Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-04
DREADED DISEASES.
Surgeon General Wyman Tells Of
His Visit to Jersey City.
STRICT QUARANTINE ORDERED.
Surgeon Carter Talks About Yellow
Fever at Brunswick.
NO NEW CASES AT PRESENT.

esting subjects Of conversation at the ma
rine hospital bureau today. and they were
discussed by Surgeon General Wyman. who
has just returned from Jersey City, where
| the former has existed, and by Surgeon
Carter. who came up this morning from the
| yellow fever camp at Brunswick, Ga
1t Will be remembered that DR.. Wyman
| went to Jersey City last week Immediately
| upon receiving notification that the sus-
pected cases were proven to be genuine
Asiatic cholera. The result of this visit he
| told to Star reporter as follows:
The Jersey City board of health is In
| charge of man who are efficient and earn
est, but who are not professional men, and
| there Is no organized corps Of regular san
| itary officers connected with the city gov
eminent. except the physicians to the poor.
whose services are only occasionally called
| Tor. What was needed was medical assist
| ance, and this was furnished by the marine
| hospital service by detailing Surgeon P. H.
Bailhache Of the Staten Island marine hos
pital to be in charge Of all measures so far
as the marine hospital Is concerned. To
aid him two regular officers of the service
| were detailed.
Besides these officers the service has in
each coast city a list Of regular physicians
well qualified for work Of this kind. and
with whom arrangements have been made
| for their immediate employment by the
| bureau in case Of necessity. Four of these
| of strict quarantine. which had already
been begun by the city board Of health.
| through the agency of the sanitary police
men, a good corps, by the way. was as
| signed to these medical inspectors. house
to house inspection was also inaugurated
| In the suspected locality.
I'm the meantime, the state board Of
health, which has supervising power over
A.
agency Of Dr. Clark Hunt, an inspector Of
| the state board. They summoned three
| physicians to their assistance and COM
| menced their duties. Surgeon Bailhache
| and DR.. Hunt have their headquarters in
| the office Of the health commissioner Of
the city. and all are working In the utmost
| harmony. A room has been provided at
one Of the railroad depots where any sus-
| pected case from the adjacent wharves or
| depots will be Immediately taken. and one
of the officers Of the state board of health
| has charge of this room. In the meantime
| the health board of Jersey City is following
| up carefully every person who was brought
| in contact with the suspected cases.
The position Of the marine hospital
service in this matter is first to cooperate
and render every possible assistance to the
local authorities and next to require its
regular officers there to see that the neces-
sary rules and regulations are being en-
forced. There have been no new cases and
as far as is known there Is not now a case
Of cholera in Jersey City. There was one
death from Asiatic cholera and two deaths
which were suspected to have been from
gated DIR. Bond of the New York city
| board of health is rendering good service In
Jersey City by supervising the work of dis
| infection, an important task, and his serv-
Ices are the more valuable from the fact
| that he has had long experience with mod
| ern methods Of thorough disinfection.''
Yellow Fever at Brunswfck.
While Dr. Wyman was speaking there sat
|
unassumng looking man. below middle age
whose bronzed complexion bespoke expo
sure to southern suns. He was introduced
| to The Star reporter as Surgeon Carter Of
| the yellow fever squad. Surgeon Carter has
fairly walowed in yellow fever germs with
in the past few weeks, but ne does not seem
to mind 1t. He left Brunswick. Ga, Sat
urday night, where he has been stationed
during the prevalence of fever, having gone
there from Pensacola. Surgeon Carter had
charge of the Gordon around the ,house
| where Surgeon Branham and Peter Harris
died. and supervised the disinfection of
premises and the removal Of patients. He
was with Branham and Harris when they
died.
Surgeon Carter said there Is no truth
whatever in the sensa tional reports of peo-
pie suspected Of having yellow fever being
placed against their will in house where
the fever already existed. He said that
Harris undoubtedly had the fever when he
| was taken to the Branham house: that the
patient was removed at his own request
| from q house where he could receive no
attention whatever, not even getting his
meals. He did not make the slightest OBJ
| lection to going to the Branhana house and
| Carter himself supervised the removal.
1t has been stated that the man Cox
whose little daughter was suspected Of hav-
| ing the fever fled with the child to the
woods to prevent it's being .aken to the
| Branham house. AS a matter Of fact Cox
| took the child out in the country after It
| had been pronounced to be suffering from
| the fever and placed 1t at the house Of his
| wife's sister, Mrs. Hickman. That worthy
| relative upon finding that her niece had the
| yellow fever insisted upon her immediate re-
moval from the premises to avoid injecting
her own children. Surgeon Carter had ar
| rived on the scene about this time. and
| realizing that the journey to Brunswick
would cause the child's death prohibited its
| return to the town. He rented small
| house near by. and buying bedding and pro-
visions for the parents. he took the little
| sufferer in his arms and carried it to the
house. leaving 1t under the charge of its
| parents. The child has since recovered.
Surgeon Carter says that no new cases
of fever have occurred in Brunswick thus
far. The city is in fairly good sanitary
| condition, but there is great destitution
among the poorer classes and outside help
| is needed to furnish food for them. 1t is
| suggested to refugees from Brunswick that
they do not be in haste to return, for 1t
may be possible that some center Of infec-
ton lruks in house now closed and which
would develop by occupancy before frost
| Further Retrenchments.
| Secretary Morton has abolished the con-
gressional division of the Agricultural De-
partment. This division has for MANY
years performed the work of preparing z
franks for many Senators and members of
Congress in connection with the distribu-
! ton Of seeds. cuttings, plants, etc This
was instituted at a time when no allowance
was made to Senators and members for
| clerk hire.
| In view Of the fact that each Senator and