, 1897-09-22
YELLOW jack.
THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE
FOUNDATION FOR THE ST.
LOUIS SCARE.
An Examination Shows That William
Tript Has an Ordinary Case OF In
termitten Fever-Tript Came From
Cairo in u Box Car-Two Hundred
Clerks Escape From Mobile.

ST. Louis, Sept 2l.-This city had q
yellow fever scare today, but there seelas
10 have been but little foundation for IT.
according to Health Commission
%S.arkloff, who made an examination o.
the suspected case and declared chat il
showed not a single Symptom OF the
dread disease that is raging in the south.
The suspect is William Tr.pt, 80 years
o: age, who reached the Marine hospital
Monday night. He had a high fever
and said he came from The government
dredge boat at Alpha engaged in the
revetment work near East Cairo. Ky.
DR.. c. e. Decker, physician in charge o.
the Marine hospital, became interested
that he had been working on the Al
pha, for that boat had been used in
transporting several cases OF yellow
fever Il the Marine hospital at Cairo,
Ill. Thinking it a case for investiga-
ton, he telephoned Health Commission
er Starkloff, bur It vas 10 o'clock before
the doctor could get to the hospital. He
examined Tript and then returned 10
his office in the city hall, where he was
seep by a representative OF the Asso-
ciated Press. In regard to the ~ase. DR..
Starkloff said:
II have made a thorough examination
OF Tript with Doctors Jordan and Deck
er. The analysis as presented 10 me
makes the case look like one OF ordinary
Intermittent fever. II ii is yellow fever
it is Of a very mild type. There are
none of those alarming symptoms. such
az suppression of the kidney functions
and constipation-the two things that
kill in yellow fever. Besides, the man
had an appetite Cor breakfast. He looks
yellowish and has a foul breath like
all malarial patients.
'"Tript says he boarded a box car on
the Iron Mountain road in the Cairo
yards early on Monday morning and
came here. When he left the box car he
came directly to the Marine hospital.
81 shall have the patient sent to quar-
%antine. where DR.. Woodruff is in charge.
and take all necessary precautions"
Two hundred clerks, with their faml.
lies. employed in the general office OF the
Mobile and Ohio railroad company at
Mobile. Ala. arrived here tonight, tenn
porary quarters Of the road having been
established in this city until after the
yellow fever has died out in the south.
DR.. Paul Paquin. secretary OF the state
board OF health, received information to-
day that two cases suspected to be yell
low fever had developed on a dredge
boat at Point Pleasant, Mo-. 100 miles
below Cairo. 1t is by no means certain
hat the patients have yellow fever. but
The Marine hospital surgeons are pro-
ceeding on the assumption that they
have.
Dr.Paquin sent the following telegram
to DR.. Walter Wyman, supervising sur
geon general OF the United States Ma
rine hospital service: what facilities
has the marine service to deal with yell
.ow fever in St. Louis? Do you recon-
iiSho tHs ~ ny lilt StdlS DOiIG u
health Of Missouri to cooperate with
your efforts? Dc you think the present
regulations will proven, further spread
Of yellow fever?"
Surgeon General Wyman replied as
following to DR.. Paquin:
Recommend same course in St. Louis
as was taken in 1873. Suggest that you
look after Point Pleasant, Mo-, with ref
erence to dredge boats there. Acting
Assistant Surgeon Guiteras has left
Cairo for Point Pleasant to investigate
and take immediate measures. You
should assist him."
There was much Indignation at the
health department over the report from
Chicago that there were 10 cases Of the
fever in St. Louis.
DR.. Starkloff. who received a long dis.
lance telephone inquiry from Chicago
about it, said there was no foundation
whatever for such a m