The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-19
NO LONGER DOUBT
It IS THE FEVER
And Montgomery Is Now Under
the Ban.
FORMAL. ANNOUNCEMENT
Has Been Made by the State and County
Health Officers.
THE DISEASE HAS PREVAILED THERE
For Several Days and Many People Are
Now Suspected.
THE RATE AT THE CRESCENT CITY
Remains About the same-Seven Deaths and
ThIrty-sn New Cases-Impossible to
Check the Disease--More Towns
Report the Fever.
For Several Days and Many People Are
Now Suspected.
THE RATE AT THE CRESCENT CITY
Special to The Age-Herald.

Special to The Age-Herald
Montgomery. Oct. 1S.-The board of
health tonight confesses that there are
two cases of yellow fever in Montgom-
cry. The opinion of the average intel
/ ligent layman is that there are twenty.
The boards bulletin is as follows:
"The board of health, with the con-
currence of tbs state health officer, re-
port the existence of yellow fever in this
city. The patients are Patrick w.
White and Thomas Gradon Ghe latter
was mentioned in the boards report last
mighty There are few suspicious cases
under observation" The report is signed
by all the members of the board.
1T is confessed that Mr.. White will die
tonight Congestion of the kidneys and
bladder has set in. 1t is said to be a
patholical fact that yellow fever reaches
fatal termination through this conges-
ton, which begins immediately to poi
son the blood and this brings about the
destruction of the intestines and let's
the dark poisoned blood into the stomach
4hioh finds its expression in black vomit,
which in ninety-nine out Of 100 casss is
followed by death.
In view of all the facts the action of
the board of health up to this time is
perplexing. The board is composed of
physicians who rank high in the pro-
fession, and who have had the entire
confidence of the people here.
Soon after the yellow fever broke out
on the gulf coast one Lakin, a cit.z=n
of Montgomery came back from one of
the coast resorts near Ocean Springs sick
with a suspicious malady. There was
some excitement here about his case,
but the physicians pronounced it to be
not yellow fever and the public was sat
afterward that Lakins residence had
been guarded by the authorities since
his illness. 1t all blew over, however.
On Sept. an engineer named Goings.
who ran into Mobile was taken Ill at
his residence in the First ward in this
city. He recovered. Since that time
people all about him have been stricken
They were treated by THE physicians for
malarial fever, and most of them have
recovered. Last Saturday week a mail
carrier named Stsbbins, who lived in the
First ward, died. Two or three of the
physicians considered he had died from
the effects of yellow fever. The others
insisted he had died of eating canned
salmon. The official announcement was
that he did not have yellow f=ver.
Suspicious cases continued to develop
In that neighborhood. Perhaps twenty
were reported and diagnosed. The
board said that it was not yellow fever.
All of the physicians excepting about
four acquiesced. These four were Drs.
Bragg, Bibb, Jackson and Wood. These
gentlemen advised their patients that
the cases were yellow fever, but de-
clined to be interviewed for publication
until yesterday.
State Health Officer Sanders reached
here Saturday morning. On Satur-
day night the board reported they had
found no traces of yellow fever among
the patients they had examined Last
night the board reported that they had
examined all of the cases, and that all
of them were innocent complaints except
two, which required further investiga-
tion. Graydon was one of these and
Street was the other.
Patrick w. White, a young attorney,
has been sick for nine or ten days, be-
ing attended by physicians all the time.
Friends and neighbors have been vis-
fting him, and relatives have adminis-
tered to him without Suspicion of dam
ger. Today his case was reported to
the board as suspicious. Mr.. White was
found to be dying. and the judgment Of