The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-19
New Orleans People Are
 Satisfied.
THINK FEVER IS IN HAND
Railroads Not Entering City
 Are Knocking.
While Surgeon White Has Practically Fought Disease to Standstill, Ye1- low Jack Has Made Progress
 in Country.

New Orleans. Aug. 1S.-The following Is the official record to 6 p. m.:
 New cases, 62; total cases to date, 1,2s2; deaths, s; total deaths to date, 1ss; new foci. 16: total foci to date, 27S. Cases under treatment, 415. The hg- ures for the day show nothing of spe- cial interest. Eleven of the sixteen foci are above Canal Street. Two more cases have appeared in the French Asylum on St. Ann and Derbigny Streets. making five in all. That is the only asylum infected up to date
 Of the deaths. two were in the charity hospital and two in the emergency hos- pitaL One occurred in Algiers. News from outside the city continues unfa- vorable. Dr. Brady, the medical inspec- tor of the State Board. who is also health officer of Jefferson Parish. spent most of the day in his own parish on stil hunt and found several cases. He found one case in Hanson City, just above Kenner, two cases In Shrewsbury, which Is five miles from New Orleans, and one case in McDonoughville. across the river from New Orleans.
 pr. Brady also visited Pecan Grove plantation in St. Charles Parish, and found five cases in two houses.
 Past Assistant Surgeon Corput went to Terre Haute plantation, in St. Charles Parish, and supervised the work of erecting an emergency hospital there. It will be ready for occupancy in day or two.
 no deaths.
 Alexandria's one patient, c. J. Haydel, died today. Dr. Goldberg of the ma rine hospital service has been assigned to take charge of the work in Alexan- dria.
 pr. J. ]. nevron left for Thibodeaux this nor the nest of in lection of Bayou la Fourche possible to hear from hin hree days. There were no Mississippi City.
 Thot of deaths today from ye, .... oeeded those of each of Lys, the total was so small in comparison with years when real epidemics prevailed that the situa- tion continues to be regarded as infi- nitely more bright and hopeful than month ago, when it first became known that yellow fever had taken a firm grip In one of the most thickly populated sections of the city.
 At that time. notwithstanding repeat ed warnings no steps had been taken to profit by the examples set by Havana and long before, in spite of the appeal of the New Orleans Medical Society. the City Council had refused to pass pr. Kohnke's mosquito ordinance which would have caused landlords to screen their cisterns and thus have largely re- stricted the breeding grounds of the stegomyia.
 At that time also, New Orleans was in a distressingly insanitary condition and all the conditions seemed favorable for an exceptionally high death rate in Au- gust, which always heretofore has been one of the most fatal months of the epidemic season. The fact that under all the adverse conditions. the fever has been prevented from attaining the pro- portions of a seriously fatal epidemic is considered little less than remark able. Nothing at present indicates any change from the present mild form or the disease and the health authorities are inclined to believe that so thorough are the preparations already made for tho future that, barring entirely un- expected conditions, there ie no further occasion for alarm. ~.....~. ...- Improvement in Patients Condition.
 Dr. White went over some portions of the infected district today. He saw few features of the work that have not already been described. Reports to his headquarters from the emergency hos- pital indicate a steady improvement there in conditions due to the fact that the work Is so perfectly organized now that with many of the patients who are brought In there is a chance to save their lives. At the beginning a consid- erable proportion of those taken to the hospital arriVed there in a moribund condition.
 Among the new squares that have been infected is that in which the Su- preme and Civil District Courts and the St Louis Cathedral are located. Hereto. fore the fever has fringed 1t without invading it, but a number of Italians are now down with the fever in row of ancient houses standing next to the Civil District Court building. Extraor- dinary precautions are bS~lg taken to prevent any further infection of the square. where many lawyers daily visit as do a large number of Catholics at- tending services at the Cathedral.
 Considerable feeling has been aroused over the circulation of reports, attrlo- uted to representatives of railroad lines which do not operate in New Orleans, to the effect that the quarantines against the city have affected the hand ling of freight passage from the inte- rior of the United States through this port. Letters on the subject which are to be widely distributed have been pre- nared by freight agents of the North eastern. Mobile and Ohio. Illinois Cen tral. Mississippi Valley. Frisco and Lou Isville and Nashville lines. They show that all freight trains operating South
 being handled without detention
 that all SnlpIlleHIS are DcluE HduC
 New Orleans as usual There reg
 ons prohibit in some instances and
 let in others, the movement of
 Inbound shipments from here to
 points, but the movement of
 Inbound trains is perfectly free.
 also made plain that all the steam
 lines to Mexico. Havana. Vera
 Great Britain and Europe are in
 ation and assurance Is given that
 will continue their service abso-
 V without any interruption.
 Labor Not DemOrRliEed.
 tcts and figures have also been pre-
 ed to show that the reports printed
 where that there Is demoralization
 abor on the levee are also without
 ,dation None of the laboring pop
 ion outside of the Italians who
 principally employed on the fruit
 s. have left the city.
 r. Juan Guiteras has made favor
 impression here upon the audi
 ss he has addressed and pr. Warner
 pr. White have pressed him into
 ice to speak as often as possible
 ing his visit Dr. Guiteras spoke at
 meetings tonight. IT. describing
 3ttions at Havana, Dr. Gniteras said