Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-01
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that the fever would spread to this city
and thence abroad has been largely al
laycd by the absolute quarantine
against the three peninsular towns ad-
jacent to the infected spot declared. at
| midnight. Sunday, and enforced rigid
| ~, today. a fleet of seven tugs has
been chartered to patrol the IA miles of
water between Norfolk and the Soldiers
| Home, and the Norfolk river front is
constantly guarded by policemen, while
"A guard from the navy yard is station
ed at the naval hospital to prevent the
landing of small boats containing refu-,
gees from the peninsula.
| Newport News, Va, July 31.--After
a day of intense excitement over the
yellow fever outbreak at the National
! Soldiers Home, Newport News rests.
| tonight, with feeling Of comparative
| security. The city officers and the vari-
Gus municipal bodies have been busy
since early morning and ii Is hoped
now that no loop hole has been left
through which the scourge may find it's
| way to this city.
! The latest report received here from
the Soldiers Home gives the total
| number of cases as 80. an increase OF
| only three during the day. There was
| one death. this afteInoon. The univer-
| sal hope now Is that the disease will
| be confined within the Home limits and
! the authorities a, me institution by
| telephone express confidence that this
| Will be done
The town of Hampton. which is in
close proximity 10 the Soldiers Home.
early this morning. established a cor
| don OF armed policemen at the APP
| proaches to the reservation. Notwith-
standing this prccaution Newport
News quarantlned against Hampton
and Elizabeth city and Warwick
county. Thus this city. which is near
" 10 miles from the infected point. has
| the advantage Of practically a double
quarantine on land.
A tugboat patrols the river to pre-
vent the evasion Of quarantine restric-
lions by means OF boats. The danger
line ashore is guarded by a force Of
special policemen. The Street Railway
| Go. was prohibited this morning from
| running cars between Hampton and
this city. Hundreds If people left the
city. today.
Washington. July 3l.-Surgeon Cen
! cral SternberE has received the follow
ing from LIEUT.. Col. Dewitt at Fort
Monroe regarding the outbreak Of yell
low fever at the Soldiers Home at
| Hampton. Va:
Fort Monroe Va. July 81
To Surgeon General. L. S A.:
| At o'clock. +. NJ. yesterday. Sur
/ ccon Pcttus. L. :. Marine Hospital
| service. quarantine office officially stat
ed that yellow fever was at National
/ Soldiers Home. Hampton: "a cases
with six deaths. Commanding officer
| took immediate measure for quanan-
/ tine. Surgeon Pettus states Surgeon
| General Marine Hospital service was
notified, yesterday afternoon.
Dewitt. Surgeon.
! Surgeon General Wyman or the Ma
rinc Hospital service. had conference
! with Sec. Gage. today. on the yellow
| fever situation AT Hampton. Va The
secretary agreed with Or. Wyman that
every possible prccaution should b.
taken To- prevent the spread Of thp dis
| ease. 4 Gordon viii he thrown AROUND
the affected district and thorough
| quarantine established.
! Secretary Alger has directed that the
| Josiah Simpson hospital ut Fort Mon
roe he turned over to the Marine Hos
pital service it is is wanted. This hos
pital contains leo beds and is fitted up
| for the troops stationed at Newport.
| last summer. The Marine Hospital
service. today. hurried a number Of
surgeons 20 Hampton and vicinity.
| The official report from there. this
morning, was IS cases. four deaths and
one dying.
The Marine hospital authorities are
astounded at the presence of yellow
! fever in that locality. The last cpl
iemic of the disease occurred at Nor
| folk. in 1895. having been brought into
port by the steamer Ben Franklin.
June Il Of that year. and in the cpl
demic that followed there were 1907
deaths.
New York July S1.-Gcn. Merritt.
commanding the department Of the
east. L. s. A., today. that he was
maxim arrangements to transfer thu
garrison at Fort Monroe, with the ex-
| ccption Of about 20 men and two Off
GERS, all immuncs. to Battery Point, at
the mouth Of the Delaware river.
Norfolk, va, July &l.-A message
from Gov Woodfn Of the Soldiers
Home at Hampton. says that there
have been three deaths from yellow
| fever since yesterday, and 30 cases are
now under treatment. Expert surgeons
and immune nurses are being installed
| and rigid quarantine regulations en-
| forced The most plausible theory of
! the introduction of the disease is that
| the germs were imported the trans
| ports that brought the sick soldiers
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