The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-07-21
The FEVER AT TAMPA.
Camp is to BE Removed vt Once to Fer
nandina.

Camp 10 to BE Removed ut Once to Fer
nandina.
Washington, D. c., July 20.--The au-
thoritles at Washington are alarmed at
the prospect of yellow fever scourge.
Despite the best endeavors of the
marine hospital service the disease has
worked its way into this country and
according to reports received here has
= strong foothold at Tampa. Yellow fe-
YER has been discovered among the
troops at that place or in such close
proximity to them that it is believed
some of the men are infected.
So serious is the situation at Tampa
regarded that the department has is
sued orders to abandon the camp at
that place. AS soon as the troops that
have been selected for Santiago leave
Tampa the balance Of the regiments
there will be rushed to Fernandina.
The fact that the government is to
locate these men at Fernandina leads
10 the belief that they are to be perma-
nently quarantined there. That port
was some weeks ago decided to be un-
suited for q general rendezvous, be-
,ause Of the poor facilities for en-
barking troops. The channel is very
OWlHB u SdHu
bar, and the special board appointed to
examine Fernandina reported that it
would be unwise to quarter the men
there.
It has always been admitted, howev-
T that Fernandina is specially we'll
adapted for quarantining troops owing
20 the fact that 1t is located on strip
II projecting land which is connected
wttAI = ~. nI.. H..
road. All communication can thus
EASILY be cut off. 1t is therefore be-
ieved that the men who are to be ta-
Ken to Fernandina are to be quaran-
lined on account of yellow fever among
hem.
The officials have all along contended
hat the officers of the marine hospital
service would be able to prevent yell
ow fever from getting into the country,
but they reluctantly admit that once
It gets into the interior the situation
would be very serious.
Yellow fever stations have been es-
ablished at Egmond Bay, near Tam
pa, and at an island near Key West.
where it was the intention to confine
Ill persons infected with the dreaded
disease. 1t is now said that the pre-
tdutiOIS against the spread OF the Ie-
yer have not been stringent enough.
Officers and men who have seen SER
ice at Santiago have been arriving in
his city every day for the past week.
some have come direct from hospitals
at Kew West, while others have been
m the hospitals and sick camps at San
iago. II any of these men have been
infected by the germs of the fever
abundant opportunities have been af-
forded for the spread of the disease.
The matter has been called to the at
tention of the officers of the marine
hospital service and it is thought that
some very stringent rules will soon be
enforced in regard to the admission of
soldiers returning from Santiago.
The statement that yellow fever can
not be carried into northern climates
s ridiculed by prominent medical men
here. They have records of cases where
men have died away up in the noun
lains of Pennsylvania from sleeping on
he cots used by yellow fever patients,
and they say that once the fever Is in
.roduced here 1t will be hard to check
It's progress, as the soldiers from the
infected districts are now pretty we'll
scattered throughout the country.