Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-08-12
YELLOW FEVER
STILL SPREADING
More Than Six Hundred Gases and
One Hundred Deaths to Date
NAY CALL OUT STATE MILITIA

tue corrected record lofticiaD up 10
O'Clock last night: New cases. so !;
total cases to date. 616s deaths, 4 !:
total deaths. i12; new subfoci, II;
total subject, lis.
These figures vary Slightly from
those that have been sent out lately,
but are The official record which was
today checked up and recorded TO
date. The large number OF new cases
and sub-foci is surprising, but no at
tempt is being made to account FOR it.
OF the new sub-foci three are uptown
and the balance downtown
Two dead men were found in a
shanty in the woods. and il was found
that they had died OF yellow fever.
They were Italians. who had died from
lack of attention
Archbishop Chapelle has passed the
crisis ia his illness. and is now regard
ed as on the road TO recovery.
II the present chaotic condition OF
quarantine matters in Louisiana Is
not speedily terminated. ia obedience
70 the proclamation issued. the state
board OF health has announced its IL
civil powers. and. that failing. OF ask
ing Governor Blanchard TO call out
the militia to restore and keep order.
The proclamation resulted from the
letters sent by the governor TO Presi-
dent Souchon. OF the state board OF
health. The proclamation prohibits
any town. parish or village from refus-
ing admission TO a person from a non
inseVied locality holding a health Ger
tifcate not over % hours old. or To a
person from an infected locality who
has spent six days In a detention camp
and has beeA discharged with a ma
rine hvcuital certificate. Interference
with the passage OF steamboats, OF
trains is forbidden unless they violate
legal quarantine regulations No mail.
freight or express matter shall. under
the proclamation be refused from iu-
fected territory. provided IL Is carried
in cars which have been fumigatad by
the marine hospital service. All per
sons who disregard these regulations
are warned that they make themselves
liable 90 answer in the courts. It IL
announced that DO more illegal re-
strictions on travel will be tolerated
Surgeon White put in a hard half
days work here. and In the afternoon
took train FOR lafayette. Ia. 10 at.
tend a conference OF various health
boards in that section og tho state
called with a view 20 securing an
amelioration OF quarantine regula-
tions. DIR. White expects that by to
night all of the additional health of
GERS which the government has order
cd to New Orleans viii be here.
Today IS the day set for the general
street cleaning movement There IS
n pretty general suspension OF bust
ness, an of the On merchants have volun.
teered GO lend their carts and wagons
and employees t1 assist Boz the work.
The difficulties The authorities en-
counter In trying 90 get al concealed
cases was illustrated when Police on
Ger T. !. Gregson was. perhaps fatal
ly injured while trying 20 break into
a house where there was known 10
be a case OF yellow fever. Gregson
was called on TO assist the authori.
ties. So stubborn was the opposition
of the people az the house IN Chartres
street against invasion by the inspect.
ors that 10 became necessary TO break
In, with the result that a heavy oaken
door fell on Gregson and crushed him.
The state board OF health oy reso-
luton called on Governor Blanchard
for troops TO protect trains and traffic
from local guarantees which have cut
trans-continental systems In two