National Republican., 1883-08-25
YELLOW FEVER.
Condition OF Things at PcnsaCoIa-A Talk
with Surgeon General Hamilton.

Condition OF Things Mt PcnsaCola-A Talk
with Surgeon General Hamilton.
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the marine
hospital service, was met yesterday and in
terrogated relative to special dispatch from
New Orleans TO the New York papers Of yes
terday, which stated that man, supposed to
have been suffering from yellow fever, was
chilled to death while being removed from
Pensacola to the quarantine hospital at santa
Rose island. Gen. Hamilton said 1t now
turns out not to have been yellow fever; but
in my Judgment the action was proper, and
in oil cases of disease which resemble yellow
fover SO closely that it requires experts to
determine the difference, and then only after
post mortem examination has been made, are
cases which, for the safety of the community,
should be transported to the nearest quaran-
tine or pest house."
"What was the nature Of the disease2" asked
tho reporter
ut was case of pernicious swamp or ma
larial fever which is prevailing to some
extent at other gulf ports 1t resembles yell
low fever in many ways"
II think" concluded the general, that
patients with yellow fever should be treated
the same as smallpox patients or any other
contagious diseasc that Is, by isolation--rc-
moval from among the we'll"
Surgeon General Hamilton yesterday re-
ceived telegram from Lieut.. Comdr. Welch,
commanding the navy yard at Pensacola, Fla,
as follows
lioemen to make house to house inspection at so
per diem VIII you provide nurses ann medicines
and physicians for those who are too poor 70 pay,
as there are no private physicians in the villages
who understand sanitary work? No inspector has
been appointed. May yet have to send TO New
| Orleans for one, There is but one physician who
| Will practice. He is inexperienced with the mat
ter. Think that one ofexperience from New Orleans
should % be provided S I for the p99or If physehlsns h
| What per diem are they 10 be allowed, also the
| nurses7
The surgeon general telegraphed in reply
You are authorized to employ Ave policemen to
make house to house inspection in warrington
| and Woolsey at 81 per day Please have work
commenced Immediately. Cases OF yellow fever
ought to DO treated at quarantine hospital aeros.
sent there for treatment and by signal from yard
will send launch to navy yard for them. Cannot
supply families with nurses. &c. You may en-
ploy one physician at $40 per day for thirty days
| Disinfectants and fumigating materials Will be
furnished by collector Of customs upon roquisi
ton.
The surgeon general has also received q
telegram from Surgeon Smith at Fortress
Monroe, stating that the British steamer
| Bryuglas, from Pensacola, with lumber tc
Barrow In Furness via Newport News fol
| coaling, is in quarantine at that station fol
observation and fumigation, with all well or
| board
Surgeon Mainegra, at Vera Cruz, telegraphs
that the steamships City of Merida and Dis
coverer sailed from that port ON the twenty
third instant for New York.
A telegram from Pensacola, Fla, to the
Navy department, dated Thursday, says:
No new cases among marines. One new case il
| Warrington.
Passed Assistant Surgeon A. NJ. Guiteras
arrived in Washington yesterday morning
from the United States steamship Swatara
He received orders for duty at the Pensacola
navy yard and left here Immediately for that
post TO render medical aid to the yellow fevel
sufferers.
MAIL MATTER FOR PENSACOLA.
The following telegram to the postmaster
general from Acting Postmaster Sollee, Jack.
sonville, Fla, has been received at the Post
Office department: THE board of health o.
this city in view of the existence of yellow
fever at Pensacola, Fla, respectfully request
that you order all mail matter from that city
for this point to be separately pouched ant
confer authority to have the same tumigatet
| at Baldwin. Fla"