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Show NEW ORLEANS YELLOW i FEVER SITUATION IS EVEN MORE SERIOUS 1 that no boats from New Orleans will be permitted to land. Port Gibson, Miss., has appointed a vigilance committee to guard against Jlie entry of strangers. Pass Christian, Miss., has shut herself up completely. Utica, Miss., has sent word that she wants no mail that Is not fumigated. , t Canning: Industry Suffers. The canning Industry on the gulf coast has suffered severely by reason of drastio quarantines. The oyster canning- season Is closed, but the season for fruit and shrimp canning Is on. Canners have found it difficult to get the raw product, but arrangements are being perfected whereby the craft engaged in the industry indus-try will be duly registered and inspected and their officers and crews given certl- . fcates so that they may communicate-with communicate-with the canneries without trouble pro-., viding they do not. touch - at - Infected KOlntS. Dr. Charles Le Baron, In charge of the detention camp at Lumberton. Miss., has wired here that the report that the five . Italians were shot or killed by the guards there was absolutely fals and that not a shot was fired either by guards or Ital- ; Una. ". j I , NEW ORLEANS. Aug. l.-Thousanda of circulars are to be sent through the South by the business men of New Orleans, Or-leans, containing an emphatic declaration bj Dr. J. H. White of the United states marine hospital service that freight cannot can-not carry yellow fever Infection. A number of tenders of assistance from nurses and doctors in other parts of the cojuntry have been received but declined. Italian Headquarters. fne Italians who formed a, permanent organization on Sunday have ( opened headquarters in the heart of the originally) original-ly) Infected district and are already receiving re-ceiving and filling requests for : relief. Immunes have been ' appointed to visit the stricken district and report the number num-ber of sick and the number in distress. The colored organizations are doing -good work in co-operation with the health authorities. au-thorities. There has toeen an impression that negroes are immune to yellow fever. That, however, is not a fact, though Dr. Walter L. Cohen, who has Investigated the records of other epidemics, declares that the black members of the raca are less susceptible than are the mulattos. Gov. Blanchard has arranged with the authorities here 'for the fumigation of passenger . coaches that run - between points In Louisiana. Many medical men ini the interior think the. stegoymla- can b.n carried by cars and that there Is danger dan-ger of transmission of the . fever unless disinfection of the coaches is resorted to. Lafayetta has decided to take no freight from New Orleans, unless th cars axe disinfected. At Alexander, notice has been giveq |