The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-04
DIR. WHITE IS
 ENCOURAGED Returned From Trip to.
 Border. RESULTS ARE SPLENDID Louisiana Quarantines Will
 Be Modified. Thirty New Cases Reported But Sur geen Declares That Situation
 is Under Better Control
 Than Ever Before.
RESULTS ARE SPLENDID

New Orleans, Oct. 3.-Oncial record to 6 p. m., Tuesday: New eases, 30; total cases to date, 3.o72; deaths, 2; total deaths to date, 396. New foci. s: cases under treatment. 210; cases discharged, 2.466.
 The report of thirty new cases is not at all surprising in the face of the low record of the past few days because IL is to be expected that some days there will be sharp contrasts in the figures Only four of the new cases are above Canal Street. Algiers reports three, among them a woman living in Mo- Clellanviile, previously reported as suspicious, but whose death removed all doubts of the nature of her illness The other death Is that of R. A. Ar rington, the night chief operator or the Postal Telegraph Company.
 The surgeon general has ordered arl- other of pr. Whites of1cers to Missis- sippi to help out on the gulf coast where the situation is far from promis- ing, Past Assistant Surgeon McMul- Ian got his order this morning. He has been in command of the upper Ninth Ward and will be succeeded by Dr. Ebert who has been in command of the sixteenth and Seventeenth Wards. Dr. Trahan will advance from second to first place in those wards The separate organization for the original infected district which has been under command of Surgeon Ber- ry, has been abolished and the district divided up between the Fifth and Sixth Ward headquarters.
 No cases were brought into the city from the country nor were any re- ported by the Marine Hospital Service for the right bank of Jefferson Parish but the situation at Wiilswood where eleven cases were discovered Monday has resulted in the establishment of m emergency hospital there. The beds and bedding were shipped there today.
 Grand Isle seems to have developed quite a nest of infection following the few sporadic cases reported from there some time ago. Twenty-nine new . cases on the island were reported to- day. This place is under the direc- tion of Dr. Inglebacn. The country reports were: Patterson. new cases; Kenner. new cases, 1 death; Aiexau- dria, new cases: Grand Isle. 2s new cases; Terre Bonne Parish. new cases
 Having gone almost to the Texas State line, Surgeon White of the Ma rine Hospital returned today generally pleased with the results of his trip and expressing the opinion that quarantine over a large portion of the State would be materially modified by the middle of the present month with the likelihood
 
 lifted by the first of November. By November 1 Dr. White expects that there will be frost over a large DOT tion of the State and as secondary in- lection cannot appear inside of two weeks there Is no reason why bars to personal communication should not be removed fifteen days before frost ap- pears.
 Not only here but wherever infection existed Dr. White said there was cause for congratulation over present condi- tions, the weekly statistics showing splendid results in the eradication of the fever.
 'I find conditions excellent in the city after my brief absence" said Dr. White. There is every reason to be pleased with them and absolutely no reason for disappointment when as today there is a slight advance in the number of new cases. We are now passing our hght on weekly averages and watching es- pecially each locality in which a case appears. For four days there has not been a single new case in the origin ally infected district. When we have discovered the last concealed case the fever will speedily disappear.
 Mission Was Successful.
 Dr. White said his trip was made primarily for the purpose of arranging for plantation laborers to reach their fields of employment and in this he was successful. all the health authorities in the different parishes agreeing with him that. with the precautions that had been arranged for. the danger of spreading infection would be reduced to a minimum. Dr, White said he had found a most liberal spirit prevailing in some of the parishes and that the re- suits showed that those parishes which had followed the rules of the Marine Hospital Service and instituted sane quaIentines found themselves many thousand dollars richer than parishes which resorted to extreme measures.
 An indication of the improved condi- tions here is found In the gradual re- lease of surgeons who have been in New Orleans. Between eight and ten who were originally located here have gone to other points. Dr. McMullens is the latest to receive moving orders, following Surgeon Berry. who went to the Mississippi coast yesterday. pr. Mullens's new point of activity will be Scranton. There Is not much fever in this vicinity but it is thought that if the situation is taken hold with a firm hand it will be controlled and stamped out before ir has had a chance to spread. The departure of Drs. Berry and Mullen will enable Dr. White to still further concentrate the work of his forces.
 Most of today's cases came with n rush early in the forenoon, few being reported after that hour. The total showed some advance over the two preceding days, but the deaths again were low. one of them being Mrs. Peter Willett, living at McLellanville. She came here a few years ago from Phila- deIphia. Another was night chief ope- rator Arlington of the Postal Te1e- graph who came here five years ago from Kentucky.
 Dr. Shanley has Relapse.
 Dr. C. NJ. Shanley of South Dakota, who moved to a plantation on Bayou Baratara two or three years ago from the Northwest was reported today to be still seriously i'll. It is believed that the doctor yentured back to active work in fighting the fever too soon after recovery from his own attack. Most of the new cases of fever that are now being reported are certiheated by physicians. Few of them are reported by inspectors. In the beginning more came from inspectors than from phy- sicians, One of the curious results is that more cases of yellow fever are ac- tuaIly being credited to New Orleans in aha aiicisI reports than are warranted