Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-08-19
THE INFECTION
is SECONDARY
This Stage Being Watched For In
Terrebonne Parish.
CASES AT PATTERSON
There Are Fifty.Five Patients, but
the Mortality Has Been So Lit.
tie as to Excite Hardly
Any Alarm.

New Orleans, Aug. 19.-An analysis
Of the report for Thursday shows that
thirty-two of the seventy-four new
cases of yellow fever appeared in the
heart of the originally infected quarter
The explanation given by inspectors is
that after their own houses are disin-
fected and the mosquitoes killed that
some Italians go around and pay visits
to sick friends. becomei Infected and
carry the fever home with them.
The situation shows Canal street con-
tinues TO improve. n that section obe-
dience to government regulations Is
more general and the results are plain
While the report Friday morning show
ed five new cases. only thu Re new
squares are infected.
The unexpected decline in the death
rate is giving such feeling of satisfac-
ton here that people are beginning to
believe the possibilities of the visitation
have been overdrawn. Doctors, how
ever. say the 10. death rate is due to
the fact that practically the whole com
munity has been educated up to the ne
cessity of calling doctor the moment
high temperature develops. in conse-
quence of which most cases are taken
hold of in their incipiency and are soonl
on the road to convalescence One of
the results of the campaign is likely to
be an insistent demand hereafter that
all doctors and all citizens shall pledge
themselves to make known the appear
ance of the first suspicious case.
So successful have the authorities
been In removing foci In the upper sec
ton of the city that the belief is genera,
that If the first cases here had been
promptly reported they could have been
handled. the infection stamped out andl
New Orleans spared a quarantine OF
long duration.
Bon Ami and Arodyne plantations. in
Terrebonne parish. are practically free
OF fever now. but a close watch is to be
kept for secondary Infection.
At Patterson. while the total cases
reached hfty-fve. the death rate has
been SO Insignificant that the early /
alarm has passed. Alexandria has stiIll
only one case. but desires an expert to
be sent thither in order that the entire
town may be examined for suspicious
fever.
There is considerable interest here
over the proposed house to house in
specsion at Guifport. because G1hlfporti
has been doing a large maritime trade
There has always been some apprehen
sion here that the fever might slim into
tb-t c,ty.
me board Of health at Lake Charles
nnds ffselfs helpless 10 make Roadway
against the state Of public opinion inl
tue town. The health authorities desir.
10 put on a sane quarantine. but nunjc
'pai ofnciais and citizens generally have
ranged themselves on the other side
All EFFORTS 10 open the doors TO freight
from New Orleans have been unsuccessI
President Souchon has asked the
railroads to run small trains To infect
ed points in order 10 furnish s,,nnlies
TO fhe people. DIR. White has endorsed
the recommendation both as a means
oi reiief In the people of the stricken
communities and as sanitary meas
ure OF The highest importance.
zachary. La. has ordered the Mis-
s'ssippi Valley railroad to move all fits
camps In the vicinity OF that town. This
action is based on reports that ItaI.
ans are joining the camps and may in
fect the locality.
Only one death was reported Thurs.
lay night at New Orleans
UP TO noon Friday there were four-
leeh new cases and one death
The state board Of health here
earned from a physician who had done
'uiy among the sick on Riverside plan
anon st Mary's parish. that there
nad been total of forty-eight cases
Ind three deaths.