The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-19
KEEPING A CLOSE WATCH.
No LET Up in the Quarantine Guard
Around Savannah.

The Health Auth critics in Constant
Communication With Brunswick
and Thorou ghly Posted on the Situa-
ton There-A Stir Over an Un-
founded Rumor Started Nobody
Knows How-The Mayor to Deal Sc
verely With the Originators of Idle
Reports.
Health Officer Drummer received a tele-
gram IRON Surgeon Carter at Brunswick
yesterda aging that DR.. Branham, in
his opinion, contracted the yellow fever
at the Brunswick quarantine. This con-
tradicts the idea that he contracted it at
some other station before coming to
Brunswick which was generally thought
to be the case.
DR.. Carter said that there have been
no other cases of the fever at Brunswick,
and he expects none. DR.. Guiteras, the
government yellow fever expert from the
Dry Tortugas. is now investigating the
situation. await his report and my
letter." DR.. Carter said in concluding his
telegram.
The following telegram was received
later by DIR. Drummer from DIR. BurfOrd,
the Brunswick health officer.
"Branhams condition hopeless. No other
case"
A REPORT WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
The feature of the fever situation yes
terday was the report received here from
Brunswick that there was yellow fever
in Savannah The first intimation of the
kind received here was a dispatch to the
MORNING News from its Brunswick cor
respondent. The dispatch was received
at o'clock and read as follows:
Wire Immediately about Savannah s health.
Rumors ahoat here and increasing.
This news was in the nature of sur
prise, as no reports of any kind on this
subject had been afOat, in Savannah.
The contents of the dispatch were at
once communicated to Mayor McDonOugh
and Health Officer Drummer, who took i'm
mediate steps TO contradict the reports.
DIR. Drummer wired to the MORNING NEWS
correspondent at Brunswick as follows:
Have seen your telegram to NEWS. Report
Of yellow fever here is a malicious lie. Lib
eral reward to trace author.
At 5 O'Clock the following reply was
received addressed to Mayor McDonough
and Health Officer Brunner:
Answer received and bulletined. Large
crowd now reading it. win endeavor to
trace author. Am told indirectly Savannah
man brought report here to-day.
THE MAYORS TELEGRAM.
Mayor McDonough also telegraphed to
Mayor Lamb of Brunswick, assuring him
that there was no yellow fever in Savan-
nah. He received the following reply
late in the afternoon:
Brunswick, Aug. ls-Hon. J. J. McDonough,
Savannah: Have heard that you had yellow
fever in Savannah, and gave it the lie. Sur
geon Branham is not expected to live through
through the night. Brunswick 0. X. AS yet
no cases. THOMAS W. LAMB, Mayor.
THE WAY IT STARTED
A dispatch was received from the
MORNING NEWS correspondent at Bruins
ter careful investigation. he found that a
Savannah travelling man now in Bruins
wick stated there that two Macon men
told him in Savannah Wednesday night
that there were two cases of yellow fever
in Savannah. Half an hour later a drug
clerk about Is years old who was sitting
next to him at the table at supper at his
boarding house told him, (the travelling
man, that customer had told him, (the
drug clerk that there were two cases of
fever in Savannah. This was all the au-
thority that the travelling man had for his
statements.
Mayor McDonough and DR. Drummer are
surprised that anyone should circulate
such a serious report concerning the city's
health upon such fiimsy evidence and
they will certainly make it warm for the
author OF the reports ii he can be appre-
hended.