The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-14
ON GUARDFOR FEVER
EVERY PRECAUTIoN IS TAKEN IN
 NEW ORLEANS.
City Is Under Searching system of Tnspection--Rigid Sanitary Meas ures Have Been Adopted by
 OmeiaIs.

New Orleans June 13.--As a precau- ton against possible yellow fever out br rsalss ssn' this city the State and city boards of health announce that sixty city blocks are now under searching system Of inspection, and that those portions of New Orleans outside of this closely guarded section are being watched over through cooperation of every physician in the city with the health boards.
 The sixty blocks under especial su- pervision are those In which the yell low fever epidemic originated or was worst last summer. Each house in this district Is visited by inspectors at least once every two weeks, their du- ties including enforcement of the law that all cisterns shall be screened and general sanitary regulations. A sec ond set of inspectors in this same dis trict watches and reports every case of sickness, no matter what It's nature. and makes an attempt to discover the contributing causes to the disease. Mosquitoes especially. are under con- tinuous observation. In several cases where deaths have occurred within the sixty blocks microscopical examina- tionsS of mosquitoes have been made by the city board of health in search for the stegomya. the mosquito which Is believed to carry yellow fever. In Ont CdSc dS many dS liIly ucdu nus quitoas were examined with this ob- ject in view after they had been gath cred from a house which had been fu- nigated. The city board of health re- ported that no stegomya were found
 special health map. colored in red, yellow and green is kept at the city health office to indicate the conditions daily reported by the inspectors and the precautions taken.
 Tn the scheme for pr0tection of those sections outside of the sixty blocks0 the city board of health has prepared a blank to be filled out by physicians in case of death of patients. It is accompanied by the following ex planation.
 pecially apprehensfve and anxious to discover early cases of yellow fever, If any occur. and we therefore are in- clading in our investigation all cases of reports which reach this office only as death certificates"
 Several cases suspected to be yell low fever have salready been reported to the health authorities this year. Each of these has been examined one or several times by the State Board of Health acting in conjunction with a committee of three local physicians. The examinations have resulted in each case in finding that the disease was not yellow fever.
 Flight cases suspected to have been yellow fever have been examined in this State this year" said Secretary W. s. Ingram of the State Board of Health today -Four of them were in New Orleans of which two resulted in death Tn these cases of death an au- topsical examination was possible and showed in one instance liver and kid ney trouble as the. cause of death and liver trouble with jaundice and acute nephritis as the other suspected yell low Fever cases. Of the other two sus piciols cases in this city one proved to be humps and the other malaria. g
 The. four patients reported to us from outside the city two had malaria fever complicated by alcoholism, one typhoid fever and one broncho pneumo- mia. The case which the State Board of Health diagnosed as typhoid, the marine hospital service had reported as yellow fever, The last of these cases was disposed of May. 26"
 No Fever in Panama.
 Washington. June l2-The Isthmian Canal Commission received the fol- lowing dispatch today from Governor MagOon at Panama:
 No yellow fever nor sus pected cases in Colon. Doubtful case reported May 2assevidently not yellow fever. as cris- tobal Colon, contains over 2,00O non imrnunes and no case since.
 t'wymans advised us of reported cases taken from steamship Whitehall at New Orleans, but our medical staff think Shin Island diagnoses erroneous Health cotfdition excellent, Deaths of em- ployes during May. five whites. forty nine colored, smallest per centage for past twelve mont