The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-26
TYPHO|D'S WORK
At CAMP MEADE
Two More Men Succumb
to the Disease.
STEPS TO CHECK ITS SPREAD
TWENTY-THIRD NEW YORK 10
BE ISOLATED.
Change Of Hospital Surgeons-Red
Gross Society Sending Trains
to Convey Patients to City
Institutions.
STEPS TO CHECK ITS SPREAD
TWENTY-THIRD NEW YORK 10
BE ISOLATED.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CAMP MEADE, MIDDLETOWN,
Pa, Sept 25.-Major Joseph K. Weaker
of Norristown was relieved to-day as
surgeon in chief of the Second Division
hospital and assigned as acting surgeon
Of the division. This change was made
necessary by the resignation of Major
Devine, who returns to Boston to re-
sumo his private practice.
Major Charles c. Wiley of Pittsburg
will have charge Of the hospital until
the general court-martial disposes of
the case of Major Charles R Parke of
Scranton. Parke expects to be ac-
quilted and returned to his former
position at the hospital.
Private George Morgan, First Mary
land. died last night at the Red Cross
hospital of typhoid fever. Corporal
August F. Ross, Company H. Second
Regiment Engineer Corps, also sue
cumbed to typhoid fever.
To prevent the spread of typhoid
fever in camp the Twenty-third New
York Regiment, which is afflicted with
the disease, will be isolated from Camp
Black. Chief Surgeon Girard says the
fever had its incipiency in the New
York camp and the sick will be sent
to Philadelphia hospitals.
The Red Cross Society will send a
hospital train to camp from Phila-
delphia tomorrow to take 100 patients.
They will be carried to the Woman's
Homeopathic and Woman's Hospital.
The Reading hospital will send a train
also for fifty patients.
Religious services were held to-day in
many of the regiments and there was
a large attendance. Colonel w. j. Glenn
of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania has
been appointed acting commander of
the Second Brigade. First Division, in
the absence of General Oates, who has
gone to Alabama on private business.
Major General Graham issued an
order to-day consolidating the Fiji
teenth Pennsylvania and Ninth Ohio
Battalions, in command of Colonel
Kreips. The new organization will
take the place of the First Delaware
in the First Brigade of the First Divi-
sion and will probably be ordered to
Cuba for garrison duty. The battalion
is made up entirely Of colored troops in
command of Major Young, a graduate
of West Point.
Eight companies of the First Della
ware have received orders to move to-
morrow on the grounds vacated by the
Twelfth Pennsylvania, and as soon as
their muster-out rolls have been pre-
pared they will be forwarded to their
home station for a thirty days fur
Tough, at the expiration of which they
will be retired from the service.
Oil stoves have been placed in both
division hospitals and the flies between
the tents removed to protect the pa
tients and nurses from the weather.
The nights in camp are very cool and
many of the officers are using oil
stoves to keep warm.
General Graham expects to begin
practice marches soon by regiments.
They will march to rendezvous within
q radius of ten miles of camp and will
take with them baggage and water
wagons and ambulances for the sick.
The health of the corps, with the ex-
ception of the New York regiments, is
excellent, and unless there Is change
the troops will stay here until cold
weather. The prospects are that the
First Division will be the first ordered
south to prepare for duty in the West
Indies and the Philippines.