The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30
GEN. WOODS NEW WARFARE.
THE SOLDIER WHO FOUGHT SPAN
IAHDs i NOW FIGHTING.
YELLOW JACK.

and Furnishes Any Man Found Tn
der the influence of Liquor-De-
spite His Precautions and Not
withdrawing Pleasant Reports
Sent Out From Washington, the
Disease Has "A strong Hold.
Copyrighted by the $. 5. Mcclure Co, 1893.
Washington. July 2S.-When yellow fever
is wiped out of Cuba, especially out of Ha-
vana and Santiago, il will be wiped out Of
the United States. Yellow fever does not
originate in this country Every epidemic
which the Southern states have known has
been started by the importation Of cases
from Cuba. These epliemies have cost
more than a thousand lives year for
many years, and often ten times that num-
Der during one single visitation. The mon
ey expenditure which mas been necessary
to keep up national guarantees and the
commercial loss which has resulted from
state ouarantnes have amounted up in
the scores of millions.
This indicates the immense importance
of the work which is now being done by
our American military officers in Cuba to-
ward the wiping out of the disease.
Brig. Gen. Guy V. Henry, formerly gov
ernor of Porto Rico, and who is now in the
United States on waiting orders, gave as
his opinion. based on his experience in
Porto Rico, that it was absolutely impos
sible 10 keep yellow fever out of Santiago
this summer.
Gen. Wood has certainly worked Won
ders in cleaning and administering Sanu-
age" he said in the course of conversa-
ton "but he must have realized that It
was a hopeless task as far as keeping the
city free from fever is concerned. Yellow
Jack has had an abiding place there for
200 years, and it is not possible that few
months of sanitary precautions could coun-
teract the effect Of ali that period.
yellow fever is something that no man
can guard against with any certainty. It
is the accepted theory that the disease Is
contracted through the Inhalation Of germs
which are propagated in a thousand ways.
Everything depends on the condition of the
system. If a man is run down or ener-
waited by excuses or through climatic
causes he is very apt to contract fever.
sin there are cases known where men in
vigorous health and entirely abstemou5
in habits have been carried off as with
Iightnings strike The disease attacks men,
women and children imparually, but It
must be confessed that victory generally
rests win 'nose WHO are Vi am '''i'-
peIate' , 49,. -.
Inc Precau'louS nov pOlis 49, ~
cen WOOL anu 'ie P'"I - ~ IN a,lr,o,s
seem entlrey corISc' Viii az 80
ahces' however me td9N io mas
him is by no means easy
yellow fever has existed in Santiago de
Cuba under the ihishother Oh peIrlNi2 Jug.
malaria since the SURRENDER % lne s,,' ollS
last Juiy Americans 80 - i
nave Nlea OF H. cases naNe 4l.eu INC ~, -
hospltal across 'he pay lloIil 0hil 80
other cases aplenty nave peeil eeii1 iIoli le
conValeseent 10 recuPeiaIe ~ ~ l0'
healthIul climate OF '"e Cii''ou 80 -.
In Santiago nowadays thS teIin penn
clous malaria Is py"oIu' ~ II ~"
known down there INA, lully oo ~ o. nv.
of those who suffered from }, nuIlns 'lIe
latter months OF 1888 were ieailS Ni0'ni VI
the dread yellow scourge IN "A more OF less