them. On order from Warrington no
bananas will be allowed to be shipped from
New Orleans to any point north or south
during the rest Of the season. Among the
Sohaaf Of the New Orleans Item. He va.
from Fort Wayne, Ind. and had been in
New Orleans only q few years. Although
not inmvne he had q number Of assign-
nents In the fever district. His wife was
and he nursed her to convalescenoe. When
he was attacked the nervous strain
and exhR ustion Of nursing had left him
very weak and be succumbed easily to
the fever.
ton has voted to become permanent and
will keep up its sanitary campaign, year
after year. until New Orleans Is in perfect
sanitary condition. Inspec tor Of Police
Whitaker viii use the police to enforce the
awi fnuSsr II vhs
were made to-day against landlords and
real estate agents for not screening the
cisterns Of tenants and daily ahldavits
will be made against them until they take
action.
The italian relief committee has added
free boarding house to It's free kitchen for
destitute Italians. Dr.. Leach Of St.
Paul MINI. who Is the author Of the theory
that the taking Of arsenic In small doses
xiil prevent, the he yelor fever has aIrv sd
have offered themselves for experiment
and will submit to being bitten by infected
stegomyia mosquitoes after two weeks
Of arsenic treatment.
mayor 0oQrTn6n mas f0CelV0O CODY Oh
the resolutions adopted by the Louisville
Board Of Trade expressing sincere and
heartfelt sympathy for the people Of New
Orleans and declaring that the brave and
energetic fight which they are making
to confine the dreadful soourge In narrow
limits and stamp It out entities them to the
admiration and thanks OF people every
where.
Tho Louisiana Confederate reunion ixed
for Aug. % and a at Lafayette has been
postponed until all guarantees have been
removed.
The City Council Of Lafayette has levied
. tax Of $3.50 per 81 900 to pay for quarantine
expenses. This is the first quarantine tax
80 far levied, the expense In other cases
having been met by borrowing money.
The Board Of Health OF Minden, La. has
gone to pieces over the enforcement Of the
quarantine regulations, the president. DR..
Luther LONGING, resignine. This makes the
tenth resignation OF health officers In the
to enfe roe SONS. Of the wild Quarantine,
systems declared by town councils and
mass meetings.
Atlanta, Dallas and half dozen other
Southern towns are now engaged In deny
ing that they have yello " fever and are
looking for the man who started the rumor.
AUSTIN. Tex, Aug. 13.--The quarantine
which the State Of Texas is maintaining
against Louisiana has exhausted the APP
Lanham to-day authorized the creation Of
deficiency Of SO 900 to continue the work
Under the new appropriation bill def
ciencv cannot be created and the State may
soon be without funds with which to con-
tinue the Quarantine. The new appropria-
ton bill will become effective Sept. 1, but
the quarantine allowance is only $4,000.