Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — NEW ORLEANS HOPEFUL [ARTICLE]

NEW ORLEANS HOPEFUL

Low Death Rate Encoiuages Hie People of the Yellow Fever Stricken City. New Orleans. La., Aug. 11.—With tbe death rate remaining lower than In previous visitations of the fever the feeling here both among the health authorities and the citizens continues teopefnl. The fever has been prevalent long enough to have assumed a quite rirulent "type, but instead it is appatently less malignant than it was when It first appeared, and the doctors believe that if the first cases could have been taken hold of at once aud subjected to pdMer treatment, the total of deaths would have been considerably smaller than has been now recorded. Many of the cases which are now being reported, except among the Italians. are mild in character and readily respond to the treatment given them. The official fever report for yesterday shows the following figures: New cases. (58; total cases to date, 747; deaths yesterday, 5; total deaths to date, 124; cases under treatment, 286. The funeral of Archbishop Chappelle will take place at 9 a. m. tomorrow and will be private.