The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-25
THE SUNDAY
 RECORD LOW Almost Duplicates That Of Seven Days Ago. NO PROMINENT VICTIMS Two Cases Are Brought Into
 New Orleans. azississippi Summary Shows Very Little Change in Situation There.
 FumiSation of Ships at
 Quarantine Station.
NO PROMINENT VICTIMS

New Orleans. La. Sept. 24.-Ofhcial record to o'clock p. rn., Sunday:
 New cases, 24; total to date, 2.S31; deaths today, g. total deaths to date. 367; new foci, s: cases under treat ment. 2sS; cases discharged. 2,17s.
 The low Sunday record Is almost a duplicate of that of last Sunday The deaths and new cases are the same. There are no names of special promi- hence in the list. Only five of the new cases are above Canal Street, and two of the new foci. The others are down. town. Two cases were brought into the city, one from Abita Springs and one from Grand Lake in the Barataria country. The Abita Springs case in- cites some interest, because that is one of the resorts in St. Tammany Parish whither many of the people of New Orleans went when the coast resorts were closed to them by quarantine. The young man, 1t seems, had been sick since last Tuesday, on the third floor of the main hotel. He was brought to the city and taken to Touri 1nfirmary. The health officer of St. Tammany Parish has arranged to fumigate the hotel. It is believed that the patient had gotten his infection in New or leans, as he made frequent trips to this city. and of the three cases which have so far occurred in St. Tammany II, Orleans, and there has been no secon- dary infection.
 The Grand Lake case was brought in on A launch to Westwego and trans ferred to the emergency hospital. This patient had only been i'll two days.
 The emergency hospital IS serving it's purpose, because since the new Tn" stitution has been In operation many persons have walked to the hospital, in the early stages of the illness, and the result has been that they have been cured One man walked six miles in from Milneburg, one Of the lake coast resorts, to the hosuNal Sunday morning, as soon as the first symp- toms of the fever appeared.
 victim Ate Solid Food.
 Of the deaths. one is a l2-year-old boy who was discharged as cured from the emergency hospital few days ago. but appeared for readmiEston when he had a relapse. due to eating solid food and the result was fatal The other death was a 12-year-old boy also. liv- ing down in Chartres Street.
 Dr. White returned this afternoon from hIs trip to the quarantine station, where he went to formally take over the direction of fumigating the steam ships bound for American ports and Porto Rico. This Is more of a techni- cal than an actual change. the only difference being that henceforth the pratIques of vessels will be signed by pr. John N. Thomas, the quarantine physician. as an acting surgeon of the marine hospital service. Dr. White said that he found the work of fumi- gation carried on exactly as it should be done.
 The reports from the country showed nothing of special interest beyond the holding of a work train on the South ern Pacific in quarantine at point near Patterson because of suspicious case of illness which developed among the gang The case was transferred to the hospital at Patterson.
 Country reports were Patterson, new cases; Kenner. new cases. 1 death; LaFourche Crossing. new case; Baton Rouge, ? new cases; Tallulah, I new cases; Alexandria. 2 new cases.
 pr. Brady investigated the suspicious case at Independence, In Tangipohoa parish, and reported that it was not yellow fever.