New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-07
YELLOW FEVER ~ 4 HOSPITAL.

PROBABLY BROUGHT ON THE STEAMER ALVO-
LITTLE DANGER OF AN EPIDEMIC.
message that expert physicians OF the Sanitary
Bureau were wanted at St. Vincents Hospital was
sent over the police wire to the Central Ohce on sun
day evening. The physicians who responded iound
Young Scochman suffering from yellow fever In an
isolated part of the hospital. His disease was easily
recognized by the saffron hue of his skin and by the
black yomit which had appeared shortly before the
message was sent to Headquarters. The patient was
Francis Gorley. age twenty-three, fireman on the
steamship Alyo of the Atlas Line. He had not shown
anv svmptoms of the fever when the vessel reached
this city last Monday, although he probably was ex-
poscd TO the disease at a West Indian port. After
going ashore on Monday Golden tad become intoxi-
GATED and had gone to the lodging house No. 81
Westst. He began to feel sick Thursday, but his
illness was beiey ed have resulted from his SPREE
On Saturday he was so much worse that his friends
sent him to the hospital The physicians thought MS
svmptoms were suspicious and they did not place him
in a ward with other patients
Golden was removed to the Reception Hospital at
tbe foot of East Sxteenths ST. Sunday night Great
care was taken not expose him to chill The bed
ding which he had used at the hospital and his own
clothing were removed with him, and the room where
he had lain since Saturday was disinfected. Chiet
nsnecor Taylor of the Fourth Sanitary Division, yes
terday sent men 10 ulslulcCl NoiuVhS 'S'A"A'o
clothing and the room which he had occupied in
West-st He also informed Health Officer Smith at
Quarantine 1t was said that there had not been any
case Of yellow fever on the Alvo. Golden was SO
weak Yesterday that the sanitary officials thought it
would endanger his life to remove him to Quarantine
and he remained at the deception Hospital, where
there were no other patients. Assistant Sanitary
Superintendent James said that there was no danger
of an epidemic of the fever account Of Golden's
sickness
Inspector Taylor said last night: "Tho room
at the sailors boarding house In which the
pa se ept has been thoroughly dsnecsed The Alvo
has not been disnfected because believe there Is no
necessity for It, The sick sn mas not peea on To
for more than week The m En yter he left the
Alyo and 1t Is generally coeedsd thst Ia sucn Case
no object would DO effected t'sdisntec!ion" r,..
said to rpmuSs reporter: Il Whom saw the account
the yellow fever patient Who ciamcu 70 oe nre @
the Alvo, Hooked up the fsp Is q, one anu mss
Quarantine last Monday andy am sure sne nsd no ieTer
csrgo con of ndss aud dait. The latter
cured at Costa Rca and mas ~ u' '''o W 'A' wi"
'gpees s av,, ,ou.e surgeon St. Yincents Hospital,
said " The man was Kept " stou iiul 'no III s'' VIC
saptb Amsrissu ports aud It is impossible to say
vhat form the inctpeut feve&pay eventually take
always keep sucn patients ateu me room ih "nicn
ay mas OF ths Hospital said that this
was the first yellow fever case tnat they @ haa
had this year, adding feel pretty Comment tnat
tho will not sprea aa 1t 10 undoubted
OF yellow The black vo,n ana other unmstakaole
symptoms all present fhere Is no nope lhst tho
patient will live till morning,'A 80 -
A shipmate OF the sick mau sid: " 1 was with him
from ne time OF his coming ashore till he taken to
the hospital He slept nowhere else but At No. 81
West-st. His name was Goey not Golden as reported
That ia the reason why Captain Coburn could not hnd
him on the ships articles. sailed with him on the
last trip the Aiyo made and We took the freight on
board at Port Lmon."
No YELLOW FEVER AT Biloxi
WASHINGTON, Sept; 6.-SurgeOn -Generai
Hamilton of the Marine Hospital service has received
the following teegraphc report from Dr. Godfrey ua'ca
Biloxi, Miss, September B:
Hay. visited aud CRITICALLY examined for three days
ali cases OF sickness In the Infected part OF BIOL -;
slc Enass has dsyeoped since my arrival All patients