The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-18
WORSE THAN NEW ORLEANS Had Five Deaths from Fever
 Yesterday l DEATH IN NEW ORLEANS Emergency Hospital VIII Receive No More Patients and the Place Will
 Soon Be Closed-other
 Fever News.
FEVER RECORD TO 6 p. M.
At New Orleans.
At Pensacola.


 Total deaths... ... =. .....' oe os DlSchar9ed.. ..s Under treatment. =. =. .....lfo New Orleans. October T.-With the thermometer at 80 degrees and no pros- poets of frost for weeks, and only SIX cases and one death as the fever record, and only 125 cases under treatment the most skeptical must admit that New Or leans has won her fight against yellow fever Surgeon White and his corps or officers have been the recipients Of many congratulations during the past few days but these were accentuated on the re- port today. Of the new cases not sln- gle one was above Canal street, and one was in Algiers, while one case was re- ported from Jefferson parish. The death Is young girl living in Algiers.
 The Emergency hospital has closed it's doors to new cases, and as soon as the present cases there reach that stage Of convalescence, which will permit of their removal to the Charity hospital, the in- stitution will be finally closed. It has done splendid work under the manage ment of Dr. Hamilton P. Jones and has
 
 ing the first few weeks was very high, because most of the patients admitted were in the last stages of the disease, and beyond any treatment. but after the pa tient became educated up to the value of the hospital and began walking there on the first day of illness, the death rate became even below normal. There has been one death there in the last three weeks. There are now only eighteen pa tients under treatment there.
 44ere was not single new case report ed from the country parishes, except the one brought into the city from Jefferson. The reports from Mississippi were also very encouraging, showing:
 Vicksburg, new cases; Natchez, new cases; Port Gibson, new case, and Mis- sissippi City, l new case.
 Receives No More Patients. Further evidence that the marine hos pital authorities believe the extinction of yellow fever in New Orleans to be n matter of only short time was given to- day when 1t was announced that no fur ther patients would be received for treat ment in the Emergency hospital. There were in the hospital today only twenty three under treatment and when .Aese have been discharged cured it will be finally closed. The population of the hospital has been decreasing for some time and many of the nurses and doctors have been relieved from duty within the past few days.
 The fever has grown so mild that little difficulty Is experienced in treating cases even in the humblest homes, and only the very poor, and few of tliem, have been finding an asylum in the hospital, fl1A .A-k xa --1-t- one of the heaviest items in the cam paign. Dr. White believes that the cases will run low from now on until the fever finally disappears, and he considers that when the present patients have been re- leased within the next ten days or fortnight, there will be practically no fever left.
 Record Exceptionally Low. Today's record was an exceptionally low one, due partly to the fact that vel low fever Is wearing itself out and partly to the fact that suspicious cases are not included in it. It has frequently been pointed out in these dispatches that New Orleans was being credited with more yellow fever than she actually had, and that the actual results which Dr. White and his forces were achieving were not apparent to the country because of the fact that suspicious cases that deyeloped Into other diseases were being promiscu- ously reported along with yellow fever. Dr.. White frankly admitted the swell- ing of the daily lists, but defended 1t on the ground that public safety was supe- rior to private convenience. Now he sees no necessity for misrepresenting the rec ord and the figures from now on will show how magnficently the service has overcome the disease.
 The services of eleven acting assist nut sA-L1 local physicians were dispensed with to- day as a result of the consolidation of various ward organizations. Forty-one officers are still engaged in the fight. sixteen of them members of the service and the other twenty-five local phvsi- clans. Dr. White. in dispensing win their services. paid a high tribute to inc work performed by the doctors whom he engaged here. He said every on of them had measured up fully to the reoulre ments of the service and they had proven their ability to have command in a fiqbt such as has been fought here.
 Detention Camp to Be Closed.
 Orders were issued today for the closing of the Avondale camp which has been jointly operated by the Marine Hospital service and the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads. The last details
 will be admitted Into the camp tomor- TOW. The camp VIII discharge it's last inmates on October 24 For some time past it has been used as a clearing house for laborers. skilled and unskilled. going into the sugar districts. By the date mentioned grinding will be in full force and 1t Is believed that the plantations twill be amply supplied with labor. If
 they are not, it is promised there will be, by that time no longer any severe quarantines maintained against New Or leans by the sugar parishes.
 Probably the last case the courts will have to deal with in connection with the fever fight was settled today It was that of pr. Rufus Blue, who was charged with having invaded the Lawler home in the third ward and inflicted considerable damage by the thoroughness of his fumi- gation. It was shown in the testimony that the federal authorities believed that the Lawler home was the focal point for the infection in It's neighborhood and that Dr. Blue and his force were accompanied by the police and were operating in ac- cordance with law when they made the invasion. Dr. Blue was discharged.
 Bacterioioglsts Have Failed.
 Although the bacteriologists who have been at work at the emergency hospital still refuse to talk, there is believed to