The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-03
FEVER NOT SPREADING WITH
 RAPIDITY OF FORMER YEARS

the basis of the mosquito theory. Dr.. Hunter is quoted in an interview as asserting that it Is remarkable that so few cases have developed and that more points of infection outside the city have not been reported. In his opinion, the greatest danger has passed, that to the country outside of Louisiana, for there will no future ex- posture if the present quarantine re-
 strictions are properly maintaiend. However, the Louisiana authorities ex- pect little modification of quarantine regulations until the fever is entirely stamped out, owing to the widespread indisposition of the lay public of Mis- sissippi to accept the mosquito the ory.
 Surgeon White. of the marine hospital service has returned from the Missis- sippi coast, from which point he talked over the long distance telephone with Governor Vardaman. Dr. White said that the Governor had given courteous consent to the establishment of a de- tention camp on the Mississippi side of the State line on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and will arrange for the admission to Mississippi points of persons from New Orleans who enter the camp and are discnarged with cer- tificates of the federal surgeons. There Is no longer any obstacle to the move
 ment of through passengers through Mississippi.
 The question of whether or not fed eral control of the situation ought to be invited is still discussed, but un- less graver conditions arise it is not regarded as likely that there will be
 any movement in that direction. Some days ago there was a movement among some of the members of the cotton ex- change and representatives of other important interests to put the whole
 matter into the hands of Surgeon Gem eral Wyman, and a petition with that end in view was started, but 1t was dropped because it was considered that conditions had not grown sufficiently acute to justify so radical depar- ture.
 Wyman Net Asked.
 There has been some desire ex- pressed that Surgeon General Wyman might come here and pr. White said
 today that he had been Of the mind to ask his superior to make the trip. though he has taken no action to that end.
 Mayor Behrman today signed the mosquito ordinance as soon as it was placed upon his desk. It requires that cisterns shall be oiled or screened
 within twenty-four hours by the prop erty owner or ms agent.
 Dr. Beverly Warner, representing the citizens committee, today called att tention to the fact that much indig- nance had been developed by the work | of the doctors and inspectors and ap- i pealed for some means Of a systematic character by which the needy might be looked after. Dr. Warner today
 visited the emergency hospital and in- spected its equipment and the work | Ua hat ha H a- pacity of the institution had by no
 means been tested and expressed the opinion that conditions among the sick | would be much 1ameliorated if many of those who have members of their
 family i'll would send the patients to | the institution. Surgeon White of the marine hospital service, has finally arranged for the To- cation of the detention camp on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad on | the Mississippi side coast He went to the coast Tuesday and did not return ! until this morning. He saw the health authorities there. the Adjutant- Gene eral of Mississippi, Surgeon Wasdin Of the marine hospital service. and had an ex- tended conversation by telephone with Governor Vardaman. The Governor consented to the location of the camp at Fontanebleau, a point three miles east of Ocean Springs, and where 1t was located in 1897. There are a number of suitable buildings there. which would | he better for the class of people desir- ing to travel over that road The Mis- sissippi authorities. however, objected to the acting assistant surgeon and the staff which has been selected. on the ground that they came from New Or leans Therefore, a stan will be se- lected in the vicinity and Surgeon Was din, now on the Gulf coast, will nave
 active charge of the camp.
 To Discontinue Camp.
 The camp at Avondale for the benefit of Texas travel will be discontinued. pr. Tabor of Texas insists on a six
 days detention at Echo at the Texas | State line. Dr. White got in communi- | cation with Dr. Tabor and arrange ments were effected by which the per sons in the camp whose five days limit will expire Thursday morning will be escorted to the Texas border by Acting | Assistant Surgeon Maylie and admit | ted into Texas without further deten- | ton. The other camps are all full. The State Board of Health received no l information about the development of | any more cases in the parishes or the l State beyond an official confirmation of the case at Lake Providence. News | was received here of a case at Sum
 merel. Miss, twenty miles from Hat
 tiesburg which was traced to New Or leans, and the sick man Is an Italian. l Dr. McCutchen, medical inspector for
 this district, has arranged to send
 doctor and two nurses to the Ardoyne
 plantation, In Terrebonne parish, where
 a case died yesterday. The parish
 health officer. pr. Duval. has estab-
 Iished a detention camp among the
 large colony of Italians there and pro-
 poses to keep a strict watch over them
 and to be prepared in case any more | cases develop.
 Morgan City has developed no more
 cases and the sick man there hns recov- l cred. h.. .=-. ...