Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-10-01
HEAVY DEATH RATE THIS MONTH
Number Of Cases Outside of the
Hospitals Is Unknown, But
Deaths Are Numerous.
AMERICAN COMMISSION REPLIES
I'm the COmai Proposition n FREQ
Landing OF All Supplies
Is Demanded at
Once.

New York, Sept. 26.-The Worlds
Havana special says: OF the eight
thousand patients in the Havana hos
! pitfalls forty-three are suffering from
yellow fever of the most dangerous
type; deaths are averaging three a
day in the hospitals. The number OF
cases outside the hospitals is IN
known, but 1903 persons have died
since September ], 423 Of them from
feyers of various kinds. Twenty-Five
deaths from yellow fever have been
officially reported. Reports of cases
of yellow fever among foreigners
show that American, British and
French subjects have been attacked.
Annual Harvest Of Victims.
The annual harvest of victims of
! yellow fever, which has begun, should
warn the American government
against sending troops here before
November 1. The increase in the
number of cases of fever since last
Sunday, when Captain Brown, master
of the American ship Maryland, died
of it., and four other sailors were
stricken, has been enough to alarm
the foreign and timid residents, and
a number tried to leave yesterday on
the Mascottc, sailing for Tampa. The
rigid regulations adopted by the Flor
ida state authorities and enforced by
DIR. Dudley, the marine health OIL
Ger on the ship, prevented more thah
fifty persons leaving, passage being
given only to those having a c~ertif-
cate of immunity from the physicians
attending them during the former at
tack. DR.. Dudley refused to take any
body not having such a certificate.
One man whose wife is dying in Iren-
ton, n. j., and who was summoned by
cable, pleaded to be taken, but his
~pleadings were unavailing.
The fever so far is Of u mild type,
but physicians with whom | talked
say It will grow yirulent. For the
rest of the month the fever will rage,
and most Of its victims will be per-
sons not acclimated. 1t will then die
out. Spaniards and native Cubans do
not fear yellow fever as much as they
do celentura or heat fever. The treat
ment Of yellow fever is not uniform.
Ten different methods Of treatment
were described to me.
Many Soldiers Sick.
1t is impossible to learn the number
of cases of yellow fever in Havana.
Many soldiers in the army OF 10000
men camped within five miles OF Ia
,ana, as nearly AS can be learned, are
down with various kinds of fever,
some of it yellow fever. Fevers have
attacked the troops in other depart
ments Of the army in Matanzas and
Pinar del Rio. The rate of mortality
cannot be learned. Here in Havana
the exact number of cases is not re-
ported, but information is not lacking
10 show that the disease has appeared.
The number Of deaths yesterday from
fevers of all kinds is estimated at
thirty, some of which were yellow.
The largest number of victims of any
distinct class are American and Eng
fish residents. | cabled the fact yes
terday that twenty cases had been re-
ported. There were no deaths among
them today.
The American peace commissioners
are reported to be in good health, as
are all the members of their respect
i've stats, none of whom come to the
city or hold communication with per-
sons from it.
The opinions of physicians as to the
wisdom of bringing a large force OF
American troops here are not divided.
The introduction of a large force of
unacclimated men for the next month
would undoubtedly result in n heavy
mortality. A competent person says
that the yellow fever among the Span
;sh troops is Of a much more serious
tvpe than that il the city, on account
of the exposure of camp life.
DR.. Congosto, secretary to Captain
General Blanco, will sail on Saturday
for New York on the way to Paris to
attend the peace conference. He will
take with him information for the use
of the commission relative to the ter
ritory. number of citizens, public
debt, provincial debts, trade customs,
statistics of and naviga-
ton. conditions of the provinces and
people, and other matters the Paris
conference will consider.