The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-25
HELP IS ASKED.
Government Appeals to Doctors
and People of New Orleans
TO Unite in a War Against tn
Mosquitoes.
A FUND OF 100000
Has Been Raised forMaintenance
Of a Detention Camp.
French Quarter Has Not Been
So Clean Since the War.

New Orleans, July 25.-No early re-
ports of deaths from yellow fever were
received at the board of health today
In today's mail was sent out a circular
TO every physician in the city urging
the prompt report of all cases of fever,
typhoid, malarial, yellow and otherwise,
so that the appearance of new foci may
be Immediately established, screened
and watched. The doctors are also ask
ed to surrender any individual opinions
they may have and to cooperate with
the state and federal authorities in as
rigid an application as possible of the
| mosquito theory
The city board of health is toesy COM
piling careful record for the state
board of all cases of fever Subscrip-
tions are being taken to a fund of $780,
| 600 for the maintenance of a detention
camp.
| Sanitation in the French market quar-
| ter where the disease incubated, con-
tinues. That region is now probably in
more cleanly condition than it has
been at any time since the war. The
more rigid regulations which are to be
put into effect to prevent further intro
duction of the disease threatens to tenn
porarily drive the fruit trade to Mobile,
Galveston, Pensacola and other ports.
The fruit companies are now consider
ing change of entry, fearing that their
fruit will spoil If subjected to the in
creased detention. New Quarantines are
being put on, but a number of towns
refuse to put up the bars. The piney
woods section of st. Tammany has re-
fused to quarantine and has extended a
general invitation to New Orleans peo-
pie to come there.
So far as ascertainable there have
been eight deaths from yellow fever
since its first appearance here. There
have been altogether fifty cases, many
of them having recovered. About fif-
teen cases are under treatment.
Prompt reports hereafter will enable
curate record.
Disease Is of Virulent Type.
Washington, July 25.-A report reach
ed here today from Surgeon White of
the marine hospital service, VINO is sta
TONED at New Orleans, and who under
instructions of the acting surgeon gen
eral, is engaged in an effort to deter
mine the exact condition with regard
! to yellow fever in that city, that the
| city authorities concede twelve cases
! and eight deaths but he adds that there
| probably are many more cases. Those
| SO far observed are of a virulent type.
Surgeon Warden, stationed at Memphis
who rendered signal service during the
| epidemic at Ocean Springs in 1897 has
entered upon a careful inspection of
conditions along the gulf coast from
\ Mobile to Pass Christian and Past Sur
geon Young has been ordered from Chi
cago to Jackson, Miss, to confer with
the Mississippi health officers, relative
| to train inspection.
No Fever at Mobile.
Mobile, July 25.-Dr. Eugene S.
Wasdin, surgeon of the marine hos
pital service, detailed to make an in
spection of the coast cities, has con-
cluded his investigation into conditions
here and states emphatically that
there is no yellow fever here. DR.
Wasdin will leave for Scranton and
other Mississippi coast towns during
| the day.