Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-05
THE FEVER SITUATION,
Latest Reports from the h.
fected District
TWO DEATHS YESTERDAY
No Kew Cases Reported at the Home
or PhOebUS.
CONFLICT OF STATEMENTS.
Governor WOodhn and the Marine
Hospital Service Surgeons DO Not
Agree as To the Number of Vic
tims-Conditions nt Hampton.

NEWPORT NEWS. VA. August A.
ial)-There were two deaths Of yell
low-fever to-day AZ the National Soldiers
Home. near Hampton. The victims were
James McGovera and W. Sanford, both
old soldiers. il was reported that one
Of the men died of consumption. but an
Official statement 10 your correspondent
from the hospital gives yeAow-fever as
the cause. There wero no new cases in
the home and none I'm Phoebus. All Of
the patients in the home hospital are
doing well. and al the present time none
az those now stricken are expected to
Gle.
CONFLICT or STATEMENTS.
Official statements obtained from sew
eral reliable authorities at the home diff
fr from the statement of Governor
W0o1an as 20 the number of deaths since
10 scourge broke out. The Governor
in q statement given the press last night
says there have been a total of forty
cases with only five fatalities. The
Marine Hospital Service and the physi-
clans at the hospital where the cases
are treated, say positively that there
had been eight deaths prior to to-day.
Reference to- the official reports that have
been sent TO the War Department from
day 40 day verihes the number Of deaths
as eight. The two deaths to-day in
crease the total 10 ten.
The quarantine against the cities Of
Norfolk and Portsmouth by Newport
News went into effect this morning and
DO passengers who come here from those
cities by way of Richmond are permitted
10 enter. All who hail from across
Hampton Roads are turned back. The
citizens generally applaud the action Of
the Board of Health in establishing this
quarantine.
HEALTH CERTIFICATES.
The State Board OF Health has decided
TO have the railroad ticket agents below
Williamsburg on the Chesapeake and
ohio To demand certificates from physi-
clans or responsible people from all per-
sons string to buy tickets for Richmond
and the North. This order went into
elct This afternoon. and hereafter no
person will be- permitted to leave the city
unless ne can produce satisfactory proof
district i'm ten days. In other words
those persons who went down TO the
Soldiers Home last week will not be
allowed 20 leave the city until ten days
from that time. This arrangement meets
with the approval of the local health au-
thoiities The SKATE Board has appoint
Cd Or. +. L. Hobson as the railroad
health officer TO inspect trains TO and
from Newport News
The Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Company will tomorrow send
part Of its local force to West Point Va,
and until the quarantine is raised it will
handle freight AT that point. The Old
Dominion Steamship Company is now
landing all of the Norfolk freight there.
West Point quarantined against New
mort News. it is said, because the trans
portation companies threatened 10 cut
ont Norfolk and land her freight at West
Point. IL is understood That part OF
The Chesapeake and Ohio force will also
co 70 West Point tomorrow 10 assist the
TRANSFORMATION company.