The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
AMERICAN FEVER HOSPITAL.
DRs. LANE AND O'REILLY WANT
ONE AT HAVANA.

No Way to isolate Yellow Fever Pa
tients at Present-PIans of the
Islands FOrtincations Delivered
to Col. CIOuEh-CoI. Waring Finds
Havana Very Dirty and Recon-
mends Sewers-COnditiOnsi in Cuba
Not So had as Pictured.
Havana, via Key West, Oct. 16.-Drs.
Lane ond O'Renly have made a report to
the surgeon general, insisting upon the
immediate establishment of an American
fever hospital here. The existing hospi-
tails do not isolate yellow fever patients.
and the result is that a person suffering
from any other complaint is removed 20
the hospital, where he runs the risk of
contracting the fever. This was the case
with Stenographer Dalbey, of the Ameri
can evacuation commission, who is suffer
ing from malarial fever. His next-door
neighbor is i'll with fever of a different
character
Col. Clough has received plan of every
fortifcatiOn on the island. each one signed
personally by Gen. Blanco These plans
had been requested by our commissioners
ever since their arrival, but were not de-
livered until yesterday The transporta-
ton commission has begun work upon the
plans for the extension of the railroad TO
the camp at Guanabacoa, which will be
the first TO be got ready. They have asked
for bids for the work. and laborers are
being employed to push the work actively.
Co! Waring has found Havana dirtier
than he anticipated. He says 1t win be
necessary to tear open the streets and lay
drainage pipes and sewers. He sees no rea-
son to fear an epidemic. as there was no
spread of disease when the streets were
opened recently TO lay water pipes. He Is
greatly satisfied with the excellence of
Havana's water supply. Industry and
commerce continue at a standstiu
Many planters and merchants who re-
Gently returned here anticipating an early
resumption of business are going abroad
again to await until affairs are settled in
Cuba, they do not dare embark In bus
mess ventures or risk a cent in the pres
ent unsatisfactory and indefinite condition
of political affairs in the island. In the
meantime the country daily grows poorer.
The sugar and tobacco crops are un-
sown.
That the condition OF the Cubans is not
so desperate or black as Is painted. OUT
side the fact that they are short Of RAJ
tions, is confirmed by Col. Rowan. and
Lieut.. Parker. who, after crossing the is-
land five times covering one hundred miles
and visiting every insurgent camp in the
island, report that the men In the camps
are efficient, well disciplined and COM
n1anded by officers of a high order of in
teligence and education. From these men
who have struggled and suffered for three
long years for their ideal of freedom re-
sistance is to be feared 10 any solution of
the problem not having for its basis inde-
cendence.
The day has passed very quietly in every
quarter 1T Is reported tonight that the
Spanish evacuation commissioners have
handed the American commissioners a
note giving the names and number of
Spanish transports now on the way to
Cuba. II Is understood that there are
twenty-seVen.
The general health Of The various United
States commissioners and their respective
STATS is excellent