The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-25
Added Confidence Is h.
 Spired. SITUATION IS HOPEFUL No Startling Developments
 in Country. Infected Points Will Inausurate Guar antines Against One Another, and Only Healthy Persons Can
 Enter New Orleans.

New Orleans, Aug. 24.-FoIlowing is the off1cial report to p. m:
 New cases. A; total cases to date, l,o0O Deaths, '; total deaths to date, 226 New foci, 10; total foci to date. 362. Cases under treatment, 2S7
 The rather mild expression of hope fulness which Dr. White expressed few days ago is made more emphatic by the steady improvement from the figures from day to day. It finds an echo in the heart of every citizen of New Orleans and predictions are now freely being made that victory will be achieved before frost appears
 At one time there were many skep- ties, but those are steadily disappearing in the face of the indisputable evidence that is produced. The daily report pre- sents no specially interesting features. Of the deaths. one occurred in the French Asylum on Saint Ann Street. and another occurred in the emergency hospital. All the others were down town. There were no names of special prominence in the list of new cases. The new foci were principally up town, only two of them being in residential neigh borhoods. Surgeon White. with the as- sistance of Mayor Behrman, has ar. ranged for the establishment of a new emergency hospital and detention camp which will be opened tomorrow. Me Donogh public school No. IS, on North Rampant Street, has been impressed and made ready for occupancy. being equipped so that whole families can be accommodated comfortably until the period for incubation of the disease has elapsed
 Italians Promise Cooperation.
 The leading Italians have promised their hearty cooperation in the matter, and nearly a hundred persons have been discharged as cured from the existing faIs nS ne vice in convincing their countrymen of the wisdom of submitting to the au- thorities, There is no desire to use force on these people, but as a last re- sort. 1t will be employed and then the authorities will count the cost after wards. This plan is deemed fndispen- sable towards freeing the city of fnfec- tion.
 Another part of the plan to be put Into effect tomorrow is a form of quar- antine of infected places against other infected places. Heretofore there has been no Interruption of traff1c between places that are infected. and as re- suit, many of the panic stricken Ital lans have returned to New Orleans and brought new infection with them. This will be prevented in the future. The State Board of Health will meet tomor row and formulate the plan. It is more likely that a system of health certif- .ates, signed by the health ofi1cer of the kown or parish will give the party free lngress to New Orleans, but others will have to go into detention for a period of five days.
 Surgeon White went to Camp Wyman bn a special train today and there met pr. George B. Young, the Marine Hos pital Surgeon in charge of the Missis- gippi train inspection service. They conferred on the quarantine situation in the two States and pr. Young ex- pressed his eradication at the fact that greater precautions were to bo Saken regarding infected localities.
 Another nest of infection was found today at a point not far from Patter- son, in Assumption Parish Ten cases were seen at Amelia and Dr. Chassatg- mac, who made the inspection for the State Board. says he learns there were fifty. cases there in the past two weeks. A physician and fumigating force were sent there today. No definite news was received from LeevilIe at the mouth of Bayou La Fourche, but as relief has reached there 1t is believed that con- ditions will soon be improved. pr. Rudolf the State Board physician at Patterson, discovered two positive cases and two suspicious cases on a pianta- ton two miles from that town.
 Patterson reports ten new cases. Hansen City reports three new cases . Two more cases are reported from Lake
 
 the State Board Is sending three nurses there Three new cases developed on Elizabeth plantation in Iberville Good Hope plantation in St. Charles reports three new cases and St. Rose one. Port Barrow, in Assumption Parish reports two new cases.
 A case of secondary infection oc- cured at La Fourche crossing
 Mississippi City reports one new case and one patient in a serious condition.
 With the fever here coming steadily under control and apprehension no longer felt of a dangerous epidemic the Federal authorities are anxious to put between New Orleans and infected communities in Louisiana and else where The policy of such a move was fully discussed in the conference of the fever fighters with Governor Blanchard and the results are to be made known at the meeting of the State Board of Health which has been called to take place here tomorrow
 The necessity for some such action arises especially from the conduct Of the Italians and other foreign races Many of them fled from New Orleans to the surrounding parishes when the fever first grew violent here. They established nests of infection at va Tious points. Since then many of them have been drifting back to New Or leans, settling In new netshporhoods and increasing the foci here. There Is constant communication among them between points here and elsewhere rrha idea of the authorities is to quar- antine infected points against each other. No surrender of course is made of the principle that the mosquito Is the only means of transmission but tho ottitude to be assumed Is that which pr. Guiteras declares is respon- sIhle for the Havana quarantine.
 Havana is perfectly willing to re-
 i,.a nne case of fever or twenty cases without any fear of infection but 1t insists that each case must be tah1ed Tn other words the quaran- SIna is nut on in order to observe travslIers who enter the city so that no one in whose system the parasite Of yellow fever already exists may conoe Jn without the knowledge of the Authorities and establish point Of infection. The authorities here believe the resolutions which tne State Board 1vIII nass tomorrow will stop promis- naus communication between LeesviIle