The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-04


been exposed to Infection. A steam
launch is patrolling the water front and
guards are being sworn in as fast as
they can be obtained.
A dispatch from DR.. Wasdin says a
house inspection of the worst portion
patch adds:
Suspicious case Of last night verified.
No new cases at the home today. One
desperate
DR.. wasdin said ne will start tomor-
row to canvass ], 500 of the inmates,
then to disinfect the rookerieS( presum-
ably those at Phoebus.)
The district commissioners have or
dered that all persons coming from
Hampton and Phoebus and any other
place that may be infected be prohibit
ed from entering the district until the
health officials are satisfied that they
have not been exposed.
What are supposed to have been the
last of the Old Point, Norfolk and New
port News refugees passed through
Washington tonight, coming On the Rich
mond train. None were detained. About
$50 people, supposed to be from the
towns in the vicinity Of Hampton board
ed the train at Richmond. One woman
with two small children who lived at
Hampto and who says she escaped the
vigilance of the quarantine restrictions,
arrived here tonight by way of Rich
mond. She applied for transportation
to Bound Brook, N. j.
TO MAKE A PERSONAL INSPEC-
TION.
New York, August 2.-General Martin
L. Mcmahon, one of the board of gov
ernOrs of the national soldiers home at
Hampton, Va, left for the south today
and took with him DR.. Roberts, chief
of the sanitary bureau of the board Of
health. The general said that he wish
ed to inspect the yellow fever sftua-
ton at the home for himself and had
asked President Murphy, of the board
! of health, for the services Of an expert
The latter selected DR.. Roberts.
President Murphy has given the doc
| tor authority to choose 'five physicians
! to accompany him. None of these will
| be required to go, but volunteers will
be asked for. DR.. Roberts took no ply
sicians with him. He will wire Mr..
! Murphy if he needs them.
ALL PASSENGERS FROM THE
SOUTH INSPECTED.
Every passenger coach that arrived
| from the south today over the Pennsyl-
| vania and Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
roads was fumigated, and every pas
| senger from the south was inspected
before being permitted to leave the
| trains. This extraordinary precaution
| was adopted by the health department
of Jersey City. assisted by the rail-
| road companies, to prevent the posi-
bility of spread of yellow fever. A
| special squad of sanitary officers has
! been placed on duty at the Pennsyl-
vania and Baltimore and Ohio stations
| in Jersey City by the health inspector.
PRECAUTIONS BY PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, August Estate Quar-
antine Physician Heller today issued
orders that all vessels sailing for this
| port from Norfolk, Richmond and
Hampton Roads be stopped at the quar-
! antine station at Reedy island, in the
| Delaware river, until an eXamina tion
can be made by the quarantine Off
| cials whether there are any traces Of
yellow fever on board. Further orders
were issued requiring the captains of
| all vessels from the infected places to
present a certificate from the health Of
| flee of the sailing port that none of
| the passengers or crew are from the in
! fected districts. Passengers are also
! required to furnish a certificate that
none of those on board had been ill
with symptoms of yellow fever during
! the voyage. Reedy island is forty-six
/ miles below Philadelphia.
THE NORFOLK EXODUS,
Washington, August 2.-The steamer
| of the Norfolk and Washington Steam
/ boat Company that reached here this
q
| number of passengers. Many of them
are residents of Norfolk and vicinity,
who are leaving for fear the fever will
! break out near their hOr-ieS and detain
! them within the Quarani. ne lines. The
! same is true of the Baltimore steamers
: from Norfolk. A resident of Norfolk
f., who reached here by way of Baltimore
this morning, told Star reporter that
| Norfolk now has a deserted appear
| ance. Almost every man in Norfolk
| who can offord it, he said, has sent his
family from the city, and while some
few have gone to Richmond, most OF
them are coming farther north.
| Early Monday morning, he said, when
the news Of the outbreak of the dis
| ease at Hampton reached Norfolk peO.
pie who remember the sad scenes OF
years ago, were on the streets bright
| and early discussing precautionary
measures. By breakfast time almost
every street corner was crowded, and
people gathered about the newspaper
and telegraph offices, seeking informa.
ton. The city really presented a floli.
day appearance and business was prac-
tically suspended. Since then the
steamboat and railroad offices have
been besieged by hundreds of frighten.
ed people. All the transportation com.
panies have been doing a rushing bust.
| ness and expressmen are reaping a har.
| vest.
Discussing the situation with a Sta,
reporter this citizen Of Norfolk sale
that everything possible is being don.
to keep the disease out of the city o
| Norfolk. Many sanitary inspectors ant
special policemen have been appoint
ed, and the citizens generally hay.
turned in to clean up the city Before
he left Norfolk last night, he said, III
heard many alarming rumors concern,
ing the spread of the disease, although
none OF them had it that Norfolk was
infected. He heard runlor that there
were five cases of the fever in one o.
the larger towns near Norfolk, but tn,
report had not been verified when III
| left.
All day Sunday and early Monda,
morning, he said, people crossed from
Old Point and Hampton to Norfolk il
small boats, and there is no telling how
many people left the infected section
in this way.
Soon after the Norfolk authoritie:
learned that so many soldiers at Hamp.
ton had been stricken they established 6
strict quarantine, and now, he says
1T is simply impossible for person tt