The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-30
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE INTRO DucEs RESOLUTION TO RAISE
 NEEDED FUNDS.
TO FIdHT THE PLAGUE
Quarantine Established by the City
 Health Department Is Backed Up by City Guards and Strict Measures Taken to Avoid Spread of Disease.

New Orleans, June 29.-With the introduction of a joint resolution in the two houses of the general assem- ply at Baton Rogue today authoriz- ing the governor to borrow $175,000 to be expended in the eradication of bubonic plague here and the inaugu- ration of a rigid quarantine of the in. fected district this afternoon by local authorities. preliminary steps toward stamping out the contagion were we'll advanced.
 The quarantine established by city health authorities is backed by armed guards, twenty-eight of whom were stationed at intersecting streets within four blocks of the industrial home of the Volunteers of America, where the two cases so far reported were discovered. Only bread-winners will be allowed ingress or egress to the quarantined district, which in- cludes some of the large French mar kets, many of the commission houses and a number of wholesale houses. [ iBread-winners who are permitted to cross the dead line are required to report three times a day for inspec- tion.
 | While it now is believed here that the situation is well in hand, precau- tionary measures of a stringent kind will be taken. A concerted attack upon the rats of the city will begin tomorrow morning. They will be de- stroyed by traps and poisons, those infesting the quarantined section are | to be given attention first. Pleas. too, will come under the ban, but no plans for their destruction have yet been announced. A rat that was buried at the Volunteers of America Home Sunday will be exhumed and examined by bacteriologists. Federal authorities will take part in the fight against the disease with the arrival of Surgeon General Ru- pert Blue of the public health service and two experts from Washington. Local authorities have been advised that in response to their request MT. Blue is now en route here.
 Health departments of number of southern states have wired MT. Dowl- ing, state health officer, proffering assistance.
 So far only two cases of plague have been reported, one death result ing. Further alarm was caused to- day by reports of the discovery of two more cases in a different part of the city, but the report proved to be erroneous.
 At a meeting of city health au- thorities tonight plans for the whole sale campaign against rats were fur ther matured. 1t was decided to form zone extending four blocks in every direction from the Volunteers of America Home and tomorrow morning to begin the task of ridding this area Of the rodents. Concrete rat guards will be built. The first will ext .nd around the entire zone. while two others will be constructed within this.
 The attack will begin from the outer guard. All rats in the first zone escaping the vigilance of the ex- terminators win be driven into the second zone, where if they again escape they will be forced into the third zone. By this plan, 1t is stated, the rats will not only be destroyed but will be prevented from spreading the contagion into other parts of the city.