The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-12


| After lunch Drs. Guiteras and swcarin-
zen. accompanied by Mayor Rice and d..
Stuart and q Post reporter, were driven
TO st. Joseph's innrmary, where they were
met by Dr. shaw. who very cour.eously
showed them through the building The
only cases. however. that attracted tho at
tention Of Dr.. Guiteras we're few pa
tients in the fever wards During and
after his examinations DR.. Guitc:as very
politely, but firmly, declined to ray any
thing whatever az to the condition Of the
patients which he looked AZ. adding that
he would mako full report 20 the govern
ment authorities at Washington.
The first case seen was in st. Patrcks
ward. The patient was John Weinberg
age 20, from Sugarland. This is the ra-
tient who was the subject OF so much street
talk yesterday. 1t being rumored thgt he
had yellow fever
When asked as to Weinberg's condition.
DR.. Swearingen said: II saw nothing about
the case to give me any uneasiness. I con-
sider 1t merely case Of hematuria. There
was no albumen found In the urine
The doctors then stepped into St. Alloy
moments, hurried locking over appearing
to satisfy DR.. Guitoras that a critical ex
| animation or any OF the patients In this
| ward was unnecessary.
| In st. Mary's ward the doctor made an
examination OF Harry Nusbaum, 20 years
| old. No albumen was found In the urine
| and DR.. Stuart said he could see nothing
suspicious about the case. The young man
| was In Il particularly cheerful mood and
| aside from slight facial eruption. he
| did not appear to BIO III.
| Dr. Guiteraa was then taken into st. AL
| gustine's ward. where he looked tho in
| mates over quickly but none Of them
| seemed to interest him forcibly and he
was taken to the female and colored de-
| partments OF the nfirmary. None OF the
| cases In these departments appeared TO
| attract more than a passing notice on the
| part of the doctor. and on being informed
| by Or. Shaw that he had seen all the fever
| patients Dr. GuIteras said he was through.
| While at the infirmary DR.. Swearingen.
in conversation with MAYOR Rice. related
| pathetic incident that occurred during
| his experience with yellow fever. He said
| THE appearance OF the Sisters OF Charity
! here reminds me of the time when | was
| In Holly Springs. Miss, during the epi-
| demic Of 1878.
| Wo had turned the court house into a
hospital and the patients were under the
care of Sisters OF Charity, one Of whom
| impressed me particularly, sho beng
| charming lovely woman. One by one the
sisters sckencd and died, until eleven or
| twelve OF them had passed away. and
| finally the one OF whom | speak died. Her
heroic death 80 impressed me that on the
| wall over the bed where she died | wrote
her name. adding that she was one OF the
nnst to come and one of the last to 20.
Under this | quoted the following verse
let no slab Of Parlan marble
| Rear It's white and CHASTITY head
Telling wanderers In the valley
| or the virtues Of the dead
| Let tho lily be her tombstone
| And the dewdrops. pure and bright.
BE the opitaphs the angels write
In tho stiffness of the night
| ITO this | signed my name, and have
found In recent years that n great many
| people there have credited me with the
authorship Of those lines. Some one drew
a rude border around the whole thing and
wrote under 1t in bold hand. Let no
man eflacc this record And II Is there
| today on that court house wall as plain
and lrgiblo as 1t was the day l wrote II,
nearly twenty years ago.
| After leaving the iuArmary tho party
was driven 10 DR. McElroys office, whore
| they found a patient named Thomas Nc
| Donald. age about 81. He was taken sick
yesterday morning and wont TO Or, Neil
roy's Office, whore he foll In a faint. Both
| Or. Guiteras and Or. Swearingen exam
ned this patient, but did not apparently
consider his Illness serious
| From there tho mayor and physicians
drove to the Capitol hotel where pr
| Swearingcn met a committee of railroad
| officials at o'clock and Dr. Gulteras
went to call on Or. Mason. who is III
at his home.
At y. m the Two physicians left the
I.iN. t,t ~. -.
hut they gave 1t out that they would re-
turn to Houston tbs afternoon and they
hopel to complete their investigation here
today
Dr. Gulteras positively refused to make
any statement for the public as to the re-
suit Of his investigation. saying that he
would reserve his report until he had con-
cluded the Investigation.
no VIII today examine the mortuary
statistics OF the city, covering correspond
ing periods for years back.
reporter Of The Post was present IT
each of the clinical examinations yestcr-
day and heard nothing that in any way
Indicated that there was anything OF
| suspicious character In the condition of
any of the patients visited.
At 1890 o'clock last night DR.. Stuart re-
tetved the following:
Dr. d. f. Stuart, President of the Board
of Health, Houston, Texas:
Galveston Texas. October 1i.--Dr Cutie
ras reports four cases OF yellow fever In
Houston seen today--Thomas Mcdonnell
j. II, Lee. r. r, Fem and Dr. Mason. You
can take the necessary measures for iso-
lating them II. NJ. Swearingen,
State Health Officer.
| These are the cases that we're visited by
Dr. Guiteras after he had gone through the
hospital wards They were visited except
the case OF Thomas Mcdonnell. at the sug
gestion of Dr.. Turner. The Mcdonnell case
was the one found at the office OF DR.. Nc
Elroy.
II j. II. Leo and II, r. Fenn are both men,
bers 81 the police force and relatives They
reside together at the corner OF Dennis and
Chenevert streets.
Dr Mason is we'll known physician of
Houston and lives at the corner OF Walker
and San Jacinto,