The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-15
Only Fifty-five Were Re-
 ported.
FIELD DAY IN COUNTRY
Surgeon White Still Confident of Outcome.
Tn the Meantime Work of Cleaning, Screening, Isolating and or eanixine Goes On With
 Unabated Energy.

New Orleans. Aug. 14.-Followins is the official report up to 6 p. m:
 New cases, 55; total cases to date, 1,01s; deaths. 12; total deaths to date. 166; new foci, 8; total foci. 21o; cases under treatment, 356. The figures for the day are surprisingly small. consid- ering that nineteen of the cases report ed today really belonged to yesterdays list, having come In after the closing of Sundays report.
 Monday has usually been a heavy day for new cases on account of hold-overs from Sunday, and if the number of new cases for the next few days com tinues small, then 1t can be said that the situation is really improving. Of the new foci four are up town and four below Canal Street Surgeon Whites forces went to work today on the reorganized plan, all the fumigat- ing and screening being done from the district headquarters, instead of the central headquarters as heretofore. As- sistant Surgeons Mullans and Green reported for duty today. Surgeon Sporting of the navy arrived here today to look after the interests of the navy men who are at the naval station.
 This was field day for country cases. Assistant Surgeon Corput went to St. James Parish and found a case at Lutcher. large lumber town. This case Is traced to Reserve plantation The parish health officer of St. Charles reports that Diamond and Goodhope plantations have each one suspicious and three positive cases. He says that on the Goodhope place the Italians are violently opposed to the Inspections, but he will call on the sheriff to en- force his authority.
 Two more cases were discovered to- day on the Willswood plantation in Jefferson Parish. Another case has de- veloped at Port Barrow in Ascension parish. There are two cases at La Fourche crossing Tn La Fourche Parish, which are isolated on ffatboat in the bayou Patterson reports three new cases and no deaths. P1aauemine par ish, below the city, reports two new cases at. Pointe Celeste. four miles above SPointe-a-la- -Hache, one of which is dead. All other cases in that parish have recovered and the Pointe Celeste cases are the only secondary infection which has developed. An early report received by the Board of Health said there were twelve cases there. but this was a mistake in transmission.
 Surgeon Guiteras returned tonight from Patterson, La, where he has been in charge of the Immigration and screening and organizing the commun- ity to fight the infection. He reports the situation there as encouraging and the people thoroughly alive to the me- cessity of the work mapped out by him.
 The situation in regard to the fruit business shows some signs of a solu- tion. It is believed that the surgeon general will withdraw his prohibition against shipment of the fruit north, If an arrangement now under way can be completed to have the fruit vessels unload at Chalmette, point below the city.
 The Norwegian steamship saphir from Colon is now held up in quaran- tine and two cases of sickness were taken off and placed in the detention camp at the quarantine station near the mouth of the river. It is reported here that case of sickness was taken off another ship recently which Is still detained at quarantine. .~:
 Assistant Surgeon Berry is on the road to recovery. "-:: :.-+ =
 New Orleans, Aug. 14.-Partly as a result Of leftover cases from Sunday and partly from the fact that the in- spectors were able to put in a full days work' there was again large number or new cases of yellow fever reported today. the bulk of them, as before com ing from below Canal Street.
 That section is now very renerallv infected. though there are some sections of 1t which have thus far entirely es- cdpeo. SLOW progress IS made by the disease in what is known as the Ameri- can part of the city. and with few ex- captions. the cases there are isolated. Both above and below the fight against the sickness is being prosecuted with the greatest energy by the Federal physicians with the assistance of local doctors, numbers of whom have been taken temporarily into the marine hos pital service and given the title Of act ing assistant surgeon.
 The health authorities are still unable to assert whether the high water mark in the matter of the daily aggregate of cases has been reached, and they consider 1t too early to hazard a guess at the extent of the victory which they expect to win, but with a large propor- tton of the cases responding to good treatment. they do not believe there is any chance that the disease can ap- proach the proportion of any of the serious epidemics of the past, though the population of New Orleans Is almost double what 1t was in 1878
 Some friction has existed in scattered quarters, where local doctors have re- sented the activity of inspectors in cases which they have themselves re- ported but Dr. White Is displaying great tact in handling the situation. is constantly smoothing out the wrinkles and hopes within few days to have SO perfect a working system that cause will not longer exist for dissatisfaction
 Druggists Prescribing.
 Concerning the statement that drug Eis:s have been prescribing for patients, in order that families might avoid re- porting sickness to the authorities, Dr. White said today that he did not con slider It within the line of humanity to prosecute druggists who prescribed without a doctors certificate. but that he would act towards them as he would towards physicians if he learned that they were purposely concealing cases of yellow fever The doctors them selves. however, hr.ve indicated that they will heartily support any action designed to prohibit the practice among druggists of treating yellow fever cases The agitation over this matter grows out of a discovery on Saturday of case of a young woman of some prominence who was found to be crtti- caily Ill with yellow fever without doctor in charge. Only 8 druggist had prescribed for her. Her condition zl.w.