The record-union., 1897-09-22
The Missouri City Had a Big Scare
Over a Suspected Case,
But Examination Proved That II Was Not
the Dreaded Plague.
The Report of Two Cases of Yel-
low Jack at Cairo, Illinois, Gre
ates no Alarm at Chicago-Ihe
Climate Will Act as a Barrier
to the Occasion.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.-This city had
a yellow fever scare to-day, but there
seems to have been but little founda-
ton for it, according to Health Com
missioner Starkloff, who made an ex-
animation of the suspected case, and
declared it showed not a single symp-
tom of the dread disease that is raging
in the South
The suspect is William Tript, 80
years of age, who reached the Marine
Hospital on Monday night He had d
high fever. and said he came from the
Government dredge boat Alpha, en-
gagged in Government work near East
Cairo, Ky.
DR.. Decker, the physician in charge
of the Marine Hospital, became inter-
ested in the case when he was told by
Tript that he had been working on the
Alpha, for that boat had been USED
in transporting several cases of yellow
fever to the Marine Hospital at caro-
Ill. Thinking it a case for invesuga-
tion. he telephoned Health Commission
er Starkloff. but it was 10 o'clock be-
fore that doctor could get to the hos
pital He examined Tript, and theh
returned to his office in the City Han
where he was seen by representative
of the Associated Press.
In regard to the case DR.. StarkloH
said: I have made thorough exam
ination Of Tript, with Drs. Jordan ana
Decker. The analysis presented 10 me
makes the case look like one OF or
dinarv intermittent fever. If it is yei-
low fever it is of a very mild type
There are none of those alarming
SYMPTOMS. such as suppression OF the
kidney functions and constipation-the
two things which kill in yellow fever
Besides, the man had an appetite Tor
breakfast He looks yellowish, ana mas
a foul breath like all malarial patents
T,-fpt saws he boarded a boXcar on the
Iron Mountain Road in the Cairo yards
early on Monday and came here. When
he left the boxcar he went directly TO
the Marine Hospital. I shall have the
patient sent to quarantine, where Dr.
woodruff is in charge, and take all nee
essary precautions"
Two hundred clerks with their fam
lilies employed in the general offices OF
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
at Mobile, Ala. arrived tonight. Tenn
porary headquarters of the road have
been established in the city until after
the yellow fever has died out in the
South.
DR.. Paquin sent the following tele-
gram to DR.. Walter Wynldn, Supervis-
ing Surgeon-General Of the United
States Marine Hospital Service:
What facilities has the Marine Ser
vice to deal with yellow fever in st.
Louis? Do you recommend any action
by the State Board of Health of Mis-
souri, to cooperate with your efforts?
DO you think the present regulations
will prevent further spread of yellow
fever?"
Surgeon General Wyman replied as
follows to DR.. Paquin:
Recommend some course in st. Louis
as was taken in 1878. 1 suggest that
you look after Point Pleasant, Mo, with
reference 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 ten cases of
the fever in St. Louis.
DR.. Sarkletoff. who received a long
distance telephone inquiry from Ch;ca
go about it. said there was no founda-
tion whatever for such rumor.
NO ALARM AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The report that
two cases of yellow fever have been
discovered at Cairo H., has not
alarmed Chicago health officials. Health
Commissioner Reynolds doubts the
cases at Cairo are yellow fever and be
lieves they are either malaria or
"breakbone'' fever. He has no inten
ton of resembling his proclamation well
coming Southern refugees to Chicago
In discussing the situation. DR.. Rey
nolds said:
There is absolutely no cause for
alarm in Chicago. and we welcome ref
ugees from the fever district. Our eli
mate would act as a barrier against the
contagion, and it would disappear as
quickly as it came. Two physicians who
saw the patients at Cairo pronounced
the disease malaria. Another physician
diagnosed the disease as yellow fever.
I am inclined to believe the disease is
not genuine yellow fever"
General Superintendent Sullivan of
the Illinois Central said the prevalence
of yellow fever in the South necessi-
tated no change in the through service,
except as far as compliance with the
quarantine and Illinois Board of Health
requirements.
For the protection of the State. DR.. j.
A Eagan. the boards executive officer,
has issued orders that no passengers or
railroad employees from the infected
States shall be permitted 10 leave the
trains at any point in Illinois south o.
the line made by the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern Railroad from Vim
cennes, Ind, to East St. Louis. North
of this barrier passengers with clean
bills of health, signed by the proper au-
thorities, may be admitted.
NINE NEW CASES AT NEW Or
LEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 21.-There
were nine new cases of yellow fever re-
ported TO the Board of Health this af-
ternoon at 6 o'clock. when the days
work Of the physicians ended. There
were, however. no deaths recorded, and
the doctors all agree this evening that
the situation was steadily improving.
The fever at present, instead of devel-