New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16
PROFESSOR pRoCroR.s WIDOW HERE

MER CRITICISES THE HEALTH BOARD
The widow Of Professor Richard A. Proctor arrived
In this city at 10 80 a. YESTERDAY and has since
been resting quietly with friends Mrs. Proctor had
been suffering from attack Of intermittent malaral
fever but she said that she had recovered her usual
health, though feeling somewhat fatigued from her
journey. She also naturally extremely
from the terrible shock and excitement incident to the
death Of her husband.
Profess Proc tors body will be placed in the
cepiion vault at Greenwood Cemetery
ing If possible Mrs. Proctor will start for England
about the middle of this week. for the purpose OF
settling up her husbands accounts with some London
publishing houses.
George W. Wilson. who has been the most intimate
friend and neghbor Of Professor Proctor in Florida,
arrived here with Mrs. Proctor. He thinks that the
Professors case badly mismanagcd by the New
York health authorities. To a Tribune reporter hc
said yesterday: Whether Professor Proctor had
yellow fcvcr-whlch l do not bceve-or not, con
slider that his death FASTENED not caused by his
removal from the Westminster Hotel The Professor
and | have lived oak Lawn Fla, hcalthful place.
our properties next TO each other. For two
months before HIS departure for New lork he did not
leave his house IS he engaged I'm completing his
book entitled 'Old and New Astronomy, which he
considered the principal work Of his life, and. Oak
Lawn than a hundred miles from any In
fectcd district he could have had yellow fever in
his system al that time lie had been I'm pcrfec,
health, though he did have some Of the symptoms or
malarlal fever such as residents In some parts Of
Florida arc subject this of the year, when
be left home. From Oak Lawn, Saturday, Sep
tcinbcr :, he went to Gainesville, thence to Live Oak
and through Way Cross savannah Al each Of these
places he was subjected to a rigid physical examina-
ton by the local quarantine authorities. and l
can obtain a1ldavits from dozen Of these
officers that he perfectly free from any contagon
Of yellow fever 1t was not in the least probable
possible that he could have contracted the disease In
the Pullman in which he came to New York, for,
by the perfect system of quarantine under the super
vision Of surgeon General Hamilton. all his fellow
passengers must have previously gone through the
same process of examination. Would 1t not bo rather
strange that he alone, Of hundreds snould have con-
traced the feverl He III when he first boarded
tie sleeper but The conductor told that his symp-
toms were only maarial they had been pronounced
by the Health authorities.
There Is malignant malaria fever. accompanied
by black vOmt very similar to that Of yellow fever.
and the symptoms reported indicating yellow fever
have been shown 10 be also cha accrstc of these inter
mitteni fcyeIs, which not contagious. Now, hold
that Professor Proctors removal from the Westminster
Hotel criminal ia any case and doubly so II the
disease not what II stated TO be by the health
officers II his disease was yellow fever, notwifh-
standing all the evidence 10 the contrary, the history
of every case especially I'm high laiudes has showt
that during the condition Of collapse such as that In
which Professor Proctor was said to have been, ne
ccssltaing exposure to a cnangc tonipr,-.~--, e..
sure death II was not, In my opinion, necessary thai
the mans lie should BE- sacrificed the plea that the
safety Of those around him demandcd H. sng~
case IN This latitude. Is not contagious. Why,
would not Lave hestdtcd 10 sleep I'm the rooai
with him and do nut believe tha, would have con-
! tractea yellow fever, II such II was.
| :. have felt more than Indignation in this matter
and | propose to have autopsy made at once
Simply because the Professor came from a part Of