Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-03


ami said more fatalities were To be
looked for because during the last
three or four days there had bccn n
sufficient increase in the numler of
cases To warrant the expectation of
heavier mortality.
| High temperatures succeeded bv
khcavy rain and cooler weather pro.
duccd climatic conditions favorable
To fatalities
Deaths Among Italians.
Most of the deaths were OF Italians
ana nearly all OF them were either i'm
the emergency hospital or in the quar-
Ter adjacent thereto.
There will be no relaxation of en-
ersy in fighting the fever With only
Il few isolated cases above Canal
street, ii is believed that once the in
lection begins To decline there will he
li'lh difficulty in stamping ont the
disease. While the fever spells a seri-
Gus state OF affairs, it is not believed
/! that there is cause for the manic which
seems to have spread oyer Tie country
outside of New Orleans.
Twelve Cases in One Block.
The board OF hcalths rcnort nr voc
terday'a forty-two new cases ana six
deaths shows that Italian patients
numbered thirty-iivc, while the six
dead were all Italians.
In Hospital street. in the heart of
the originally infected area, there
were twelve cases, all in one blocl,
In one Hospital street house five eases
were found and in another four. Most
Of the other new cases were found
near the French market.
In spite of all that has been done IN
rcassnrc them. many Italians contin
uaiiy Try To conceal their cases. They
are sui stricken with panic and they
turn in fear from doctors ana health
officers.
II was due largely to the energy
with which the hospital forces SGT
about the work of discovering hidden
eases that Tuesdays record was made
SO large
Found Patient on Roof.
In enc instance. when the officers
had made thorough inspection of n
house and had failed to find patient
lhcy went through a skylght and
found ii sick man lying on the roof.
In another case they found n paticnt
concealed under n cistern The other
day, wagon loaded with household
goods aud accompanied by Italians
started to cross on one OF the ferries.
Officials insisted OH an investigation
ana when the goods were unoaded n
sick man was found in the bottom of
-ho wagon. The humblcr Italians
have in many instances refused TO fol.
ow the custom of sleeping undcr mo-
;quito bars.
Quarantine on Mail
postmaster Woodward today rccciv-
ri letter from the Railway Mail
Service at Atlanta, saying that Green
lille. Miss, hereafter would accept no
etter mailed from New Orleans that 5
lad not been disinfectcd and that I'M ]
Ter no circumstances would il receive [
newspapers. Grcenvillc will Doubtless 4
'e temporarily out of mail or ncwspa-
ers. c
The mospito theory being accepted /
y the federal officials, dsinfcction of g
nail is regarded as unnecessary. I
Surgeon White, of the Marine Hos. a
ltal Service, has returned from the |
Mississippi coast, where he talked
yer the telephone with Governor
ardaman. DR.. White said that Gov. !,
rnor Vardaman had given courteous 6
onsent to the establishment of dc. =
ention camp OH the Mississippi side c
the State line on the Louisiana & r
nashville Railroad and will arrange
'r the admission to Mississippi points