The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-16
ALARM AT BOSTON
Fears That Yellow Fever Has
Reached That City.
A Nan Recently From Jamaica
Dies in the Hospital.
BODY TURNS YELLOW
A Physician Who Was at the
Ocean Springs Autopsy
Asserts That He Has Discover
ed the Fever Baciili.

Boston, Sept. 1.-THE Globe today
says:
There has been a good deal of anx-
iety during the past few days in this
city among officials of the city board
of health and of the Massachusetts
general hospital because OF the death
of Franklin Storey Conant, a student
of Wellsy Hills at the hospital last
Monday afternoon.
Mr.. Conant was student at Johns
Hopkins University. The University
maintains a biological sta ton on the is
land of JamacaI and each summer an
expedition is sent from the university
to the island. The expedition which
started last June was in charge of Prof.
Humphreys, who died in the island.
Conant was i'll when the Belvidere ar
rived but he was allowed to land 1t
was not until a few hours before the
death that the suspicious of the hospital
authorizes were aroused. COnant'S s
body began to turn yellow This is a
symptom of certain forms of malaria.
DR.. Samuel H. Durgin. chairman of
the board of health says an autopsy
was held on Conant but that no evil
dence of yellow fever was found. A
further investigation will be made.
Jackson, Miss, Sept 16-No more
people are leaving the city, for two rea-
Sons; there are very few left here and
none of these can get out on account of
the rigid quarantine thrown around the
ing gotten rid of those excita BILE per-
sons, to the number of several thousand
the chances of those remaining are cor
respondingly increased should trouble
occur, and the people are therefore feel
ing easier.
]. L. Redfeld, mayor of Edwards.
telegraphed the Associated Press at 10
a. m, as follows: There are eight
cases of yellow fever in town. three in
the country No deaths. All patients
doing WE'LL
greatest hardship here; now is being
deprived of mail <commUnica ton and
newspapers. 1t is quite amusing to see
passengers on board passing trains
dows when told they are passing
through Ocean Springs. The only case
of yellow fever is fully mile from the
railroad.
New Orleans, Sept 16.-There are no
new cases of yellow fever reported to-
day, and nothing alarming has come
from the homes of the patients who are
i'll Present indications point to no i'm
mediate deaths. If however a death
shall occur. there is little doubt that
experts will hold autopsies to sa atisfv
the public There is no doubt in the
minds of any of the local phys clans
that the IS local cases reported are gen
ui;le yellow fever 1t is not malignant
now becau use it has not had time enough
to breed here and if it is stamped out
now there is no reason to believe that
it will reappear next year
The Picayunne says this morning
that DR. Archinard a prominent bac-
teriologist who took part in the autop-
sizes at Ocean Springs, gathered quanti-
ties of blood there and through his mic
roscopeic inVeS igat tions since his return
had discovered the bacilli of yellow fe-
yer.
At IL O'Clock today the board of
health officially declared the suspicious
cases OF fever on St. Andrews street be-
tween Camp and Chestnut yellow fever.
1t has been under observation for sever
al days. The patient is a butcher.
This makes a total of nineteen cases
10 date.
A telegram from Biloxi says that. an
Italian has died in the heart of the city
apparently from yellow fever. An au-
topsy will be held and all the physi-i-
ans now in Biloxi will be invited to be
present to determine the character of
the sickness of which the man died.