The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-03
Aovlces Received by Surgeon Gen.
eral Wyman Last Night
Snow But Little Change In the Situation at
the Soldiers Home.
There Were Four More Suspects,
Who Have Been Removed to the
Hospital-One Death Also Oc-
curred-Governor Woodfin Of
the Home Confident the Pestil-
ence Will Soon Be Stamped Out.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. = Advices
received by Surgeon General Wyman
up to 9 o'clock from Hampton show
that the only change in the yellow
fever situation is the addition of four
suspects. These have been removed
from the camp to the hospital. This
information, and the additional state
ment that there has not been death
since Z O'Clock and that everything
with reference to the disease is more
than favorable, was received from
Governor Woodfin of the Soldiers
Home. He also wired that he is quite
sure the pestilence will be stamped
out.
TROOPS TO BE SENT TO BATTERY
POINT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-Just before
the close of the War Department to-
day final decision was reached to send
the troops from Fort Monroe to Battery
Point, Delaware. Surgeon General
Wyman objected to locating the troops
so far south, but General Merritt held
that it would be fatal in case any OF
the men were infected to take them
North and in the end the latter service
prevailed.
General Merritt is expected to make
an arrangement for the execution of the
order, even to securing the boats neces-
Sary to carry the men across Chesa-
peake Bay to the railroad, which will
carry them to Battery Point On the Del
aware River Secretary Root to-day
found that the care of the soldiers at
Hampton Soldiers Home was entirely
within the power of the National Board
of Soldiers Homes. The department
is as yet ignorant of the whereabouts of
General Franklin, President of the
Board of National Homes.
The presence of the disease at Phoe-
bus as indicated in the press dispatches
has not been officially communicated to
DR.. Wyman. The accuracy of the re
port, however, is not doubted, as such
condition of affairs was anticipated.
house toulouse inspection of the viii
lage has been ordered. Surgeon Snow
den, at Alexandria, Va, was this morn
ing directed to carefully inspect all
persons arriving by rail or water at
Hampton and vicinity and to keep them
under detention if necessary. Similar
instructions have been sent to marine
hospitals at Chesapeake Bay ports.
In connection with these orders, DR..
Wyman made the following statement
Il deem this measure quite as i'm
portant just now as the cleaning of
cities to which infection might extend.
1t is proper precaution to take. but
it need not cause unnecessary alarm.
Visitors from the localities mentioned
should be kept under medical obser-
vance for term from eight to ten
days. Development of fever of any
sort during that period should be suffi-
cient cause for isolating the cases not
affecting the health authorities
A special to the Evening Star from
Newport News says that Governor
Goodwin of the Soldiers Home at 10
o clock to-day gave out the following
official statement:
mo new cases of yellow fever; no
deaths; situation practically under con-
troll
The Star" special adds that many of
the best men in Newport News have
volunteered and are on the quarantine
line and which has been more than
trebled in the last forty Eight hours.
removing the troops from Fort Monroe.
None of the steamship companies will
take them, and just at present no Gov
eminent transports are available.
Assistant Surgeon Won Ezedorf, the
New Orleans expert, to-day reported to
the Marine Hospital Service his arrival
at Norfolk, en- route to Old Point and
Hampton, where he will assist Drs.
Pettus, Wasdin and White. Hospital
Steward Kolb also reported for duty at
Hampton, Acting Assistant Surgeon
Frank Donaldson, an immune, was or
dered to report to DR.. White at Hamp-
ton to help handle the outbreak in
Phoebus.
Surgeon General Wyman is still de-
tanned in Washington attending to the
executive work of the service, which
has been largely increased by the pres
ent excitement. He is not likely to go
to the scene of the outbreak, unless
there is a decided change in the present
favorable outlook.
The present outbreak of yellow fever
at the Hampton Soldiers Home will
give the Army Medical Corps an excel
lent opportunity to extend an investl-
CATION they have been prosecuting for
two years past into the nature of yell
low fever and the best modes of COM
batting it. The medical world at pres
ent is very generally of the opinion that
the specific bacillus has not yet been
identified. Recently the announcement
was made by Sanarelli, an Italian
scientist, that he had segregated the
germ of yellow fever and this claim was
later affirmed by a German bacteriolo-
gist after somewhat less exhaustive re-
search.
Surgeon General Sternberg of the
army made a close study of the subject.
and isolated a bacillus, which he did
not claim was the specific germ of yell
low fever, but one worthy of a closer
study, calling it for convenience the
"bacillils X" The Army Medical
Museum, under General Sternberg's di-
rections, took up the subject, and Drs.
Reed and Carroll, recently issued pre-
liminary note on the museums investi-
CATION, in which they set forth that SO
far as determined that the bacillus of
SaranelH and the bacillus X'' of Stern
berg were identical in their general
forms and their effects on the lower
animals and that both seemed to be