The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-12
.r,,,ro -, :. -Jion of the fever before
3raI Above Canal Street.

,r. w death rate is attributed to the | et mat the fever no longer prevails Beh-
 laSy among tho Italians and other ig-
 rant foreign classes. It has spread 10 lne more intelligent classes who call phy- sicians promptly and follow instructions implicitly. That Is one of the signs that convince the physicians that the dls- ease Is practically under control For. merry they regretted the appearance ol new foci above Canal street. Now they gather confidence from the appearance of the foci in that quarter, because II indicates to them a certain reduction In the number of fatalities. The fact rnat the fever Is here and has been for long time has made the intelligent population take to the use of physics and the result is that this class is unusually well foru- fled to withstand an attack of the dis- ease. Death among them Is usually the result of some previous organic trouoie.
 Causes Considerable Alarm.
 The situation at Tal1uiah and Lake Providence Is now causing the state board of health more concern than anywhere else in the state. The fact that pr. Tichenor has asked to be withdrawn from the former place has brought to light the demoralized condition of affairs that prevails there. The town Is of less than 1000 population but the fever Is generally distributed over it. 1t is yirulent in type and there is not sufficient scientific help to handle all who are ill Learning Of the conditions there Dr. Charles Chas- saignac, president of the Polyclinic and an eminent physician of New Orleans, today went to President Souchon and volunteered to go to Tallulah to take charge, sacrificing large practice to do so Dr. von Ezdorf has also beeen di- rected to proceed to Tallulah, while the state board today sent three additional l fn flat roinf With doctors ChaS- saignac and yon Ezdorf on the scene and with sufficient nursing help, it Is thought that confidence will be speedily restored and that the fever may be speed fly checked.
 Arrange to Take Trip.
 Rev. Dr, Beverly Warner and Dr. Brady of the state board today arranged to take a trip through the Barataria country where there Is still much sick ness The efficient measures taken by the Jefferson authorities together with the assistance given by the state board of health has, however, checked gener- al spread of the disease and now that there is medical and nursing help at hand the fatal character of the sickness has been much lessened. Professor Boyce of Liverpool was to have made the trip with Dr. Warner, but he has succeeded in making arrangements to go to Brit 1Sn Honduras 10 IuTIner bluuy kio dA0- ease, and will leave here on Wednesday,
 Dr. Corput reports that the hospital is now filling up with patients and 1t is apprehended that the situation on the plantations for a distance of ten miles above New Orleans will steadily im- prove. Four nurses have been assigned to duty at Kenner and patients will be received from all the surrounding coun- try.
 VIII Save Sugar Crop.
 The railroads are preparing to co-op- crate with the sugar plantations in tho effort to get ample hands into the various plantations in the sugar country. They expect the assistance of Dr. White in maintaining the Avondale camp. From that camp laborers can be sent over the Southern Pacific, Texas Pacific and Mis- sissippi Valley roads which are the three lines which traverse the sugar districts and advices from the country indicate that the health and parochial authorities In all the sugar parishes will stretch their restrictions to the limit in order to aid the movement of labor into them. Frost causes no injury but a distinct advantage to cane, but what the planters must guard against Is freezing With the pros pect of getting a reasonably adequate supply of labor they believe that this years great crop will be taken off with comparatively little loss.