The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-08
PROMINENT PERSONS AMONG THE VICTIMS Six Deaths Recorded at New
 Orleans Yesterday
 PUBLICITY INSISTED UPON
Georgia Falls Into Line and Declares Quarantine Against All Infected Points, to Go Into Effect
 at Once.
FEVER SITUATION AT 6 p. M.

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 Total cases to date. ..........Y.21 .2177 Dedths... ... ..........
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 Cases discharged... ... .........1 1865
 New Orleans, September 1.-The record
 continues within the figures in which daily encouragement can be drawn. There are several names in the list of new cases today which are out of the ordinary. One is Father Green of the Jesuits col- lege, and another is Sister Willy, superior of the Hotel Dieu, private sanitarium conducted by the sisters of charcty, and which has had quite number of cases of fever
 George w. Knott, Jr., a son of the President of the Citizens bank Is another case. There is a case reported from a revenue cutter lying at the foot of Egania street, near the United States barracks. Of the deaths only one bore an Italian name, and that death occurred in AL giers. Of the others all but one were down town. The number of cases under treatment is being steadily but slowly reduced.
 The Country Situation.
 The news from the country contained nothing of special interest. The state board sent nurses to Patterson, Bayou Boeuf and Tallulah and Lake Providence. though both the latter places are asking for more nurses. The following reports were received:
 Leeville-Total to date, a25. Deaths, &; now under treatment. 92; discharged. 200.
 La Rose-One new case.
 Terre Bonne parish-Report for three days: Belle Grove, six cases; Noise set clement, two cases.
 St. Bernard parish-Terre Aux Boeufs, two cases near slaughter house, two cases.
 Patterson-Eight new cases. Tallulah-Sixteen new cases. Kenner-Two cases, one death; Hanson City, four cases.
 Donalsonville-One case. St. Rose--Eght cases. Pecan Grove--One death Vicksburg-Three cases. Natchez--One case. Gulircrt-1 hIee new cases The spirit of the people of New Orleans is best shown by the following extracts from correspondence between Col. Charles
 Janvir, president of the newly organized public health association, and Rev. Dr. Beverly Warner, whom he invited to be- come member of the governing commit | tee.
 Dr. Warner, fin replying to the invita- | ton. said:
 Insist on Publicity. q believe it to be a moral and com mercal necessity that the policy hereto | fore pursued by the business and health authorities of this city in their dealings with the first reported cases of yellow | fever should be reversed. l could not serve on a board that is not absolutely | committed against the policy of conceal ment as I believe that policy to be con | trary to morals, menace to the public health and fatal to commercial prosper | ity.'
 To which Colonel Janvir replied in part ConceaIment Would Be Crime. "When science was groping about in the dark striving to solve the vexed | pro oblem of yellow fever transmission,
 there might have been some incentive | to suppress the truth in the hope that In some way the trouble might be sud denly cured, and the harm averted. which | publicity would have done. But in the | light of the present when it is positive ly known that the trouble can be in- stantly cured if instantly detected there can be no incentive for the suppression,
 but on the contrary every incentive to tell the truth. If this were not to be the policy of the New Orleans health asso- citation, l for one would not be connect- ed with 1t, for I feel that the suppress sion or concealment of the truth would be crime for which tarring and feath- ering and subsequent hanging would be mild punishment"