The Wilmington daily Republican., 1899-08-02
YELLOW PBVER SPREADS
Six Cases in tho Town Of Phoebus,
.-..4. Adjoining the Home. n !.
THE PEOPLE GREATLY ALARMED.

At the Soldiers Home There Have
Been Total Of Forty Cases and Eight
Deaths-Continuing Precautions to
Prevent Further Spread Of Disease.
Washington, Aug. 2.-"Three new
cases of yellow fever in the Soldiers
Home at Hampton and one death" Is
the official report received last night
by Surgeon General Wyman from DR..
Wasdin, the yellow fever expert on
duty at the institution. Added to DR..
Wasdins figures sent to DR.. Wyman ON
Monday, this makes up to date 40 cases
In all which have occurred at the home,
Of which eight have proved fatal.
The opinion was expressed that
the situation continues encouraging,
inasmuch as the disease has been
kept within It's original bounds. No }
of the nearby towns other than Phoe-
bus has reported the appearance Of In
fection or suspicious cases.
Reports from Phoebus last night
state that six cases of yellow fever had
been found and that there had been
two deaths among the negro population
of Pnoebus, adjoining the home.
Mayor johnson called up Governor
Tyler by telephone and asked him to
urge upon Secretary of War Root to
send all inmates OF the home whose
removal was regarded as prudent to
some point north, there to remain until
the disease had been stamped out. The
governor promised to give the sugges-
tion immediate attention.
The people for miles around the
home are very much alarmed, but are
quiet. No restrictions have been placed
on the departure of several hundred
visitors at Old Point Comfort, but DR..
Pettus, who has absolute charge of af-
fairs there, will exercise careful super
vision of those who may leave, SO as to
avoid danger of their communicating
the disease. This will apply also to
the soldiers now stationed on the gov
ernment reservation there, and who
have been ordered to proceed to Bat
terry Point, Delaware. Word reached
the surgeon general that arrangements
had been made for the transportation
of these men through the army quar-
termaster at Philadelphia. They will
be taken by boat to Cape Charles and
thence by train to their destination.
Battery Point Is an isolated place,
and DR.. Wyman has no fear that the
soldiers will carry any infection with
them.
The surgeon general continues his
precautions to prevent the spread of
the disease and is dispatching addition
al help to the surgeons now on the
ground. Dr. Wertenbaker will remain
at. Newport News for the present and
will supervise matters along the line
of the railroad between that city and
Richmond. Hospital Steward Kolb,
who Is a yellow fever immune, now
at Norfolk, has been directed to report
to DR.. White and render what service
he may be called to perform. Dr..
White will remain in charge at Hamp-
ton, though he is not to visit the
home, as his immunity from the dis
ease is doubtful Surgeon Tricks, now
at the South Atlantic quarantine sta
ton, has been ordered to Norfolk, and
Passed Assistant Surgeon Simpson,
now at st. Louis. has been directed to
report at Old Point Arrangements
have been made for the disinfection of
mail matter sent by the inmates of the
home to their friends
Two suspect veterans who have bern
at the Hampton home have been de-
tained by the local authorities in this
city, but they appear to be all right,
and no alarm is felt over their pres
ence in Washington.