The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
FEVER UNDER CONTROL ANDg.g
 IS NOW BEING ERADTEATED


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 killing over 15.ooo peo :, before frost stamped 1t out, Men sis furnishing over 5000 and New Q Fans over 4.00o of the victims who 7 Srished. Subse. quent to 1878 thereI sive been small epidemics in variou s points in the South. but as a rul ahey were local. not extending beyf the cities or towns in which the f-ver first made it's | appearance. | Fever Robbed of TerrOrs.
 This year not only Is the fever with | in check in this city at the beginning | of the most critical of all months. but it has been robbed of its terrors at many of the outside points to which It | has spread. Mississippi having had only | a single death out of a total of about seventy eases. Elsewhere in Louis- | jana the fatalities have been almost l exclusively among the Italian race and | among them because of their reluc- tance to submit themselves to medical ] treatment. Under these conditions 1 communities are becoming normal again, restrictions are being removed l from freight traffic, business is reviv- ing and inestimable good has resulted | from the establishment of the correct ness of the mosquito theory.
 | The appearance of sporadic cases at | Vicksburg has had a helpful effect here ! because it has made Vicksburg realize I that the danger is not in infection of | freight. Dr. White said today that | hereafter Vicksburg, which had for merly refused to do so, would accept ! the certificates, both for freight and passengers, of the Marine Hospital Ser i vice. Vicksburg desires to move her own freight through the service and is i willing to make concessions. So will i Natchez. The action of these cities Is counted on to have a wholesome effect : throughout Mississippi. while the ef- forts of the State Board of Health Is i causing notifications throughout Lou ! isiana.
 ! All the Federal authorities adhere to :. their opinion that the fever will have ! practically disappeared by the first of ' October, if the public shows no relaxa- ! tion in its efforts to destroy the mos ! quito. It will be two months or more before killing frost can be expected. ! The earliest light frost here was on Oc- tober s, 1855 The earliest since the Weather Bureau was established was October 22, 1898 The average date of : heavy frost at New Orleans is Decem- ! Der 2. Heavy frost causes the exter- imitation of mosquitoes, but they begin 1 to disappear as soon as cold weather : sets. in. November IS is the earliest date at which freezing temperature has 1 been recorded here.
 | The New Hospital. The new emergency hospital was fu- migated today preparatory 10 the ad- mission oe the first patients tomorrow. Sulphur pots were placed throughout the building, all the apertares pasted up and the entire building filled with fumes. Iron beds, springs, mattresses, bed clothing, linens, furniture, kitchen utensils and medical supplies were de- Iivered to the building before the dis infection occurred After tomorrow no more patients will go to the present | hospital. which will gradually go ons of btIsinesa
 Amendments to the. Rrandso screen l ing ordinance are to be passed by the l City Council at its next session. They are the results of experience with the present ordinance. Requirement is to be made that all wells and certain kinds of pumps shall be screened. More rigid rules are to be imposed for wire screening Under the ordi- piled with wire screens by the 1st of October That gives only month to equip about 50,000 cisterns.
 NJ Da Mour, the French consul here. has been gathering a large amount of data concerning the campaign that has been conducted by the government against the fever for the benefit of the French government. France sent commission to South America to study the mosquito theory and M. Da Mour says the French physicians and scien- lists are interested in the further demonstration of the mosquito theory here The consul is to call to order large meeting of French residents to- morrow. They will be urged to lend every assistance in their power to as- sist the authorities.
 considerable proportion of the vic tins of the fever have been French and the French consul and French societies have been called on to do con siderable relief work among the poor.
 The announcement of case of yell low fever today at Atlanta was re- ceived with considerable regret and with widespread expressions of the hope that 1t will demonstrate that the disease will not thrive there. Warm sympathy exists between Atlanta and New Orleans because upon the local outbreak the former threw her doors wide open to all refugees from here and several hundred residents of New Orleans ar enow there.
 In connection with reports that the germ of yellow fever has been discov- cred at the emergency hospital by Dr, Archinard the local bacterioloEist. 1t is stated today that while investiga- tions have been in progress no definite results have yet been obtained.