Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
Eleven Deaths in New Orleans, Six Victims
Being Italians,
MAY STOP RUNNING STREET CARS
Physicians Think Vehicles Garry Mosquito
from Infected District to Other Points
STATES TAKE FIGHT INTO COURT
Citizen of Louisiana Asks Federal
Judge for writ of Ejectment
Directed Against Mississippi
Militia.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 2.-The record OF
the yellow fever situation up to p. m is
as follows:
Total cases TO date ..........................S7S
Total deaths to date ........................ 70
New substitute foci Observation-Disclosures.
Total Sub-fOCi o4
At Ship Island Quarantine station, in the
gulf of Mobile bay, to date four cases
Shreveport, to date, one case.
MAontgomery Ala to date one case case.
Westwego, La, to date, two cases and
Mgiers. to date, one case
Sunrise La, to date one case.
Empire, La, to date, one case.
OstrlCa, La, to date, one case
Point Celeste, La, to date. one case.
Vaccaro La. to date. one case.
The fever situation showed no material
change during the day and the few new
foci shows that It is not spreading with
I the rapidty of former years. or the deaths
| four were in the Emergency hospital, four
in the original districts and three in the
| Charity hospital
Todays reports Of the fever situation
showed again an increase in the number
! of deaths but the health authorities con-
! fessed to no alarm over the situation and
! said that more fatalities were to be looked
| for from the fact that in the past three or
! four days there has been a sufficient in
| crease in the number Of cases to warrant
| the expectation OF heavier mortality. High
! temperature, succeeded by heavy precipi-
! tation and cooler weather, produced cl-
matte conditions also favorable to fatal-
/ ties Practically all of the deaths were Of
| Italians and nearly all Of them were either
in the Emergency hospital or in the dis
| trict adjacent thereto. Some Of the VIC
tins were unfortunates whose cases were
| only reported in the last two days, indi-
eating that they were practically in a
| morihund condition when their illness was
! discovered.
! The appearance of two or three cases yes
| terday among persons whose business does
not carry them into the infected districts
! downtown has given an impression that the
stegomyia is possibly being carried out Of
the zone Of infection through the medium
of street cars Two or three Of the city
lines cross Canal street, running from the
lower end of the city TO the upper. They
come and go through the section where the
fever has been most severe and not Inn
probably are picking up mosquitoes and
transporting them TO other sections. 1t has
been suggested that the authorities take
action to prevent street cars from crossing
Canal street.
a severe rain and thunderstorm during
the night caused the washing away of oil
from the many miles of cutters and
through overflows caused hundreds Of cis-
terms to discharge the oil which had been
put into them. In consequence the ward
organizations began reoiling all cutters,
cisterns and ponds.
Deaths Among Italians.
It is confidently believed that once the
infection begins to decline in the section
below Canal street, where the conditions,
sanitarily and otherwise are more favora-
BILE for the spread of the disease, there
will be little difficulty in stamping out the
malady which may be under treatment
elsewhere. There is no attempt to conceal
the fact that the extent of the fever shows
a serious state of affairs. but there is not
believed to be any justification for the
terror which seems to have spread over the
country outside of New Orleans
That the fever continues as an italian
infection is shown by the fact that in the
list of thirty-two new cases the italian
victims number twenty-five. The six OF
the eleven dead were all Italians.
In spite of all that has been done TO
reassure them, many Italians stll continue
to make efforts to conceal their cases
They are stll panic stricken and turn in
, fear from the doctors and health officers
1t largely due to the energy with
which the marine hospital forces set about
the work Of discovering hidden cases that
J Tuesdays record made so large
With local inspectors they ignored custom
! and insisted on reaching spots where they
r believed cases TO exist. Since this cam
+ paign has been in progress, cases have
turned up in the most unexpected places.
In one instance when the officers had made
a thorough inspection OF premises and
failed to find what they were looking for,
, they went through skylight and found
n sir m he In
, case they found a patient concealed under
a cistern. The other day a wagon loaded
with household goods and accompanied
. by Italians started to cross on one OF the
ferries. Suspicious officers insisted on en-
investigation, and when the goods were un-
; loaded, a man very sick was found in the
bottom of the wagon.
One Of the reasons why the fever has
spread so extensively among the Italians
is said to be the fact that many OF them
e have been accustomed to sleeping without
protection against mosquitoes.
: Want Mail Fumigated.
p Postmaster Woodward today received
y a letter from the railway mail service at
/ Atlanta, saying that CreenviIle, Miss, has
notified that Office that hereafter It will
. receive no letter mailed from New Orleans
. | that has not been dsinfected and that
under no circumstances viii It receive
| newspapers, whether disinfected or not
| Postmaster Woodward has talked over with
the marine hospital surgeons the questions
). Of the fumigaton OF mail. Mr.. Woodward
n was told, that having accepted the mos
y quito theory, the surgeons considered dis
l; infection Of mail unnecessary.
r It was said at the State Board OF Health
n today that Secretary Hunter of the MIS-
| sissippi board, would probably be here
= shortly 10 survey the situation generally,
j. and especially 70 study the scientific fight
now in progress based on the mosquito
n theory. However the Louisiana authorities
n expect little modification OF the quarantine
regulations until the fever is cntirel-
u stamped out owing to the widespread "
L disposllon Of the general public of MIS- ;