The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-03
New Foci at New Orleans
 Subsiding.
IS UNCHANGED
Health Authorities Profess
 No Alarm.
OpiniOn of Omcer Kohnke That the Conditions are Hopeful Meets With no Dissent In the
 Crescent City.

New Orleans, Aug. 2-The yellow fe- yer record up to 6 D. m is as follows:
 New cases, 32; total cases to date, S7s: deaths, l; total deaths to date, 7s; new sub-foci. 4; total sub-foci. 54.
 The fever situation showed no ma teriaI change during the day and the few new foci shows that it is not spreading with the rapidity of former years. Of the deaths, four were in the emergency hospital, four in the original district and three in the charity hos pital.
 Today's reports of the fever situation showed again an increase in the num- Der of deaths, but the health authori- ties confessed to no alarm over the s1t- uation 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 increase in the number of new cases to warrant the expectation of a heavier mortality. High temperatures succeeded by heavy pre- cipitation and cooler weather produced climatic conditions also favorable to fatalities. Practically all of the deaths were of Italians and nearly all of them were either in the emergency hospital or in the district adjacent thereto. Some of the victims were unfortunates whose cases were only reported in the past two days. indicating that they
  tion when their illness was discovered
 There was no dissent among the au- thorities from the view expressed by Health Officer Kohnke that conditions were hopeful. There is, of course, a certain geometrical progression to be considered in the appearance both of new cases and of deaths and for some time to come the visible results of the scientific campaign that Is being waged will be few.
 Energy Unrelaxed.
 But. in the meantime. there is. and there will be, no relaxation in the en- ergy with which the battle Is being fought, and. with only a slender num- ber of isolated cases in the district above Canal Street, it is confidently be- leved that once the infection begins to decline in the section below. where the conditions. sanitarily and other wise are more favorable for spread of the disease, there will be little diff f1culty in stamping out the cases which may be under treatment elsewhere There is no attempt to conceal the fact that the extent of the fever spells a serious state of affairs. but there Is not believed to be much justification for the terror which seems to have spread over the country outside of New Or leans -.+
 That the fever continues an Italian infection is borne out by an analysis of the full report of the City Board to the State Board of yesterday, forty two new cases and six deaths. In the list of forty-two the italian victims number thirty five. The six dead were all Italians. On Hospital Street. in the heart of the originally infected area. there were twelve cases, all of them in a single block. In one of the Hos pital Street houses five cases were found and in another four Barracks, Char tres, Decatur, Dumaine. St. Phillip and al vicinity the French market. furnished the bulk of the remainder of the new cases. All most without exception the victims are persons of humble station in life.
 In spite of all that has been done to reassure them, many of the Italians continue to make efforts to conceal their cases They are still stricken with panic and they turn in fear from the doctors and health officers. It was due largely to the energy with which the marine hospital forces set about the work of discovering hidden cases that Tuesdays record was made so large. With local inspectors they ignored cus- tom and insisted upon reaching spots where they believed cases to exist.
 Unexpected Cases. Since this campaign has been in pro- Rress cases have been turned up in the most unexpected hooks and corners. In one instance when the officers had made
 
 failed to find what they were looking for they went through sky light and found a man lying on the roof. In another case they found a patient con cealed under cistern, The other day wagon loaded with household goods and accompanied by Italians started to cross on one of the ferries. Suspicious officers insisted upon an investigation and when the goods were unloaded a man very i'll was found in the bottom of the wagon. @.s: One of the reasons why the fever has spread so extensively among the Italians Is said to be the fact that many of them have been accustomed to sleep without bars. Whether or not there Is illness here or not, ninety-nine out of every one hundred people in New Orleans in the summer time are forced to sleep under netting to protect them selves against mosquitoes. The hum blest Italians have in many instances. refused to follow the custom In con sequence they have been prey to the plague of insects and since the fever appeared infected stegomyia have stung them at will
 Postmaster Woodward today received A letter from the railway mail service at Atlanta saying that Greenville. Miss. had notified that office that hereafter it will receive no letters mailed from New Orleans that nas not been dlSln- fected and that under no circumstances will it receive newspapers, whether dis infected or not. Greenville will doubt F less be temporarily without mail or E newspapers. Postmaster Woodward has talked over with the marine hos pitaI surgeons the question of fumiga- tion of mails MT. Woodward was told that, having accepted the mosquito theory, the surgeons considered disin- lection of mail matter utterly unneces- sary Several Mississippi towns have written here on the subject. The post office will hold their mail until the scare Is over
 pr. Hunter Coming.
 It was said at the State Board of Health today that Secretary Hunter of the Mississippi Board of Health. will probably be here shortly. Dr. Hunter did not come when the report Of sus- picious casese was communicated to him. but quarantined on telegraphic advices subsequently, received by him His present visit is tu survey the sit nation generally and especially to study Gs--k-s fr. Arr