New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06
HEALTH BOARD on WARNINGS CASE
THE FEDERAL OFFICIALS AT QUARANTINE
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The Board Of Health reports in regard to the
fitness and death Of Colonel George f. Warins
were made public yesterday by the chairman OF
The Sanitary Committee. DIT. ". T. Jenkins.
DR.. jenkins in his report to the committee tells
how the committee Informed by Or. Stimson
on Thursday. october 2 that he suspected 'hat
Colonel Waring i'll with yeo" fever ana was
asked that diagnostician be sent to Colone! war
tnps home DIT Jenkins gees to say that he went
10 the house and learned the hstor Of the case from
Dr. Stimson. At that time the cuaneous SURFACE
Of the patients bOdy was yeliowisa IN Color ana
DIR. Jenkins learned that this color had appeared
since DR.. Stimsons previous visit on that oay' III.
S.nson told him that Colonel Waring had said
that on the voyage from Havana. he with seVera
other persons on board the Yucatan. hao exposed
themselves TO a brisk northern breeze while wear
ing clothing that was damp from protuse persplIa-
lion He retired TO his cabin. chilled through. HIS
general feeling on the following day (Monda!) and
day was like that resulting from an a''ach
of malaria and this feeling. Colonei "drihs
thought was due having caught cold. CoIone'
Waring had a temperature Of l05 10 degrees "hen
DR. Stimson him on Tuesday afternoon
In its repor. the case the Sanitary committee
saws that the quarantine regulations were not oo-
served in the case Of Colonel Warng. though ne
reported to the Quarantine officer on MS ar'Nai
that he had been i'll since October .. Inc COM
mittee says that Colonel Warnings statement 10
N''N"N
by yellow-fever patients with reference TO the DE-
ginning Of the disease. and that in view OF TINS
statement Colonel Warning should have been de-
1ained under observation proper regard ior
the public safety demanded
ut must he remembered" the report proceeds
THAT Colonel Warnings work in Havana-tne de-
termination of the necessary means 10 cieaIise e
.itv--was OF d character which rendered him pc
.,uliarly liable to infection. he being non-inl-
mune. which fact naturally gave those OF ms
friends who had knowledge OF the disease con-
Germ as 10 his future and safety. The health au-
1horities assumed the responsibility OF allowing
Neye that the justification of this policy is ample.
by reason of the excellent sanitary condluon not
only Of the house. but also of the immediate sur
Joundings. and the measures taken for the lsola-
lion OF himself and those attending him. Wilcn Is
proved by the absence Of any subsequent untoward
action of the Quarantine officials in taking the FISK
of the Introduction of yellow fever into city oil
three million inhabitants be that risk ever so
small. Had this case occurred in less prominent
family. situated in the outlying districts OF
Greater New-York il might no. have been recog-
niZed as yellow fever, and in the event Of warmer
weather and under less hygienic conditions, a
spread Of the disease might have ensued. Even
though the risk of admitting passengers within
the five days limit might be slight. the estaD-
lishment of such precedent is dang Arous. FOR II
must be remembered that the slightest neon
venience to passenger, or to hundred passen-
gers involved in OBTAINING them two days at quar-
antine is nothing in comparison with the health
interests of this huge city ,
The report closes with the statement tnat the
Inactivity of the Chamber OF Commerce and the
Academy of Medicine. as well as OF the temperate
attitude Of the public press upon the admission OF
the patient TO the city