Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-21
THE YELLOW TERROR.
A PHYSICIAN AND THE BOARD OF
HEALTH AT LoGGERHEADs
Work Of the Different Boards At Jackson
ville-More system-st. Angus
tines Good Condition.
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Times Democrats Jacksonville special
dated September ~ says: The case of
Mr. Hugo Grunthal occupies the interest
al the hour Mir. Granthal, after a
weeks illness, died last night at $50
O'clock. His disease Yves pronounced
hy his attending physician, DIR. Bottles,
80 be congestion of the lungs. The
Board Of Health considering the CIR.
oumstsnces suspicious decided to hold
an autopsy on the remains, and should
yellow-icver I've discovered TO arrest the
Ihysicisn for disobedience OF the orders
Of the board. This is the second time
during the present epidemic that DIR.
J}oites aud the Board OF Health have
come into collision on tho subject Of
ycllow-tever. The different boards
have done an immense amount OF bust
less this morning. I hat Of Public
Works on hearing that the Sanitary
Association contemplated putting
large number Of labOrtrs AZ work on the
streets recommended the employment
for such purposes OF the crowds OF Idle
aud needy men who are fed at the
public expense. The Board of Health
stated plainly that unacclimated nurses
nor would they be employed.
feeding Of the nurses on duty and three
new commisssn6s have been established
for supplying the INDECENT sick with
mattresses, blankets, ana other supplies.
Or Dick Oldham, a man Of marked
ability has charge of the ambulance
corps and is sure 10 give satisfaction.
Tie situation at McCienney and Glenn,
St Mary. Is unchanged. No new cases
have been reported. one death, that Of
u man named Evans, occurred in Games
Vile Yesterday. Wilson and Waugh are
improving, and Miller, Ammous, and
Hodges have the black vomit. DR..
julius Wise hiss been ordered 10 make
an investigation ut Wellborne and Fer
nandina rs to tue reported yellowfever
in those towns. st. Augustine is happy
over her clean and healthy city. To-
morrow everything excepting mails Will
he prohibited from entering that city,
aud the mails from Jacksonville and
Gainesville will not be allowed in at all.
~ Augustine is surrounded 10y two
hundred and twenty five armed men.
Private aivices from HendersJnville, \.
C., coincide with the official reports.
Only two deaths have occurred, and I'll
cases are closely confined to refugees.
The latter Are well treated and making
the hest Of an irBsome situation. Three
hundred refugees are there now, eight of
whom are from Camp Perry. As soon as
the refugees arrived mt HendersOnyIlle
those Who bad means fixed up a hospital
for the sick and betrayed expenses.
Should the disease spread any more ont
side aid viii become pressing necessity.
THE YELLow-FRyER GERM
WASHINGTON, September 20.-The
Secretary Of the Treasury has received
tho following telegram from Surgeon
General Hamilton. at Camp Perry, + la.
Morning report Present: Officers, 6 !;
guards, 10 employees. 80 I; including
carpenters and refugees lh5; dis
charged, > in fever camp, 4. am sat
isfcd there is fever in Feruandina. Dr.
1osey is reported better.
Major 6. NJ. Sternberg surgeon
United States army, read IN important
paper this afternoon before the Associa-
fion of American Physicians and Sur
geons upon the recent investigations re-
latiug to the ethiology OF yellow-feyer.
There have been several different
claimants for the honor of having dis
covered the yellow-teyer germ, but. ac-
cording TO DR.. Sternberg, none of these
claims are well founded. He exhibited
10 the association cultivations OF the
germs OF DR.. DominPos Frtire, Of
Brazil Dr. Carlos 1inlay, OF Havana,
and Of Or. Paul Gibier, Of France.
Gibier was commissioned by the French
Government to study the yellowfever
and had already been in Havana for
several months when IN May last Or.
Sternberg arrived in that city IN
compliance with instructions from the
pre.ident to continue the investigation
commenced last year in Brazil and IL
Mexico.
through the courtesy Of Spanish army
surgeons ut the military hospitals IN Ha-
vans DR.. Sternberg was able TO Obtain
rs many autopsics as he required and
made a careful search of the blood and
various organs OF the body with reie-
renee TO the presence Of germs. lie did
not encounter in single case. he said,
the microbe which Freire bas described
and with which he processes to practice
protective NEGOTIATIONS. He has, how
ever, encountered this mlcrocOccus ia
cultures made from the surface of the
body, and believes its presence IN Ut.
Freires blood cultures from the finger
70 have been quite accidental and without
special significance. Having proved 10y
his microscopcal researches and culture
experlmeuts thpt there is 10 specific
germ in tue blood OF the yelloW-fever
patients, SternheTg turned his attention
10 the elementary canal, thinking 1t not
improbable that the specific germ OF
disease might be located there as Is the
case in cholera. An was to have been
expected be encountered a variety OF
micro organisms IN this situation, some
OF which were apparently undescnbed
species, and therefore possible yellow
fever germs Among these Is the bacll-
lus of DIR. Paul Gibier, which WIGS found
in three out Of ten cases. DR.. Stern
berg is OF the opinion that DIR. Gibler
has not rs yet given any satisiac-
tory proof that tins Is verl-
table yellow-feyer germ, and fOrther
researches are required In order 10 de
termine the important questions relating
10 the cause aud prevention OF this dis
ease Or. Stcrnherg has himself dis
covered several new micro-organisms.
and il is possible that one or the other
Of these is the deadly microbe which he
has 50 long been in search OF, but he said
lie was not at present in position to
make a definite claim with reference TO
any Of them. Some Of these germs were
exhibited 10 the association. and DR.
Sternberg stated that since his return
from Havana he had been continuously
engaged in the study of these various
microbes, and that the material which
he bad brought with him would fully &C.
cupy his time for some months TO come.
TIE FEVER IN GALVESTON.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceiyed from the editor of the Galveston
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