Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-06
THE YELLOW-FEVER,
Record Of the Scourge Up to
Last Night
FORTYCASES ELEVEN DEATHS
Pretty Plain Language from Sur
6eOn White.
THE SITUATION IN HAMPTON.
Troops Depart from Fort Monroe
The Newport News Quarantine
gfEI strictly Maintained-A House.
ao-House Inspection.
THE SITUATION IN HAMPTON
Troops Depart from Fort Monroe
oo-IIouse Inspection

NEWPORT NEWS. VA, August g.
tspeciaL)-Only the most favorable reports
como from the ye,low-fever at the Ma
tional Soldiers Home, near Hampton,
and the end Of the first week since the
diagnosis Of the disease shows a remarka-
bic Improvement. 1t is understood that
the hospital officials at the home are pre-
pairing an official statement TO be seat
out eithor late tonight or tomorrow
giving the total number Of cases and the
deaths since last Sunday morning. when
the first information of the presence Of
the scourge was obtained. Your CORE
sponGent tonight learns that this state
ment will in an probability give the total
number OF cases since the epidemic start
ed as forty-two and place the number
OF deaths at eleven. This information
comes from thoroughly reliable source
and can be depended upon.
There We're no new cases reported TO-
day at the nome or in Phoebus, and no
feaths. one OF the patients who has been
held in quarantine in Phoebus was re-
leased to-day. A message TO this city
low-fever lie maintains that yellow
3aundice was his complaint. The white
barber Spraggins, who has had the fever,
was able TO be UP to-day and shaved him
self
TO LEAVE HAMPTON.
Surgeon White has communicated with
surscon-General Wyman at Washington.
with view Of making arrangements for
special train 20 be run out Of Hampton
tomorrow for the benefit Of those Hamp-
ton people who desire 10 get away. He
regards Hampton as being as safe as
cry other place now, and advises the
PIE to remain, but &c any of them want
81 leave and viii promise % 60 be-
nd Richmond. which has quaran-
Tined against Hampton he believes there
VIII Zoe no danger in allowing them to
g. When special dispatch from Wash
lnston, quoting DR.. Bradford, an old
army surgeon, as saying that there is
10 yeilOW-iever at the home. and that
the Marine Hospital people and the ciu-
zcns of this section had been frightened
by bugaboo. was shown Surgeon White
this afternoon. he simply said that the
man who was responsible for the state
ment was an ass. and did not know what
ne was talking about Further than that
h. would NOT discuss the matter There
have been rumOrs going the rounds that
the old soldiers We're poisoned instead
OF being stricken with yell0w-fever, and
that the cisten at the Soldiers Home
was found 10 contain several hundred
dead rats This story is ridiculed here
and denied by the officials. Your cor
respondent has il directly from a number
OF the surgeons, physicians and nurses,
who could be reached by telephone. that
all of eleven men ON the list of fatalities
died of the genuine yellOw-fever
THE TROOPS DEPART.
The United states transport NIcClel-
Ian which reached Newport ~ T.,
Thursday night from cuba and Porto
Rico. arrived at Fort Monroe late last
night and left this afternoon at 4 o'clock
for Plum Island Long Island sound,
with the three batteries Of the Fourth
ARTILLERY. which have been stationed at
Fort Monroe since the war The batteries
are g. @, and y. and number about
three hundred men. Colonel G. II. Gun
Their is in command. Twenty immune
men of the Fourth and three army
oHcers-0ne of whom Is q surgeOn-were
LETT behind To- garrison Fort Monroe
until the return of the main body. Pre-
paratiOns 20 embark were commenced
this morning and carly In the afternoon
the troops We're ready 90 so aboard. The
embarkation occupied about an hour
and at o'clock the transport started for
Plum Island
WEST POINT CONNECTION.
To-day the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company established con-
nection with West Point. Va. The force
o. clerks and nearly "a hundred labOrers,
as well as the west-bound department
force of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road. were sent TO West Point to-day on
a special train. The health officer there
tcleeraphCd here this morning that West
Point had raised the quarantine against
Newport News. That place Will be the
terminal of the coastWiso steamship
lines entering the Virginia capes. The
steamers VIII be run 90 that point and
freight for this city and other Virginia
and western cities viii be taken west
bv the York-Rivor Line. Freight coming
here Will. OF course. come by me Chesa-
l.ake and Ohio from Richmond, when
Will be- in sense, distrDut!hS point
the Chesapeake and ohio VIII hanoIe
practically all OF the freight handled py
t,s. companies under this Arrangement
STRICT QUARANTINE STILL
Notwithstanding the Improvement IN me
situation there has been 40 relaxation
iu tle quarantine here. The ciiizen7
shotgun quarantine continues IN loIc-'
Thor. are about $50 paid guards on duty
ana -J volunteers Health-Ohlcer hoO-
son to-day inaugurated an investigation
system. which SIS calculated 20 prevent ue-
lays In attending any cases or ieYer an"
60 allay the fears of persons who take
stock in the wild rumOrs of the DAY IN
spectors have been sworn in ana assignee
10 districts for the purpose Of ascertain
ing AN cases Of Illness Of every nature
in the city A house 70 house canvass
s. made. and the consulting expert )f.
Joseph Charles, will be able 10 get the
history Of every case of illness when he
may need II.
Many people who desired 10 leave tho
city to-day were prevented from doing
70 because they could not furnish Rail-
way-Health-Ohice HObsOn, Of Rich !
mond. satisfactory proof that they had
not been near the infected district in the |
past ten days Certificates from physi- |
clans and reputable citizens are demand |
Cd.
Surgeon G.. IL. Fonde, who handled The |
yellow-feyer scOurge in Mobile IN bsl
and ls AN expert on the disease, arrived |
here this afternoon and went 10 the Sol |
diers' Home to take direct charge OF the |
>sAsimsnt Of patients there under the