The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-22
Surgeon White Is Not
 Discouraged.
PETITION OF MERCHANTS
Want Fear of Infection Prom
 Freight Removed.
Decided Advance in csses Reported Thought to Be Result of rndsS- ferent Sunday Canvzss---
 County Conditions
 Grow Worse.

New Orleans, Aug. 21.--Foliowin& ts the official report up to ?. m. Monday
 New cases, 61: total cases to dAt9s 1,446. Deaths. 2; total deaths to date 206. New foci, 1s; total foci to date s21. Cases under treatment 32S.
 An analysis Of the figures shows that there is no check to the hopeful feel-j ings which have been produced by the small reports for the past few days There has been a steady but slow dini- mutton of the cases under treatment-s V The number of foci Is misleading also. for 1t equals the number Of cases under treatment.
 A great many of these foci have been absolutely wiped out. but they still fig- ure in the records and represent every spot in the city where a case of fever has developed. Of the new points of infection today. five are up town. ten down town and one in Algierss across the river. Of the names on tho list there are very few of any promtnenca- One case was taken off the 9teaulshfp Excelsior. which arrived from Havaua Thursday and left Saturday. arriving at Havana this morning.
 The man is a sailor and wae taken. to the Marine Hospital, where hia cAa@ was diagnosed as yellow fever today. According to the accepted period or incubation the man could not pca1iblx have contracted the disease in New 0r~ leans, If he was on the ship when shM made her last trip. Of the deaths. two took place in the Marine Hospital and three in the Emergency hospital. All but one of the others were down town. One of the deaths was the gardener of the French asylum on St. Ann Street, where there have been half a dozen cases and one death previously
 white Makes Gtakenaemt.
 Surgeon White tonight was willing to give expression the feeling of hope he has of winning out in the fiKht. Ee said:
 T feel very much encouraged over the situations for believe that pracr tically all of the oasss are being Ee* ported now and we are able to handle them. The low death rase Is mantfsss and that also is a good etgn. Dr. Max Landry, who has been work ing as inspector in the infected dis trict, was laid up today with suspt- cious case of fever, but 1t has not been diagnosed as yellow.
 The situation outside of the city is not so encouraging, judging from the reports which came in tonight. Sur geon Guiteras made an inspection or the Riverside plantation in St. Mary Parish and his report reads.
 One hundred and fifty inhabitants in infected barracks. Estimated 100 have had fever. Of these. under treat- ment, ffty-hve. Situation admits Of few sanitary expedients until material Is exhausted. Proper measures to avoid infection of the localities around Han- son City. in Jefferson Parish, is loom ing up as a large focus. eight new cases being reported today. Kenner also reports four cases.
 The health officer of Ibervflle res ports a number of suspicious cases among Italians on Bayou Pidgeon, at the extreme end of the Parish. twenty of Ina. an the west bank The State Board or~ dered an inspector to investigate.
 Two new cases have developed on Elizabeth plantation in Iberville.
 St. Bernard Parish reports new fo- GUS of infection among Italians near Corinne. two eases having come 70 light with two more suspicious cases One new case developed at Pecan Grove in St. John Parish.
 Passed Assistant Surgeon Corput made a horseback tour of St. Charles and St. John Parishes, visiting the foci at Diamond. Reserve, Good Hopes Sarpy and La Place. At the latter place he found three new cases. The main purpose of his trip was to super wise the fumigation of the infected houses, for which the State Board has provided him with assistants.
 The patients on sarpy place were transferred to the Emergency Hospt-
 
 and Diamond are equipped with tem- porary hospitals.
 Patterson reports ten new cases and no deaths.
 There was q news from the Leeville infection at the mouth of Bayou La Fourche. pr. Devron will probably be heard from tomorrow.
 There were no new cases at Missis~ sippi City.
 Though there was increase today both in the number of new cases and of fa- talities, hopefulness continued to per- wade the Federal headquarters toucn- ing the local yellow fever situation. The Monday list is always large. It was 50 during the epidemic of 1878. That is attributed to the fact that the work oe inspection is not as thorough on Sum day and only the reports which come from physicians are to be depended upon.
 In the matter of deaths uniformity l is unusual from day to day because the condition of patients is so largely af- l fected by meteorological and other con- ditions. The Federal authorities have not reached a point where they are wfl- ling to prophecy the complete externai- | nation of the disease before frost comes | to destroy the bulk of the remaining | infected mosquitoes. but they feel that | there Is reason for the prediction that l a | past is no longer to be reckoned with. In this connection, unusual precau- | tIons, under the supervision of the Ma | rfne Hospital Service. or otherwise, are | to be taken to prevent a "reminiscences of the fever next spring. It has been demonstrated by the scientists that the steogmyia hibernates. vigilant watch will therefore be kept when the winter passes for any eases which may then l appear here or elsewhere in the South | and in the event that there are isolated cases, with the experience of the pres- i ent modern campaign. there is absolute | certainty that they will be immediately controlled with no possibility of spread | ing the infection.
 In today's list of fatalities two deaths appear as having occurred in the Ma- | rine Hospital They were sailors nd- mitted 10 that inHtitution. AnoeAer death was in the French asylum on Gt. | Ann Street where a half dozen canou l have been reported to date. These are the only two public institutions outafss |