The San Francisco call., 1899-08-02
Believed to Have Been Car
ried by Soldiers From
the Hampton Home.
STRICT QUARANTINE.
Three New Cases and One Death
the Days Record at Hampton.
Troops to Be Moved,
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. - Surgeon
General Wyman is much encouraged
tonight by the reports from the Hamp-
ton Soldiers Home and surrounding
places.
There is no evidence whatever that
yellow fever has spread beyond the
original point of infection, and each
day that passes without some evidence
of it's presence being discovered at
some other point makes it more certain
that it was not carried out of the neigh
borhood of the home before the present
impossible sanitary Gordon was estab-
lished Reports received from Surgeon
White. in charge of the Marine Hospital
service at Hampton and surrounding
places, indicate that there have been
three new cases and one death to-day,
bringing the total number of cases up
to forty and the number of deaths up
to eight.
Surgeon White says there is little
doubt of the infection of the village OF
Phoebus. He says there is one case
there which is under observation ana
is probably yellow fever.
Surgeon General Wyman had expected
to learn that the disease had gotten into
Phoebus. 1t is a little village 1mme-
diately adjoining the Soldiers Home
grounds. There are numerous saloons
and other places of resort in the village
that were much frequented by the old
soldiers all the time the fever was de-
veloping in the home. For this reason
Dr. Wyman says 1T cannot be said that
the disease has spread to Phoebus, for
1t is there. 1t was established before
it's first discovery inside the home, and
Phoebus is really a part of the same
center of infection as the home itself.
Reports have been received from the
Marine Hospital surgeons at Norfolk,
Portsmouth, Newport News and Old
Point Comfort, showing that no one has
been found at either of these places
who had been exposed to the infection.
This still further encourages the hope
that the disease will be kept WITHIN
the limits of the home and Phoebus.
DR.. Woodward, health officer OF
Washington, has discovered two old
soldiers in this city who were at the
Hampton Home during the time when
the disease was developed They have
been subjected to a careful examina-
ton and are apparently free from any
symptoms of fever, but in order to
minimize danger, they have been 1so-
lated in the detention camp which was
established last winter for the deten-
ton of persons who had been exposed
to smallpox.
The War Department and the Marine
Hospital service are cooperating to
get LIG dIllIltIy lIOOpo at OLI AfANlA-
roe away from that neighborhood with
the least possible delay. Quartermas-
ter McCaulley at Philadelphia has
made all arrangements for the trans
portation of troops to Battery Point,
Delaware. A special train is to be run
down to Cape Charles City, across in
a steamer.
DR.. Pettus, the Marine Hospital sur
geOn in charge of the military reserva-
ton, will carefully inspect all men be-
fore they leave the fort, and any that
are suspected of being infected will be
detained. The entire command will be
kept under close observation by medt-
cal officers while in transit to Battery
Point, and upon their arrival there they
will be isolated from all other soldiers
at that post and will be carefully OBJ
served until the expiration of eleven
days. which is considered the extreme
period of incubation for yellow fever.
Dr.. Wyman does not believe there is
any possibility of the soldiers carrying
the disease with them and spreading it
in the neighborhood of Battery Point,
for they will be so carefully watched
by the medical officers of the army that
if the fever should break out among
them it would not get outside of the
command.
NEWPORT NEWS, Aug. 1T Is not
considered that there is any danger of
the disease spreading to this place, al
though all suspicious cases will be
closely watched. People are going and
coming here as usual and there is very
1ittle excitement