The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-12
All StesOmyiaS Not Yet
 Dead. PHYSICIANS ORGANIZED Surgeon White Encouraged by Their Efforts. Every Case is Now Being Reported and Federal Campaign is On in Full swing-Archbishop Chap
 ellie Buried.
PHYSICIANS ORGANIZED

New Orleans. Aug. 11.-Following is the official record up to 6 p. m:
 New cases, 61; total cases to date, sos; deaths. 9; total deaths to date. 133. New sub-foci. 12; total sub-foci, 163. Cases remaining undG.' treatment, 306.
 The days record is something of an improvement over that of the day be- fore, both as to the new cases and new points of infection, and is taken as an encouraging sign. A large majority of one of them being in Carrollton. The proportion of Italians Is much larger than the day before.
 The fact that Assistant Surgeon c. M Berry of the Marine Hospital Service is now down with the fever has not dam pened the ardor of his colleagues Those who have never had the fever. while they take every precaution against it, know that being thrown con- tinually into buildings which may be harboring infected mosquitoes they run a good chance of being bitten at one time or another, so they expect to get it. pr. Berry, since his arrival here, ten days ago. has been working right in the midst of the central focus of in- lection, and has done yeoman service there. He had a high fever tonight, but as his physj. .al condition is good and he has youth on his side. the chances are all in his favor.
 Surgeon White has put the district Headquarters in operation and assigned a contract surgeon and an assistant surgeon to each. In some of the dis tricts, namely. the fifth and sixth. where the bulk of the infection is. several surgeons will be assigned.
 Surgeon White will not allow any bananas to be shipped out of here to
 fofa 0f the fruit are coming in here, but they are shipped right through to Northern points.
 All local physicians now report all suspicious and positive cases direct to the Marine Hospital Service at the Lou isiaaa National Bank building, and the fumigating and screening squads are sent out immediately by Dr -Gessner, who is now in charge Of that work. The district Headquarters are mainly for the purpose of making house-to- house canvass of the whole city. in which the clergy of all denominations are volun- teered to cooperate. .-
 The only news from other points in the State is from Patterson. where four new cases were reported. Surgeon Guiteras of the Marine Hospital Ser vice has taken charge of the fumiga- tion and screening work and Dr. Rudolf and six nurses have taken immediate
  State Board of Health A hospital has been opened for indigent cases there. The total to date Is thirty-six cases and no deaths.
 Drs. Gaines, Krauss, Ogbourre and Horton, the latter the inspector of the State Board of Health. have diagnosed the illness at Lake Providence as vel low fever. There is only one case and another Is convalescing. They are mile from town and have been isolated for several days. Tallulah>is in Mad'' son parish, almost opposite Vicksourg. New Orleans, Aug, 11.-With surgeon White, of the Marine Hospital service' frankly expressing no surprise at the increase in the number of new cases of fever and expecting that for some time to come there will be large quota brought to light daily, the people or New Orleans have made up their minds to await in patience the results of the Federal campaign which Is now fairly in swing. *..s# '---
 The life of a stegomyia mosquito has not been definitely ascertained, but the fever had made so much headway when it was discovered and 1t has prevailed so generally in the lower section of the city since then that there are doubtless many of the insects which have escaped the disinfecting crusade launched against them and they may be expected to transmit the disease for some days longer at least. .-+ :..-
 It is considered to have been demon strated that some of the physicians have heretofore neglected to report cases and that has made it difficult for the health authorities to maintain q complete record of all the cases in ex- istence The campaign of education and persuasion, however, Is beginning to tell and Dr. White begins to see light ahead from the apparent willing ness of the physicians to cooperate with him to the extent of making known the sickness that appears in their private practice Up to noon to- day dozen cases of fever had been offcially reported and the fact that none of these were cases turned up by the official inspectors but cases submit ted by the doctors Nthemselves, was taken as an encouraging sign.
 Dr. White himself is much pleased with the evidences of improvement in the situation. He unbosomed himself sufficiently to make that plain today, saying:
 ''The manner in which the new cases are being reported shows that our work is progressing as we are getting bet ter organized. Work of organization takes time, but we are very well pleas ed with the situation. We find 1t bet ter"
 White Announced Organization.
 r. first public announcement of his deter mined organization. It took the shape of an assignment of his assistants to each of the seventeen wards in the city. There are two medical inspectors as- signed to each of the larger wards and one tn each of the smaller wards. Each headouarters is located in the central section of the ward and the officers in charge will personally employ the men whom they need to assist them in the campaign Nearly all of Dr. Whites staff has now reached here.
 An unexpected blow was struck at the Marine Hospital staff today when one of the men sent here to assist in the fight against the disease was him self stricken The victim Is Surgeon T. Berry Dr. Berry Is a Texan hy nativity. but has lately been stationed at New York He was one of the first to reach New Orleans and because he had been through the Cuban campaign and had had the fever in Texas he was considered immune and was put ir charge of the work in the originally infected area where the fever has ragged most fercely Dr. Berry has been do- ing yeoman service in the mattar oi