The age-herald., 1898-10-16
A German Physician Has OiScov-
 cred a Remedy
FOR DREAD YELLOW FEVER
Which Threatens to be the National Scourge of Our New Posses
 session-Oficials Not h.
 clined to Experiment.


 mer it stifes prosperity in a large section of the United States and carries away hundreds with its dread touch.
 But medical experts hope and trust that this will be the last year of yellow fever as an unconquerable disease for, by experl- ments recently conducted in Germany, the fever is and can always be checked by suitable atmosphere.
 As everyone knows yellow fever is killed by frost. The fever germ dies below o2 degrees Fahrenheit and the patient speed fly gets well.
 If a room could be cooled by artlnciai means down to the frost point the germ would die and the patient recover. The practical difficulty found by the Ger | man physicians was in the patient seaee' | Low in fever he could not bear so great cold. But this was overcome by sraouai | cooling day by day until the desired degree was reached. Of course there was no ques- ton of contagion during this cooling pro- cess.
 The physicians of the United States | board of health laughs at such treatment | mentioning among other difhcultles lhe | enormous expense attending the production | of such an artificial frost. But they ad- | init that if it could be done It would pc success.
 Meanwhile they are rapidly formulating | remedies, for there is yet month oI yei- l low or southern, fever to be conioateu | To the medical department and the quar- | antine officials of the United Stales our l recently acquired West Indian possessloiis | hove brourht an added terror. And that is with the increase of communication pe | tween Cuba and Porto Rico and our eoase | cities the added liability of plague or yer | lew fever reaching this country rom these | two islands. .4 | Whatever charges may be made against the medical department of the army, ho | one can ever accuse the quarantine authoi | ities of being slow to appreciate the eraVi. | ty of protecting our country asaiia. s, | plagues such as the cholera, or what Viii | from henceforth be, for several months III 1 tbe wear an ever present danger-the vel | low fever. Although the preparations TOT 1 the movement of the army or occupatioh | in Cuba go slowly on; and the peace com l missions are not working at very hlgn | pressure the officials in charge or the | quarantine regulations have made aireaoy | some remarkable plans and innovations. | In an address to the merchants or Sa- | yannah Ga, the other day, Dr. w. Y. | Brunner, United States sanitary inspector
 at Santiago, outlined some of the raalcai | changes proposed in quarantine methods. l The object of the changes is to protect
 public health without interfering undufy
 with trade between the United States ana | Cuba and Porto Rico.
 | In the first place, he said, the govern
 ment is going to do a great deal or dralh- 1 age work at Havana, Santiago and other
 points, and Cuba and Porto RICO are to
 have a thorough cleaning up. Disinfection
 will hereafter be done at the ports or de-
 parture instead of at those of arrival.
 Heretofore the United States have had l OOlV Havana ana
 Santiago. The marine hospital service pro- | poses now to have sanitary inspectors at
 every port doing business with the United | States If a vessel leaves a port for the 1 United States with sickness on board, the 1 port of entry will be notified at once. | In addition to that the service proposes | to establish in at least three ports-proba-
 bly Havana, Santiago and San Juan-the
 most modern floating disinfecting plants
 known to the sanitary world. The fioatine
 plant at Montauk Point will be placed al l Havana as soon as some needed work car
 be done on it. This will be used until | more complete plant can be secured Ihe
 plans and specifications for such plan | are now being prepared in Washington, ane | the plant will be at Havana by the hrst O. | next year. or in time for the next seasons | business.
 | Before a vessel leaves Havana. for in | stance, everything in it will be fumigatet
 by the floating plant. The time vesse |
 can port will count for the days of deten
 ton now necessary at quarantine stations
 The marine hospital service can handle
 vessel in twenty-four hours, while at mos
 quarantine stations the work takes forty 1 eight hours The marine hospital service
 will protect Cuba from other ports, too | Dr. Brunner says there is doubt tha
 the United States will control Cuba ant
 the islands adjacent to it so far as sani
 tation is concerned.
 Her, i,, t1., hat iyag
 this dreaded plague is the establishment O
 land ouarantines on the borders of th
 several southern states. In view Of thu
 recent outbreak of yellow fever in Louisi
 ana and Mississippi inspectors have beer
 on duty wherever railroad entered thu
 state of Florida the most important points | heinz on the Alabama state boundary. Nt one was allowed in Merida who came from New Orleans Franklin, La, or Jackson l, Miss or neighboring towns of Mississippi | unless he had certificate from the presi
 dent of the Louisiana state board o
 health, officers of the Mississippi state . l board or surgeons of the marine hospita
 service.
 The condition of affairs-in so far as vel
 low fever is concerned-in the neighbor
 hood of Havana during the past few week:
 is sufficient to show how absolutely neces . sary such strict quarantine measures are In one week the increase Of yellow fevel cases frightened timid residents of Havana to such an extent that there threatened U be almost as great an exodus from tha ! city as there was before the recent hostili
 ties began
 . Although 1t would seem an excellent op , no1tunity to try experiments with yellov fever germs the government officials do no ] seem to be inclined to run any risks in tn matter They will stick to the one systen , now in vogue and which has up to the pres ! i ent time proved to be much more succ ss : ful in checking the disease than any Of tn treatments in vogue in Havana, whicl number ten according to hlgh meaica
 authority of that city.
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