The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
REMOVING THE
TYPHOID CASES
SURGEON GIRARD RELIEVES
CITY HOSPITALS THE BEST.
Most Of the Fever Cases Now in
Camp Have Been Brought from
Other Camps-Twelfth Pennsyl-
vania Starts Home to Be Mustered
out-There Is a Probability That
the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Will
Also Be Mustered out-Medical
oflcers Appointed.
by Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
Camp Meade, Middietown, Pa. Sept.
1s.-Fifteen typhoid fever cases were
shipped from the Second division hos
pital this evening to the Charity hos
pital, Norristown, in a special car.
The patients were from the 201st and
202d New York, Fourth Missouri, First
Rhode Island and Second West Vir-
ginia regiments. Chief Surgeon Girard
believes the sick do better in city
hospitals than in tents and has ar
ranged to ship more away tomorrow
to Harrisburg and Philadelphia, hos
pitfalls. There are IFS fever and rheu-
matism patients in the general hospi-
tai and they will be taken away as
rapidly as they can move.
Privates Burton .. Panto, of Com
pany X, Third New York, died in the
Red Cross hospital today of typhoid
fever and his body was shipped to
Wellsville. Corporal Samuel Crager,
Company II, Second Tennessee, died of
congestive chills at the regimental
dspensary after a brief illness. De-
tailed reports have been received by
Colonel Girard from the various regi-
mental surgeons on the health of their
regiments. They report very few NAL
arial cases and in the regiments
where this malady has been the great
est II is on the decrease.
CAME FOM OTHER CAMPS.
Most of the cases of typhoid and
malaria have been brought here from
the camps in the south and Camp
Elack, New York. Colonel Abbott. of
the First Rhode Island, is seriously i'll
with typhoid at the home of a friend
in Middletown.
The Fifteenth Michigan has moved
on the ground vacated by the Twelfth
Pennsylvania, which starts tomorrow
afternoon for its home station for mus
ter out. The Michigan regiment takes
Gobin's brigade of the First division.
the place of the Twelfth in General
Chief Quartermaster Howard says the
Seventh Ohio, which has received or
ders to muster out, will hardly get
away before Thursday. This will COM
plete for a while, at least the move
ments of troop from camp. There is
q strong probability that the Four
teenth Pennsylvania will be the next
regiment to receive orders to muster
out on account of the trouble between
the oH1cerS.
MEDICAL OFFICERS.
The following medical officers have
been detailed as brigade surgeons:
First division, First brigade, d. A.
Rannells, New York, Eighth Ohio
Second brigade, A. NJ. c. Johnston
Fourteenth Pennsylvania, Third bril-
gade, c. T.. Jauss, Eighth Pennsyl-
vania: Second division, First brigade
Burton S. Booth, 203d New York: Sec
ond brigade, II. ID. Kneedler, Fourth
Missouri; Third brigade Lester S. Hull
First Rhode Island.
The camp has become so widely scat
tered that the scores of army teams
have been forced to work eighteen
hours a day. Long hours are telling
on the health of the teamsters and
Colonel Howard has asked the war de-
partment for seventy-five additional
teams. He was advised today that fif.
teen four-mule teams and ten two.
horse teams would Immediately be-
forwarded. The water system is beine
run into the camp of the First Della.
ware and other outlying regiments
General Graham will wait until al
the regiments have been supplied be.
fore extending the system to corps
headquarters.