Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-08-02
YELLOW JACKS GRIP
Should Be a Good One, Indica.
tons Being That 1t Arrived
Last May.
NOT ANNOUNCED TILL JULY %
reok the Doctors All That Time to
Diagnose the Pest.
Went on the Principle, 1t Seems, Of
Giving the Real yellow Peril"
the Benefit OF the Doubt.

new orleans, July 3l.-Ine yeilOW
fever record for Saturday was as fol.
lows: New cases, 20: cases to date,
$50; deaths, z; deaths to date, 81; new
foci, 2. For yesterday the record was:
New cases, ~; total cases to date, 2S3;
deaths, 3; deaths to date, 81; new foci,
4; total foci, Al. Though 1t was sun
day the work of sanitation. fumiga
ton, oiling and screening went on just
the same, and will continue daily until
the city has been thoroughly screened
and made mosquito proof.
Criticisn from Various sources
During last week the authorities
here, state and city, We're subjected
to quite severe criticism, the charge
being made that the health officers had
wtlfully hidden the fact for days that
the pest had appeared in this city.
The most outspoken of the critics was
Governor Nardaman, of Mississippi
who made the charge outright that the
authorities here knew yellow fever eN
listed, and did not publish it. Governor
Blanchard, of this state, wrote Varda
man Indignantly denying the charge,
but in a reply Vardaman reiterated
that the Louisiana authorities must
have known of the existence Of the fe-
yer long before 1t was announced.
City Health Officer sp.ais,.
City Health Officer Kohnke, who is
in immediate charge of the situation In
the city, has given out n statement
which shows how the authorities han
died the infection as soon as it was
discovered. He says: "'rhe first in
| timation of yellow fever in New Or
leans was had on July 10, when two
physicians reported two cases of illness
resembling. in their Judgment, yellow
fever. which cases We're submitted to
the president of the state board of
health at his office. The health otii-
Ger of the city was summoned immedi-
ately, and the cases reported, one he
ing already dead at the time. We're by
him considered for sanitary purposes,
him considered or sanitary purposes
were treated accordingly"
Began Way Back IN May.
He then goes on to say that investi-
CATION disclosed several squares in.
fected, the region being wholly infab-
ited by Italians, many of whom earn
their living by unloading fruit cargocs
from Central American ports. He then
says: Wholesale fumigation was in
progress during period of ten days
or more, during which period an au-
topsy demonstrated the nature of the
disease. which must have begun at
some time during the second half of
May. From the infected neigllborhood
at varying times residents removed
their domiciles to other sections of the
city, and in this way cases of the dis
ease developed in persons infected moi
only in the Italian district, but resid
ing in other districts at the time OF
the appearance of the first symptom.
Hopes to Control the birc,is-.
To-day there are a few cases in per
sons not connected in any known way
with the infected district, and All
cases of the disease known to exist are
isolated and subjected to the proper
measures of prevention based on the
mosquito law Of yellow fever transmits
sion. The spread of the disease has
not been as great as was at first feared
and hope is entertained that it may BIZ
controlled"