The morning news., 1888-09-24
HAMILTON,S ADVICES.
Camp Perry to Receive the Nurses
Banished from Jacksonville.

camp Perry to Receive the Nurses
Banished from Jacksonville.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 33.-Dr. Hamilton,
surgeon general of the marine hospital serv-
ice, has received a telegram from DR.. Neal
Mitchell, president Of the Jacksonville
board of health, saying:
We have nurses who are guilty of drunken
ness, criminal negligence and incompetency.
such must go home. Camp Perry is the only
thenIy
DR.. Hamilton informed DIR. Mitchell that
all such persons would be received at Camp
Perry, and sent the following telegram to
Surgeon Hutton, who is in charge of the
camp:
Receive all persons sent from Jacksonville.
NO need To keep nurses under guard, unless
they misbehave, at Camp Perry. You must re
ceve them, but cannot be expected to punish
ohenses committed at Jacksonville.
This mornings report from Camp Perry is
as follows:
Present; Officers. g. guards. 90 employees,
including carpenters. So; refugees arrived, %;
discharged, II; remaining, 1913; in fever camp, 4.
TELEGRAM FROM GAINESVILLE.
The following telegram was received this
morning from DIR. Carlisle, secretary of the
board of health at Gainesville, Fla:
No new cases All the sick are doing well.
The weather is clear.
Speaking of the disease at Gainesville,
DIR. Hamilton tonight said to an Associated
Press reporter that when the yellow fever
broke cut there he requested DR.. Carlisle
to employ special policemen to guard every
house where yellow fever had appeared,
for the purpose of isolating each case
and preventing the city from becom-
ing infected. At the same time he advised
rapid depopuation of the place, as quaran-
tina xpDf,I not ha 1aolar al f5aIu
vile until it was announced to be Infected.
SUCCESS OF ISOLATION
"a week has now elapsed" said tho doc
tor, land the success Of the plan is begin
ming to be evident, us the second crop Of
cases, had the fever patients not been iso-
lated, would have appeared on the sixth
day, that is day before yesterday. AS no
cases have been found at Gainesville, the
probabilities are entirely against an epi-
demic in that place at present, unless some
flaw is found in isolation of the patients
now under treatment. Tho same plan was
pursued with entire success in the case of
Ballentine. the postal clerk who was stricken
with fever at Blackshear, Ga, three weeks
ago. In that case special policemen were
employed, who kept the house under con
stant surveillance and prevented persons
from visiting it. No other case developed.
TO INSPECT FERNANpINA.
Dr. Hamilton had conference with Sur
geon General Browne at the navy yard to-
day, and arrangements have been made for
a detail of naval officers to investigate the
state of affairs at Fernandina, Fla, as all
the officers of the marine hospital service
available for inspection duty are now other
wise engaged. An officer will probably be
detailed ft T this purpose by the Secretary
of the Navy tomorrow.
The medical officer at Live Oak has been
instructed to fumIgate baggage coming
from Gainesville or Fernandina
Yesterday DR.. Hamilton sent a telegram
to DR.. We'll Johnston, secretary Of the Mis-
sissippi state board of health, at jackson,
asking it he needed aid, and he received a
reply as follows:
do not need aid at present There have been
ten cases and one death here to-day.
DECATUR's DECLINATIoN.
|. A similar telegram was sent to Dr.
Cochran at Decatur, secretary of the
Alabama state board of health, and the
following response was received:
We need no aid at present. Very few are left
in Decatur except negroes. The problem will
be to feed them.
DR.. Hamilton said the negroes usually re-
manned in a fever stricken town because
they were too poor to buy railroad tickets,
and, besides, had no other place to GO
They did not generally take the fever until
a whole town became thoroughly infected
and then their cases were as a rule of a mild
type