The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-28
TO STAMP OUT YELLOW FEVER
 BEFORE ARRIVAL; OF FROST

water on every floor, with electric fans to keep the atmosphere cool. All the doors and windows have been com pletely screened and patients will be surrounded with every reasonable conn., fort. The hospital will be operated at it's full capacity. patients being re- moved to it from all sections of the city in a screened ambulance, which has been already provided.
 French Markets Appearance.
 A visit % the French market section today gave little visible evidence Of the serious epidemic that has prevailed in that quarter. Two weeks of hard work by the public cleaning gangs showed in the general cleanliness of the surround ings. but there was no excitement among the residents. The better class of Italians in the societies of the pre- cinct had done excellent missionary work among their countrymen ana, now that those who are In the meet ed district realize that 1t is practically impossible for them to get out of 1t. they have apparently decided to stay until the fever is wiped out. Every avenue of egress from the city has been closed by the rigid quarantines and other sections of the city are discour- aging any further invasion by Italians A family which carried It's belongings into the Sixth district today was per suaded to return to the home It had vacated and landlords are refusing for the present to rent to Italian tenants Pity Is felt for unfortunates who have suffered from the scourge, but it is considered wiser for them to remain where they are at present and where they are to be charitably cared for If in distress and nursed If III.
 The detention camps. established by the marine hospital service in order to enable persons to leave the city who want to get into sections auarantined against New Orleans, were opened to- day. Permits to enter these camps are to be obtained from the headquarters of the marine hospital service here. This Is to be required in order that each applicant may be examined. the hospital service not desiring to send into the detention camp persons who are likely to become i'll. thereby estab- fishing new centers of infections.
 There is a very slight hegira of New Orleans people. Some heads of faml- lies are sending their wives and chill ness has suffered by the appearance of tn fever are taking advantage of the opportunity to take summer vacations now, but unless the fever becomes much more serious than 1t Is the num- Der going away will be much smaller than in 1897 and 1S9S-
 The Quarantines.
 Most of the time 1t Is next to impos- sible .. get into Mississippi, Alabama. TexaS or Louisiana towns without de- tentien. Quarantines are being made constantly more rigid since the Board of Health began to make public the number of cases and deaths. Missis- sippi is sending her inspectors right into New Orleans. Every passenger Is examined and the tickets of through passengers scrutinized to prevent any one from attempting to get in the State by surreptit.ous means. On tho Louisville and Nashville, guards ap- pear at the State line. the doors of l the cars are locked and there is no chance given passenger to leave the train until the Alabama line is reached. Similar precautions are being taken on the Valley Northeastern and Missis- sippi Valley Roads. No attempt Is be- ing made by passengers. except those bound through, to go out over either the Texas and Pacific or the Southern Pacific
 In many of the country towns there was a disposition among the medical men to accept the mosquito theory and therefore modify the quarantine regu- lations. The masses of the people. however. have not been suficiently ed- ucated and the fact that there are 200 cases in New Orleans has been sufi- ciently terrorizing to force them to demand that there shall be absolutely no communication with infected points. In Baton Rouge the people overrode the doctors and the doctors resigned from the Board of Health and signed an agreement not to serve again up- oa It. +.s.. t... -. Efforts have been made by men of influence on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans to induce Governor Yard aman to relax the quarantine regula- tions so far as communication between the summer resorts on the Mississippi Sound and New Orleans is concerned. The Governor. however, has answered that it would be preferable to suspend business throughout the State for thir- ty days than that case of yellow fever should be permitted to get into the State. The result Is a great blow | to the coast towns. the bulk of whose ! population in the summer time Is made up of New Orleans people. <:.<
 Yesterdays Record.
 New cases today. 26; deaths, 2; cases
 to date. 2o6; deaths to date, A. Total foci. 27. .+.
 The apparent increase in the number
 of cases Is due to discovery and trans l fer to the emergency hospital of eleven cases which had not been previously re-
 ported. That institution was in full blast today and the screened ambu- lances which have been put into servtee
 were kept busy hauling the unfortG Gn- ates to the institution. The members of the Italian SocIety's committee who 1 have been doing missionary work
 among their people, are responsible for the discovery of several of these cases.
 The rule of infection among the Itall | ian element continues. There have been very few cases among people of l other nationalities and only two ne 1 groes have been found with the Illness. i Yellow fever does not as rule attack negroes, the history of all epidemics being that they have been as rule i'm
 mune. One of the negroes reported to- day Is a quadroon. Both of these men
 worked in saloons and restaurants in
 the Italian quarter.
 The increase in the number of foci
 today. eight new spots being discov-
 cred, Is also in limo with the rule that
 has prevailed heretofore In fact,
 there has not been a single exception.
 Every new focus Is traceable directly i to the original source of infection.
 Bitten by Mosquito.
 ! Today a case was discovered in the 1 residence of a well known citizen. q
 maid servant being taken down with ! the disease during the afternoon. An 1 investigation revealed the fact that | her mother lived in the Italian quar- 1 ter and that she had been in the habit ! of visiting her on Sundays. She had i been there Just seventeen days ago and | had been there again last Sunday. Fol- | lowing up the mosquito theory. the 1 girl was bitten by mosquito In the l infected house last Sunday and tha hA