The sun., 1905-08-19
MORE FEVER HOLES FOUND.
THREE DEATHS AND lS CASES IN
RIVERSIDE, ST. MARY'S.
Arohbishop Chapelle Got tho Fever in His
Own Palace-TO-mOrrOw Every Room
In New Orleans VIII he Furnigated
with Sulfur-LemOn Famine There.

Own Palace-To-morrow Every Room
In New Orleans VIII be Fumlgated
with sulfur-LemOn Famine There.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 1s.-Eght persons
died Of yellow fever here to-day and sixty
two new cases were reported.
The physicians sent to investigate the
suspicious cases Of fever In Riverside, st.
Mary's parish report that 1t is another yellow
fever nest. They found forty eight cases
Of fever and three deaths. Riverside Ia
near Patterson aud may have been infected
from that town.
An investigation was made to-day Of a
camp Of fifty Italians In the swamp back Of
Carrollton avenue. A number Of sick were
found there and there had been one death
Of yellow fever.
On account Of the number Of stations
on its line where yellow fever prevails,
Lafourche Crossing, Patterson, Lafayette
and Rayne, the Southern Pacific has been
compelled to put on two trains, one running
to healthy and the other to unhealthy towns.
The healthy towns have refused to allow
any trains to stop that stop at yellow fever
points, 30 this cuts of supplies from the
latter. A special train has been put on that
will stop only at points where the fever
prevails.
The scare in Alabama about the fever
and against Italians is shown in the case OF
an Italian who was found siok in an old
cotton house near Moundsville because no
one in the neighborhood would harbor a
sick Italian. Upon his death an autopsy was
held which showed that he died Of ma'ar-
ial fever, but such was the scare that nobody
in the neighborhood would touch the body,
and Dr. Sanders, president of the Alabama
State Board of Health, and other distin-
gushed physicians had to bury the corpse,
An investigation into the case of Arch
that he caught the fever while out riding. in
New Orleans, and has shown that the archi-
episcopal palace was infected and filled
with infected mosquitoes at the time of his
return from his country TRIP The The h1s Arch
ises, had an attack of yellow fever two
weeks before. 1t was a mild case and the
man, ignorant Of the fact that it was yellow
fever. did not even call in physician.
He was convalescent when the Archbishop
returned Most of the harm here has been
done by these concealed cases, which are
usually due to ignorance. DR.. White an
nounced to-day that he was now satisfied
that every case of fever. however light,
was being reported, which would enable
the Marine Hospital Service to carry out
its campaign successfully.
The past week has shown marked inn
provement in fever conditions in the Ameri-
can section above Canal street, and there is
now no reason to doubt that the disease will
be practically eliminated there this month.
The old city, the Italian and French quar-
ters, remain much infected and the fight
there is likely to be long and difficult.
The work Of cleaning the cisterns and
oiling the ponds to get rid OF mosquitoes
clared sulfur day by the United States
Marine Hospital Service. Every room in
the city will be fumigated with sulfur to
| get rid of all the surviving mosquitoes, of
which there are comparatively few left in
New Orleans.
The City Council of Shreveport has de-
cared sufur day and has ordered every
citizen to fumigate his house, but the or
dinance has produced a clash between the
| Council and the Board Of Health on one
side and the citizens committee on the
other.
Crowley announces that 1t will celebrate
sulfur day next week on day to be Sc
lected by Mayor Chaplin. The Union
Sulphur Company Of Sulphur City. La
Is giving from one to five carloads Of sulfur
to every Louisiana town that will fumigate
The health authorities of Cairo, H., have
already quarantined against Louisiana and
Mississippi, believing many places are in
fected which have not reported the fever,
but delegation OF citizens has asked that
the authorities quarantine against the
world.
There is lemon famine here and through
point with lemons, and the fruit has gone
up to $3.50 a box, due to the quarantine
| and the discontinuance of the direct trade
with Italy on account of the yellow fever,