The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-28
WILL STAMP OUT FEVER
 BEFORE FROST APPEARS
CONFIDENCE OF FORCES FIGHT- ING YELLOW JACK IN
 NEW ORLEANS.

Outbreak May Prove a Blessing in Dis
 guise if it Demonstrates Ability of
 Science to Control the Disease-Cases
 Now Number Over 2OO-MOstIy All
 Among ItaIians-Great Cleaning
 Campaign Begun Excitement
 Among Residents.
 New Orleans, July 27.-All the forces engaged in the battle against the vel low fever scourge to-day joined in ex- pressing the belief that what threat ened to be a malignant epidemic of yellow fever will be stamped out be- fore frost comes.
 It is the opinion of Dr. J. H. White, in charge of the Marine hospital forces and of the state and city health offl- ces. that if destruction of the stego- nyia checks the spread of the disease the present visitation of the plague will have been a blessing in disguise since it will have demonstrated the ability of science to control yellow fever. ''
 With the cases reported to-day the aggregate since July 1S run close to 200 cases. These are included i'll 2O to 25 centers. The first center included the quarter around the French mar ket, where the fever first appeared and where a large proportion of the cases and fatalities have occurred. Almost every instance of a new fever center outside of the French market district Ih that of an Italian who escaped thence. There have been ten fever centers above Canal street and one in Algiers, across the Mississippi river. The Algiers case was an American boy.
 So far as the health authorities were able to discover to-day, no case has thus far developed from the outlying infection centers and with few excep- tions the cases and deaths have been among the Italians.
 The absence of spread from the outside centers is held to be due en- tirely to the fact that the patients have been perfectly screened and sci sntificaIly treated while the premises have been thoroughly disinfected after death or recovrey. The report for the last 24 hours, made officially to the State board, shows Thew eases, three cases believed to be yellow fever, and six deaths. ..s s5 A great cleaning campaign has been begun. Every ward is thoroughly or ganized with precinct organizations radiating from the major body, yet men of science do not. think that the cleansing of streets and back yards will prevent a single case of fever.
 "C1eaning up streets and removing dirt from gutters is energy thrown away declared President Kohnke, of the city board of health to delega- tion of citizens who called to consult him on the subject.
 ''FYou ought to put every man you can get hold of to screening cisterns and draining standing water from premises"
 The emergency hospital which has been fitted out for the care of yellow fever patients was in full operation to-day. Patients are being removed to it from all parts of the city, in a screened ambulance.
 A visit to the French market section to-day gave little visible evidence of the serious epidemic that has prevailed in hat quarter.
 There was no excitement among the residents. Every avenue of egress from the city has been closed by rigid quar- antine, and uninfected quarters of the city are discouraging any further inva- sions by Italians. Landlords are refus- ing to rent to Italian tenants. Deten- tion camps of the marine hospital ser vice, to enable persons to leave the city for regions quarantined against the city, were opened to-day. Permits to enter these camps are to be obtained from the headquarters of the marine hospital service. There is slight hegira of New Orleans people. Some heads of families are sending their wives and children elsewhere, and men whose business has suffered by the ap- pearance of the fever are taking advan- tage of the opportunity to take summer vacations.
 It is almost impossible to get into Mississippi, Alabama, Texas or Louisi- ana towns without detention. Quaran- tines are made constantly more rigid since the board of health began to make public the number of cases and deaths. Mississippi is sending her inspectors right into New Orlean. In many coun- try towns there was a disposition among physicians to accept the mos quito theory, and therefore modify the quarantine regulations. The masses of the people, however, have not been suf- f1cienly educated, and the fact that there are 200 cases in New Orleans has been sufficiently terrorizing to force them to demand that there shall be ab- so1utely no communication with infect ed points.
 Efforts have been made by men of influence on the Gulf coast and in New Orleans to induce Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, to relax the quarantine regulations so far as communication be- tween summer resorts on the Mississip- pi sound and New Orleans is concerned. The governor however, answered that 1t would be better to suspend all busi- ness for thirty days than to admit one yellow fever case into the state.
 
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