Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — WAR ON YELLOW JACK [ARTICLE]

WAR ON YELLOW JACK

New Orleans at Last Wakes Up and Gets Busy in a Desperate Fight. CITIZENS ARE TAKING A HAND Modern Methodi* Are in Operation Against the Bronze Terror with Signs of Success. New Orleans, July 27. —Six deaths from yellow fever were recorded yesterday up to 6 p. m.. making a total to date of forty-five. The number of new cases, reported Tuesday but compiled yesterday, is eleven, making all told to date 165. There are now nineteen foci of infection. The organization of forces for fighting the spread of the infection and for a campaign of education and practical application of the mosquito extermination plans, has been completed, and besides 100 men put on as extras to clean gutters by the city 350 men are working as part of the system of sanitation. Cltisena Being Organised. I Citizens are being organized In wards, and these ward clubs will form precinct clubs and a house-to-house canvass will be made to assure the screening of every cistern and the oiling of every cesspool and water pond. Tbe business men have provided the funds for this work, and as the people are now aroused to the necessity of action there will be no let up. Yielding to tbe sentiment of the community the state board of health has adopted new regulations for the fruit ships, providing that they should remain six days at sen between the last port and New Orleans,and requiring fumigation at port of departure and fumigation here after the discharge of the cargo. State Official* to Bald a Canfar«n«w. In view of the many quarantine complications which have arisen Dr. Soncbon has called a conference here next Sunday of the health officers of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama to discuss quarantine regulations and devise a system by which travelers can be admitted with certificates of the marine hospital service. Surgeon White, who Is tn charge of all tbe government w*ork. will be present and participate. The work of locating the detention camps is progressing, though it hits been slower than at first anticipated.

Oa« Good Sign Io Notod. The infection of the original focus seetns to l>e dying out, as fewer new cases are being reported there, which is a hopeful sign, indicating that modern methods bare been effective. Th?

work now is to locate the new foci and treat them in the same manner. Physicians are now reporting ail cases of fever, and wherever there is the slightest suspicion, rigid sanitary rules are applied, with the result that up to now there has been no spread of any case from any of these new foci. Those which are developing are ail traceable directly to the origin focus in the Italian quarter. Ten Cnae* in n New Foctu. Shreveport. La.. July 27.—A special from New Orleans to The Times says: “A report to the marine hospital service from Ray St. Louis, Miss., states that ten supposed cases of yellow fever have developed at Back Bay in that section.”