The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08
Is the Report From the
Fever District.
NO NEW CASES REPORTED
At the Home or i'm Phoebus-Two
Deaths Yesterday a: the Former.
Newport News Not Guaranteed by
Riehmond-A Word Of Caution From
surgeon General Wvman-AH In.
mates of the Home TO be CHARTERED In
Tents-Mails Fumigated.

Richmond, Va, August A Hamp-
says that everything IS going on
smoothly there, and the people are
going about their business calmly. Two
deaths from the fever are reported
from the home, but no new cases at
either the home or Phoebus.
In connection with the quarantine
controversy between Newport News
and Norfolk, the impression has gotten
abroad in some quarters that Rich
nom quarantined against Newport
News. This is incorrect. The Richmond
quarantine is only against points on the
peninsula east Of Newport News. The
Richmond authorities have regarded
Newport News as amply protected, and
in refusing to quarantine against that
place were sustained by the state board
of health. The Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad has never stopped running
either it's passenger or it's freight trains
from this city into Newport News.
THE SITUATION STILL FAvORA-
BILE.
Washington, August 4.-Official re-
ports from the marine hospitaU service
at the soldiers home at Hampton show
that the yellow fever situation con-
tinues favorable. Surgeon White re-
ports to DR.. Wyman that there is moth
ing suspicious in the town of Hamp-
ton. There We're no new cases and only
two deaths at the home today, accord
ing to a report from DR.. Vickery, the
surgeon at the institution, sent to the
surgeon general tonight. DR.. Vickery
expressed the opinion that the immune
clip on the way there ShOuld be Suffi-
cient as the epidemic seems to be
checked. The Gordon around the home
and the Immediately adjoining village
of Phoebus, Surgeon White SAYS. is as
tight as he ever saw it at any place.
Surgeon General Wyman, in speak
ing of the situation tonight, inferen-
TALLY uttered a word of caution against
too sanguine views of the checking of
the epidemic at this time which might
result in a relaxation of the precau-
tions which should be maintained
against the spread of the fever. He
said:
There are certain factors in the sit
uation which make it encouraging, and
they are: First, that the disease was
discovered very promptly compared
with usual outbreaks in an institution
where all the inmates were under good
was lSNoSlIHSo 1I1uSIl
quicker than it would have been in a
commercial community, because all the
cases n all the deaths were brought
to the notice of one man. Another ia
vOrable factor is that the latitude is
not extremely south. Nevertheless it
| wick, Ga, in 1893, a little more han
two weeks after the last reported death
other cases appeared"
THE INDIAN SCHOOL.
In response to an inquiry as to the
situation and needs at the Indian
school at Hampton, the following dis
patch was received today by the COM
missioner of Indian affairs:
Rigid quarantine for and against US.
All Indians except eleven boys are in
the north. They are efficient and faith
full in the general guard duties. Am
authorized to say that the possibility
of infection is remote
IF. C. BRIGGS,
Business Agent Hampton Institute"
The school has a total enrolment Of
13S pupils, and the news that all but
eleven of them are away and out of
the fever district relieves the apprehen-
! siOnS of the authorities here.
The following was today wired the
Associated Press from the national sol
diers' home at Hampton:
Il wish to state on behalf of those
who nay have relatives or friends
among the Catholic element here in
the national soldiers home, that since
my coming here last Monday to labor
among the 1900 Catholic veterans and
offer the consultations of u holy re-
ligion to such as might be stricken
down with the yellow fever, I have haG
within the past five days only sever
cases to attend. Out of this small num-
Der of cases only n has died, tht
other six cases being in a very miid
form.
REV. JAMES E. COLLINS,
Catholic Chaplain n. S. H"
MAILS FUMIGATED.