Show death list kept down and Is confined to foreigners new orleans aug 22 report to 6 p m new cases 57 total to date 1573 deaths 9 total to date new foci 21 total foci Rc malnig under treatment with the fever checked la the city and provision under way to prevent further from the country the local situation is still encourage ing of the new foci three are above canal street at rosa park a fashionable residence park opening into st charles avenue a well known citizen and member of governor blanch ards staff is the victim another caso is at a boys college tar down town one of the employed emp loyes being stricken rev father aveilhe pastor of st church and another patient were reported today of the deaths only one occurred up town that of a clerk who had been living here nine months the news from outside the city shows the continued seriousness of the situation definite information was received from dr J A devron the state board of health physician sent toL eeville at the mouth of bayou la fourche a few days ago his report shows that the first news received from there was not exaggerated during two days of work there he found fifty nine positive cases of yellow fever fifty three suspected cases and cases of dengue he adds there are about houses and families here and I 1 do not think there is a single house which has not one or more cases of sickness the people aro completely distracted all seem to have lost ambition to work they are completely demoralized he asks for more doctors and nurses as the situation is beyond the capacity of one man he reports two more deaths since his arrival patterson reports fifteen new cases and no deaths st tammany parish reports a case on the road between mandeville and lewisburg which came from new orleans hanson city reports six new cases kenner one and sarpy plantation two there was one death on elizabeth plantation in iberville st rose and st charles parish has two cases andone Is dead correne Corr lne plantation in st bernard parish below the city reports one leath an italian boy mississippi city reports three new cases and states that the report that the state board has declared the fever epidemic there I 1 unfounded new orleans aug 22 the fact that there change today from the record for several days was accepted by the federal authorities as confirming their explanation of the encouraging cou raging nature of the yellow fever situation the deaths again today were principally of persons bearing foreign names an exception was arthur hill an of the large wholesale dry goods houses hill came here last november from new york with his wife and two children in spite of all the agitation there has been on the question some cisterns still remain unscreened and the police have received orders to spare no one who shows an indisposition to obey the law failure to screen caused hart newman new man former president of the new orleans base ball club and a son of isador newman the millionaire banker to spend a brief time in a cell today mr Is the head of the company which owns athletic park some one discovered that there were three unscreened cisterns on the grounds and made an affidavit against him he was arrested and looked up later he was released by inspector mr newman was indignant at his arrest 1 he said he made large contributions to the citizens fund and had paid to screen a large number of cisterns that he did not own in his yard and had simply forgotten the cisterns at the park some of the country towns are seeking to avoid a clash with the state board of health in the matter of quarantine in a way calculated to be damaging to new orleans lake charles Is an instance the fear of fever Is so great there that the people to accept any freight whatever from here mayor heermans Hebr mans office is overwhelmed with letters many from cranks but others from well moaning persons who offer specifics against yellow fever many of them are germicides the mayors reply to these corn is tha the fever i being fought here on the principle that it can alone be transmitted by means of the mosquito additional nurses were sent to patterson and riverside both in st marys parish today at these two points except the largest number of cases outside of the limits of the city but the fever continues to manifest itself in a type exceedingly mild among the days telegrams to the mayor was one from democratic campaign manager thomas taggart of indiana mr taggart wrote of his interest and sympathy and offered large contributions of water from french lick for the hospitals and for poor patients tho offer was accepted the management of the new orleans baseball club does not expect that any of the clubs in the sothern league will have to take advantage of the pro offered by the national committee the new orleans games have been transferred to atlanta and the shreveport games to chattanooga ine nw orleans ji layers are being kept on the rolls nt full salaries in spile of the heavy losses that the managements suffering |