The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-13
More Interesting Now Than
 the Fever.
CRESCENT CITY's REPORT
Only Fifteen New Cases and
 Three Deaths.
Believed that Appearance of Frost VIII Immediately Result In Greatly
 Modified Restrictions.


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 New cases. Is; total cases to date. s,261; deaths, ?; total deaths to date' 419; new foci, 3; cases under treatment I64; cases discharged, 2,67S.
 With only fifteen new cases and two deaths and a steady reduction in the amount of work necessary to bring about a final eradication of the fever in this city, local interest has passed from the fever question to the quarantine question, and hopes are high that 1t will not be long before the restrictions on travel which have existed for three months will be raised. Dr. White is in Alabama holding a conference with the local authorities and Saturday he will meet the Mississippi authorities. with the view of discussing quaran- tines.
 A light frost appeared at nearly all the Mississippi coast towns and far be- low central Louisiana. but 1t did not quite reach New Orleans. telegram from Tallulah tonight says that frost appeared there.
 Of the new cases. three. are above Canal Street One of the deaths was close to the St. Bernard Parish Line and the other was just below Canal Street
 Dr. T. Szabary. the physician charged with failing to report a case of yellow fever was convicted before Recorder Marmouget this afternoon. after hot ly contested trial. and fined the limit. S25. He took an appeal. Another charge against him will be tried We'd nesday. : Another new point of infection was re- ported in the State today, one case hay ing been discovered in Franklin, St. Ma " Parish. the home town of Senator Foster.
 The country reports were as follows: Franklin, 1 new case: New Iberia. II new cases; near Plattville, 1 new case; Patterson, z new cases, 1 death; Tallu- iah. 3 new cases. Lake Providence. 3 new cases. death. | ss,
 The, reports from Mississippi were as follows: vicksburg, ? new cases; Nafchez, new cases: Mississippi City. z new cases. Port Gibson. 1 new eases Rosetta, 1 suspicious case.
 Frost is reported from Rosetta and Natchez.
 Jack Frost Welcomed.
 Public attention today was riveted upon the news which the wires brought from various parts of Louisiana and Mississippi as to the appearance Of frost because it meant an end to in- terrupted communication which is now the principal element of annoyance in the yellow fever situation. The news was of exceptionally favorable charac- ter, for while the frost line did not ex- tend to. New Orleans, which it would have had to break all previous records to do. it touched points as near as thirty-five miles north of New Orleans, Covington reporting a light fall To the west, along the line of the South ern Pacific. it ran slightly north of New Orleans, Crowley, La. reporting tenn perature of 39 and light deposit. On the Mississippi Gulf coast, to the north and east of New Orleans, there was a fall at Mississippi City which has been infected with yellow fever and which is within a stones throw almost Of Gulfport
 North of the thirty-miIe line frost seems to have been general in Louis- jana and Mississippi, light at some points and heavy at others. Alexan- dria reported the white mantle thick enough to write letters in. There was a heavy deposit at Zachery. sixteen miles above Baton Rouge, and a good frost at Monroe. and throughout the tier of parishes in North Louisiana. Aside from the frost the temperature declined almost to the freezing point in some sections of Louisiana, with the effect undoubtedly of killing or driv- ing into hibernation all mosquitoes that might have existed in exposed places.
 The announcement of frost over so large a portion of the two States i'm nediately infected with the fever and the fact that it was heavy in Alabama Tennessee Kentucky and Arkansas was interpreted as assuring an early relax ation of quarantines throughout the South against points at which infec- tion still exists.
 visitation PrOyidential.
 The visitation was generally assum- ed to be providential The government records show that the average frost in fnn visited today earlier than November |, November Is and December 1, and com ing SO far in advance of the average date, with the fever waning so rapid ly, there is a disposition to believe that practically all the quarantines will very shortly cease to exist.
 From various parts of the State came assurances today that restrictions would be immediately modified or abandoned. The news that Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee cities were re- moving their quarantines was chiefly interesting because it will put an end to the annoyance to which travellers are subjected In having to submit health certificates, but there was deep interest in the announcement from Jackson, Miss, that the Mississippi Quarantines were sure to be soon re- faxed.
 Dr. White was not at his office to- 
 conference with Dr. Hunter of the Mississippi Board. Meridian reported a heavy frost and great rejoicing and it is believed here that that fact will contribute to the success Of Dr. White s mission, which is to remove obstacles 10 travel. Dr. Richardson remained in charge of the marine hospital offices, where the feeling prevailed generally that the present improvement in the local situation would continue at an increasingly rapid pace. The number of eases today was comparatively small and the death list low, the change of temperature forty-eight hours before apparently having had little effect on the cases under treat ment.
 The emergency hospital reported two deaths, the first in nearly a week. one of the patients was moribund when she was brought into the institution yesterday
 Effect on Mosquitoes.
 A very considerable decline in the new cases is looked for next week.