The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-24
OL Leach is Still Causing
 Some Inconvenience
BREACHES ARSENIC THEORY
Governor Blanchard and Governor JeIks Are Having Controversy About the Right of New Orleans
 People to Backtrack.
FEVER SITUATION ATS p. M.

fs ISe" cases... ............ 53
 Total cases to date... ......... .1556 1eauts. ..... .... 5
 Total deaths to date. 3fe "" 'oSi.'. .......... ID
 otal foci to date. ........ 362
 Cases under treatment. .. ... 31a The report continues to show an Im- provement In local conditions the feature today being the reduced number of deaths l and new foci. There are no well known ] names on tho list of new cases among the deaths. Only one of the latter oc- cured up town.
 There was no news of n gloomy charae- ter from the country today The state board of health has taken steps to relieve | the distress at Leevile at the mouth of Bayou La Fourche, Dr. R. O. Marcour
 and two nurses being sent to the assis- tance of Dr. Deveron.
 l Past Assistant Surgeon Corput made
 an elaborate report of the work done in St. John and St. Charles parishes and
 this indicates that what threatened to be
 very serious group of foci has been
 controlled. with good hopes of stamping |
 Place, Diamond. Reserve. sarpy and other
 neighboring phices.
 Dr. Brady Returns. Dr. Brady returned from his tour of | inspection on. Bayou Pidgeon in Iberville
 parish, where, a large group of suspicious
 cases were reported, but he says there was nothing suspicious there. | Hanson City reports nine new cases. | Wildwood plantation in Jefferson re- ports two more cases.
 | One additional case was reported from St. Rose and another at point near that | town in St. Charles parish.
 Patterson reports eleven new cases and no deaths.
 | Lake Providence has developed five mora
 cases of yellow fever, pronounced so by | Dr. Krauss of the marine hospital ser vice.
 St. Bernard parish reports two more
 cases in the Italian village, and Dr. Meraux. who went to Terre Aux Boeufs. says there are five cases of yellow fever
 there and three suspicious cases. Mississippi City reports three new | cases.
 | pr. von Ezdorf of the marine hospital service ordered here from Colon by Gen eral Wyman. arrived at quarantine today | on the steamer Origen. and will reach | the city in the morning.
 Bad Situation at LeeviIIe. l late report from pr. Stark. health | officer of La Fourche, received tonight, says that Dr. Deveron reported to him | today that up to date he had found TO cases of yellow fever, and 200 cases of dengie at Leevle and conditions were .rl, hot 1aIrN inn dfat al od Surgeon White, President Souchon of the state board, Mayor Behrman, City Attorney Gilmore Col Charles Janvier and Rev. Dr. Beverly Warner. returned from Baton Rouge tonight at 10:D o'clock on the special train. after a most satis- factory conference with Governor Blanch- ard. The New Orleans party met tho governor at the detention camp on the outskirts of the capital Dr. White and Dr. souchon have been elaborating some important plans which they desired to discuss with the governor. These will crystalize in the course of a day or two. One of the principal features is to pre- vent the re-infection of the city from the infected points outside and another is to take hold with more power and authority of the situation which hava developed at Riverside, Patterson and I,eeyilIe, all of which demand concentra-
 ton of authority and the exercise of mora
 firm measures.
 No Tendency to viruIence.
 Little variation from the steady im-
 proyement of the past week marked to-
 days numerical record of the yellow
 fever situation. Tho variation was In
 the nature of improvement. for with
 light death list there Is assurance that
 fine fever has at present no tendency ta
 assume virulent form. Confidence conf
 tinues to grow. and it Is believed that il
 the favorable conditions at present ara
 maintained until the 1st of Septemberf communities which now have their doork
 closed to New Orleans will be inclined to reopen them for the movement of. freight.
 Many of the country districts are suffer ing as severely as s the city by the inter. ruption of communication and advicea received here indicate that they will be glad when normal traffic Is resumed. If tl.sre is an ameloration of quarantine re- strietIons by the middle of September. New Orleans will be infinitely better off than during the fever visltations of 1891 and 1898 Tn both of those years the fever made it's appearance only in September when the regular business season was opening. Quarantines much more rigid than those al present were immediately imposed for at that time It was thought that freight transmitted the germ of vel low fever and here was little abatement of the rigid restrictions until frost came. The auarantines this year have fortunate- ly been put on In a season Of summer dullness and If they are taken off when trade becomes active the only inconven- fence will come from the Instructions to the free movement of passenger traffic.
 Surgeons Visit Governor Blanchard.
 Surgeon White, Chairman Janvier of the citizens committee; Dr. Beverly Warner. in charge of the ward superintendents. and president Souchon of the state board of health. went to Baton Rouge today for n conference with Governor Blanchard. The trip was made at the suggestion of the governor. who desired to know ct first hand the exact status here of all departments of work. Members of the party were also anxious for the confer cnce in the belief that much good might follow from discussion of the quarantine situation. Since the very beginning of the fever the governor has been unable to