New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-28
CONDITIONS AT FEVER CAMP.
FEW PRECAUTIONS TAKEN WHEN
TROOPS LANDED AT BAlQulRl
AND Jt'RAGUA-INCREASE IN
NEMRER OF CASES.
l-,rre.pondence Of The A..ocia,ei Preos)

two weeks longer.
This was the prediction made this afternoon oy
Or Sem the Government yellow fever expert VINO
with Dr Guiieras Is looking after the health or the
Army I'm that particular line The bolt of rover mas
fallen OF apparently clear sky. Ihte' ca7'S
we're discovered four days ago. There were twenty
The next night. Now there are two hundred III
SEEMS estimate of one thousand In two weeks seems
conservative I'm the face OF these hgures. Dr. Gui-
tcrls said to-day.
Il cannot say that tho fever * OF mid typo
but there has only one death so FAR. ihoush
there have teen two cases OF suppression and two
OF black vomit. symptoms supposed to marx Only
the last stages OF a desperate case All iour q.
these. however seem he doing we'll tn" usuAi
course in an epidemic IL a mild beginning WIN 20"
death rate. followed by more Violent cases NOR" "'
them and higher mortality; then graduai de-
cline. both In the number OF cases ana their Vio-
cncc.
Il should say that in this campaign we will have
an apparently lower death rate than usual out IL
Will be- because We will ge; nearer to true figures
than I'm epidemic In large city. Here every
suspicious case will b." carefully noted ana IL VII"
be practically Impossible for even mild case u
escape detection
PATIENTS TO RECEIVE BEST TREATMENT.
In a city many Of those light cases are not re-
ported and are set down 20 naaral FEVER heh'e
the yellow foyer death rate being taken from
among only the more violent cases Is made 70 ap-
near higher i'm proportion to the number OF cases
than It really IT,
1T cannot be denied that there will be great sun
ferng. but the detention camp IL being put IN 'he
best possible order and the men Will receive the
bcs; treatment possible"
The seeds OF fever were sown here long ago Hcle
are "A few Of the facts
The marines landed ut Guantanamo bay more
than a month ago almost a month nefore 'ne
Army reached Cuba The first offca act OF the ialo
ing party WAS 10 burn every hut on the peach anu
knock the head out OF every cask OF Spanish wine.
After tho baptism ~ fro camp was pitched and
rieidly pollced The Cuban allies came ana camped
with the marines but they were made to obey the
rules OF tho camp. The marine camp is not 70
largo that OF tho Army Its men have not pehe-
tratcd so far inland. but they have been exposed
to almost as much hardship as the Army ana
there has not been a case OF yellow fever In camp.
Rigid quarantine 's maintained against Ju-
ragua. and the medical officers OF CampMcCaila say
that With tho help Of God and sanitary precau-
tons they will have no fever.
THOSE VINE-COvERED COTTAGES.
The landings at Ba!quri and Juragua were made
almost a month later. There were many men to be
handled the facilities were limited. and the land
ings were made In great haste No building was
burned. no well filled. no sink was dug. sew
cral OF the enthusiastic young aids seized on
pretty vne-cad cottages as headquarters FOR their
respective generals The Spanish commlssary -four
which Iinares made hasty attempt TO destroy
when he evacuated Juragua was gathered In ana
used by our men when they were thrown 10 the
front on half rations. The Spanish wine was bot
tied by tho medical department for use as stimu-
!ants and part OF II at least can. from ooserVa-
ton DO said to have fallen into the hands OF tho
mon Cubans and Americans filed into the empty
houses Of the town without inquiry as TO their an
teccdents.
Major La Garde In charge OF the beach hospital.
did recommend earnestly on landing that every
building ashore be burned Major Wood and Colo
mel Pope II IS understood. both Endorsed this. nut
tho recommendation seems TO have gone oy de-
fault Tho camp was established In the heart OF
tho Spanish town. and tho first yellow fever case
was that OF Burr Mcintosh. tho actor and news
paper man. who had been sleeping at General
Rates's headquarters in one OF the pretty vine
covered cottages.
RED CROSS WORKERS STRICKEN
DR. Lesser and his wife. Sister Betina" the
New-York workers OF the Red Cross. were both
,akon 10 the yellow fever camp yesterday from one
Of those lovely verdurc-b edecked pest-houses An
other Red Cross nurse shared tho same fate
After tho fever discovered the other day
every effort was made 10 check II and stamp II
out but the camp already pitted with IL
Cases were taken out OF tho surgical wards OF the
hospital tents and out OF the officers tents
General Dufleld is one OF the victims. and is now
in tho general camp OF detention. one Of his aids.
War. ie now In quarantine. having attended General
pufiicd before tho latter became ILL., II Is not
thought, however that Alger Is likely to develop
the disease
Since tho cases developed here at the beach hos
pital others have come In from the front. six miles
away with startling swiftness. The men. worn
down with hard work hard hghting and repeated
Dire meetings. In the Unprotected shelter tents. were
exposed to tho Infection OF the horde OF ten thou-
sand refugees that swept out OF santiago IKE
cloud Of locusts soon as the gates were opened
Tho soldiers who held down 70 bedrock limit
I'm rations 10 help feed this same horde or infec-
ton have begun 10 come In from tho 'front.' at the
rate Of hundred sick a day. FIRST 80 per cent
OF these were yellow fever cases then 20 per cent
and now 20 per cent.
Such are tho present conditions. The houses
have been burned, the hospitals have been emptied
of both sick and wounded. the former being sent 10
the fever camp or the observation camp, as occa-
sion warranted. and the latter placed aboard the
transports 60 North. or on the two noating hos
pital ships the Relief and the Solace. where they
will have the best attention without danger OF In
lection
SOME CASES ON TRANSPORTS.
MI