Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-10
|SUCCUMBS TO
FATAL BITE.
Archbishop of New Orleans Dies
of Yellow Fever Contracted
by Insects Bite.
WAS SICK SIX DAYS

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1O,-Arch-
bishop Chapelle of the Roman Catho-
lie diocese of New Orleans; is dead
here of yellow fever.
Shortly after II o'clock yesterday
DIR. Larue announced that Archbishop
Chapelle had taken a change for the
worse, that he was critically Ill and
that u consultation of physicians would
Immediately be held. 1t was found,
however, that the case of the aged
prelate had passed beyond human aid.
Mgr. Chapelle was taken i'll on Fri
day, He had returned to the city
three days before, having just COM
pleted a tour of Louisiana, and an
nounced on his arrival his intention of
cooperating in the efforts then in full
swing to stamp out the fever. He,
however, left his house only on one oc-
casion before he was taken sick. That
was to take a drive with his niece.
On Friday he complained Of symptoms
indicating yellow fever. DR.. Larue
diagnosed the case as yellow fever.
From the first DIR. Larue was ap-
prehensive as to the result, Archbishop
Chapelle being deshy, full BIZ Med and
more than sixty years old. ~
Although the prelate was a&bubject
Of scientific treatment and attention,
his physique and fatigued condition ON
bis return from a particularly irksome
trip through the country counted
against him. His death, while gener-
ally ideplored, is not taken as a refuta-
ton of the medical fraternity's opinion
that with good care and propeE treat
ment the number of deaths Is not like
lyo to be large in proportion to the
number of cases.
IA What is held remarkable is that the
archbishop should have contracted the
disease so quickly, whereas he had
spent many years in Cuba and Porto
Rico, where the disease is endemic,
without; having contracted 1t there.
Among the scientific men there is little
doubt that the archbishop fell a vic
tim to a mosquito during a brief visit
he paid to the old archbishopric OIL
Charities street or from an insect
which found its way into his residence
in Esplanade avenue, which is mot far
from the territory within which there
has been infection.
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral.
Archbishop Chapelle was born in
Mines, Franco, In 1912. He began his
collegiate course in France and COM
pleted 1t in Belgium, in Enghien. In
1853 he came to this country with an
uncle who had been sent by the holy
see t0Inegotiate a concordat with the
republic of Haiti.
He then entered st. Mary's semina-
nv. in Baltimore, to pursue his theo-
logical, studies, and upon the death Of
his uncle in Haiti he determined to at
tach himself to the archdiocese of Bal
timore. After he graduated he taught
humanities in st. Charles college,
Maryland.
The report of the fever in this city
for the twenty-four hours shows: New
cases., 63: total cases, go; deaths, q;
total deaths, no.
The report of sixty new cases of vel
lOW ICNGI III ANCN OitCaho JCotShocJ
shows how complete the infection Is in
the district below Canal street and
shows only too plainly the herculean
task which the federal authorities have
to stamp out the pest.
1t is the intention of the state board
to enforce the state regulations gov
crning guarantees with civil forces,
and in case of a clash with the parish
authorities Governor Blanchard will
be requested to send the militia to en-
force the state boards mandate.
The militia will, 1t is understood. be
put aboard trains and steamboats, to
protect travellers from ejectment and
detention and prevent the stopping of
freight. This. 1t is thought, will start
the movement of mails and freight to
all points in Louisiana, some of which
have been without a train for eight
days.