The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
THE FEVER'S
 NINTH WEEK Practically No Change at
 New Orleans. INCREASE IN SUB-r0CI Authorities See No Reason
 For Alarm.
INCREASE IN sUB-FOcI
Well Known Young Business Man Among List of Yesterdays vic- tims--Reports From the coun-
 try Districts.

New Orleans, Sept. 23.-Following Is the record to p. m., Saturday:
 New cases. 45; total cases to date, 2,s0s; deaths. 6; totai deaths to date. s66; new foci H., cases under treat ment, SIC; cases discharged, 2,133.
 There Is practically no change in the local fever situation. outside the slight increase in the number of new cases and deaths. The change in the wealth. CT is believed to be responsible for the deaths. Among them Is well known young business man. Alexander Fl Kohnke. son of the president of the board of trade and nepnew of the city health officer. Dr. Kohnke is himself i'll. but his illness is not the prevailing one. Among the ne wcases are two nuns in the convent of Perpetual Alteration on Marais street, and we'll known young dentist. There are only four Italian names among the new cases, and one among the deaths.
 The country reports were not dif- ferent from the usual run. pr. Schayot of Plaquamine parish reported the troubles he was having with the Ital- fans on Pointe Celeste plantation. and said that they had barricaded them selves in their houses and warned all doctors that they would kill the first one who attempted to enter. The civil authorities were consulted and 1t was decided to put the whole plantation
 
 has disappeared and then proceed criminally.
 A suspicious case died at Indepen- dence in Tangipoaha parish Saturday morning and the medical inspector, Dr. Brady, has gone there to investigate. The country reports were:
 Patterson, new cases; Barrataria, 2l new cases, 3 deaths; Kenner, new cases. 8 deaths; Port Barrow. (foF sev- en days) 10 new cases; Smoke Bend, l new case; Kemps Bend, l new case on boat; TalIu4ah, 5 new cases; Reserve plantation (not in duarters) 1 case; Pointe Celeste, death.
 No Concern Occasfoned.
 Today ended the ninth week of the fight against yellow fever in New Orr leans with record of cases and deaths for the day somewhat higher than ex- Rected The authorities have made it plain since the beginning of September that wide variation in the uumber of cases might be expected from day to day without occasion for any concern over the situation. Keen interest, how ever. has eentered among the lay public in the death list and any increase of it proves disappointing. Yet while the deaths were greater than yesterday and the highest of the week they were still much under the record for many days in August and at the beginning of Sep tember and the authorities say neither in them nor in the number of new cases zay cause for revision of their opinion that the fever will practically have wasted away by the middle of next month.
 More than ordinary interest was felt today in the death list because it tn- cluded the name of Alexander H. Kohnke. Mir. Kohnke was 2S years old, held a responsible commercial position and was the son of President E. F. Kohnke of the Board of Trade and nephew of President Quitman Kohnke of the City Board of Health. His case was reported last week among the list of suspicious. Ultimately 1t developed into yellow fever, but he had passed the crisis and was on the way to re- covery when a weak heart caused his collapse. No others of prominence were among the fatalities today.
 Surgeon White spent the day down tke river at the quarantine station to- day to look into the matter of the dis infection of ships which trade with this port. The station is regarded as one of the best in the country, en1- pioyine the system which was estab- lished by Dr. Joseph Holt, That sys- tenn, rigidly enforced, kept the fever out of New Orleans for eighteen years. The facilities are ample to provide the most thorough dislnfection Of ships and the officers in charge have seen many years of seervice at the mouth of ths r.yer.
 BacteFtOIOgteal Investtmatfon.
 The investigations at the emergency hospitals by Drs Archinard, Pothier Rosenau and Goldberger, all eminent bacteriologists. con ntinues. but nothing of an ofleial character has been given out as to the nature of the discoveries that have been made. It Is said. how ever that the bacterlologists have been tracing whatever they have discovered in the shape of germ through all the stages of yellow fever. They have taken blood from the llghtest cases among children. from cases in the hrst days of illness. from cases of black yornit and finally have held repeated autopsies upon bodies of people who have succumbed to the most typical cases of the fever, of which there are reported to have been considerable number at the hospital. If the in VestfRations prove successful, even If an anti-toxin is not subsequently, dis covered, the value to science, to com merce and to humanity will, it is con- tended. be fmmeasurable. now that 1t has been completely demonstrated that the only agency of transmission of the disease Is distinct species of mos quito.
 While there have been a considerable number of new foci In the past week, an examination of the maps in the of dce does not disclose any extensive spread of the disease. Many of them represent merely the crossing of the disease from one side of a street to another As the cases are promptly reported, however, the inspectors are able to tag them immediately and to take due precautions to prevent a spread of the infection.
 Detectives Exnicions and Woodworth. who were sent from here to the Bay Shore detention camp near Mobile to -~nt fine Drfsoner Mfllack hui missed him because the guards had turned him over to the conductor of an Louisville and Nashville train and returned him 10 New orleans. came back to the city tired and dusty today.
 T'ut Thr0uEh the Mill.
 When the detectives reached the camp they were immediately told that they must stand Immigration lest they had brought a fugitive stegomyia In their clothes from New Orleans Roth were put through the mill and when shsv were released thaS found that