The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-08
NO FEAR OF FELLOW JACK HERE.
The Disease Wont Set Into tho City and
Couldnt Spread II Il Did.

Couldn't Spread n Il Did.
fever. An epidemic of the disease here Is i'm.
possible. 1t is possible that there might be a
stray case brought from the infected districts.
Nearly every week . sufferer with the disease
gets as Tar as Quarantine, where he Is detained
until the danger is past. 1t is possible that an
affected person might get into the city By means
OF the railroads, but such are the precautions
taken by the Board Of Health should this happen
that there would be no spread Of the disease.
even II the sanitary and climatic conditions Of
the city were favorable to II, which they are not
Neither Health ofacer Doty nor tho Board Of
Health has received any official Information as
to the existence OF yellow fever in Mississippi.
Only one extra precautionary measure has been
adopted by Health Officer Doty. He has issued
notices that all vessels coming from ports near
the infected districts must bring certificates
from the health officers OF their sailing ports
certifying 10 the sanitary condition OF the place,
reI to their II possible essi expesure To infectien'
DR.. Doty said yesterday that he looked for little
II do not think" he said, THAT we will get
many refugees at Quarantine. They won't come
by water, but by rail, II they come at all. 1t Ia
O hve or six day trip by water from the infected
districts, and only forty.eight hours by rail. II
there is a panic down there the people will not
take the long water trip TO the North, but will
jump on a train and come in less than half the
time. New York has absolutely nothing TO fear.
Leaving out all other considerations the season
of the year Is unfa yorable for the propagation
OF the yellow fever germ. II Is not nor can IL DO
endemic here. and it cannot live ia cold weather.
yellow fever Is not contagious like small
pOH. 1t is infectious. In the past two months
we have had fifteen or eighteen cases brought
American ports. We have had them at Swim.
burne. and We have not had a single secondary
"Th germ of the disease thrives on filth and
can always be stamped out by the proper
sanitary precantion, A year ago santos, Braz.t,
MP the city and this yenr there have been but
two cases. After the epidemic. In Memphis Il
put In and the city has been practically FREQ
from the disease since. No city is in a better
condition from q sanitary point OF view than
In the present case" continued DR.. Doty.
be taken by the Government on the spot. 1t
would be impossible for US to try 70 take precau-
tons against the introduction OF the disease by
passengers on the railroads. In dealing with yell
low fever | think 1t a wise plan to treat every
suspicious case as yellow fever. The symptomso OF
yellow fever and malarial fever are the same.
and until one Of the two diseases asserts itself
the patient should be treated for yellow fever.
t Ms he cEsI Iiess OF s sssamsai 'G gaeRsoh 40 1i this S SsEt
Orlerns. and the Texas ports"
DR.. Benedict OF tho Bureau OF Contagious
Diseases said that his department was paying
very little attention 10 yellow fever:
IF a case comes to town we shall do Just as
we will send an expert. and u he pronounces It
yellow fever, the patient will be removed to the
Willard Parker Hospital. at the foot of East
Sixteenth street, and tho house disinfected.
Several cases have been reported TO us in the
last few weeks. One was in a prominent hotel.
but none OF the cases was yellow fever and
nothing more was said about any of them.
New York has been very free from yellow
jack for three-quArters OF q century. In 1893
tho worst epidemic occurred.
Although several savants announced that
they had discovered the microbe of yellow fever.
bacteriologists have never acknowledged that il
had been found.