The age-herald., 1899-08-04
SITUATION IS
 ENCOURAGING No Spread of Yellow Fever Was
 Noted Yesterday, NONE OF CASES PROVED FATAL Now Hoped to Coniine Disease to Hamp-
 ton and PhOebuS. SURGEON-GENERAL VIVIAN Says Outbreaks Can Be Suppressed When Precautions Are Taken.
Says Outbreaks Can Be Suppressed
 When Precautions Are Taken.
GARRISON AT FORT MONROE
Will Be Removed on Government Trans port McClellon-FloridaP Puts on Rigid Quarantine-Certifi-
 cates Required of All.

WaSDlDS lOUt August o'-Auc yShOW AOFCk situation at Hampton continues favorable and encouraging, and in the opinion of the officials in the American hospital service. According to official reports there has been no spread of the contagion since yes- terday noon, nor have any of the cases now under treatment proved fatal since that time.
 It is hoped to confine the disease to the Soldiers Home and Phoebus, but Surgeon General Wyman thinks it too early to make a definite prophecy regarding the outbreak, as it is only four or five days since the presence of the fever became known to the officials here. Tonight at half past 8 o'clock pr. Wyman received the fol- lowing telegram from Dr. Vickery, station ed at the Soldiers Home:
 Situation favorable and encouraging; no new cases and no deaths"
 Dr. Wyman tonight received from the home a list of the members of the institu- tion who were furloughed on and after the 22d of July the day after number of the inmates became sick with the fever. Accompanying the names were the exact dates and time of the furloughs and the destina ton of those to whom they were granted. All of the inmates furloughed have gone to northern cities
 Surgeon Pettus wired from Fort Monroe tonight that there is nothing new today, and that a good patrol is being maintained. Acting Assistant Surgeon P St. L. McCur will be on duty at Craney Island. He will go there tonight with persons held in deten- ton at Berkly. Some from Norfolk were
 nr Toh roh n rd Af New Orleans, will reach Washington in a few days for duty that may be assigned him.
 Disease is Yellow Fever
 Regarding rumors said to prevail in New port News that government experts had pronounced the disease not to be yellow fe- ver Dr. Wyman and General Sternberg each said tonight that no such information had been sent to either of them, and that no reason was known for questioning that the disease was yellow fever.
 Regarding the probable suppression of the present epidemic Dr. Wyman said today:
 Ut is too early yet to make predictions as to the suppression of the outbreak, only four days having elapsed since the discov- cry of the fever. The fact that Thomas, the original suspect, has gone north, takes considerable weight off our minds, as he is now in a latitude where there is no chance of yellow fever doing any great damage. Our past experience in the south has shown us, however, that yellow fever can be sup pressed and confined to the original focus of infection when the precautions are taken early enough in the outbreak"
 '"rhis was shown at Brunswick, Ga., in 1894. It was also true in the outbreak at McHenry Miss, and Franklin, La. In the two latter epidemics there were other out breaks in Mississippi and Louisiana about the same time but there is good reason to believe that the infection was carried to the outlying points before the quarantine on the original focus was put in force. We believe that the quarantine precautions as now enforced in the south are effective. When there has been apparently spread through the official lines, 1t has been due to tardy information of the outbreaks This shows the necessity of prompt reports in all suspicious cases.'
 It was finally decided this evening that the garrison at Fort Monroe should be taken away on the government transport Mcclellan, which will leave New York to- night and will arrive at the fort tomorrow