The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-14
1T SHIFTS TO NEW ORLEANS.
YELLOW FEVER Is NOW BEING
WATCHED IN THAT CITY.

One Fatal Case There-Dr. Carter,
the Fever Expert, Came as Far as
WaycrOss with DR.. Brunner-Ex-
pert Was on His Way TO New Or
Ieans-ImpIicit Confidence viii BE
Placed in the Report He sends
From That PIace-OR 1t MaS De-
pend savannRb's QuarantininG.
The scene has shifted, and. instead Of
Port Tampa City, il is now New Orleans
that is occasioning uneasiness by the re-
port of four cases of yellow fever. DR..
w F. Drummer. health officer, expects TO
know within twenty-four or thirty-six
hours the worst that is to be feared from
New Orleans and that section, and it will
be decided within the same time, prob
ably, whether it is advisable for Savan-
nan to quarantine against New Orleans.
DR.. Drummer returned yesterday from
Port Tampa where he went to investigate
the fever situation. He found that there
had been no other case than that OF the
man who died last Sunday. His name was
Jack Walsh. and DIR. Drummer describes
him as having been a sort of a roust-
about. No other cases grew out OF
Walsh's infection, though six men who
came within range of the fever are care
fully isolated, and will be kept apart from
AL others by the surgeons until Sept. II.
1t was a difficult matter to trace Walsh
and altogether impossible TO tell with alb
solute certainty where he had contracted
the fever The man had wandered around
considerably but the surgeons were able
TO find where he had been every day for
the thirty Immediately preceding his
death. with the exception OF one, Sept. ..
1t was on Sept 6 that he was received
in the marine hospital at Port Tampa, and
on Sept. 10 that he died.
Contrary to the action that should have
been taken, no report of the case was
made to the Florida state authorities un-
til Sunday, the day of the mans death.
Notwithstanding the fact that he was re-
ceved in the hospital on the sixth and
that the diagnosis indicated the nature
of the disease. There was cu.pability ia
that, DR.. Drummer said, though
just where IL rests is not
known. II was through ignorance of the
existence of case of yellow fever at
Port Tampa City that the Florida author
ites failed to notify Savannah and other
cities Ii was thought strange that moth
ing should have been heard from them
about the case, and Mayor Myers and
Health Officer Drummer were unable to
explain their silence. IL is quite probable
that this incident will cause shaking
up of things that will tend to prevent Il
recurrence.
st. Petersburg several miles from Port
Tampa, was fixed upon by DR., Drummer
and the marine hospital surgeons as the
place where Walsh probably contracted
the disease. His movements showed he
had spent a good deal of time there and
it was ascertaned that several sailing
vessels that had come from Key West and
other ports to the South had avoided the
marine services quarantine station on
Egmont Key, and that of the Florida au-
thorities on Mullet Key, making direct for
St. Petersburg. 1t was thought highly
probable that the infection had been
brought into the town by one of those
vessels. and that Walsh had there con-
tracted it.
Nothing of a suspicious nature was to
be discovered in st. Petersburg. 1t is pos
sibe there may be an outbreak of the
fever there, il the conclusions of the sur
geons are correct, but DR. Drummer says
If the fever must be had. no better place
for its isolation could be found than St
Petersburg, as its location is such as TO
keep the fever well in hand and prevent
by quarantine its spread 10 ncighborins
places.
Six men were in the marine hospital az
the time Walsh was under treatment
They we're taken out after his death and
placed where careful watch could be main
tanned. 1t is possible the fever may be
developed among them. OF two, however
DR.. Drummer is quite certain He thinks
they are in no danger, as they are i'm
munes The men came under his notice
while he was in the marine hospital serv-
ice.
Considerable alarm was manifested at
Tampa, Port Tampa and Port Tampa City
DR.. Drummer says. On his way down last
Monday morning he met many refugees,
who were leaving for places of undoubt-
al fa4 af~l..
day, but yesterday 1t had subsidized, and
DIR. Drummer noticed but very few pas
sengers leaving Tampa. The alarm has
vanished. and the people seem confident
that there Is no danger
DR.. Drummer was wen received at Tamra
ana Port TAMPA Surgeon General wy
man had wired the marine hospital sur
geons of DR.. Brunner's coming and notified
them TO act with HIM. DIR. drummer is a
yellow fever expert. and the surgeons
knowing he had been in the service. were
glad 10 follow his sugges ions in disposing
OF the situation.
II was rumored at Tampa that Dr. Brun-
nee had Walshs body exhumcd for an au-
topsy. The Mayor Of the city rang him up
while he was al Port Tampa to make in
CURRY about il. DR.. Drummer coniradicted
the report, saying that TWO DAYS had
elapsed which was too long TO admit of
an autopsy that would sc,ose whether or
not the man had died from yellow fever
The report had it that DR.. Drummer had
ascertained Thai the disease was not
yei.ow fever OF the nature of the disease
DR.. Drummer entertained not the slightest
doubt, as he symptoms ana description
given him by the surgeons settled that
point conc.usVely TO his mind.
On his re un Or. Drummer came as far
as Waycross with Dr.. Carter of the ma
rine hospital service. Or. Carter had been
at Key West, having tesn sent there as
yellow fever expert on The outbreak OF the
disease. DIR. 81 unner regards him as prob
ably the best posted maa on the dreaded
disease in the country, AMI his going TO
New Orleans, where he has been ordered
by The surgeon general, is thought by the
health officer mater in which satisrac-
ton should be found.
Wien DR.. Bruaner aft the service, he
was succeeded ar Havana by DR.. Carter.
and il was from there that the latter
was ordered 10 Key Yves, to take charge.
Key West is LET under he diteciidn Of tae