The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-09
MISSOURI GETS IN TO-DAY.
PERSONAL EFFECTS OF THE pa
TENTS MUST BE DIsINFECTED.

Health Officer and Quarantine or
Ger to Go to the Quarantine station
to See to It-ProbabIe That Mai.
Arthur May Have Used Disinfect-
ants En- ROute-FemaIe Nurses and
Men of the Hospital Corps Are Ex-
pected to Arrive This Morning
From AtIanta-WOrk on the Sani-
tary Arrangements at the Hospital
Almost CompIeted-Dinerenc of
Opinion ms to What the Street
Railway should Receive for the
Use of the RemOdeIed Car May
Mean That AmbuIances VIII BE
Used.
The hospital ship Missouri is expected
to arrive to-day She sailed from Havana
Monday with about 200 sick soldiers to be
placed in the army hospital here. The
surgeon in charge of the hospital says
it is Aot likely the men will be taken off
the vessel before day after tomorrow, if
then. They can be comfortably cared for,
and will fare as well aboard the ship,
and. as it is desired to have all arrange
ments at the hospital perfected by the
time patients are received, they will be
left on the Missouri until everything is
ready for them
Female nurses and attendants of the hos
pital corps of the army are expected to
reach Savannah this morning. The nurses
come from Atlanta and part of the men
ordered to serve here will also come from
Fort Mcpherson. They and the nurses
have been employed at the hospital there.
There will be twenty female nurses, co.
gether with a chief nurse and a dietst.
1t is thought about forty hospital men
will arrive to-day.
There has been some fear that there
might be cases of contagious or infectious
disease brought in by the Missouri, but
every precaution will be taken against
this The health officer and the quaran-
tine officer will go to the quarantine sta
ton to-day to meet the vessel and re-
ceiye the assurance of the surgeon in
charge, Maj. Arthur, that there are no
contagious diseases aboard and that the
mems clothing and effects have been dis
infected.
The United States marine hospital SER
vice demands that the wearing apparel
and effects of the patients be thoroughly
disin1ected. This is in accordance with a
recent order that applies to all vessels
leaving Havana or Cienfuegos for Ameri-
can ports. 1t became effective March 4
and will apply after March Is to vessels
leaving any Cuban port.
1t may be that the disinfection will have
TO be made at quarantine station. When
tne surgeon in charge of the hospital here
received cablegram from Mai. Arthur
last Monday stating that the Missonr,
would arrive to-day with about 200 pa
TENTS, he wired the surgeon general AZ
washington, suggesting that he notify
Maj. Arthur 70 disinfect the mems effects
en- route. 1t is not known that the sur
geon general was able to send this mos
sage IN time for it to reach the Missouri
before she left Havana. 1t is possible IL
may nave occurred to Maj. Arthur TO use
ms dlslntectants while on the wav and in
TINS case 1t Will not be necessary to do 50
at quarantine
work was continued yesterday on the
sanitary arrangements that are being
made at the hospital. The motor that has
been secured until that expected from tho
North arrives was put in place and the
connections made, but 1t will not be in
working order until this afternoon. The
surgeon in charge will be sure that all
sanitary measures are complete before
patients are received
1t is possible that the patients the Mis-
souri, will bring may not be transferred to
the hospital in the street car that has
been adapted for this purpose. The Sa-
vannah. Thunderbolt and Isle of Hone
Railroad has remodeled the cars at it's
shops for the transportation Of sick SOL
diers, but there is a difference about the
compensation it should receive for the
service. Hauling the sick is not looked
upon as being worth the price the street
railway wants, and the government off,
Gals want Il reduced. An officer said last
night that ambulances may be used in
stead of the street car
In addition to the surgeon in charge
there are three surgeons in the CITY to
discharge their duties at the hospital
They are Assistant Surgeon c. B. Mill
hoff and Acting Assistant Surgeons DON
aid Maclean, Jr., and Bradley Three or
| four other surgeons have been ordered to
report to the surgeon in charge for duty.
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