New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
TO SAIL on THE REsoLUTE TO-DAY.

TO SAIL. on THE REsOLCTE TO-DAY
MAJOR SUMNER ANp TWENTY-FIVE rlMrEEs
FROM TENNESSEE TO TAKE CHARGE
or THE SANTIAGO HOSPITAL
A. tho Quar,ermaster. Department in the Army
building II was said Yesterday that contract for
nftv broad ovens had been awarded 10 G. $
Plodgctt OF Rutland. VI The price is 10 80 Slo
each To Ulrschman Brothers co. contracts Tor
Dnn skyhlue trousers at g 2S each and 1900 pairs
~ mounting trousers at s. 80 each have been
awarded &. Kenyon co. received 'he contract
for * houscs AZ g 50 each.
I.,outenant-Colonel 7 Morris Brown. NJ the New
York Medical Supply Depot, received telegram
Yesterday from the SurgeonGeneral OF the Army
az Washington. insiructng him TO secur" "Nho"'
delay equipments FOR a hospital 10 contain wv
thousand beds. The hospital is TO be established
in Santiago Lieutenant Colonel Brown has al
ready forwarded five hundred cots by the Berlin
which started for the front Friday. He expects
TO forward fifteen hundred mora on the Resoiute'
which is scheduled 10 start tomorrow. MAJOR
Thomas o. - Summer. surgeon OF the "a Ten
nessee Volunteers will travel on the Resolute with
iwontv-hve yellow fever immunes. They VIII nave
charge % iho fever patients in the Santiago hos
initial Major Summer has been stationed at camp
Algcr. He Is an authority on all contagious as
eases and tho author OF a book on yellow fever
lie gave valuable aid during the epidemic at Mem
phs In 1873
Commission appointed by tho Government some
years ago 10 make study o. yellow fever Tnc
Comnis sion visited Memphis. Mobile. New-Orleans'
Central America and cuba and gathered mucn
valuable Information a. 10 the disease ana It's
treatment The Major Is confident that II yelo"
fever Is treated properly II can he entirely stnmpfn
treating the fever IN the place where II was con-
tracted and II had dozen boys suffering WIN
the fever at Santiago would not have them moved
from mat place. The type OF yellow fever that
ono gets In cuba amounts TO very little IL - OF
the rnildest type. and ! would much rather nave
three stages " the fever OF four days each. First
there are tho four days I'm which one can be SAID 20
be getting the fever. four days in which II runs us
course and four days I'm which the patient etsher
the disease than a camp hospital There the pa
tient can bc controlled and regulations and orders
can be- enforced. The patients are IN tents an,
necessary booths can be hlit. thua insnring good
,,raught OF air. which is absolutely necessary ,
When attacked 10y the fever the sufferer should
he nut In \ hot mustard bath and allowed To sweat.
cred with blankets Alcohol lamps should be placed
under the cot and the patient allowed 10 sweat
The first symptoms are chills. neahache a"1 a
feeling as though the homes were bursting. The
other symptoms vary with the patients. The sys-
TEN must De toned up II run down;
III maa who l. suffering with the fever were
soon be we'll | should 20 out and order that mans
coffin for paralysis OF the nerve centres had set
in Acetate OF ammonia. watermelon seed ana
nge-ieaf tea used in the treatment OF yellow
Major Summer will be accompanied on the Reso-
lutte by twenty-six members OF the I'd Tennessee
trained yellow fever nurses. The sergeant IN
charge OF the men Is "A son OF General LanGstan.
who was the chairman Of the Relief Committee AZ
Memphis during the epidemic there the party VIII
General commanding the Army. Drs. Augustine
Maria Fernandez de Ybarra and william Doz.