Show I THE YELLW fEVER ICRESES RECORDS FOR NEW CASES 3SOK E2T I NEW ORLEANS After Two Days of Improvement the Situation Suddenly Becomes WorseNo Cause Assigned For I Death Rate Continues Ijow ITo Epidemic Feed en Orleans Oct 5After two days of improvement and of promise the fever situation on the face of the record rec-ord took somewhat of a turn today For 3P hours there had been no deaths and yesterday the number of cases had shown material falling off from the day before Early this morning however how-ever the reports of the new cases began be-gan to come in to the board of health office with considerable rapidity and by 1 oclock there had been 15 cases reported and by 7 oclock tonight all previous records of this season had been broken so far as new cases were concerned In a few hours three deaths had also been reported to the boar The physicians were not at a loss to explain the increase in cases They I took the view that It might he expected that numerous cases would still continue con-tinue daily to be reported Dr Olli phTtm said toni ht The stern enforcement of the law requiring all the physicians to report promptly both suspicious and actual cases of yellow fever has had a material ma-terial effect in increasing the number of cases As a rule the numerical increase in-crease of cases is due to the fact that we have so organized our forces that the corps of the board of health is now so largo and the activity of the public In ferreting out new cases is so great that few if any cases are escaping attention scpng tention and prompt report An epidemic Is absolutely out of the I question New Orleans today is not by any means unhealthier than It has been for several years The prevailing prevail-ing fever has caused in several weeks less than 40 deaths During the day 31 new cases were reported and the three deaths Mobile Ala Oct 5We have not I the said Health given up fight yet sad Healh Officer Goodo today when the noon report port was published showing two new II cas2s and two deaths Edwards Miss Oct 5Nine new I cases of yellow fever were reported today and one death that of 1 C I Wimberly an influential citizen The I deaths to date number 13 and the total to-tal number of cases reported to date is 344 treatment There are 131 patients now under |