The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-01
Iurn for Better or Worse to
 Come This Week
HUNDREDS LEAVE TIE CITY
Five Deaths Recorded Yesterday-sev. eraI Cases are Reported in Various Parts of Louislana-one Case
 In Mississippi.

New Orleans, July s1.-By the end of the present week the authorities in charge of the fever situation believe that they will be in such thorough touch with con- ditions that they will be able to speak with authority as to their ability to con trol and eradicate the disease In advance of the coming of frost.
 The daily system of inspection and re- port is becoming more perfect and by that time not only will 1t be possible to tell the extent of the fever but period will have arrived when no more new eases traceable to the original infection may be expected. There was no accurate census of the population of what is known as the Italian district at the fever out break and 1t is still impossible to locate all who escaped from that zone when the result of the autopsical investigation be- came known. Ever since then Italians have been slipping out of the district after nightfall but the number of escapes is becoming fewer and fewer, and with increased vigilance in the course of the next day or two the exodus will have been completely suppressed
 General Communication Stopped.
 General communication with the district has stopped and only those who expose themselves to infection whose business requires their presence in the territory where the fever has ragged most fercely. Within the next week therefore it is probable that the health authorities will be able to put their fingers on every man who has left the danger zone, and If there is then the same absence of spread from the outlying infection as has been shown heretofore the authorities believe they will be able gradually to destroy each focus As a matter of fact tho foci are not actually as numerous now as they are represented to be in the daily reports. In number of instances where the fever was reported to have appeared some time ago the case has either been cured or died without further infection of the house or vicinity.
 Many Leaving the City.
 Many people are still leaving the city, but it is difficult to separate those who are going away on their usual annual vacations from those who are seeking to get out of harms way. Numbers or representa- tives of houses in other cities. printers, telegraphers stenographers, and clerks who have not been here long enough to become acciimated have gone north The great bulk of the citys popu- lation is still here however, and appar- ently determined to stay until the mos quito theory is proved or frost comes. It may seem an anomaly, but doctors are among those who are complaining Of reduction in their income That is par ticuarly the case among the higher class 4-t<. 4~ 1fDt aad Q that many of their rich patients have left the city An epidemic has never been profitable to the physicians because 1t means inevitably long hours of work ana much charity service.
 The life insurance companies of the north and east are still doing business They have kept in close touch with the situation and so far as learned none has advised it's local representatives to cease writing They will doubtless continue 10 do so unless the situation becomes much more serious. In 1897 some of the compa- nies withdrew when the fever started Though there were nearly 300 deaths that wear one of the largest companies in the east escaped with the payment of only two policies.
 Three Deaths in Hospital.
 Three deaths occurred in the emergency hospital today, the number of patients in which has been largely increased. All cases found with no relatives to care for them are promptly removed to the institution where the most elaborate modern arrangements have been made for their treatment In connection with the interview with health officer Heller of Philadelphia, Mayor Behrman, who wired him, today received dispatch from Dr. Heller, in which he said he had re- ceived no dispatch from President Soul chon of the Louisiana board of health
 do In the newspapers. The interview with pr. Heller quoted Dr. Souchon as wiring that the fever this year was as bad If not worse than in 1873.
 The various citizens committees con- tinued their work with great energy to- day Reports received from the seven- teen wards gave detailed figures of the number of premises visited. cisterns screened and oiled. cesspools treated and sick persons found unattended by phy- sicians Chairman Janvier of the general committee. expressed himself optimisti- cally concerning the outlook. He said that the medical authorities had taken hold of the situation and were handling 1t with great skill and intelligence and that it was the confident belief of the financial anG commercial interests associated with him on the committee that the fight would be successful and that it would be con- clusively demonstrated that the stegomyia was the only agent of transmission. One Case at Morgan City.
 President Souchon received advices to- day that the wilmot case at Morgan City, had been pronounced yellow fever. Morgan City is 80 miles from New Dr. leans on the Southern Pacific road and the effect of the announcement of the case there will doubtless be followed by the botting up of the town Meantime every precaution is being taken to prevent a spread of the infection. The state board of health is now in communication with every health board in the state and has directed immediate telegraphic informa- tion of the discovery of even suspicious cascs. No other case in Louisiana has been reported in the last two or three days.
 It Is generally believed here that when the present sickness passes New Orleans will nut soek to regain the fruit trade which has nov been diverted to Mobile unless the fruit companies are willing to 5.- - - - - - -. --ll