The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-28

vent any one from attempting to get into the state by surreptitious means. On the Louisville and Nashville guards appear at the state line, the doors of the ears are locked ard there is no chaace given a passenger to iSave the train intn il.e Alabama line ,s reached Similar precau- tions are being taken the Yazoo Val ley Northeastern and Mississippi Valley roads. No attempts have been made by passengers, except those who go through to go ut on any of these roads, The efforts ar1ong the medical men to accept the mosqui1o theory and therefore modify the quarantine regulations was without result in that direction.
 Doctors Are Indignant.
 In Baton Rouge the people overrode the doctors and the doctors resigned from the board fl health and signed an agree- ment not tO serve again upon the board Efforts have been made by men of lnl,,l- ence on the Gulf coast and in Nox, Orleas to induce Governor vardaman to relax the quarantine regulations so far as communication between the summer re- sorts on the Mississippi sound and New Orleans is concerned The governor, how ever. has answered that 1t would be pre- ferable to suspend business throughout the state for thirty days than that a case of yellow fever should be permitted to get into the state The result is a great blow to the coast towns, the bulk of whose population in the summer time is made up of New Orleans people.
 Situation at Noon. New cases today, 26
 Deaths, g.
 Cases to date, 2O6.
 Deaths to date, A.
 Total foci, 27
 The apparent increase in the number of cases Is due to discovery and transfer to the emergency hospital of eleven cases which had not been previously reported hat institution was in full blast today and the screened ambulance which has been put into service was kept busy haul Ing the unfortunates to the institution The members of the Italian soeietys com mittee, who have been doing missionary work among their people. are responsible Tor the discovery of several of these cases.
 Infection Among Italians.
 The rule of infection among the Italian cement continues. There have been very few cases among people, of other nation alities and only two negroes have been found with the Illness. Yellow fever does not. as a rule. attack negroes. the his- tory of all epidemics being that they lave been as a rule immune. One of the negroes reported today is a quadroon Both of these men worked in saloons and restaurants. in the Italian quarter
 The increase in the number of foci today. eight new spots being discovered is also in line with the rule that has prevailed heretofore. In fact there has not been single exception. Every new focus Is traceable directly to the original source of infection.
 Maid Servant Taken III.
 Today a case was discovered in the resi- dence of a well known citizen, a maid servant being taken down with the dis ea SC during the afternoon. An investi- gation revealed the fact that her mother lived in the Italian quarter, and that she had been in the habit of visiting her on Sundays She had been there just seventeen days. and had been there again last Sunday. Following mp the mosquioto theory. the girl was bitten by mos quito in the infected house last Sunday. and the regular period for the incuba- ton of the germ. four and a half to five days. was up this afternoon. She was immediately transferred to the emergency hospital, and every precaution taken in her residence.
 Five Hundred Men at Work
 The work of sanitation and the cam paign of education has been completely organized and 800 men are actively at work Another branch of the work has been organized for ward work in the education campaign. and the Rev. Dr. Beverely Warner has consented to be superintendent. The people have fallen in line with it with a remarkable spirit of cooperation. and the precinct gangs which have been making the house to i,cuse canvass for the purpose of oling and screening cisterns. have found many or them already protected
 The quarantine situation has been fur ther complicated by the telegram from