The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-03
NUMBER OF FEVER
VICTIMS I'M CROWS.
III Deaths and 81 New
Cases in New Orleans
On Yesterday
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VARDAMAN REPLIES
TO GOV. BLANCHARD
The Latter Has Ordered Armed
Oyster Fleet to Patrol Waters
Now Held BY Mississippi
Boats-Panic Con-
tinues in Several
Sections.
New Orleans Record
(By Associated Press. !

Hatta
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS. August e.-I o-day
REPORTS Of tile fnytr situation ,howad
an increase In the number OF deaths. but
the health authorities confessed to no
alarm over The situation. and said thai
more fatalities were to be looked for
because during the last three or four
days there had been a sufficient increase
In the number Of cases to warrant tha
expectation of heavier mortality. Tha
official report follows: ~;
New cases up to 6 P. NJ, 80; total cases
to date S78: deaths, II total deaths to T
date, 70; new foc 4: total foci, 81.
~ The fever situation showed no ma
terial change during the day and the
few now foci shows that itls not spread
ing with the rapIdlty OF former years.
Of8the deaths four were In the Elmer
gency Hospital four In the original dis
trict,l and three In the charity hospital.
Orders Fleet Out.
The impending controversy between the 4
States OF Louisiana and Mississi ppl over
the invasion by Governor Vardnmnn's
quarantine mosquito fleet and the armed
guards station at Pearl River, Is not irri--s
proved by the statement given out ~
Governor Vardanan to-day -!ns Jacks y, Y
after his return from the coast. where he
went to investigate the situation. h 44Sss
Governor Blanchard has ordered Cap
tain Bostick, Of the navy brigade to.
impress the fleet Of patrol boats OF the
oyster commission, form them and patrol n
tho waters now in the possession OF the
Mississippi boats. One Of these boats,
has already been dispatched to the RIG,
olets, the neck OF water connecting Lake
Pontchartrain with Lake Borgnes. Late;
Tonight or Tomorrow morning launcn$
armed with Colts rapid-fire guns from
tho naval brigade arinory9 ana manneo
by officers and crew from the prlsade
will leave for the scene. is
x Both Captain Bostlck and General Pee
rillat submitted reports as to the result
Of their Investigations. Both dispatched
officers to the scene to-day. and they
learned enough to confirm the first re-,
ports OF the armed Invasion and the ar
bltrary action of the Mississippi patrol
boats in closing Louisiana waters to
Louisiana Fishermen.
There are eighteen boats now at Shlp. (.
Island. which were captured by the patrol
and towed by the revenue cutter Wlnonas
to Ship Island quarantine station, It is
claimed that every one OF these vessels
was taken In louisiana waters. g4
AnOCHcI&AO111p 44ColAOl4.
Another complication has developed In
the same connection. The British ship
Brayhead, OF the Head Line. after com :!
pletlng her cargo in New Orleans.
stopped at the Mississippi side OF Lake 3
Borgne Canal to set a deckload of tlm-
ber, but the Mississippi boats absolutely
refused to allow q tug to go to the mouth
OF Pearl River to get the barge and RATS
The Bruyhead had to leave without cargo,
and the agents and the owners VIII lay
the matter before the British government.
High temperatures. succeeded by heavy
rains and cooler weather produced cllnla-
tic conditions favorable to fatalities. Most &
of the deaths were of Italians, ana nearly
all Of them were either IN t ne emergency
hospitals or In the quarter adjacent
thereto. There was no dissent among the
authorities from the view expressed by
Health Off!cer Kohnkc, that conditions
were hopeful.
There will be no relaxation OF energy
In flghtng the fever, With only rev
Isolated cases above Canal street, y Is
believed that once the Infection oeglns 20
decline. there will be little difficulty IN n
stnmplng out the disease, While the fever
smells n serious state OF AFFAIRS. IT
is not believed that there is justification
for the terror which seems to have spread U
over tho country outside OF New Orr
leans.
Try to Evade Officers,
The city board OF health's report OF yes
tcrday's forty-two new cases and six
dnnths shows that Italian patients nuns Is
hcrcd thirty-t,ve, while the six dead were
ali Italians. In hospital Street, IN me 4
heart Of the originally affected area,
there we're twelve cases, all IN ono
Tn one Hospital Street house FIVE cases
we're found and In another four Most OF &
tbe other new cases were found near
the French market, In spite OF all that
bna been done to reassure them many
Italians continually try TO conceal theif
cases. They are still stricken with panic
ana they turn In fear from doctors ana
health officers.
IT was due largely to the energy Wild
which the marine hospital forces set
about the work OF discovering hidden II
cases tina, tuesdays record Was made
so large, s,, -,
Tn one instance when the orlcers had
made a thorough inspection OF house
and had failed to find paseht, they
n,ent through a skylight and found sick
,man ,vinr on the roof. In another case
nav found patient concealed under
!, cistern. The other DAY, wagon load
ga with household goods ana accompa-
Med by, Italians, started to cross on one
of the ferries. oHicars nSistAd On "a