The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30
NEW ORLEANS ENCOURAGED
 IN FIGHT AGAINST FEVER

| to provide for an examination of all
 passengers within an hour of their time
 of depart Ire. If this arrangement is acceptable to Governor Vardaman and
 Health Ofhcer Hunter 1t will be at once Eut into effect.
 The conference of representatives of l the health boards of the various South
 ern States which Dr. Souchon has call- | ed to meet here tomorrow Is not likely | to materialize. pr. Souchon has re- | ceived no acceptances of his invitation. The conference was intended to dis l cuss quarantine and other matters 1 with a view to @ modification of harsh l regulations. but 1t is probable now | that there will be no concessions by | any of the States until there Is evil dence of the certain eradication of the | fever.
 | Reports which have been sent out | from here that thcre is any conflict
 between the scientific forces which are
 directing the fight against the fever
 are entirely misleading. It is an-
 nounced that thorough harmony pre- vails between the State and City Boards and between them and the ma rine hospital service physicians sent here. The city health board under Dr..
 Kohnke has Jurisdiction of conditions
 in New Orleans. under the supervision of the State Board. with which 1t Is I | representing Surgeon General Wyman. when he came here announced that he l desired to work in unison with the local authorities. He recognized that control of the situation was entirely in the hands of Dr. Kohnke and he ex-
 pressed himself as willing to lend all
 the forces under his control to Dr. | Konhke in the handling of the situa- tion.
 Will Work Together.
 At a conference in which both of the | health boards, Governor Blanchard and pr. White were present. there was a l perfect understanding that all agencies | should work together, with Dr. Kohn- ke and Dr. Souchon recognized as of | f1cially in control. All the work that has been done since then has been l without friction.
 There has been some talk here that | the whole situation might be trans l ferred to the direction and control of | the government but that Is not likely | to come to pass. The fever has not | been officially declared to be epidemic The local officials who are handling 1t I are able. scientific men with ample re- l sources and there has been no desire | expressed by the Federal authorities l for any change in the present arrange l ment.
 Rev. Dr. Beverly Warner today sent
 an address to the clergy appealing to them for assistance in the present | emergency. Dr. Warner says: "The influence of the reverend clergy l Is such, and their loyalty and public | spirit has been so often demonstrated, | that we venture to ask your cooper | ation with the citizens volunteer or-
 ganizations in the present emergency. l United action produces the best re-
 suits. We beg to ask that you will | 0.,n
 day in behalf of the work now being l carried on by the health authorities of the city. We ask that you will urge 1 them, whether they believe in the mos | quito theory or not. that they will give | hearty assistance to the authorities | who are attempting to stamp out the mosquito as at least one source of in fecton. Urge upon them the patriotic , duty of allowing cisterns to be oiled and screened and cesspools to be treat
 ed with disinfectants. Many householders. a small minor ity. but still enough to do mischief,
 refuse permission to oil the cisterns.
 This refusal nullifies to great extent
 the work accomplished on the premises
 of willing householders.
 Enemy in the Open.
 Tn previous vlsitations of the fever
 we have been fighting in the dark. striking at an unknown enemy coming from a mysterious source. The con- census of scientific opinion fixes upon
 the mosquito as the agent of transmits
 sion of yellow fever. The enemy,
 therefore, is in sight. So far as your power extends, then, we beg of you to
 use it for the spread of information
 concerning the mosquito theory and to
 use your influence with your congre-
 gation to hold up the hands or the
 constituted health authorities"
 Tn connection with the street clean ing work the mayor has now under two special days next week to be called tsreet cleaning days, when all the forces now engaged in sanitating the city will be supplemented by addi- tional aggregations of helpers in an effort to complete the work
 Business at the French Market and in the business houses in the district infected has naturally suffered serf- ously in the past two weeks. but with the gradual centralization of cases in the emergency hospital and the thor ough sanitation of all the streets in the vicinity trade Is expected gradual ly to resume its normal proportio t,. The French Market Association, com posed of all the men whc do business at the market or in its neittlborhood. has been called to meet on Monday.
 
 ment the relief work that is now be- ing done by the general committees A supply depot will be opened to pro- vide the poorer classes with help.
 The railroads continue to be seri- ously hampered by quarantines, which are constantly becoming more onerous as the disquietude increases in the South. The decision of the conference of health authorities at Memphis to recommend a quarantine of the en- tire Stato of Tennessee against infected points is evidence of the spread of panicky feeling outside of New Or leans. It promises to still further bur den the railroad managers
 Little Towns Quarantining.
 Every day now some half dozen lit- tie towns are suddenly scratched off the list of open towns and very often the embargo is clapped on so sudden ly that passengers are left here with tickets already purchased. The South ern and Texas Pacific on the west bank of the river are heavy sufferers. It was said at the Marine Hospital offices today that passengers from New Orleans were no longer permit ted to travel in Texas and only the most insignificant stations are open in Louisiana. Quarantines have been established so thoroughly along the line of some of sle roads that hNy cards bearing bold black letters have been posted in the ticket offices and depots announcing that all tickets bought for any point out of New Or leans are purchased at the purchasers risk and subject to the restrictions of