The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-04
LARGE increase IN
yellow fever Gases
FIFTY-FOUR IN NEW ORLEANS
YESTERDAY AND FIVE
DEATHS.

Despite This Alarming Showing the
officials Profess to be HOpeful-GOv-
ernor blanchard Orders Naval Brig
ade Under Arms-Gives Orders to Ar
rest All Armed Boats in Louisiana
Waters-FederaI Government to Cor
rect Any Mistakes by the WinOna.
New Orleans, Aug. 3.-NeW cases of
yellow fever to-day up to 6 p. M, "a;
toal cases to date, 1872; deaths to-day,
5; total deaths to date, "a; new foci, IL;
total foei, So.
Although there was a considerable
increase of new cases, with diminu
tion in the number of fatalities to-day,
and with little spread of the infection
TO new fields, the yellow fever situation
was regarded as having a hopeful as
pect. The authorities have not con-
cealed their expectation that for some
days to come there would be daily
average Of twenty to twenty-five casss
and a proportionate number of deaths
owing to the extent of main-infected
territory, and anything less than these
assurance that the situation is still un-
der control.
4. Though the announcement that Gov
eriior Blanchard had actually ordered
the naval brigade under arms and had
dispatched the mosquito fleet of the
oyster commission to the louisiana
Mississippi boundary attracted atten-
tion, there is absolutely no apprehen-
sion that any serious collisions will oc-
cur.
Governor Blanchard to-day tele-
graphed to the sheriffs and district at
torneys of st. Bernard and Orleans par
ishes with view to invoking the as
sistance of the civil authorities to clear
Louisiana waters of any armed invad-
ers. To the sheriffs he sent this tele-
gram: - .. .....a,., ... 49,.
You will take steps Immediately to
capture and arrest all armed vessels
and those aboard found within that
part of Lake Borgne situated in your
parishes SO that the grand jury may
act. Consult the district attorney and
call upon Commander Bostick of the
naval militia for assistance to effect
capture Go with Bostick expedition
through the lake. IL .>:
With a view to inaugurating more
thorough cleaning movement and to
strengthen the arms of the health au-
tforities in fighting the mosquitoes,
Mayor Behrman called a conference to-
day. Committees were appointed to
carry out comprehensive plans of SAN
itary work.
Among the ignorant classes there is
still great antipathy to making public
cases Of sickness and much Of the in
spectors time is taken up in running
down suspicious cases reported by cit
izens. The foreign section of the city,
however, is being steadily fine combed
No money is to be spent by the federal
government in sanitary work here. All
the funds that the government will
put out will be for the maintenance
of detention camps and many disin-
fection of cars or steamboats, that may
be required.
It is not improbablethat the move
rnent to bring Italian immigration
here on a large scale will suffer, part
IL because Of the terror which the
present infection has spread among the
lJanans, ana parity Decause oL PreJu-
dice which has arisen against extern
sive italian colonization. With the
negroes 1ocking to the cities, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi planters have had
difficult problem to solve in obtaining
adequate labor to till their fields.
Thousands of Italians have in recent
years replaced negroes in the sugar
fields of Louisiana. Unfortunately it
happens that it is the Italians who
have infected not only New Orleans
but points in other states.