Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-20
Yellow Fever Not Under Control
at New Orleans Nor is it
Unc0ntrOlIabI'.
NO LONGER s'Rlpus DANGER
Compared With Historic Epidemics of
Other Years the Death List Has
Been Observation-Disclosures Cannot
Garry Germs Unless it Harbors In
fected Mosquitoes, Says Wyman.
uiy Associntcd rrcss.,

NEW ORLEANS, LA. Aug. 19.-Of,
fetal report To q p. M:
New cases, sc.
Total cases TO date. LAO.
Deaths, i.
Total deaths to dato, 1872
Total deaths TO date, 1872.
New foci, II.
Total ioci to date. 295.
Cases under treatment, i01.
This Saturdays record presents
quite a contrast when compared with
that of week ago. when los cases
were reported. 1t has never reached
that figure since and il is believed now
that the record will stand. Tho deaths
continue few, which indicates that tho
patients under treatment are recover
ine1 more generally than heretofore.
Two New Points of Infection.
There was no news of special I'M
portancc from outside the city today,
only two new points Of infection being
reported, one case ut Madisonvillc in
ST. Tanmany parish. and the other
at Kenner, in Jefferson Parish The
case nj Madisonvillc is traced directly
To Now Orleans.
Patterson reports seven new cases
anu no deaths.
No new cases developed mt SarDy
(Tcrre IIautc) nor have any new cases
been heard from at the other points
i'll st. Charles parish.
Dr. Cuisine. health officer ut Ken
ner also reported that there were all
told nine positive cases at Hanson
City, which is three miles above Ken
ncr. They are all Italians but one.
DR.: Wasdin reports that there have
hccn no new cases nj Mississippi City.
Summing up results of the campaign
up to date DR.. Beverly Warner said
today that il was the opinion of the
health authorities that while the fever
is not said TO he under control. ii is
being controlled and that the chances
arc that there is no longer danger of
serious epidemic. DR.. Warner adj
deh that il was DIR. Whites opinion
that If 1t had not been for the splendid
volunteer work which has been done
by the citizens in screening and oilng
and in taking precautions recommends
ed by the local health authorities, New
Orleans today would probably be in
the thrOcs of an epidemic MS devastat-
ing rs were some of those of previous
years.
a party of forty-scvcn Italians has
reached the city over the Mississippi
Valley road. When they reached the
Union Station they were detained and
Il report of their presence tclephoned
to central Headquarters.
Chased Out With Shotauns.
Tho Italians said that they had been
chased from the towns east OF Baton
Rouge, many Of them with shotguns.
They tried TO leave the train mt differ
cnt points on the way down, but were
prevented from doing so. As there
was no sickness among them they
were permitted TO scatter over the
city.
DR.. Victor Kccne. health officer of
indianapolis, Ind, who came South To
look over the situation. because there
is an clement in his city which be.
lieves quarantine should be put ON,
left here today. DR.. Keene said tho
people Of New Orleans were the sanest
and calmcst people found anywhere
between here and Chicago.
Bcyond tho statement that the daily
figures continue to present evidence
mat tho modern scientific campaign
III progress is controlling yellow fever,
the officers in charge Of the work had
no comment to make today.
Death List Comparatively Low.
Compared with the yellow fever
sco'lrgc of 1878, :hc death list of tho
present visitation is low. In 1878
there were ninety fatalities n day af-
Ter the fever had run as long rs at
present.
Today's heat. following mn intensely
warm night, added little to the prog
ress of the disease.
a case was reported today near
jacksonville. n summer resort Of. ST.
Tammany parish. on tho other side of
Lake Ponchartain. a positive and n
suspicious case were reported ut Ken.
ner, 10 miles from Now Orlcnns in