The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-31
YELLOW FEVER
Much Concern Over APP
searance Of the Diseass
at Hampton.
SIX SIxVETERANS'ALREADY DEAD
Presence of the Scourge ia
the Soldiers Home
Mystery.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1922
Surgeon General Sternberg has received
the following from Lieut.-Colonea De
Witt at Fort Monroe regarding the OUT
break Of yellow fever at the Soldiers
Home at Hampton. ya-:-
Fort Monroe, va. July 81
Surgeon General, U. s. A.. Washsngtons
A four O'Clock ,,s-,,,s M yezatsrd;syii zaas;syi
Service, quarantine officer, ofhc1a1ly
states that yellow fever was az Natlon4t
Soldiers, Home Hampton thirty-lo1qar 1ar
Ger took immediate measures for Quaran-
tine. Surgeon Pettus states surgeon gem
eral marine hospital service was notineo
: 7s'1- 80 - DE WITT. Surgeon.
Adjutant General Corbin and Major
Johnston, Assistant Adjutant General.
were at Fort Monroe yesterday and were
present when Surgeon Pettus made his
report to Lieutenant Colonel Dewitt, re-
garding the outbreak of yellow fever az
the Soldiers Home. General Corbin says
that from all accounts there is little
doubt that the conditions are serious and
there is no telling how far the Infection
may have reached. There is trolley
road along the beach for distance OF
more than six miles and excursion parties
have been coming to Old Point and ad-
jacent places and have taken the trolley
10 Newport News, and to the Soldiers
Home. Many of them have mingled Fltn
the soldiers.
General Corbin says that one theory OF
the way in which the fever might nave
been thought to the home is that one OF
the soldiers recently visited Santiago. He
returned some time since suffering with
what the physicians thought to be den
que. 1t seems it was not until the inmates
of the home began to die that the dis
ease was discovered to be yellow fever
General Corbin says there is not the least
question about the character Of the dis
ease. physicians who were present at tha
post morten on some of the victims de-
claring that yellow fever was surely
present.
According to advices received at thS
War Department today there have been
total of forty cases, six of whom have
died.
The Soldiers Home has no connection
with the War Department. It is under
board Of managers created by Con-
gfess. which manages all the soldiers
homes throughout the country The men
admitted are soldiers Of the war Of tha
rebellion.
Officers of the War Depar tment are very
much concerned on account of the nili-
tary post at Fort Monroe which is with-
in six miles of the home.
Adjutant General Corbin and Surgeon
General Sternberg had conference early
today and it was determined to hold ev<
erything in readiness to take care Of
yellow fever should it appear among th4
troops.
Surgeon Pettus through General Cor
bin has requested Surgeon General Stern-
berg to send him sucn expert imnune
yellow fever surgeons as he can find
The Marine Hospital officials are as-
taunded at the presence of yellow fever in
that locality. The last epidemic Of the
disease occurred at Norfolk In 1855, hav-
ing been brought into port on the. Eteam-
er Ben Franklin on June 7 of that year,
and in the epidemic which followed there
were ,SO7 deaths.
The steamer from Old Point arriving
here this morning was crowded with
yz SSpn gers