The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-29
A sweep OF INDIGNATION
Storm of Criticism Over Army
Camp Conditions.
SUSPECT YELLOW FEVER
Suspicious Cases Are Reported From
the South-Inyestigation Is i'm
Progress to Fix the Grave TIE
spODsibiIity Where LIT Belongs
Surgeon General Sternberg Is De-
t1rmiped to Get the Truth.

tormiped to Get the Truth.
A wave of indignation is sweeping over
the country because of the deplorable
and hospitals. The press. the people and
the pulpit are engaged in the warfare
against system of acknowledgement
which has been characterized on all sides
as criminal negligence and gross inefii-
cheney. -1 l~ia-.a .ttsIt
Soldiers are dying as though the mill
tary camps were plague ridden, and emf
nent medical men who have carefully
observed the existing conditions fear a.
fever contagion.
DR.. Lawrence, a fever expert, states
that never before in his experience has
he known such a great number of fatali-
ties from typhoid, and he adds that his
tory shows no parallel during the great
wars or assembling of armies in the past.
An investigation of the medical depart
ment of the army TO discover the short
bility where it belongs, has already be-
gun, and it will not end. the people de-
clare, until the American Congress has
applied the legislative searchlight.
The War Department has answered
Surg. Gen. Sternberg's request for an
investigation and Gen. Boynton is making
a searching inquiry at Chickamauga. 1t
was learned last night that the invests
CATION of other camps will follow as
rapidly as possible
Camp Wikoff, at Montauk Point, tenn
porary camp of retention. where the First
District of Columbia Regiment is en-
camped is 10 be abandoned as soon as
the troops can be removed. which may be
a few weeks yet. This decision may re-
suit in bringing the District Regiment
home at an earlier date than that hrst
mentioned.
The troops at Mortauk Point may De
established in regimentai camps in differ
| ent sections of the country. The officials
| of the War Department have concluded
that it was a biunder TO congregafe SO
MANY sick and convalescept men in one
! camp.
The first division hospital at Camp Al
ger Is now receiving the attention of the
authorities. The board of visiting sur
geons who recently inspected it found the
place IN a shocking condition. due they
believe. 10 mismanagement and indaner'
ence of the worst sort.
At Camp Thomas
A report on the sanitary conditions OF
| Camp Thomas, at Ohickamauga PARK
| Ga. has been made by Major Parker. H'
strongly urges its abandonment, ant
states that TYPHOID is on the increase
the number of cases having more thar
doubled during the past thirty days
MANY letters are being received at Wh'
War Department, urging the authorize
to muster out the regiments as rapidly "a
possible. and thus break up the nuisance
camps or death patches, as an arm!
officer aptly described them. One write
states that the war is over, and 1t
criminal to keep thousands OF men heFu
cd together like cattle 10 fall victims q
disease. and die off Ike sheep with tn
Suava plague.
There is a difference of opinion amon
medical men and experts as to the posi-
htIitv of a typhoid fever epidemic
..The mortality among typhoid feve
,a4ients in the army" said DR.. Lee,
philadelphia, .'has been frightfci, un
philadelphia, but still do not behev
. there will be a fever contaglon.
Fears Yellow Fever.
Mr. Wvman. surgeon general of tn
: Marine Hospital Service, has received
telegram from one of his assistants &
Galveston, stating that the army SUI
geon in charge there considers three az
ditionaI fever cases as somewhat su:
: picious. He has isolated them, and ha
taken the precaution TO burn their clotf
ing and bedding. There are few ne
cases at Key West which may turn oil
TO be genuine yellow fever, but the
have not yet sufficiently developed
warrant positive statement in regar
to them.
| State Health Officer Blunt, after he rt
, turned from Galveston, whence he wer
to investigate the suspicious case {
fever at that place, said:
1.-The case 1 went to investigate wa
that of a soldier named Goodwin, twenty
two years of age located with the troop
Z at Fort Point, about a mile and ha
from Galveston He has been there sine
April l. The case is an extremely susp
: cious one, with nearly all the symptom
of yellow fever. This opinion was cor
5 Cured in by DR.. Fly and other physician
of Galveston, and under these circun
stances 1 deemed it but prudent 70 qua
e antine Galveston and await development
r This quarantine will be kept up for tW
or three days, within which time develop
, | ments will occur which will determir
r positively whether or not the case is OF
d of yellow fever