The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1914-07-03
$4,000 IS GIVEN
FOR PLAGUE FIGHT IN
NEW. ORLEANS
Surgeon General Blue win Take
Command In Battle Against
Bubonic Plague.
WAR ON RATS IS URGED FOR
ALL PORTS ON THE GULF
New York Officer Refuses To
Quarantine Against Santiago
And New Orleans.

New Orleans, La, June 29.-Wlth
the Introduction Of a joint resolution
10 the two houses Of the general as
sembly at Baton Rouge today author
izing the Governor 10 borrow $3.50, 900
TO be expended in the eradication OF
the bubonlc plague here, and the 10
auguratlon OF rigid quarantine OF
the Infected district this afternoon by
local authorities preliminary steps to-
ward stamping out the eontaglOn
were we'll advanced.
The quarantine established by city
health authorities is backed by armed
guards, twenty.eight OF whom were
stationed az intersectlng streets with
10 four blocks of the lndustriol home
OF the Volunteers OF America where
The two cases SO far reported were
discovered. Ouly bread.wlnners will
be allowed ingress or egress to the
Quarantined district, which includes
some OF the large French markets,
many OF the commission houses and
a number OF wholesale houses. Bread.
winners who are permitted TO cross
the dead'line are required to report
three times day for inspection.
RATS MUST DIE.
While IL Is now believed here that
the situation Il we'll 10 hand precau,
tlonary measures OF stringent kind
will be taken. A concerted attack
upon the rats OF the city will begin
tomOrrOw morning The rodents will
be destroyed by traps aud pOlsons,
those lniesting the quarantined area,
being given attention drst. Fleas, too,
Will come under the ban, but % plans
for their destruction have yet been
announced, A rat that was buried at
the Volunteers OF America home on
Sunday will be exhumed and examined
BY psychologists.
sUReEoN-eENERAL BLUE TO HELP.
Federal authorities will take part
In the tight against the disease with
the arrival OF Surgeon. General Rupert
Blue OF the Public Health Service and
two experts frum Washington. Local
authorities have been advised that In
response TO their request General
Blue Is now en route there.
Health departments of a number OF
Southern states have wired DR.. Dow.
llug, State health officer, proRerIuQ
assistance.
SO far only two cases OF plague re-
ported, one death resulting. Further
alarm was caused by reports the dis
covery Of two more cases In a different
part Of the city. but the report proved
TO be erroneous.
Al meeting OF the health author.
tiles last night plans for the whole> |
sale campaign against rats we're fur
theF matured. It was decided to form |
; zone extending four blocks 10 every |
direction from the Volunteers of
America Home. and begin the task |
Df Kidding this area of the rodents.
Concrete rat guards will be built. |
The first will extend around the eu>
lire zone, while two others will be
constructed wihhln this The attack
will begin from the outer guard. All
ats ln The trst zone escaping the vlri.
snce OF the exiermItators will ha
lriven into the second zone, where n
hey again escape they win be forced
ntO the third zone. By this plan, IL is
tated. the rats will not ONLY be de.
trOyed but WIN be prevented nom
pFeadlaa the Contaelon into otherI
ARTS Of the city. Il