New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-02
SCOURCE SCARES
SOUTHERN CITY
OUTBREAK OF YELLOW FEVER IN
NEW ORLEANS CAUSES
ALARM.
Forty-fve Deaths from the Awful Pest
Are observation-disclosures Organize
for a Systematic Warfare on the
Disease.

New Orleans, July 27.-Six deaths
from yellow fever were recorded
Wednesday up to six p. m, making
new cases reported Tuesday, but COM
piled Wednesday, is y II, making all
told to date 1855 The organization of
forces for fighting the spread of the
infection and for a 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,
no wv To 20 10
regulations so stringent as to drive
them away, in the present feeling
such regulations would be enforced.
Now Called "Mosuuito Fever"
While handling the present emer-
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 hopful sign, indicating that the
| modern methods have been effective.
The work now is to locate the new
| foci, and treat them in 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
in the Italian quarter.
Hope to Eradicate Disease.
! All the forces engaged in the battle
against the yellow fever scourge joiI
in expressing the belief that, while the
| situation has been and is serious
enough success has already beer
achieved in the application of tho
methods applied, as a result of the
work of the Reed commission in Cuba
to justify the hope that for the frs
time in the history of the country
what threatened to be malignant cpl
demic of yellow fever will be stamped
out before frost comes and that New
Orleans will be spared the horrors Of
the epidemics of 1858, 1867 and 1875
here, and century ago in New Yorl
| and Philadelphia.
New Orleans, July 29.-The fol
lowing report as to the progress of vel
low fever in New Orleans is up to si2
q. m. Friday: New cases, 81; tota
cases to date, 227; deaths Friday, 3
deaths to date, At. Of the deaths OF
Friday one occurred at the emergenc.
hospital and was one of the case!
transferred there Thursday. That in
stitution now has 10 cases under treat
| ment.