The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-22

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 21.-This city
had a yellow fever scare today, but
there seems to have been but little
| foundation for it, according to Health
| Commissioner Starkloff, who made an
examination of the suspected case and
| declared that it showed not a single
symptom of the dread disease that is
raging in the South. The suspect is
| William Tript, thirty years of age, who
reached the marine hospital Monday
night. He had a high fever and said
he came from the government dredge
boat Alpha, engaged in revetment work
| near East Cairo, KY. DR.. G. b. Decker,
| physician in charge of the marine hos
| pital became interested in the case
when he was told by Tript that he had
been working ON the Alpha, for that
boat had been used to transport several
| cases of yellow fever to the marine hos
pital at Cairo, Ill. Thinking it case
for investigation he telephoned Health
Commissioner Starkloff, but it was 10
o'clock before that doctor could get to
the hospital. He examined Tript, and
then returned to his Office in the city
hall, where he was seen by a repre-
sentative of the Associated Press. In
regard to the case, Dr. Starkloff said:
II have made a thorough examination
of the case and made an analysis. and
the case looks like one of ordinary in
termittent fever. If it is a case Of yell
low fever it is a mild case. There are
none of those alarming symptoms, such
as the suppression of the kidney func-
tions and constipation-the two things
that kill in yellow fever Besides the
fo, IL
looks yelloWish like all malarial pa
TENTS.
"Tript says his home is in Illinois,
and for several months he has been
working on the dredge boat Alpha near
New Cairo. He has been sick for sew
eral days. He boarded box car on
the Iron Mountain railroad in the
Cairo yards, early Monday, and came
here. When he left the box car he
went directly to the marine hospital.
I shall have the patient sent to quaran-
tine, where DR.. Woodruff is in charge,
and take all necessary precautions"
Two hundred clerks, with their fam
lilies, employed in the general offices of
the Mobile & Ohio railroad company at
Mobile Ala, arrived here tonight, tenn
porary headquarters Of the road having
been established in this city, until after
the yellow fever has died out in the
would be the effect of so many people
from the midst of the fever-stricken
district coming into this city. He said
he had no fear that they would spread
the plague At the worst, there could
Only be sporadic cases, that would be
quickly reported to the health depart
ment and promptly isolated. The doc
tor declared that it was too cold here
for a spread of the disease.
DIR ,P9n1 P9Ouin. secretary OF the
state board of health, received infor-
nation today that two cases supposed
to be yellow fever had developed on
dredge boat at Point Pleasant, Mo-,
100 miles below Cairo. 1t is by no
means certain that the patients have
yellow fever, but the marine hospital
surgeons are proceeding on the assump-
tion that they have.
Dr. Paquin sent the following tele-
gram to Dr. Walter Wyman, surgeon
general of the United States ma
rine hospital service:
What facilities has the marine service to
deal with yellow fever in st. Louis? Do you
recommend any action by the state board OF
Missouri to cooperate with your efforts? Do
you think the present regulations will pre-
vent further spread of yellow fever?
Surgeon General Wyman replied as
follows to DR.. Paquin:
Recommend same course in St. Louis as was
taken in 1878. Suggest that you look after
Point Pleasant, MO-, WIN reference 10 uT6uSG
boat there Acting Assistant Surgeon Quit
eras has left Cairo for Point Pleasant to in
vestigate and to take immediate measures
You should assist him..
There was much indignation at the
health department over the report from
Chicago that there were ten cases of
fever in ST. Louis. DR.. Starkloff, who re-
ceived a long distance telephone in
uuiry from Chicago about it, said there
was no foundation whatever for such
rumor.
A special to the Republic from Point
Pleasant Mo-, from the surgeon there
says: ST have examined this day the
crews of the Beta, Minnetonka and
harges lying alongside of said vessels,
| also DR.. Charles Robinson, second en-
gineer of the 'Reta at DR.. j. E. Carts
house, and 1 find no cases of yellow
fever"
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept 21-A special
from Cairo ILL.,, to the Post-Dispatch
saws: Dr., Guiteras has diagnosed
two more cases of illness here as yell
low fever, John Miller, at st. Mary's
infirmary, and M. T. Stevens, on the
dredge boat Alpha, at Cairo. Local
physicians claim the cases are only
swamp fever, and the people refuse to
believe that yellow fever is here. There
was a light frost here last night, which
will do much to kill the yellow fever
here in case any exists.
The following statement was given
out tonight A quarantine against
Cairo, III, is unnecessary and unwar-
ranted by the facts Of the case. By no
means possible can contagion be car
ried from Cairo at the present with the
restrictions imposed. DR.. ]. H. Nc
Comick, the secretary of the Kentucky
state board of health, who is investi-
eating the cases in order to decide
What action his board will take, fully
concurs in the above and will not quar-
antine any part of his state against
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