The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-05
SITUATION IS
 PROGRESSING nGM Ney.s0rleans Makes Gains 4 on Fever: FWENTY-TWO NEW CASES Country Conditions, However,
 Not Favorable. Tn Jefferson Parish Overhows of Bayous Hinder Work of Surgeons and
 Extensive Assistance May
 Be Asked For.

l New cases, 2Z, total cases to udte,
 3.074; deaths, 4; total deaths to date, 400; new foci, $: cases under treat | ment, 194; cases discharged, 2.500.
 There was nothing out of the ordi- | nary in the local fever situation beyond
 the coincidence in the figures, which | show 400 deaths to date and an even | 2,500 cases discharged. Only two of
 the new, cases are above Canal Street. | Five cases are reported by Dr. Meraux, | the health offcer of St. Bernard. which
 while in the city of New Orleans are I almost on the border of St. Bernard | Parish. One case came from St. Ber-
 nard Parish to the French Asylum on | Ann Street, which has had over score
 of cases to date. None of the other | asylums have reported any more cases l Of the deaths only one was up town,
 and another was in the Emergency | Hospital.
 | For the first time since the Elmer gency Hospital was established on July 1 27th not a single case was admitted l The country reports are becoming ir-
 regular. The following were received: 1 Patterson, 8 new cases; Kenner, 1 new l case; near Bunkie, l case; near Thibo- | deaux, 1 case; La Fourche Crossing,
 new cases. Official reports were re- | ceived from Glenwild, Riverside and the
 Barataria country to the effect that
 the fever had been stamped out in all
 those places.
 | Difficulties in Jefferson Parish. 1 Difficulties which the doctors and | others had to contend with in fighting | the fever in the interior of Jefferson | Parish were disclosed today in report | made by fumig ators and screeners who | returned from a tour of the Barataria l district. The excessive rains during
 the past thirty days have filled up the l swamps and together with adverse
 winds have put much land ordinarily Tn nnraM i11- | mense obstacles have had to be over
 come in reaching the widely scattered patients 3Dr. c. M. Shanley, who is | again seriously Ill. was in charge of
 section of this territory and in com pAny with his. assistants was sometimes | forced to wade waist deep in water to reach persons who were ill In the in- l stance of the death of Mrs. Pizzani the | box which contained the body had to l be foated for a distance of six miles | before a dry spot could be found. To-
 days reports from Barataria are to the | effect that the water is as high as 1t
 was during the Hymelia Crevasse when
 the floors of buildings were flooded. | These overflow conditions are largely l responsible for the increase of cases
 which has been reported from the
 Bayou section of Jefferson.
 The inundation makes 1t impossible | for the physicians to treat the sick and | maintain their precautions against the | bre ,ding of mosquitoes. Dr. Brady, of l tho State Bolrd of Health was today | sent for a ton of the Barataria settle 1 ments and Dr. Weaver has been de- | tailed by the parish to take up the | work which Dr. Shanley had been do-
 ing. Dr. Shanley's present environment 1 is so bad that Dr. Brady will make an | effort to bring him to New Orleans for l treatment at the Emergency Hospital | It Is probable that now that the sttu- | ation in New Orleans has improved so distinctly an appeal will be made by 1 the Jefferson Parish authorities to the Marine Hospital Service to take charge | of the infected districts along Bayou 1 Barataria and at Grand Isle and Che- | niere Caminada where also there has
 been considerable spread of the fever. | Today force of twenty men were sent
 from New Orleans to Gretna, the par | ish seat of Jefft rson, on the opposite | side of the river, to fumigate houses
 in the vicinity of two or three suspi- | cious cases of fever.
 The report of new cases for the day | in New Orleans was again moderate.
 al il though there was a slight increase
 ,f the deaths tl 2: was no actual che: k | to the steady progress the Federal au- | thorities are making in stamping out | the disease, As has already been pointed | out in these dispatches the situation is l even better than 1t officially appears, | l included in the lists that in previous
 years would have been held back until | there could no longer be any doubt of l their nature.
 l The result is that all that pr. White and his assistants have accomplished
 does not appear in the oaiiy statistical
 information. There was death today
 in the emergency hospital. the first In
 several days.
 Some Parishes Obstinate.
 While the State Board of Health is
 receiving many encouraging responses | to it's suggestion of the abrogation of l naurantines by the 18th of October,
 some of the parishes. 1t is evident.
 will keep themselves bottled up until
 there is a black frost. Lake Charles, which cut herself off absolutely from
 New Orleans at the beginning of the fever, informed Dr. White that quaran- 1 tine would be kept on until frost came
 whether the fever here was stamped
 out or not. and that no attention would
 be paid to the recommendation of the
 State Board. Iberia is also unwilling
 to waive its restrictions. though an | uouncing that it will probably do so l after November Ist. Dr. Ashton Blan- chard. son of Governor Blanchard, who as the health officer of Shreveport came here to study the fever in the emer-
 gency hospital said today that he l
 would have to go all the way to Ashe-
 vile. N C.. to get there. Shreveport
 requires seven days detention in a nom 1 infected point and makes no exception
 even in the case of its health officer
 Having been in New Orleans for a
 couple of weeks Dr. Blanchard is re-
 quired to proceed to tnon-infected ter
 rltory. The doctor said there would
 he no lifting quarantine by Shreve-
 hort until frost. The city has spent i thousands of dollars in protecting it.
 self. has kept the fever out of it's | limits. and refuses to take any further | chances.
 Its greatest fear of infection. if quar- entines were removed. would come from
 the eastern section of north Louisiana
 where a great deal of Infection has
 been spread from Tallulah and Lake | Providence.
 Italian Quarter Clean. That the Italian quarter, the original l source of the present fever. is con