The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-24


 | put foot in New Orleans. Quarantine has | completely penned him up in Baton Rouge and he has been compelled to conflne him self to telegraphic and telephonic com munication.
 One of the features of the situation that | is attracting attention now is the fact that what are termed new foci now exceed the | number of cases under treatment. It Is an 1 encouraging feature because 1t is an indi- | cation of slow extension of the fever, | which is particularly true of the district | above Canal street. It Is hoped, however, soon to reduce the number of foci. There has been no attempt at reduction since the first announcement of the fever a | month ago Ordinarily 1t would be as- sumed that a focus would become extinct | in twenty days, the length of time within which the stegomyia should furnish fresh | cases in any neighborhood which has been 1 infected. Tn order, however, to take no | chances the authorities are to cancel no elapsed. Many such lapses of time will soon occur now without secondary in- | fection."
 Dig Up Three Cases.
 The energy of inspectors dug up three cases today In an Italian settlement In | the vicinity of Lizardi and Johnson streets. number of cases and deaths | have already occurred here but the loca- | ton Is far beyond the outskirts of the city and access to 1t is difficult. It Is such nest of infection as these which the authorities hope to remove when the proposed new detention hospital has been established As to this hospital Dr. White was unable today to make an announce ment He has, however. in mind, a build | ing for 1t.
 | Large quantities of rock salt have been purchased by the federal authorities with view to salting stagnant gutters and | pools Imperfect drainage exists In many of the wards due to the fact that the drainage system has not yet been entirely completed and the result Is much stag nant water in gutters that cannot be flushed. The salt Is expected to destroy the pools as breeding places for mo- ! squitoes. Dr. White today ordered quan- titles of the salt into every ward. Soldiers Becoming Restless. Some of the soldiers stationed at the United States barracks are restless under their enforced quarantine. Communica- - ton with the city has been absolutely prevented and the appearance of fever in St. Bernard makes it probable that no communication with that parish will be allowed. The offcers in command are. however, exerting themselves to make the detention of the men less irksome Not case of fever has appeared in the bar racks and the soldiers are considered to be In absolutely no danger.
 A freshly infected spot In St. Bernard parish was announced today. It is at rerre- Aux -Boeufs. the parish seat. Health Officer Meraux made an investigation of the sickness prevailing there and found five genuine cases and three that were suspicious. The town and its vicinity were invaded by Italians after the fever ap- peared here and the infection Is therefore traceable to New Orleans.
 In the list of new cases today was a negro who reached the city from Abbe- ville town in Southwestern Louisiana He applied to the hospital for attention and his case was diagnosed as yellow fe- yer.
 Camp Wyman Temporarily Closed.
 Camp Wyman has been declared tenn porarily closed. The camp is now filled to its limit and will remain so until Au- gust 2S, so that 1t Is impossible to send any one there until after that date.
 Drs. Guiteras and Smith have still un- ger observation the case of Engineer Murphy Of the steamer Excelsior, running 10 Havana, who was sent to the marine hospital Diagnosis of yellow fever Is practically impossible within the first 'iii'ts 7siA HouTS ana the Murphy case is open to some doubt pr. Guiteras' in- terest naturally arises from the fact that Havana. when he left it. was completely Tree of the fever. If the case develops yellow fever in his opinion the engineer must nave been infected before he left there, or been bitten by an infected mo- sauto on the voyage
 Dr. Leach Not Worshlpped. Many sensational reports have been sent away from here as to the hero worship of Dr. Leach of Minnesota Is tho opJect. pr. Leach has been courteously recelVed by the public in general and mas been the recipient of much attention. Many thousands of people here are talk ing arsenic and many would like to see an actual test of it. But there Is no truth In the statement that the entire population Is mobbing the doctors hotel m the effort to have audience with him. Ihe doctor addressed a large meeting tonight, the feature of which was consid- auon Of Dr. Whites letter printed today m which 1t was shown that congressional committees after hearing opinions of the army and marine hospital surgeons had rerused to authorize commissions to ex- periment with arsenic as prophylactic or plague, cholera and yellow fever. No One Responsible for clsterns. Resulting from the arrest of Hart New