Evening journal., 1899-10-17
FEVER SUSPECT
IS LOCATED
Found Yesterday By the Health
Officers at No. AL East
Front Street.
THE HOUSE IS GUARANTEED

Ar Eh a LUNG dDNi-CAME
OVER ON THE STEAMER ARA
COMA - QUARANTINE Eff
CIENCY QUESTIONED.
Feliksa Newrocka, the woman typhus
fever suspect, was located yesterday
by Health Officers Hignutt and Jones
at No. 421 East Front street
The woman came to Wilmington
from Philadelphia on Friday last, and
the health department, being notified
of her coming. endeavored to locate
her. The task proved a difficult one,
as from the text of the telegram re-
ceived from Philadelphia the party was
supposed to have been a man, and
valuable time was lost in searching for
him.
The whereabouts OF the woman were
finally learned through cab driver at
the p, w. G. B. station, who drove her
to the house where she was
found. The house is quaran-
tined, but an effort will be made to-day
TO remove the woman to the Delaware
State Hospital. as the place where she
is now confined is a boarding house.
and the health officers say that they do
not feel justified in preventing the in
mates from going to their daily work.
is THERE A QUARANTINE?
Mrs. Newrocka arrived in Philadel-
phia Thursday last on the steamer
Aragonia, and the easy manner in which
the infected vessel entered that port
has set Philadelphia physicians TO Sc
riously wondering as to what kind Of q
quarantine there is at Marcus Hook.
The story told in Philadelphia is "a
the effect that the Aragonia arrived
there Thursday from Antwerp, a point
that is regarded with more than usual
suspicion as a source of danger from
imnorted diseases, that she was per-
~ Cd to pass up to her pier in the
r. sorhood OF Washington avenue
L go her cargo and land her pas
senge.s. except two, who were i'll
These two were sent, as typhoid sus-
pects to the Philadelphia Hospital
where 1t was instantly recognized thai
they We're suffering from typhus fever
DR.. d. i. Hughes, chief resident ply
sician. Immediately communicated witt
Colonel j. Lewis Good. chief Of the
Bureau of Health, and he in turn put
into operation the most prompt anc
rigid measures by which it was hoped
to reduce TO a minimum the evil re-
suits of the colossal blunder that haC
been made by national and state quar-
nntine officers.
In speaking of the matter a promi
nent physician says:
There ought. to be an investigation
and a thorough one. in this matter
But. unfortunately, politics have erep
in to such an extent that it is ques
tionable whether any authority that ii
competent to do this will do it effec
lively, lest the results might reflect OF
Governor Stone and some OF hi
friends. The excuse that these typhu
cases had not developed sufficient.
for detection while in the hands of tn
quarantine officials will not answer
Twenty-four hOurs, yes double or trebl
that time, before that vessel got t.
Marcus Hook a well informed physi
clan would have seen the typhus char
acter of the disease without difficulty
I am told that the characteristic spot
were beginning to fade on one OF tn
patients. If this is true. and from tn
source of information I haven't tn
least doubt of it. the doctor who Dasse
that case and that ship is hardly on
to depend upon to stand between on
community and whatever diseases, n
matter how dangerous they may b'
that may come under his official nc
tice at quarantine II we have o
guard doctors who can't tell typhu
fever when they see il. the quicker tn
.