The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-06
gUIl|ERls IN HOUSTON.
c1us rfoa 81 Lpuls asd Spent the
# Day Here.
lHEWiLL WORK IN GALVESTON TODAY
Investigation Of Health nm the IL
n nd 10 ne MaAe--A Physician
Talks Of the Expert.

Ut. john dulterass tuo Ieno"neu se'AS
fever expert, arrived In Houston yestcrda
morning over the International and Grea
Northern and put UP at the Capitol. ~
was driven over town by Health Office
McElroy. Mayor Rice and Dr. Stuart, am
was very favorably impressed with Hous
ton. having little imagined, he said. tina
It was such large and prosperous city.
A Post reporter met DR.. Guiteras on the
street as he was quietly walking about
seeing tho town.
Few people who yesterday met q small
man, dressed In gray linen suit, small
soft, white hat and wearing short Inn
perial, almost white. with keen, bright
eyes and a quiet, unostentatious manner.
imagined that he was person OF any i'm
portance, and yet he is one OF the eminent
physicians of the country. and probably
the most famous yellow fever expert in
the whole land.
The doctor very kindly. upon being asked,
said that ho was 40 years old and native
OF Cuba. and that he occupies Il chair In
the University OF Pennsylvania. He also
snid that he Is no longer in the marine
hospital service, but was employed by the
government for this special occasion.
Speaking OF yellow fever. Dr. Guiteras
says there Is almost no danger to Texas
owing to the lateness OF the season and he
corrected a number of popular errors con-
corning the dread scourge.
He was especially emphatic In asserting
that there is not the slightest danger OF
fever spreading from the contact with 1t by
persons who wear clean, dry clothes and
do not stay too long in the infected room;
that out or thousands OF cases none had
been known to DO spread where reasonable
precaution was taken. He lrs the great
danger lies In the very fact tnat the people
are unwilling 10 have Suspicious cases Iu-
vestlgated, and cited tho Instances OF the
whole state of Alabama having been saved
from an epidemic by the timely iDvcstiga-
ton OF the cases az Mobile: also where
Nicksburg WAS saved when II was dlseov-
cred that It was yellow fever at Edwards
and again where cases were discovered In
time at California, La. He did not exam
Inc any cases In Now Orleans In order TO
be able to comply with the Texas ten day
Law.
DR.. Guheras says that willow fever tho |
past few years has been OF very mild
type, and Is TO be feared little more than
many other diseases. He says Il Ia foolish |
10 say that case is not yellow foyer b. |
cause 1t does not spread, for II promptly
looked after II can not spread, and that no
person was ever known to have the yellow
feycr more than once
ne LETT for Galveston yesterda; afternoon
~ i;i1 o'clock, accompanied by DIR. Nc
Giroy, where he will stay two or three
llNE. then roll
pend two or three days here, but does not
mink 1t Will be necessary TO 10 to other
Texas points.
as to the object OF hts visit TO Texas, ne
'aih II was not to find out whether thcrs
Mas yellow fever here, but to study the ar
erent types Of fever peculiar to the coast
'ountry.
with regard to the Lovojoy case al Beau
mont ne said that the fact that none Of
no people who had come In contact With
me patient had taken sick was not con-
elusive that the boy did not die OF yellow
ever. although IL tended towards forth
lying the opinion that he had died of
something else. He has had cases OF this
KIND In his experience he declared. IN
which although ono person had died OF
yeilow fever mono of the Dc,sons who CANA
IN contact with him had taken It, the cloth.
Ing OF the deceased and everything In the
mercury having been freely used az was
done at Beaumont. AS will be remembered
DR.. Swearingon was OF the same oIpion
ls Or. Guitcras when discussing The Love-
Joy case.
Or. Guiteras says he can tell a case n,
yellow fever at sight and without the ne
cessity u an autopsy.
While here. DR.. Guitcras called NJ
Health officer McElroy's office aud looked
over the city's health statistics for several
years back.
3 When tho International and Great North
cru train reached the city quarantine sta
tion this morning he was asked by tho
guards to dismount. which he did rood
naturally, and remained at the d,tention
camp until Mayor Rice was natifiud OF hi,
arrival and ordered his release.
the Houston Medical Association will
panquet Dr. Guiteras when he returns.
GulTERAS IN GALVESTON