The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
DR.. HARR|SON'S DIAGNOSIS
COLUMBUS EXPERT TAKES DIR.
GUITERAs TO TASK AFTER HIS
EXAMINATIONS IN GALVESTON.
DR.. SWEAR|NGEN'S SANTONE REPORT
Saws There IL No yellow Jack There.
Galveston Invites Investigation
From All Texas Cities-A Firm
Denial Comes From Nava-
sofa Health Officers.

Galveston, Tex, Oct. 14.-(Special)-
No new cases were reported today.
OF the eight cases reported by DIR.
Guiteras on Saturday night three were
then convalescent. He withdrew his
diagnosis as to one case. Charles Ney-
naber has been discharged. Arthur
Keetch of the local staff of the Galveston
News has recovered. but will not be
formally discharged for two or three
days. The other cases are recovering.
Of the four cases since reported, Lorenzo
Soari was discharged by the attending
physician today. George ID. Morgan and
Henry Stawinsky are convalescent. Isa-
dOre Mayeur, the case reported on Tues
day, is doing well.
There was but one death today,
colored woman. who died from consnmp-
ton. The total deaths since last Fri
day are nine, none of them from fever
of any kind. There mas been no infant
mortality. Three of these nine deaths
were OF colored persons. The total
deaths in the same period last year was
DR.. HarrisOn's Report.
= DR.. r. II. Harrison, who has passed
through several yellow fever epidemics,
came here Wednesday from Columbus to
make an investigation. Today he filed
his report with the board of health. He
says he has found nothing here to war
rant the statement that there is yellow
fever here.
His report was in part as follows:
'IsadOre Mayeur, at the corner of
Thirty-second and Church streets, to
whom DR.. II. X. Fisher conveyed me, l
found to be aged 4S years with a cool,
moist skin, pulse 72 TO the minute, in
tense jaundice, tongue slightly coated,
red edges: very composed, easy in mind,
with a slightly enlarged liver, putty
colored stools, showing the absence of
hillary secretions, urine straW-colored,
copious, slightly albumnous. with tube
cases from the kidneys, indicating I'M
questionable catarrhal jaundice. The
patient may or may not recover. That
he has been suffering for some consider
able time from enlarged liver. and Crob-
ably from chronic alcoholism, the his
tory he gave me leaves scarcely n doubt.
''The cases upon which DIR. Guiteras
and DR.. Swearingen had passed before
my arrival here were so lar c0nval-
escent that it was out of the question
for me to attempt a diagnosis of what
they had been. and | am thrown back
upon the principles of diagnosis which
II.
class of the medical department of the
University of Texas. He is reported to
have said in that lecture that the first
line OF investigation consisted III the con
sidcration of the general sanitary condi-
ton Of the city. including especially tne
mortuory record do not believe that
anybody can gainsay the proposition mat
the sanitary condition of Galveston was
extraordinarily fine, and the records SNOW
n smaller death rate. than has occurred
in this city during the last four or I'VE
waors during the same period of time
If the distinguished gentleman. whose
opportunities have been so vast, has
found that an excellent sanitary condl-
ton and low rate of mortality is dag
nOstic of yellow fever in a community
he has made n discovery that is GER
tainly of more Importance than any an
nounced within the present century.
The subject of dengue fever is dis
cussed at length, and in relation to the
symptoms apparent in some of the cases
in Galveston, DR.. Harrison says:
at is n fact that every symptom com
mon to yellow fever is known to exist IN
other types of disease, and without the
occurrence of all or nearly every one OF
those symptoms in single case, no man
is justified in saying 1t is yellow FEVER
The report concludes:
81 have seen nothing in Galveston
either upon the occasion of my former
visit or the present one. that would
warrant the assumption that yellow
fever existed here. No medical man
who has had experience of this disease
in the past would for a moment recog-
nize the evidences that have been pre-
scented to the public as sufficient to es-
tablish such claims, and if the general
public of the state could realize '!c in
snfiicency rs see it, there would be no
apprehension on the part of anybody.
We have before us now. according to the
authority of the distinguished gentlemen
who represent the law and order of the
United States and Of the state of Texas,
the extraordinary spectacle of an out
break of yellow fever in II coast town. the
great commercial mart of the state,
wnere the representatives of every ma,
ton congregatc. without Il single death.
Train Service Resumed.
Train service was resumed on tie Gal
weston. Houston and Henderson Rail
road mt 4 O'Clock this morning, immedi'
ately after Houston raised its quarantine
against the city for the second time
That line is again in full blast for pas
senger and freight traffic. Cars for the
north are being fumigated at Houston.
The International ana Great Northern
sent it's st. Louis train out on regular
schedule time this afternoon. Stops viii
he made at all points which have raised
the quarantine. and the regular service
of that line will be continued. The maiI
line of the International is entirely oper
from Longview to Laredo.
The Santa Fe is bringing in freight
and returning the empty cars fum'gated
but is running no passenger trains. The
La Porte Railroad is in the same con
diton. The Katy is doing nothing ex
cept on freight for Galveston. Mail,
were sent out on the International today
There were very few passengers.
Col. j.. i. Polk, general manager of tho
Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe, at For
Worth. today communicated with tn,
office of the city health physician by tele
phone. advising that he had invited al
the towns and counties along the line o
the Santa Fe to send committees of ply
sicians to Galveston and Houston Il
make investigations as to the health o
those cities. He stated that he ha,
placed a special train at the disposal o
the physicians and that they would ar
rive in Galveston Saturday evening.
Galveston Yesterday resumed Quaran
tine a. inst New Orleans, Mobile an