The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-02
More Cases, But Decrease
 in New FOci.
THE TERTIARY INFECTION
Health Authorities Exhibit No
 Concern.
Crescent City, Optimistic as Ever, Wages Determined War on the Threatening Yellow Fever
 Six Deaths Yesterday.

New Orleans. Aug. 1.-Following is the fever record up to p. m..
 New cases. AZ; total cases to date. S46; deaths, 6; total deaths to date. 6S; new foci, {; total foci to date, 50.
 The days record shows a continued improvement. so far as the number of new foci is concerned. and with no secondary infection from any of the existing foci the general situation is regarded as hopeful.
 The large number of new cases. the largest yet reported in a single day. shows that the tertiary infection among the panic stricken people in the original district is appearing. which was to be expected. One of the new cases Is on Jackson Avenue, in the residence district, and the victim had returned recently to the city from his summer home on the coast.
 Today witnessed an increase In the number of deaths from yellow fever, . fact that was not unexpected, in view of the high temperature that has prevailed the past two days. There was, however. the usual large prepon- derance of Italian names in the list both of new cases and deaths which has characterized the reports since the time when the fever was first offlcial-
 
 In spite of the increased mortality, the health authorities exhibited no concern over the situation, contendin g that with the accumulation of cases there must be expected an increase in fatalities to maintain the average death rate of the fever. -.-. It Is still possible to trace all the new cases that are appearing to the original focus. an instance being that of a case reported on Fourth Street, in a fashionable residence district where a member of the household oc- cupied a position with a large rnanu- featuring concern in the heart of the infected region and was daily exposed to attacks by the mosquito.
 The Outside Foci.
 Meantime, the health authorities and citizens are making arrangements to give the results of their observation of the foci outside of the original dis trict.r The scientists have declared that the female stegomyia can only receive the poison of yellow fever patient into her system during the first three days illness and that she is unable to communicate 1t until ten or twelve days thereafter. In. say, sev- enteen to twenty days. therefore, it will become evident that there is or there Is not to be a spread from outly- ing foci and the health authorities will,
 
 their daily tables besides the appear ance of new foci the disappearance of existing foci from which there has been secondary infection. On the re- suits of these observations they will be able to determine whether. as they hope now, they can control the disease and ultimately subdue it.
 The war against the stegomyia still continues and the oiling of gutters and cisterns goes on with great energy and persistency, though a light rainstorm this afternoon caused temporary sus- pension of the work and will doubtless require the forces to go back over much of the gutter territory they have covered to replace the oil washed away. Meantime, an effort is to be made to remove from the city all va cant lots or ponds where water stands and serves as breeding place of the insect To that end an ordinance was introduced in the City Council tonight providing that all vacant lots and oth- CT places where water stands for more than six hours shall be filled to the grade required by the city engineers s surveys. Fine or Imprisonment Is to be the penalty.
 The business interests continue to ex- ert every effort to secure some modi- hcation of the quarantine regulations which have had the effect of bottling up the city commercially. With this object In view President Souchon, of the State Board of Health, who is in thorough sympathy with the effort to secure a relaxation of the subordinate quarantines in Louisiana, today issued a proclamation on behalf of the State Board to all the parish and municipal health officers.
 Accepts Health Certificates.
 He announces that he has accepted, and recommends the acceptance by su- bordinate officers of the marine hos pital. health certificates to through pas sengers from Northern points trans ferring in screened coaches at New Or leans He declares that passengers from New Orleans. after detention Of five days in marine hospital service camps, who are given certificates of free pra- tique shall be admitted without deten- tion into all parishes and towns of Lou isiana. President Souchon says as to the handling of freight:
 While recognizing the pressure un- der which certain localities have quar- antined against shipments of merchan- disc from New Orleans, the State Board of Health earnestly deprecates such re- strictions as applied to merchandise and express matter and recommends that no such restrictions be imposed if 1t becomes evident that all freight cars from New Orleans are being fumigated by the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service before leav- ing the city"
 pr. White. of the Marine Hospital Service, spent most of the day on the Gulf coast in an effort to get site for detention camp on the Louisville and $ Nashville Railroad. No permits are be- 1, ing issued to any person to enter the Ii Ayondale detention camp. when such . person intends going to or through { Texas, owing to the Texas demand for ! five days detention at the Sabine Riv- CT. The detention camps at Avondale and Slidel are reported to be filled though those who occupy them are un certain as to whether they can reach their destinations when the period of detention Is up. People who live in the infected district here find difficulty in getting away at all. A gentleman who applied for a health certificate yester- day. with Europe as his destination was refused 1t because of his residence in this quarter,
 Rev. Beverly Warner, in charge of the citizens movement. expressed him self today as exceedingly hopeful of the situation.
 pr. Warmers View.
 We have a very large city" said Dr Warner a.aud the deaths are very few