The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-23
New Orleans Is Still
 Confident. WHITE RAPS DIR. LEACH situation at Leeville Proves
 Alarming. Crescent City People are Not Relaxing Efforts to stamp Out Disease f and Cause Recovery of
 Business.
WHITE RAPS DR. LEACH

New Orleans. Aug. 22.-Following is the oficial report to p. m., Tuesday:
 New cases 57. Total cases to date, 1.503; deaths g; total deaths to date. 214. New foci. 2l; total foci to date s42. Cases under treatment 319.
 With the fever checked in the city and plans under way to prevent further reinfection from the country, the local situation Is still encouraging. Of the new foci, eight are above Canal Street. One Is in Rosa Park, fashionable residence park opening into St. Charles avenue. a we'll known citizen and mem- Der of Governor Blanchard's stan being the victim. Another case is at boys college far down town. one of the efn- ployes being stricken. Rev. Father Aveilhe, pastor of St. Maurice Church. is another patient reported today. Of the deaths only one occurred up town and he was a clerk who had been liv- ing here nine months.
 The news from outside the city shows the continuous seriousness of the situ ation from that point Of view. Defi- nite information was received today from Dr. J. A. Devron, the State Board physician sent to Leeville at the mouth of Bayou La Fourche few days ago. His report shows that the first news received from there has not been exag- gerated. During two days of work there he found the following: Sixty nine positive cases of fever: flfty-three suspicious eases and 145 cases of dem gue He adds: The are about three hundred houses and families here and do not think there is a single house here which has not one or more cases of sickness. The people are complete ly demoralized. All seem to have lost ambition to work"
 Asks for More Doctors.
 He asks for two more doctors and three mpre nurses. as the situation Is beyond the scope of one man. He re- ports two more deaths since his arriv~ al
 Patterson reports fifteen new cases and no deaths
 St. Tammany Parish reports posi- tive case on the road between Mande- vilIe and Lswishurg, which came form New Orleans.
 Hanson City reports six new cases.
 Kenner reports one new case,
 There was one death on Elizabeth plantation in Iberville.
 6arpy plantation reports two new st Rose, in St. Charles Parish, has two cases and one is dead.
 Corinne plantation, in St. Bernard Parish, below the city, reports one death, an Italian boy whom the mex perienced nurse allowed to eat fish or red beans and rice. when he should have been denied all food. The health pfacer of St. Bernard has gone to Terre Aux Boeuf, distant part of the parish, to investigate reports of widespread illness among the foreign population there.
 Mississippi City reports three new cases. and states that the report that the State Board has declared the fever epidemic there is unfounded.
 Dr. R. B. Leach of St. Paul, Minn.. has been here several weeks exploiting the l.. w<ANu tNyn R yellow fever, and his propaganda has fnterfered with the work of the Marine Hospital Service to some extent, so this evening Surgeon White Issued a letter, in which he was endorsed by the Advisory Committee of the Orleans Par" fish Medical Society in which he says
 'No remedy could be a sovereign spe- cific for three separate diseases diner- ing from one another so tremendously, as plague. cholera and yellow fever. IT is manifestly a fact that so-called cure alls' cure nothing. -.
 Finally, there are in this city sev- eral undoubted cases of yellow fever in the practice of physicians of high req pute and one in the emergency hospital itself, in all of which cases the patient had been subjecting himself % the ar senfzatfon treatment In accordance with the Leach method This statement can be easily substantiated whenever 1t be- comes necessary"
 Dr. White also tells of the action of surCeon-GeneraI Sternburg when Dr. Leach sought action by Congress on his theory.
 up the matter of Leach's theory and in a telegram to pr. White says:
 "The Bureau has several times de- clined to take any action on Dr. Leach g theories, because of positive adverse report by its scientists. Furthermore, pr. Leach submitted his argument in 1898 to the Senate through MT Davis and 1t was printed The Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine made an adverse report on the same
 The fact that there was little change today from the record for several days past was accepted by the Federal au- thorities as confirming their expres- sions of the encouraging nature Of the yellow fever situation.
 Tn every visitation that New Orleans has had, August and September have been the months of most frightful nor tality August producing a death list of S133 in 1853, and September death list of i, 800 in 1878 The fever fighters therefore contend that if the disease Is held in check at the very period when it ought to be on an ascending scale of virulence and when both the cases and deaths should be leaping to alarming figures there Is no reason why they should reserve opinions that the worst is over. Nevertheless. the word has gone down the line from headquarters that there must be no cessation of the measures that have been recommended as necessary to continue control of the situation. Relaxation now would only give the fever the opportunity to gain a fresh hold upon the community and with three months intervening before frost. 1t is felt that any want Of Wig flance may undo all the good that has already been done
 Educational Work to Continue.
 With this Idea in mind all the forces engaged In the work of education are redoubling their efforts and nightly meetings in the churches and public halls are to continue as long as vest ige of the fever remains
 The deaths today. were again princi' pally of persons bearing foreign names An execution was Arthur Hill, an em' plove of one of the large wholesale dry goods houses HiIl came here last No vember from New York with his wit' ~-A two children. Never having speni