The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENT OF
 STAMPING OUT YELLOW FEVER

continued at business with his temper ature high He had no idea that he was a victim of the prevailing fever. Day before yesterday he collapsed. Yes teriay he died.
 The danger of infection through ex- posufe in the neighborhcod where the fever has been fiercest Is Illustrated in the case of America Sparfllo and his wife. who lived on St. Ann street. two miles or more from the originally infected territory. The couple were engaged in truck farming. They car ried their products daiy to the French Market. Several days ago both were stricken with the disease and the hus- band is already dead.
 Expecting Golden Stream.
 The announcement that large amount of money has been deposited here to the order of the marine hos pital service surgeons has created a false impression among a large num- Der of people now out of work and
 with the movement to stamp out the fever. The marine hospital officers have been besieged with applications for various positions and there Is ap- parent.y a widespread belief that the government Is going to turn loose
 golden stream in the plan of fever eradication. It Is explained that no money Is to be spent by the govern ment in sanitary work here. The gov ernment Is not in control of the sit ation nor does 1t expect to be. All the funds that 1t will put out will be ir. the establishment and maintenance
 of detention camps and in any disin- lection of cars or steamboats that may be required.
 One of the good results that is ex- pected to flow from the present mis- fortune of the city will be a vast ex- tension of the powers now lodged in the Board of Health in the matter of enforcing sanitary and hygienic meas ures, Hundreds of people have been found crowded into ramshackle tene- ments, some of them built perhaps a century ago. and surrounded with none of. the essentials, of the most primitive sanitation and hygiene. The district has been a rich field for the planting of epidemic disease and there | is a strong demand that laws shall | be passed and enforced to revolution ize these conditions. not only in the present infected area but in other parts l of the city.
 It is not improbable also that the movement to bring Italian immigra- 1 tion here on a large scale will suffer, partly by reason of the terror which l the present infection has spread among the Italians and partly by reason of the entirely unwarranted prejudice which seems to have. arisen against extensive Italian colonization With the negro Hooking to the cities, Louis
 lana and Mississippi planters have had difficult problem to solve in obtain i ing adequate labor to till their fields Thousands of Italians have in recent years replaced negroes in the sugar i, fields of Louisiana and as the Italian 1 is usually an excellent Iaborer there has for some time, been a strone
 nov vement Ito provfdc stfch facilities fr ! the way of an immigration station as
 would divert to this gateway a larger ! proportion of Italian immigration. Infected by Italians.
 1 That movement has suffered a se- were setback by reason of the fact 1 that it unfortunately happens that il ! is the Italians who have infected not only New Orleans. but points in other |, States In this connection, it Is re- 1 called that in the epidemic of 1853. the
 severest New Orleans has ever had. |, | was the German who suffered most ! among the nationalities, due to the
 large flow of German immigration into
 Louisiana during the fifties.
 Much surprise was expressed at the
 State Board of Health when a dispatch
 reached 1t today from Dr. Gremillior 1 at Alexandria announcing the appear 1 ance of case of yellow fever there Rapides Parish has taken extraordi-
 nary measures to keep out the infec- | tion and 1t was thought that none ol
 the fugitive Italians would be able tc pass the cordon of guards with which
 she had surrounded herself. The Alex
 andria case was traced to New Orleans
 and that opens up the question of the
 efficiency of some of the quarantines
 established in the country parishes 1 Tho period of incubation of yellow fe-
 yer is five days and this Italian there
 fore must have got into Rapides Par
 ish within that time, although the
 quarantine has been in effect for
 month longer period There Is nat
 urally much anxiety among the health
 officials to know how many more Ital-
 fans have slipped out of New Orleans
 recently and managed to make theii
 way into uninfected localities.
 l Dr. c. NJ. Brady returned today from l Lake Providence, La, on the Missis-
 sippi river in North Louisiana, bring l ing information that the Italians wh.
 invaded that section have been com
 pletely isolated and are constantly un-
 der observation. The case of fever
 there is carefully guarded and every l precaution has been taken to prevent ! further infection. -.5:
 Commercial men have suffered SC.
 verely by the outbreak of fever. Ne" Orleans houses as a rule. when 1t be- came evident that the fever was here and that quarantines would be imposed
 against passenger traffic, sent orders
 to their representatives not to return
 to the city but to remain in the coun-
 try and follow their usual routes, the | expectation being that no commercial 1 quarantines would be attempted. Since then, h6wever, cases of fever have ap.
 peared at different points in the State
 us well as Mississippi. with the result
 that the travelling men find their zone i of activity very greatly circumscrlbed
 in addition to which the unwillingnes'
 of many towns to receive freight from New Orleans has made 1t difficult fol them to obtain orders.
 GOVERNMENTS CIRCULAR.