Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-08
Marine Hospital Service Assumes
Full Charge of the crescen,
City Epidemic.
CAMPAIGN BlGAN AT NOON
Active Work Toward Securing $3.50, 900
Fund Needed to Fight scourge-TcI-
ephone Exchanges Closed by Flight
of Operators and Quarantine Against
Others-Loss Will be Heavy.
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NEW ORLEANS. LA. Aug. 7.-Om.
cial report In & u. IN.
Now eases, 81.
Total To date 5G5.
Deaths today. s.
Total deaths to date, ll3.
New sub foci. 1.
Total sub fuci to date, %.
With the marine hospital service
under The authority of President
Roosevelt placed in complete control
al noon, the scientific fight tn eradicate
yellow fever from Now Orleans before
frost. the campaign against The scuurgc
today took fresh life. With ample
funds the best available medical tai
>nt and an army of willing workers
at his back DR.. j. IL. White, surgeon
IN charge, hopes for n successful ter.
mination Of the struggle
During the day Or. White received
formal orders from Surgcon.Gcndral
Wyman informing him that the federal
government had decided to assume
HE task prepared for it, Dir. White
then visited tho State and the CITY
boards of health, where he comm,mi-
Gated the news 10 Presidents Souchon
and Kohnkc and arranged for tho
transfer of control of tho work.
Assistance Pledged.
The city and tho State boards pledge
all the assistance possible. DR..
White said the transfer of details
would he gradual, so that there might
ho no interruption Of the work now in
progress
II was announced that the marine
hospital service would soon take ND
the receiving and compiling of daily
reports. y false impression has prc-
vailed in some quarters that all tho
cases occurring were not made public.
and III order that there may be perfect
confidence throughout the country. Or.
White desires that hereafter statistical
announcements of the situation shall
be made under federal supervision.
pr. White says that he figures on
the yellow fever situation carried daily
hy the Associated Pres have been cor.
rect.
Subscriptions Received.
There was a prompt response today
10 tho appeal of Chairman Janvier. of
The citizens committees, for additional
subscriptions to the citizens fund to
the end Of raising the S25O,O0O desired
by The government
In addition Mr., .Ianvcr today tclc-
Graphcd Governor blanchard. asking
the states assistance i'll securing
money desired to fight the fever I'm
solicited checks have been sent from
oihcr parts OF the country and the
whole fund will be fully subscribed, it
is believed before 1t is needed.
An evidence Of the panicky feeling
III the country parishes is shown in the
experience of the Cumberland Tclc.
phone Company. At Arcadia. La. tho
man in charge of the telephone Office
He'd when the fever hogan to spread
Tho telephone company tried to fiji
the position, hut Arcadia refused 10
permit man TO go to work, and the
service has been suspended. A SINH
lar situation prevails at Baton Rouge.
The Baton Rouge Telephone Company
exchange serves much of the surround
ing country and all that region is with
out tclcDhonic communications
Thought Her Son Lived.
The death reported on the Boil plan
tailon In Jefferson parish. across the
Mississippi river from New Orleans. is
the NTH That has occurred there. show.
ing the heavy mortality from tho fever
where adequate attention is not given
Five Italians fled from New Orleans
to the Bell plantation and all have
died OF yellow fever. The vicinity has
been thoroughly isolated end disin
fccted.
One Incident ont of the ordinary is
the death of Emile NJ Lopez. n boy.
After his death had been reported the
hoard of health gave permission to
hold the body twcnty-four hours he.
fore burial While the hoy lay in n
coffin the mother embraced her dead
son and thought sho detected signs of
life. Physicians dsprovcd her sus.
picions
L. will probably never he possible to
estimate the losses which New Orleans
has suffered financially, through the
diversion Of bushes, but the heavy tax
on tho people by the present situation
rs shown by the fact that besides tho
money already sncnt by the boards of
health and tho $3.50 900 to be raised for
the government thousands of dollars
have been subscribed and expended i'm
ward sanitation.
Quarantine Against DRUGS,
Some docking houses report that a
number of towns have quarnntincd
against drugs.
IN 1898 the quarantine was general
over the South against every character
OF freight, including medicines, but