Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-03
orr TO AID HAMPTON.
Yellow Fever EXI ert Leaves New
York For Soldiers Home.
CASES FOUND AT PHOEBUS,
War Department Experiencing Some
Difficulty In Getting Transporta-
ton For the Soldiers Ordered
to Leave Fort Monroe.

New York, Aug. 3.-General Martin L.
McAlahon, one of the board of governors
of the National Soldiers home at Hamp-
ton Va, has left for the south, taking
with him DR.. Roberts, chief OF the SAM
tary bureau Of the board of health. The
general said that he wished to inspect
the yellow fever situation at the home
for himself and had asked President
Murphy of the board of health for the
services of an expert. The latter selected
Or. Roberts.
President Murphy has given the doctor
authority to choose five physicians to &C.
company him. None of these will be re-
quired to go, but volunteers will be asked
for. DR.. Roberts believes that every one
Of the boards staff of more than 90 ply
sicans would go if requested to do so.
But. as it is not at all certain that any
will be needed DIR. Roberts took no ply
sicians with him. Tie will wire from
Hampton if he needs them.
The chief Of the sanitary bureau does
not visit Hampton as the representative
of the board of health. but in a personal
capacity, and it is said that no other re-
quest has been made to any other board
of health. The local board has facilities
concedpdly in advance of those in any
other American city and a valuable eX-
perience gained from frequent encoun-
ters with yellow jack. DR.. Roberts has
been connected with the board for 81
years, and one of his first experiences
with the dread fever was in the outbreak
Of the epidemic among the soldiers at
Governors island in 1870. Patients
were segregated and removed to Swim
burne island When Colonel Waring
was stricken with the disease last fall, at
Second avenue and Eleventh street. DR..
Roberts handled the situation from a
sanitary standpoint with such success
that there were no other victims.
To Advise Regarding Sanitation.
1t is from the standpoint Of sanitation
that Dr.. Roberts will give counsel at
Hampton. "lhc things on which this
office lays Stress he said ''are perfect
segregation and thorough disinfecton.
| 90 there to offer the suggestions deriv
ed from our experience here rs to how
the disease may be kept within its orig
inal limits
While DR.. Roberts will have no over
sight of the treatment of the sick. he is a
believer in radical methods in handling
them, The plan to which he subscribeS
has some of the features of the Turkish
bath. Patients are kept in room where
The temperature is maintained above so
degrees. in order to induce Il continual
profuse perspiIation and enable the skin
to do much of the work of the enfeebled
excretory organs in throwing off the
poisonous waste matters of the system.
"ihe prospect that yellow fever may
extend to New York;" DIR. Roberts said.
lis a very unlikely one. We are pre-
pared to deal with it. however, and are
confident that even if it reached here it
could gain no foothold. have given Or
dcrs To all our diagnosticans that the2s
7i,oll4 be especially alert in any case
fever they may handlo,'
The Jersey City board Of health has
asked the railroads to provide Il detention
room, to he used. if necessary, for pas
Sen@ers from the south, and has appoint
ed committee to take charge of the
fumigalion and quarantining of suspects,