New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-18
PROF. PROCTOR HAD YELLOW FEVER.
SO THE HEALTH BOARDS AUTOPSY SHOWS
PRIVATE BURIAL

a PRIVATE BUklAL'
Tho result of the autopsy on the body OF Professor
Richard A. Proctor on Sunday was gwen eorrceus III
The Tribune Yesterday. President Baylcs, Of tho
Health Board yesterday received from the physicians
who performcd the autopsy the following report
In accordance with your request an autopsy on The
body OF Professor A. Proctor was made by us at $50
D. m to-day North Brother lsland anu we SUBMIT
the following preliminary report:
Decompoon was so far advanced that It was mpossi-
HE 10 arrive OF definite conclusion as to tho cause OF
DEATH The organs presented no evidence Whatever Oh
pcrncous remcnt fever other form Of malaal disease
such as even in condition OF decomposition presented
nv the body would ordinarily b. apparent
The only positive change disease which could be
mad, out was n tho kidneys which showed the appearance
OF old though not advanced disease.
The alterations produced the body by yellow FEVER
are usually Of such character be nearly or COM
rle,ev obllterated by advanced decomposition. We are
therefore only say in this connection that there
was no other evident OF death, and nothing wcn
would be incompatible with death from that disease
The final conclusion as the cause OF death must
the rcfoe opnlon be largely based upon the ciiea
history T. MITCHELL PRUDEN, NJ. d.,
HERMANN NJ. BIGGS, NJ. d.,
Pathologi.ts Health Department OF New YORK CITY.
Ncw-York, September 10.
Officials at Sanitary Headquarters expressed regret
that decomposition had nterfercd with the autopsy,
but they said they felt sure that death caused by
yellow fever permit for the removal Of Professor
Proctors body to the receiving vault in Greenwood
Cemetery was given to Undertaken Merritt at the
Bureau Of Vital Statistics, and orders were given 10
have tho body transferred from North Brother Island
back 10 the city on the Health Department steamer
Tho body was sealed In metallic coffin again on sun
day evening 49,, ~. a.,
Yesterday after being brought TO this city, the
body was taken In a hearse to sixth-avc ana TWnty
nnih-st where two carriages containing MIS-. Proc
tor George A. Wilson and two three friends, were
In waiting ard thence TO the cemetery, where " was
bnried I'm temporary grave without any ceremonies
NrS Proc for will Leave this city for England on Sat
urday and on her return the body Will be removed
from It's present crave and tahcn either 10 England or
10 oak Lawn, Florida. George A. Wilson said 10 a
Tribune reporter last evening that he SIN ieit con-
vnced that removing the Professor from the ho,el n
autopsy had In way changed his conviction mat
the doctors wrong In their diagnosis OF tho dis-
ease
GRoUNDLESS ALARM OVER A SUPPOSED CASE
Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept 1.-THE case Of Wilson,
rsportcd as having died from yellow fever at Wild
wood is only ono Of many rumors prevailing In the
south as to tho existence Of tho scourgc Tho matter
has been thoroughly investigated. Wilson had been
sick al Decatur Ala, for three weeks and, becoming
alarmed at the rumors OF yellow fever there, at
tempted to reach Chattanooga while in weak and
exhausted condition. He was put of the train at two
quarantine stations, and at the last one had to re-
main out of doors all night and the next morning
walked five miles to wildwood, where he had brother
in-l,w He was completely exhausted, having had
nothing 10 cat for nearly two days, and died Of ex-
baustinn and from the effects OF exposure.
Ouarantlne is cstabl shed at many towns, there
heIn from three TO four stations every road load
ing 10 this CITY, There not a scmbance Of
yellow fever In Wilson'S case
A REFUGEE FAMILY IN ST LOUIS HOSPITAL.
St. Louis Sept. IA family Of immigrants from
the South consisting Of joel Davis, wife, and two
and two small children, and Mrs. Emily Mclaughlin,
mother OF Mrs. Davis have becn taken I'm charge by
the city health authorities, precautionary measure,
and sent 10 the City Hospital whore they were placed
I'm an isolated ward. Mrs. Mclaughlin Is sick with
fever which the city physicians say IS no; yellow
tevcr but, prevent any mistake. the family were
sent 10 the hospital and their effects thoroughly
fumIgaed They camo from the Vicinity Oh Pcnsa-
cola, Fla.
A CYNICAL VIEW OF a SUPPOSED KIND ACTION.
Charleston S. c., Sept II CspeciaD.-Thc dumping
OF 400 yellow fever refugees al Hcndesonville has
caused much uncasncss hero, as quito number oil
Charleston people have summer homes in that Vicinity.
The cltv was prompt however to establish rigid
quarantine IL Will probably be many years before
HcndersonvIc will again try 10 follow Atlanta
example, aud invite yellow fcvcr refugees to como in
A man, who returned here from Hcndersonvillc with
his family to-day said the whole thing was a sell
Some enthusiastic FOOLS" he added, who had been
reading The Atlanta Constitution and its boasts about
openlng It's doors refugees, thought IL would be
good thing for HendcrsonvIllc to initiate Atlanta
The idea was that about Of Northern million
aires uhn had settled Florida would como to