Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-23
TY-SEVENNEWCASES
kTHs AND TWENTY.oNE NEW FocI INFECTION AT
oRLEANs-woRsT BELIEVED TO BE OVER, AND THIS
hon PREVAILS BECAUSE DISEASE HAS BEEN CHECKED IN
r. IN WHICH IT FORMER LY RACED MOST.

r1eans. Aug. 23.-Oficial re-
% b. m. yesterday:
81 ses, Ct; total to date, 1,503.
81 9; total deaths, PA.
ci, 81; total foci, 342.
remaining under treatment,
4 ct that there was little
esterday from the record for
ays past was accepted by the
hthoriites as confirming their
rs Of the encouraging ma
% he yellow fever situation. In
itation that New Orleans has
hst and September have been
his of most frightful mortal
list producing a death list of
1858, and September a death
BOO in 1873. The fever fight
kfore contend that if the dis
held in check in the period
ought to be on an ascending
virulence and when both the
ID deaths should be leaping to
figures, there is no reason
y should reserve opinions that
kst is over. Nevertheless, the
rs gone down the line from
T hrters that there must be no
y III of the measures that have
% Recommended as necessary to
3 control of the situation.
Deaths were again principally
Dns bearing foreign names. An
bn was Arthur Hill, an EN-.
bf one of the large wholesale
o1s houses. Hill came here last
Der from New York with his
Ia two children. Never having
summer here, he was not &C
d.
n Berhsman's Office is over
ID with letters, many from
. but others from well-meaning
rs who offer specifics against
1N fever. Many of them are
iIacides.
Isolated case of yellow fever, or
mig a close resemblance to it.
unsupported at Vaudeville in st.
~ any parish today. 1t has teen
ree&ed and will be watched with
l1e interest. with the hope that it
II re demonstrated again that in
& ection of Louisiana yellow fever
II not last The case is traceable to
~ Orleans.
Tom Tassart to Send Water.
Among toady's telgrams to the may
was one from Democratic Campaign
lnager Thomas Taggart of Indianap-
8. Mr.. Taggart wrote of his inter
hand sympathy and offered large |
ftributions of water from French
* for the hospitals and for poor
TENTS. The offer was accepted.
Surprise at Mississippi's Action.
Come surprise is expressed here at
!, announcement from Jackson that
, fever at Mississippi City has been
clared epidemic. 1t is not believed
It the number of cases reported
m there is sufficient to cause alarm
owing to the mildness of the type
al authorities see no reason why it
,uld not be held in check Mean :
le the appearance of the fever on
coast has not had the effect of !;
nging any New Orleans people sum-
ring there back to the city.
I'm inquiry at the railroad office and
the offices of the marine hospital
vice shows that comparatively few
Nth certificates are now being is
ID. All of those who were alarmed
,r the situation and refused to run
risk of attack have gone away,
| northbound travel is now below !.
NAL.
Patterson reports fifteen new cases
| no deaths.
It. Tammany parish reports posi-
) case on the road between Mande-
e and Lewisburg, which came from
v Orleans.
Ianson City reports six new cases.
renner reports one new case.
here was one death on the Eliz-
,th plantation, in Iberville.
|arpy plantation reports two new
es.
L. Rose, in St. Charles parish, has
new cases and one is dead.
,orrinne plantation, in st. Bernard
6sh, below the city, reports one
tn, an Italian boy, whom the mex
r,,~co ol1owod RI cot Ech