The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-03
THE FEVER SITUATION.
Number of Deaths Again Increase
Hidden Cases Brought to Light

| New orleans, aug. TODAY S re-
ports of the fever situation showed an
| increase in the number of Deaths but
| the health authorities confessed to no
alarm over the situation, and said that
more fatalities were to be looked for
| because during the last three or four
days there had been sufficient in
crease in the number of cases to war
| rant the expectation of heavier NOR
| tality.
| High temperatures succeeded by
| heavy rain and cooler weather pro-
duced climatic conditions favorable to
| fatalities Most of the deaths were
| of Italians and nearly all of them
! We're either in the Emergency Hospi-
| tai or in the quarter adjacent thereto.
| There was no dissent among the au-
! thOrities from the view expressed by
| Health officer Kohnke, that conditions
| We're hopeful. There will be no relax
alton of energy in fighting the fever.
With only a few isolated cases above
Canal street it is believed that once
( the infection begins to decline, there
| Will be little difficulty i'm stamping out
! the disease. While the fever spells a
| serious state of affairs. it is not be-
! lieved that there is justification for
the terror which seems to have spread
over the country outside of New Or
| leans.
|
| of yesterdays AZ new cases and six
deaths shows that Italian patients
numbered thirty-five, while the six
| dead were all Italians. In Hospital
Street, in the heart of the originally
| infected area, there We're twelve cases,
| all in one block. In one Hospital
| Street house five cases were found
and in another four. Most of the 9TH
| er new cases We're found near the
fish market In spite of all that has
| been done to reaSsure them many Ital-
/ ianS continually try to conceal their
! cases. They are still stricken with
panic and they turn in fear from doc
tors and health officers.
Disicoyery OF Hlddn Cases.
1t was due largely to the energy
with which the Marine Hospital forces
set about the FFork of discovering
hidden cases th,.t Tuesdays record
was made SO large.a
In one instance when the officers had
made a thorough inspection Of house
and had failed to find a patient, they
went through skylight and found
sick man lying on the roof. In
another case they found patient con-
cealed under a cistern. The other day
Il wagon loaded with household goods
ana accompanied by Italians started
OF cross on one of the ferries Officers
insisted ON an investigation and when
the goods were unloaded sick man
was found in the bottom of the wa
gon. The humber Italians have in
many instances refused to follow the
custom of sleeping under mosquito
bars.
Postmaster Woodward today receir-
ed a letter from the Railway Mail Ser
vice at Atlanta, saying that Green
Vile, Miss, hereafter would accept no
letted mailed from New Orleans, that
Lo,,.1 l;rts,, &,
Ger no circumstances would it receive
newspapers. Greenville will doubtless
be temporarily out of mail or news
papers.
The mosquito theory being accepted
by the Federal Officers, disinfection
of mail is regarded as unnecessary.
1t is said that Secretary Hunter
of the Mississippi Health Board, will
probably come to New Orleans to sur
vey the situation generally and espe-
cially to study the scientific fight now
in progress on the basis of the mos
quito theory. In his opinion the
greatest quarantine restriction are
properly enforced.
NOrdaman Shows Courtesy.
Surgeon White, of the Marine Eos
pital Service, has returned from the
Mississippi coast where he talked over
the telephone with Governor Varia-
man. Dr. White said the Governor
Vardaman had given courteous con-
sent to the establishment of deten-
ton camp on the Mississippi side of
the State line on the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad and will arrange
for the admission to Mississippi points
of persons from New Orleans who en-
ter the camp and are discharged with
certificates of Federal sergeons. There
is no longer any Obstaclee to the move
ment of through passengers across
Mississippi.
The question of whether Federal
control of the situation ought 70 be
invited is still discussed, but unless
graver conditions arise it is not re-
garded as likely that there will be any
movement in that direction.
Mayor Behrman today signed the
MOSQUITO ordinance requiring that
cisterns hall be oiled or screened
within forty-eight hours by each
property owner of his agent.
No apprehension exists of any ser- !
Gus results from the trouble that has |
arisen on the Mississippi and Louis |
ana border over the enforcement of !
the Mississippi quarantine. Reports |
of CaDtain Bostick of the naval re- |
serve and of Colonel Arsene Porilliat |
of Governor Blanchard's staff, con-
firmed the charges that Louisiana fish
ermen, bOatmen anu ClllZeHS nave
been interfered with and that there !
has been some obstruction to traffic |
in Lake Borgne Canal, and that the |
revenue cutter Winona, which is do |
in~ service under the direction of |
Surgeon Wasdin. has interfered with
Louisiana boats These reports led |
Governors Blanchard to order Captain
Bostick and the MOSQUITO fleet or the
oyster commission TO the scene.
With Governor Vardaman anxious
to avoid any conflict with the LOUIS
ana authorities it is thought that the
Mississipn soldiers who have. it is
said. been coming across the Louisiana
line. hereafter will be required to keep
on their side of the border, and thus
all further possibility of clashes will
be removed. +,