The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
THOUSANDS ARE TAKING ARSENIC Most Doctors Think t Will
 Do No Good MANY CASES ON GULF COAST Death Record at New Orleans Is Small, But the New Cases Number "A.
 Surgeons Deliver
 Lectures.

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 4 Total foci to date. 262.
 % Cases under treatment, 424. +~<%%%<<%<~<<<<~<<<<<<-<<-<-< While the daily record of new cases shows a tendency to rise slowly, the deaths are still small, which furnishes stimulus for the hope for better things before long. Twenty-three of the new cases were reported by one medical in- spector. while the district surgeons have been turning them in by patches from two to half dozen. Only three of the new foci are above Canal street. One of the new cases is in Bucktown, which is at the upper end of West End, and while on the edge of the Jefferson parish line, is counted in New Orleans. There are no well known names among the list.
 Widespread inspection Formed.
 The most important news outside of the city came from LaFourche parish, where the parish health officer. Dr. Stark, re- ports widespread infection in the Lee vie settlement at the mouth of Bayou IaFourche He says there are probably a hundred cases of sickness there, and he saw about one-third of them. He diag- nosed six as yellow fever, and classes the others as either a mild type of yellow fever or dengue. This point is eighty miles south on the South ern Pacific road. The inhabants of the set clement are mostly fishermen and oys- ter men, and they have been in close communication with New Orleans They are mostly Italians and Aessfienss The state board has dispatched pr. J. A. Dev- eron to assist Dr. Stark in treating the infection. It will be necessary to go to Schriver by train, thence drive to Thi- sbodeaux, and here take launch for an eighty mile trip to the mouth of the bayou.
 pr. A. R. Montjez today took charge Of the situation at Terre Haute plantation in St. Charles, and reported two new cases. pr. Bienvenue has been dispatched to I,aPlace in St. John parish, where twenty-one cases were found Wednesday. Assistant Surgeon Corput will have an- other tour through this section Friday,
 case was found in Rayne, in Acadia parish just across the street from the dead case discovered there Wednesday,
 Five new cases were reported from Pat tersoi and no deaths The emergency hos nital there discharged three patients as cured, and now has eleven patients.
 Removed to Temporary Hospitals.
 The infected Italians at Reserve planta- ton and Diamond plantation, in St. Charles parish, have been removed to temporary hospitals, where they are pc ing properly treated, and 1t Is hoped 10 stamp out the infection there They are gradually becoming amenable to reason. No more cases have developed at Bon Ami, in Calcasieu parish
 Alexandria's s case reported Thursday is in critical condition. The people there have asked the governor to induce the marine hospital service to take charge of the situation for them and Dr. White is endeavoring to find a surgeon Tor tnem pr. Goldberger is there now, but is sub feet to orders to visit other localities where suspicious cases develop.
 The one case at Lafayette is doing we'll and there have been no others.
 A dspatch from Gulfport says that there are four new cases at Mississippi City, making thirteen now under treatment One of the patients is in critical con dition. The mayor of Gulfport has ap- pointed four physicians to make house. toulouse canvass of that town to ascertain if there is any sickness there. The dis covery of this nest of infection on the Mississippi coast of such long stand- ing has caused good deal of perturba- ton in Mississippi, because of the open communication that has been held with Mississippi City ,and there Is now fear that cases may bob up where least expected as result.
 Surgeon White has been notified of the assignment of another marine hospital surgeon to assist him. who will arrive in few days. He is anxiously await ing the arrival of Dr. yon Ezdorf from Colon.
 Stout Total Is Developed
 Aside from the fact that the systematic work of the federal authorities and the full compliance by the local physicians with Dr. Whites request for the report of every suspicious case. again develop ed a stout total of new cases of yellow fever today, the local situation continues to give satisfaction. Those who studied the records of former years predicted in July that August would bring a heavy jump in the mortality but with more than half of the month gone by and the daily death totals not greater and in some instances lower than In July, even the most pessmistlc of the community are beginning to take cheerful view of the outlook, believing that there is lit- tie danger to be feared from an attack Of the fever in its present form. Even Witn the present. nhedouic oi ihipioNt- ments, however, there has been. and there is to be- no relaxation of the supreme efforts that are being made to wipe out the fever.
 The force of employees is being steadily augmented and every dollar needed to carry out the plans of the federal con- trol on it's most elaborate scale is to be available as 1t Is needed.
 Sewers Are to Be Rushed
 .le announcement by the scientists an1 sanitarians that the clear water of back yard cisferns is the favorite breeding places of the stegomyfa has aroused a considerable demand for the destruction of tho cisterns at the earliest practicable
 
 scontlnued on Second Paas)