Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-08-03
SCOURGE SCARES
SOUTHERN CITY.
OUTBREAK OF YELLOW FEVER TN
NEW ORLEANS CAUSES
ALARM.
Forty-fve Deaths from the Awful Pest
Are Recorded-Citizens Organize
for Systematic Warfare on the
Disease. sas. q,

New Orleans, July 27.-Six deaths
Wednesday up to six p. NJ, making a
total to date Of As. The number OF
new cases reported Tuesday, but COM
piled Wednesday, is II, making all
told to date 1865. The organization of
forces for fighting the spread OF the
infection and for campaign Of edu-
cation and practical application Of the
mosquito determination plans, has
been completed, and besides 100 men
put on as extras to clean cutters by the
city, $50 men are working as part of
the system Of sanitation. Citizens are
being organized in wards, and these
ward clubs will form precinct clubs.
and a house to house canvass will be
made to assure the screening of every
cistern and the oiling of every cesspool
and water pond. The business men
have provided the funds for this work,
and as the people are now reused to
the necessity Of action, there will be
no let-up. Yielding to the sentiment of
the community the state board of
health Monday adopted new regula-
tons for the fruit ships, providing
that they should remain six days at
sea between the last port and New Or
leans, and requiring fumigation at port
Of departure and fumigation here after
the discharge Of the cargo. The people
are convinced that the Infection was
brought here by the fruit steamers,
and If il became necessary to make the
regulations SO stringent as to drive
them away, in the present feeling,
such regulations would be enforced.
Now Called Mosquito Fever,
While handling the present elaer-
gency, some thought is being. given to
the future, and on all sides there is
sentiment that nothing shall stand in
the way OF future immunity from
mosquito fever" as it is called now.
The infection of the original focus
seems to be dying out as fewer. new
cases are being reported there, which
is a hopful sign, indicating that the
modern methods have been elective.
The work now is to locate the new
foci, and treat them III the same man
ner Physicians are now reporting all
cases of fever, and whenever there is
the slightest. suspicion, rigid sanitary
rules are applied. with the result that
up to now. there has been no spread of
any case, from any Of these new foci
Those which are developing are all
traceable directly to the original focus
i IN, h q tai
Hope to Eradicate Disease.
All the forces engaged in the battle
against the yellow fever seourge join
in expressing the belief that, while the
situation has been and is serious,
enough success has already been
achieved in the application Of the
methods applied, as a result Of. the
work of the Reed commission in Cuba,
i to justify the hope that for the first
time in the history of the country
what threatened to be a malignant epi-
de1nie Of yellow fever viii be stamped
i out before frost comes and that New,
( Orleans will be spared the horrors OF
the epidemics Of 1858. 1867, and 1878
here, and a century ago in New York
4 and Philadelphia. 81
New Orleans, July 20. The fol-
lowing report as to the progress of vel
low fever in New Orleans is up to SIX
] p m. Friday New cases, 81; total
cases to date. 227;; deaths Friday. 8;
deaths to date, IT Of the deaths on
Friday one occurred at the emergency
hospital and was one of the cases
3 transferred there Thursday. That in
stitution now has 10 cases under treat
ment.