Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-30
SITUATION GROWING
BETTER EVERY DAY
Unsettled Weather Continues
With Spasmodic Showers.
DEATH RATE GROWING LESS
Authorities Believe that October Will
See the Fever Eradicated and Quar-
antines Raised, and that New Or
leans Will Have Large Fall Trade.

See the Fever Eradicated and Quar-
antines Raised, and that New Or
leans Will Have Large Fall Trade.
New Orleans, Sept 29.-With no
deaths occurring over night and with
a very small number OF cases reach
ing the nal inc hospital office during
the forenoon, there was promise to-
day of another enccurag g:rg fever re
port. Otherwise there was little change
in the situation.
Past Assistant Surgeon Green left
today for Port Gibson, Miss, acting
under orders from Washington. Two
cases have occurred at Port Gibson
and number at Hamburg, not fol
away, and Dr.. Greene will probably
give his attention to both, though the
situation has SO much improved here
that DR.. White is perhaps able to
spare some men to go to other infect
ed points.
The weather continued unsettled
here today with spasmodic showers
but the low record of new cases and
deaths during the preceding "a hours
has had most encouraging effect
on the public mind, the belief being
that if the rate of improvement is kept
up, October will witness a general
relaxation of quarantine lines and give
a great impulse to business. For
nearly three months now country peo-
pie from Mississippi and Louisiana
have been kept away from New Or
leans, and it is expected there will be
great rush of them here the moment
the bars are lifted.
There are now under treatment here
only 261 cases, less than at any time
since the fever got headway, and with
the decrease in new cases during the
past four days that number will show
further depreciation next week.
Much improvement is shown in the
frame of mind of the Italians at Pointe
Celeste in Plaquemines parish, and the
fever there is now responding to treat
ment. For a time the indications kept
Italians with arms handy and threat
ened death to the doctors and inspec.
tors, but former Congressman Wilkin
son, who. owned the plantation, has
been among his employees, they have
yielded to mis- advice and the sick are
accepting treatment
The Emergency hospitals at Tallu-
lah have been closed and more of the
nurses are leaving there. When Dr..
Ticheror first went to TaIlulah he
was unable to mkae any headway.
because there was almost universal
skeptcism as to the mosquito theory
The result of the work of DR.. Esdort
and Cassaignac has made everybody
in the town believer now.
Four nurses have been engaged here
to go to Hamburg, Miss, where the
fever is severe and the people in great
distress. They were employed by the
Mississippi board of health. With til
rapid Improvement both in the city
and state many nurses are now avail
able for duty, whereas a month ago
they were Difficult to obtain.
DR. Corput, after a further investi-
cation at Baton Rouge, expresses the
opinion that there will be little spread
of the infection there.
Baton Rouge has a modern water
service and comparatively few cisterns
and DR.. Corput says he has found ex-
ceedingly few stegomyia in the town
Though infected Baton Rouge main
tains her quarantine against New Or
leans, and other infected points, New
Orleans, however, is open to all the
surrounding territory.
The board of trade here has appoint
ed a committee and will ask all the
commercial bodies to do likewise to
-toFe un in a joint conference the uues.
tion of formulating plans for the early
removal oi all cisterns from the city.
Delegates from the local car mems
association leave today with a brass
band to attend the convention of the
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees at Chica,
go, They are to make an effort to
have the next convention of the car
men held in New Orleans, and are
armed with opinions of sanitarians
and other data to show that New Or
leans has probably had her last visi.
tation of yellow fever.