The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-08-08
ScOurge Is Apparently Under
Complete Control.
ENCOURAGING OFFICIAL REPORTS
No Deaths and No New Cases at Ham ptou
Soldiers Home-Crusade Against Filth
In Norfolk and Newport News-Norfoik
Officials and Citizens Indignant at False
Statements Published in Various Papers
-AdvisabiIity of Modifying Quarantine.
Special to Tie Post.

Special to Tie Post
Newport News. Va, Aug. 6.-There are
no further developments in the yellow
fever situation at Soldiers Home to-day.
NO new cases; no Deaths" is the official
statement from the hospital The author
tiles Of the institution are confident that
the disease has practically run It's course,
and that there viii be 10 more cases CT
the scOUTge.
In the meantime every possible pre-
caution is being taken to prevent it
from spreading. The quarantine lines at
Hampton and at Newport News are still
maintained, and the TWO cities are eX-
perienclng the greatest crusade against
filth ever known in their history. In
Newport News inspectors have been ap-
pointed to make daily house-to-house in
spectiOn, in order to keep track of any
suspicious cases Of sickness that may ap-
pear here. The Norfolk health authori-
ties had representatives in the city to-
day, and it is believed that they are
making advances looking toward lifting
the quarantine now existing between the
two cities. 1t is probable that the quaran-
tine regulations, except in the cases of
Soldiers Home and Phoebus, viii be lifted
some time during the next ten days.
NNTi0lk EsGHts diSe - tdtGnGnt.
srecial to The Post.
Norfolk, Va, Aug. 6.-The yellow fever
situation, 50 far as this city is concerned,
is unchanged. Nothing of a suspicious
nature has developed here. The qUaran-
tine is in rigid effect, and talk Of modify
ing it does not meet with approval. The
first Of the refugees VINO left town are be
ginning to return. Reports of the exodus
from Norfolk have been grossly exag-
Gerated in maLy cases, but the Sunday
newspapers contain tremendous lists Of
people a watering places for the sum-
mer." The names Of several hundred
others who also ram do not appear.
The enraged citizens and city officials
are seeking to learn the whereabouts of
newspaper staff correspondent who printed
in his paper Of yesterday the story of the
mysterious death % a prominent Norfolk
merchant. whose remains Were taken 70
Washington week ago for burial. No
names We're given. but by order of the
Mayor police detectives Immediately insti-
tuted an investigation. Bernard J. Young,
the merchant referred 10. died here last
Sunday, after six weeks illness of typhoid
fever. His remains were embalmed and
the death certificate was signed by Dr.
Newbill, President OF the Board of Health.
Efforts to find the correspondent proved
futile. He disappeared the day before
the publication of the story
The following official statement was is
sued to-day: The reports Of yellow fever
and suspicious cases existing in this city
and vicinity, published in the New York
World and other papers are utterly with
out foundation, There has been no yellow
fever in Norfolk, Portsmouth, or Berkley,
and a strict quarantine is in force against
the infected points. c. F. NewbHI, Presi-
dent Board of Health; j. F. Lynch, Quar-
, antine Officer"