The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-10
Surgeon Murray Announces the
Result Of an Au-
tOpsy.
ONE DEATH AT OCEAN SPRINGS
Guiteras Found Twenty-fv five Dengus Cases
The Surgeon General Hard at
Work.

New Orleans, Sept. 9.-Sherry Zy-
mour died at O'Clock this morning at
Ocean Springs of the prevailing fever.
AS soon as his death was reported ar
rangements were made to hold an au-
topsy. Drs. Murray, Carter and West
ern, of the marine hospital service,
and Drs. Lehman, Dunn, Cant and
Bailey were present 1t Is confidently
expected that this autopsy will COM
pletely determine the character of the
disease prevailing at the springs, as
the case of Zymour Is a fair type of
the worst cases there. The excitement
in New Orleans is rapidly dying out.
DIR. Salomon's report of the exist
ence of two cases of yellow fever at
Scranton is considered reliable, and
DR.. Salomon has been ordered to CO.
operate with the local physicians there
IN their efforts to isolate and stamp
out the fever. The symptoms are
those of yellow jack, but the type is
mild. No new cases are reported at
Biloxi this morning.. The people are
anxiously awaiting the arrival of Drs.
Guiteras, Murray and Carter. DR..
Tackett, who went with DIR. Perkinston
to visit DR.. Sheedy, who had been in
attendance on patients at Ocean
Springs, has returned and reports that
DIR. Sheedy has yellow fever.
At 80 o'clock Surgeon r d. Muir
ray wired the following to Surgeon
General Wyman at Washington
"The third autopsy held by Wasdin
gives the diagnosis of yellow fever.
Consented to by Guiteras, Carter and
Cant"
1t is now clearly established that a
majority of the 600 people in Ocean
Springs who are or have been sick
there suffered from the dengue and
yellow fever. The preliminary symp-
toms of the two diseases-chill, fever,
headache and weakness-are the same,
although one disease is very mild and
the other very malignant. There
were not over so cases of genuine yell
low fever in the 800 cases, it is
thought, and all of the II deaths are
attributable to that disease.
When the yellow fever slipped in the
doctors did not distinguish between
the two fevers, and when the first New
Orleans experts examined the malady
and pronounced it dengue they prob
ably saw and examined only cases of
dengue. The Ocean Springs people
still deny the existence Of yellow fe-
yer there and held violent indIgna-
tion meeting today at which all the
local officials were present.
General Wyman could form no idea
as to how the fever originated. He
had heard that the drainage was
bad at Ocean Springs, and that a bed
of oysters had been planted at a point
where they would be reached by that
drainage. He was certain that it did
not come through Ship island, the
quarantine station some ten miles off
Biloxi.
Washington, Sept. 9.-The yellow
fever situation continues hopeful and
encouraging 80 far as the information
received at the marine hospital is con-
cerned. DR.. Gulteras, yellow fever
expert, telegraphed late last night
from Ocean Springs to Surgeon GEL
eral Wyman as follows
"Have seen today % cases of dem
que; will wire you our opinion about
the other three cases."
Notwithstanding the fact that DR..
Guiteras Is convinced that there is not
a genuine case of yellow fever at Ocean
Springs, Surgeon General Wyman Is
pushing measures to cOntine and
stamp out the disease should 1t prove
yellow lack.