The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-03
CONDITIONS
ARE IMPROVED
FEVER TO BE STAMPED OUT BE-
FORE FROST.
ITALIANS SEEK PROTECTION
To Address All Italians in the City
Verbally as With Circulars Urging
Thorn to Observe Regulations Of
Health Officers.

New Orleans. by the end OF pres
ent week the authorities in charge Of
the fever situation believe that there
will be such thorough touch with con-
ditions that they will be able to speak
with authority as to their ability to
control and eradicate the disease in
the advance of frost. The daily in
spection and report is becoming more
perfect and by that time not only will
1T be possible to tell precisely the ex-
tent of the fever, but a period will
have arrived when no more new cases
traceable to the original infection may
be expected. There was no accurate
census of the population Of what is
known as the Italian district at the
time of the fever outbreak and in
spite of the most painstaking efforts it
is now impossible to locate all who es-
capped from that zone when the result
OF the autopsical investigation became
known. Ever since then Italians have
been slipping out of the district after
night fall, but the number of escapes
Is becoming fewer and fewer and with
increased vigilance of the next day or
two the exodus will have been COM
pletely suppressed. General communi
cation with the district has stopped
and only those expose themselves to in
lection whose business compels their
attendance In the territory where the
fever has ragged most fearfully. With
IN the next week, therefore, it is prob
able that the health authorities will
be able to put their fingers on every
man who has left the danger zone and
ii there is then the same absence of
spread from the heretofore the author
tiles believe they will be able gradu-
ally to destroy each focus. AS mat
ter OF fact the foci are not actually
as numerous now as they are repre-
sented to be in the daily reports. In
a number of instances where the fe-
yer was reported to have appeared
some time ago, the case has either
been cured or died without further in
lection Of the house or vicinity.
New Orleans Much distress is be-
ginning to appear among the Italian
population growing out Of the practi-
cal expulsion Of the fruit business
from Louisiana, and relief work is
one Of the tasks which the Italian So
cletles and citizens committees will
now have to address themselves to.
While the six-day detention order
OF the board of health lasts it is ex-
pected that all the lines which have
been operating fruit steamers into
New Orleans will divert their ships to
Mobile and this will have the effect
OF throwing couple of thousand la
borers, many of them Italians, out Of
employment.
The average Italian here has a half
dozen IN his family and sometimes the
children number ten or more, and with
the many mouths to feed the head of
family cannot long remain in idle
ness without having to appeal to pub
lie charity. /
Under the circumstances these Ital-
lans who are not in the fever district
are asking that they be given employ
ment by. the health authorities in the
sanitary and other work now going on
in order that they may not become
public charges.
A meeting Of representative Ital-'
ians has been held and permanent Or
ganization formed.
A campaign of relief and of educa-
ton into the hygienic requirements Of
the situation mas been decided on. It
was also resolved to follow the advice
telegraphed by Ambassador Des
Planches and to address all Italians
in the city verbally and by circular,
asking them to pay ready obedience to
the regulations imposed by the health
authorities. t
Several thousand dollars has been
raised for relief and other works, all
the societies having decided to aban-
don the banquets and other entertain
ments they had planned and apply the
funds set aside for those purposes in
helping their countrymen in the pres
ent emergency.
The health authorities are very
much encouraged by the excellent
work that is being done at the emer-
gency hospital and they believe
that when the results of treatment
given there become known families
will readily consent to have their pa
TENTS sent there.
v. Randazzo, one of the GONZALES
cents from an attack Of yellow fever,
has related his experience in public