The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24
New Orleans, Aug. 21.-F Following
is the official report to 6 p. m. Mon

day:
New cases.. :. :. ;. :. $3.50. 81
Total to date. :. IL 46
Deaths :. :. :. ;. :. :. -. -. 9
Total Deaths. :. :. :. :. =. 2O5
New f3ci.. ;. ;. :. :. =. 16
LOYAL Iocl.. :. ..... 521
i Cases under treatment ;. !. 1923
An analysis Of the figures shows
that there is no check to the hopeful
feelings which have been produced by
:! the small reports for the past few
days. There has been a steady but
! slow diminution of the cases under
treatment. The number Of foci is
misleading also for it equals the num-
Der OF cases under treatment. A great
many of these foci have been abso-
lutely wiped out but they still figure
in the records and represent every
spot in the city where a case Of fever
has developed. Of the new points
of infection today five are up town,
ten down town and one in Algiers,
across the river. Of the deaths two
took place in the marine hospital and
three in the emergency hospital. All
but one of the others were down town.
Surgeon White today was willing TO
give expression to the feeling of hope
he has of winning out in the fight. He
said:
81 feel very much encouraged over
the situation, for I believe that prac-
tically all the cases are being report
ed now and we are able to handle
them. The low death rate is manifest
and that also is a good indication. -
The situation outside of the city is
not so encouraging, Judging from the
reports which came in tonight. Sur
geon Guiteras made an inspection of
the Riverside plantation in st. Ma
ry parish, and his report reads:
Gone hundred and fifty inhabi-
tants in infected barracks. Estimated
100 have had fever. Of these, under
treatment, ffty-fve. Proper measures
taken to avoid infection of the local
tiles around"
At Hanson City, in Jefferson par
ish, eight new cases were reported to-
day. Kenner also reports four cases.
The health officers at Iberville re-
ports a number of suspicious cases
among Italians on Bayou Pidgeon,
twenty miles from the town of Plaque
mine on the west bank. The state
board ordered an inspector to inves-
tigate.
Two new cases have developed on
Elizabeth plantation in Iberville.
St. Barnard parish reports new
focus Of infection among Italians near
Corrine, two cases having come to
light with two more suspicious cases.
Two more cases developed in Pecan
Grove, st. John parish.
Patterson reports ten new cases and
no deaths.
Though there was an increase to-
day in the number of new cases and
Of fatalities, hopefulness continued to
pervade the federal headquarters
touching the local fever situation. The
Monday list is always large. It was
in the epidemic Of 1878. That is at
tributed to the fact that the work Of
inspection is not as thorough on Sun
day and only the reports which come
from physicians are to be depended on
In the matter of deaths uniformity is
unusual from day to day because the
conditions. The federal authorities
have not reached point where they
are willing to prophesy the complete
determination of the disease before
frost comes to destroy the bulk of the
remaining mosquitoes, but they feel
that there is reason for the predic-
ton that repetition of serious epidem-
les of the past in no longer to be
reckoned with. Tn this connection un-
usual precautions under the supervls-
ion of the marine hospital service, or
otherwise, are to be taken to prevent
a recrudescence of the fever next
spring. Tt has been demonstrated by
the scientists that the stegomyia hi
bernates. A strict watch will there
fore be kept when the fever passes
for any cases which may appear here
or elsewhere in the south and in the
event that there are isolated cases.
with the experience Of the present
modern campaign, there is absolute
certainty that they will be Immediate
" controlled with no possibility Ut
spreading the infection.
In today's list of fatalities two
deaths appeared as having occurred
in the marine hospital. They were
sailors admitted to that Institution.
De Rosen at His Cottage.