The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-01
New Orleans Growing More Hopeful Each Day.. THE RECORD YESTERDAY Five Deaths and Twenty-0ne
 New Cases. Authorities Trust by End of Week to Control Entirely Spread from
 Original Source of the
THE RECORD YESTERDAY

Disease.
 New Orleans, July 31.-New cases up to p. m., 21; total cases to date. 802; deaths to D. m., 5; total deaths to date. 62; new foci. 5; total foci, oe.
 Of the five deaths reported above, three occurred in the Emergency Hos pital and all five bore Italian names.
 Another new case was discovered outside of the city, being that of an Italian who left here week ago with several others and took up his resi- dence in Morgan City. On their arrival there they were quarantined and one of them was taken sick four days ago. Today Dr. Tarleton, President of the St. Mary Parish Board of Health; Dr. Goldberg, of the Marine Hospital Ser vice, and two Morgan City physicians diagnosed the ease as yellow fever and 1t was so announced. Nothing has been heard from Dr. Brady, who has gone to Lake Providence, opposite Vicksburg, to investigate reports of two suspicious cases there.
 System More Perfect
 By the end of the present week the authorities in charge of the fever sit- z uation believe that they will be in such thorough touch with conditions that they will be able to speak with
 
 and eradicate the disease in advance of the coming of frost Daily the sys- Vtem of inspection and report is becom- Wing more perfect and by that time not Hpnly will it be possible to tell precise Ny the extent of the fever. but a pe- friod will have arrived when no more Thew cases traceab1e to the original in- lection may be expected.
 There was no accurate census of the population of what is known as the Italian district at the time of the fe- yer outbreak and. in spite of the most painstaking efforts. it is still impossf- ble to locate all who escaped from that zone when the result of the autopsfcal Investigation became known. Ever since then Italians have been slipping out of the district after nightfall. but the number of escapes is becoming g fewer and fewer and with increased vigilance in the course Of the next day or two the exodus will have been conn pletely suppressed. General communication with the dis trict has stopped and onlx those ex- pose themselves to infection whose business requires their presence in the territory where the fever has ragged most f1ercely. Within the next week, therefore it is probable that the health authorities will be able to put their fingers on every man who has left the danger zoue and ie there Is then the absence of spread from the outlying infection that has been shown here tofore the authorities believe they will be able gradually to destroy each focus. As a matter of fact the foci are not actually as numerous now as they are represented to be in the daily reports In a number of instances where the fever wss reported to have appeared some time ago the case has either been cured or died without fur iy,fn nf ha
 Those Who Leave.
 Many people are still leaving the city. but it is difficult to separate those who are going away on their usual annual vacations from those who are seeking to get out of harms way Numbers of representatives of houses in other cities Of the printers. telegra- phers. stencgraphers and clerks who have not been here long enough to be- come acclimated have gone North. The great bulk of the city's population is still here however, and apparently de- termined to stay until the mosquito theory is proved or frost comes. It may seem an anomaly. but doctors are among those who are complaining of a reduction in their income. That is particularly the case among the higher class of physicians and is explained by the fact that many or their rich pa tients have left the city. An epidemic has never been profitable to the physi- cians because it means inevitably long hours of work and much charity ser- vice.
 The life insurance companies of the North and East are still doing business here They have keHt in close touch with the situation and so far as learned none has advised its local representa- tives to cease writing. They will doubtless continue to do so unless the situation becomes much more serious In 1897 some of the companies with drew when the fever started. Though there were nearly 300 deaths that year. one of the largest companies in the East escaped with the payment of only two policies
 Three deaths occurred in the emer- gency hospital today the number or patients in which has been largely in creased. All cases found with no rela- lives to care for them are promptly re- moved to the institution. where the most elaborate modern arrangements have been made for their treatment,
 Tn connection with the interview | nrinted in the East with Health Offi- , ger Heller of Philadelphia, Mayor , Rehrman, who wired him today. receiv- ! ed a dispatch from Dr. Heller in which tbe said that he had received no dis Match from President SoGchon, of the H,ouisiana Board of Health. and that a mistake had been made In the news
 
 huoted Dr. Souchon as wiring that the fever this year was as bad if not worse than in 1878.
 Work of the Citizens.
 The various citizens committees con- tinued their work with great energy to- day. Reports returned from the sev- enteen wards gave detailed figures of the number of premises visited. cisterns screened and oiled, cesspoois treated and sick persons found unattended by physicians. Chairman JanNier of the general committee expressed himself optimistfcally concerning the outlook. He said that the medical authorities had taken hold of the situation and were handling 1t with great skill ana intelligence and that it was the conh- dent belief of the fran 'al and com mercial interests associated with him on the committee that the fight would be successful and tnat it would be con- clusivciy demonstrated th2t the stego- myia was the only egent of ransmls- sion.
 Presidea: Souchon received adVices today that the wilmot case at Morgan City had been pr1nosEcad yellow fe- yer. Morgan City ir eighty miles west