Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-08-18
CASES IN MISSISSIPPI.
Eleven Are Reported as Happening
at Mississipps City.
ARE JUST LEARNED.
All the Other Gulf Towns at Once
Instituted QuarRntIne--Parishes
Of Louisiana Report Some
More Cases.

New Orleans Aug. i7.--Following is
the official record up 10 o'clock
Wednesday evening: New cases. So
total cases. Ii4s; deaths. q: total
deaths. l7s; new focl. 10: total foci.
2fs; cases under treatment. 4I9.
With little variation In the daily
record. II naturally follows that there
Is no material change In the situation
and none IL looked for IN the imme-
diate future. There Is considerable
satisfaction 10 be drawn from the
small number Of deaths. because Il
shows two things-one that the type
or the disease is not as malignant as a
FIRST supposed. and the other. that the
authorities are finding about every
case Ia the city. The generally accept
ed death rate u about n per cent. II
is about week ago that the daily
record took "a jump. one day iO5 cases
being reported. Since then the daily
record has hoyered around sixty. While
eight days are usually allowed for a
patient 10 recover OF die. most OF the
deaths occur on the fifth and sixth
day. 80 the fact that the deaths
Tuesday and Wednesday were small.
Indicates that an the sases are on the
record now and subjected 20 treatment
according to the modern idea. DR..
White said the other day that n he
could be assured Of having every case
In the city under observation and
proper treatment he could stamp out
the disease In a short time so evidently
the desired condition is approaching.
II Il has not already been attained.
There were no prominent people
among the new cases but the majority
Of them are among the people OF COM
Portable circumstances Only six OF
the new foci are above Canal street
Past Assistant Surgeon Corput
found another nest of Infection outside
OF the city Wednesday. He went TO St
John parish. nfty miles above the city.
on the MisSissippl river. ana unearthed
thirty-three cases. twenty-one OF which
are In an entirely new focus IN and
around the town of La Place lie found
eight more cases on Diamond planta-
tion. I'm ST. Charles parish. and four
more on Terre Haute plantation. The
cases al Ia Place are principally
among the better class % people and Il !
seems 10 BE- a mild type. He reports
that all the houses of the poorer class |
OF people In that section are fun Of /
stegomyia. and unless steps are taken |
20 eradicate them the /
spread will get beyond control.
This state board of health has placed /
DR. Corput ln control OF this work and /
be will return TO that place az once.
The state board viii also send ply
sician and nurses 90 the scene
Patterson reports six new cases and
no deaths.
Points Celeste. in Plaquemine par
sh. reports two new cases and proba-
bly, three among as many children. all
In the same group A case was discov-
FRED Ia Redine in the parish OF Acadia.
on the southern Pncinc railroad. Sur
xeon Guiteras visited Lafayette and
sonfrmed the diagnosis of the case
here. No others have developed. As
sistant Surgeon GOldberger has con-
armed the suspicious case which devel-
,ped In Alexandria. The patient is
Nearly well.
A special from Gulfport Tells % the
discovery OF yellow fever al Nissls-
lippi City. on the Gulf OF Mexico and
states that the disease has been there
'ince July 20. II originated In the Har-
yey boardinghouse there among the
'amily OF Major Gee. There have been
eleven cases all told and four, persons
ire now under treatment. All OF the
,ther coast towns have quarantlned
against Mississippi city. but there Is
much resentment over the fact that
he existence of the fever there was
,ot discovered until wednesday.