The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-08-04

Surgeon General Wyman has not yet
decided whether he will go to Hamp-
ton, but will do so if there is any need
Of his services. Arrangements are al
ready made to throw quarantine lines
around any place where the disease
shows itself outside Of the home.
Hospital Given Up to Patients.
Secretary Alger directed the Josiah
Simpson hospital at TT. Monroe to be
turned over to the marine hospital
service If it is wanted by Surgeon
General Wyman. This hospital con-
tains 1000 beds, and was fitted up for
the troops stationed at Newport News
last summer. Only small portion of
it has ever been used.
The secretary told General Wyman
to call on the war department for any
thing that it had OF was wanted, and
it would be furnished at once without
regard to regulations or rules. The
secretary said that Surgeon General
Wyman should be assisted in every
way in dealing with the epidemic. The
following order was issued by the war
department Monday:
"The presence of yellow fever having
been officially reported at the soldiers
home at Hampton, Va, the secretary of war
directs that you give orders for the imme-
dlate movement Of the garrison at TT. Mon
roe to some place of safety somewhere on
the northern coast to be selected by you.
Two commissioned officers and not less than
twenty men will be left in charge Of the
post. If there are immunes in the com
mand they will be given preference Ac-
knowledge receipt and report action taken.
"H. G. CoRBIN Adjutant General"
The Possible Cause.
DR.. Wasdin's official report Of his
examination of existing conditions at
the Soldiers home reached DR..
Wyman Monday. 1t is dated Sunday
and notes the fact that the doctor has
seen all cases of suspected diseases at
the home. He sums up the history of
the contagion as follows:
early in July an old soldier enter
ed the home for O short rest and soon
afterwards appeared at the dispensary,
} where he informed the physician in
charge that he was but recently from
Santiago, via transport to a northern
= port; thence he started for Manila Wis
) San Francisco, to beat his way to the
2 home on a freight train, and entered
with his baggage. He complained o.
. dumb chills and fever and was pre-
I scrlbed for. He mingled freely will
I the inmates of the home and shor
: time ago disappeared. From this al
t possible cause, the outbreak is a
K follows:
Preceding Friday, the 21st of July
there had been noticed nothing of
suspicious nature. The weekly dealt
Q rate was as usual. But on the els
J and 22d there became ill during tn
It night, with sharp pains, more or les
: chill, high fever, some eight or ten in
g mates, men of usually good health
e These seizures, although noted as pc
It culiar, had occasioned no alarm unit
y about Thursday, the. 9th, when
Q death occurred, the man becomin
d distinctly yellow some time prior t
IS death.
9 son or about the same day anothe
70 one died, without having attracted PAL
ticular attention; he also turned quit
70 yellow. Autopsies were held on bot
10 by the resident pathologist. The
telegram was sent you asking for a
Al expert. found there were $500 il
is mates and thirty-fve had been take
9. ill since the 21st.