The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-24
FEVER EPIDEMIC AT I PLACES.
NO HOPE OF CHECKING THE
DISEASE IN THESE SPOTS.
Ignorant Foreigners who Refuse 10 Abide
by the Orders or the Health Authorities
the Greatest sienacc-Thc Police
Called Upon TO Assist the Surgeons

by the Orders or the Health Authorities
the Greatest Nienacc-The Police
Called Upon TO Assist the Surgeons.
New ORLEANS, Aug. est il now adj
mitted that yelow fever Ia epidemic IN
four places in Louisiana outside OF New
Orleans and possibly In one place In Missis-
sippi. All the other cases are sporadic
and are giving no trouble. A thorough in
vestigation has been made around New
Orleans and it Is not believed possible that
another fever nest can exist anywhere.
The infected localities are Patterson and
Riverside in st. Mays parish; Lee. in
La Fourche parish, and the Italian Settle
mont in Jefferson yarish between kenneer
and Hanson City. The Mississippi infected
point Is Mississippi City.
There seems little likelihood of the fever
being crushed out In any Of the Louisiana
infected points. 1t will probably run its
course.
Riverside presents the easiest problem.
1t is Il sugar plantation with $50 Italians
in the quarters. Tho disease reached there
from Patterson and prevailed month or
six weeks before its discovery as yellow
fever. More than thra-fourths of the popu-
lation have already had the fever, and
there are only about forty more subject to
IT, 1t will probably die out early in Sep
TENDER. The disease Is Of mild type
with only four deaths, mortality of less
thsn per cent
The disease is still milder in Patterson
where the mortality has been under !
per cent. Patterson is town OF l, 800
population, largely devoted to numbering
There have been IFS sick of the fever and.
4 Nnxu
Orleans, who came there with the fever,
also died. A great deal of sanitary work
has been done; cisterns have been screened
and every effort has been made to get rid
of the mosquitoes, but the disease continues
to spread and there now seems to be little
hope of crushing it out. At Lee, the situa-
ton Is probably the worst OF all. Lee is
fishing settlement Of 900 people. stretched
along Bayou Lafourche for several miles.
The fish are sold in New Orleans and the
fever was imported early in June directly
from the original infected section which
faces the old French fish market.
Its existence was not known for a month
md half. The doctor sent there found
122 cases of yellow fever and l45 Of dengue.
Twelve deaths have been reported. The
wide prevalence Of fever at Lee and the
heavy mortality are due to the lack of prep
aration in the settlement for disease
The situation is not bad in the Italian
settlement In Jefferson, for there are fewer
than thirty cases there, but the Italians
cause so much trouble, that it is probably
the worst place in the State to handle.
New cases Of fever continue to appear
at Mississippi City, and the health au-
thofities are having trouble in fumigatthg
and screening houses. An order has ac-
cordingly been issued by the State Board
Of Health giving the health officers absolute
control In such matters, and Gov. Varda-
man has placed the State militia, under
q Gen. Fudge, at their command to execute
all sanitary orders. |
In New Orleans the health officers have
been compelled to remove all Italian patients
TO the hospital because Of their defiance
ment in which there are five sick Of the
fever the screens put in by the surgeon
were hacked to pieces 1t was then de- |
cided to remove the sick to the hospital.
The healthy inmates Of the tenement re-
sisted this, and the police had to be called |
20 assist the physicians
There liz strong sentiment for the en-
actment by Congress OF national quar- |
antine law superseding such laws in the
States.
DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 23.--Dr. Sims Assist
ant State Health Officer, arrived In Dallas
to-day from quarantine inspection along
the northern Texas border. He spent
yesterday in Denison and Gainesville and
reports quarantine regulations properly
enforced. DR. Sims stated that henceforth
all persons entering Texas from the North
will be required to take oath to the effect
that they have not been in an infected dis
Gates will not be required at present from
people entering the State through the
northern gateways.
CARMI, Ill, Aug. pa negro from
Shreveport, La, working with a construc-
ton gang on the Big Four Railroad has
symptoms OF yellow fever More than
400 men are working in the gang and all
have been exposed. A telephone message