New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-19
NO YELLOW FEVER AFTER ALL
EXPERT SAYS ONLY SEVERE MALARIAL
FEVER AT MONTAUK.
GENERAL WHEELER To TAKE COMMAND TO-DAY
COLONEL. ROOSEVELT To VISIT HIS HONE
ROUGH RIDERS VOTE NOT TO
RETURN TO CUBA.

COLONEL ROOSEVELT To VISIT HIS HOME
ROUGH RIDERS VOTE NOT TO
RETURN TO CUBA.
lBY TELEGRAPH To TR1BrNEl
Camp WikofY. Montauk. Long Island. Aug IL.
No quarantine has yet been established at
Camp Wikor. The yacht Red Cross has gone
into commission. and lies in Fort Pond Bay
ready to take the typhoid patients to city hos
p,,aIs and when these are taken away It is not
likely that quarantine Of the camp Will be
ordered.
There are fifty typhoid patients in the general
hospital and fifteen Of them transferred
TO the yacht this afternoon. They will be taken
TO the New Haven City Hospital tomorrow. and
Colonel Forwood has asked how many the hos
pital will accommodate The hospital authori-
ties Rave informed him that they have room for
one hundred patients. and If they will take that
many. Colonel Forwood may send some OF the
other sick over 10 Connecticut.
There was one death from typhoid fever in the
general hospital to-day. II was that OF Sergeant
Alfred NJ. Judson Jr.. OF the lst United states
Volunteer Cavalry Trough Riders). who had been
III for some time. and ii is the first case OF ty-
| phoid that has so far proved fatal In camp.
There was also death on La Grande Duchesse
said 10 be from the same cause. last night The
| body was brought ashore this morning and sent
to the morgue at the general hospital. but the
mans name was not known AT the hospital Of
| fee He had been n private in the list New
| York Infantry.
NOT YELLOW FEVER. AS SUPPOSED
The patients In the General Hospital to-day
numbered !f0 and there were 30 in the De;en-
| tion Hospital No more yellow fever cases were
| reported from the latter. and Dr. Booth. a yell
low fever expert on duty in the fever hospital.
| said the four cases that were diagnosed as yell
| low fever were not such. II was rather the
severe form OF malarial fever which the
| troops stationed In Tampa and cuba had already
| experienced. There twenty-seven other
cases that are being closely watched. however,
for the surgeons do not know that any one Of
them may not develop into the disease they
are looking for. but hope not to see.
OF the list boys there are ninoty-nine In the
Detention Hospital and nineteen in the General
Hospital. Those in the wards ~ the latter are
getting along nicely Some of them have al
ready recovered to such degree tnat they are
I'D and walking about. and the others are gain
Ing strength rapidly. II was said to-day that
none Of The list sick In the General Hospital
were seriously III. Those IN the Detention Hos
ptal are also getting along nicely. although
some OF the cases there are OF a mere serious
nature.
DE- Ira G. Brown the executive officer Of the
General Hospital went about the wards to-day
with n happy smile on his face. II was because
ne had received from tho President OF the
United States n commission as major. II came
ns a recognition II his services here. In assist
ing TO establish and conduct the General Hos
rtal
Colonel Forwood. the chief surgeon was the
first To recognize Dr Browns services and ap-
pointed him executive cfflcer Of his medical
staff He also recommended his promotion 20
the War Department and SO did General Young
The result was Or Browns commission. which
dates from August H.
Major Brown entered the service on July II.
and proceeded to Tampa with the understand
ing that he was going to cuba. but The necessity
for surgeons at Tampa held him there He was
assigned TO duty With the cavalry brigade. FIfth
Army Corps and when they broke camp he was
transferred 10 the 9th Cavalry. remaining with
that regiment until II reached Moniauk. Major
brown is a graduate ~ the medical school ~
the University Of Buffalo and his home Is in that