The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-05
NO NEW CASES REPORTED
RICHMOND HAS NOT QUARAN-
TINED AGAINST NEWPORT.
.REQulSITiON FOR TENTS AND COTS
All The Old Bedding at The Soldiers Home
viii be Burned and Unihfecled
Inmates Put in Tents on
The Grounds.

| me Gr0dn0S.
/ Washington Aug 4.-0fficial reports
of the Marine Hospital Service from
| the Soldiers Home at Hampton show
that the yellow fever situation there
continues favorable. Surgeon White re-
| ports to DR.. Wyman that there is moth
| ing suspicious in the town OF Hampton.
| There was no new eases and only two
deaths at the home today according to a
report from Doctor Nickery the surgeon
at the institution, sent TO the Surgeon
General tonight. DIR. Vickery expressed
the opinion that the immune help on the
way there should be sufficient as the
epidemic seems to be checked. The cor
| don around the home and the Immediate
| ly adjoining village Of Phoebus, Surgeon
! White says is as tight as he ever saw it
at any place. Surgeon General Wyman
| III speaking of the situation tonight in-
| ferentially uttered word OF caution
against too sanguine views OF the check
! ing of the epidemic at this time which
maght result in relaxation of the pre-
cautions which should be maintained
against the spread of the fever. He said:
There are certain factors in the sit
uation which make ii encouraging, and
they are, first that the disease was dis
covered very promptly compared with us-
ual outbreaks in am minstifution where ak
the inmates were under good control. tt
was recognized much quicker than it
would have been in a commercial com
munity because all the cases and all the
deaths were brought to the notice of one
man. Another favorable factor is that
the latitude is not extremely south
Nevertheless it should be remembered
| that in Brunswick, Ga. in 1893, little
more than twos weeks after the last re-
ported death other cases appeared"
| In response to an inquiry as to the
situation and needs ut the Indian School
ut Hampton. the following dispatch was
received today by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs:
Rigid quarantine for and against us.
All Indians except eleven boys are in
the north. They are efficient and faith
ful in the general guard duties. Am
authorized to say that the possibility of
injection is remote.
Csignedl "F. C. BRIGGS.
business Agent, Hampton Institute"
The school has total emeollment OF
13S pupils and the news that all but
eleven of them are away and ont of the
| fever district relieves the apprehensions
Of the authorities here.
| The following was today wired the AS
sociated Press:
National Soldiers Home, Va.
Aug. 4, 1899.
II wish to state on behalf Of those
who may 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 l,J0O Catholic veterans and offer
the consultations of our Holy Religion to
such rs might be stricken down with the
yellow fever, / have had within the past
! five days only seven cases to attend. Out
Of this small number of cases only one
| has died. the other six cases being in
very mild form.
tStgned) REV. JAS. +. COLLINS.
Catholic Chaplain n. s. H."
The Postoffce apartment reports that
the mails are now being dispatched into
the quarantined points ON the Virginia
peninsula twice daily and all mails sent
out from them is being thoroughly ftm-
| gated
Chaplain Morrison, of the Texas. has
volunteered to go down to the National
Soldiers Home at Hampton if the au-
/ thorlties there care to avail of his SER
| vices during the prevalence of the epi-
| demic. The Navy department has trans
| mitted the Chaplain's offer to the Coy
ernor Of the Home
REQUISITION FOR COTS.
| Norfolk, Va, Aug 4.-General Martin
| ID. MoMahon, of New York member
| Of the Board Of Directors of the Soldiers
| Home, and Colonel Andrew ]. Smith.
of Hartford Conn, inspector general of
| the Home, who arrived here this morn
ing, immediately made requisition on the
qnaGtermaster's department of the army
for $500 mattresses and 100 hospital
| tents for the Home. The following re-
| ply was received:
Washington, Aug A. 1899.
'McMahon. Manager, Norfolk, Va.
Medical Department has five hundred
and thirty mattresses at Fort Monroe
and 1872 at Josiah Simpson Hospital
which they will turn over to Governor of
| Hampton Home Sixteen hundred mat
| tresses belonging to this department have
been ordered from Philadelphia to Cape
Charles City, Va, fast freight. Marine
Hospital Service will arrange to take
them over One hundred complete hos
pital tents will leave Washington for
| Norfolk on tonight's steamer. consigned
| TO Governor of Hampton Home, care