Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-17
Health Board to Officially Raise
Phoebus Quarantine.
PRESENT FEVER SITUATION
Chamberlain Hotel Closed Yesterday
Morning. Travel Over the Peninsula
Resumed. Wyman's Official State
mont. Soldier Roasts Yeaser.

Wiz NC neld tonight for the purpose OF
ratifying the action of DR.. Hvbson, N
regard to the phoebus quarantine ana
to "olicially' raise it.
When DR.. Hobson. acting for the
local Board of Health. mes with the
other authorities at Ola FONT to con-
slder the matter of raising this
quarantine. it was understood that he
was to act for the board and that his
decision in the matter would be final
ana oif1clal as far as the board was
observation-disclosures his action was
IN every respect satisfactory, in allow
ing the quarantine to be raised, there
was no official record to the effect that
this action had been taken by the
Newport News Board Of Health.
'For this reason principally, the meet
ing tonight will be held. although there
are several other matters that will
probably be brought UP for the con-
sidera ton of the board. The uualan-
tine will be Officially" raised from
FhocbuS and the minutes OF the board
VIII be complete in this respect.
The fever situation last night was
unchanged. the official report ben;;
that there had been no deaths and no
new cases during the past twenty
four hours. ALI the soldiers are nov
getting we'll and it is the matter D
only a few days when the quarantine
against the Soldiers Home can safely
DC raised In the event that the ST: ul-
ton does NOT take a turn for the worse
this will prUhab be done by next
week at the latest
TueATrIC RESUMED.
communication between Newport
News and Old Point Comfort was re-
sumed yesterday, when the electric
cars leaving this city went through 20
the Point. stopping as usual at all
places along the line. The Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad is also running
through to the Point now, taking On
and discharging passengers at Phoe-
bus as well as the other stations on
the road. .
The r;1ising of the quarantine against
Pnoehus was popular move. AS the
little town outside of the Home has \
clean bill Of health there was no neccs-
sity for keeping it closed to the world
and interruptin. traffic This decision
was reached Tuesday night at a meet
ing of the national and local health
authorities at OLD Point.
The first car went through about
midnight. Yesterday the electric cars
resumed their regular schedule.
Since the quarantine against the
points below this city, there has been
no connection at all With Old Point,
and even when the quarantine asains.
Hampton and Old Point was ia So d
1t was impossible for people living here
to take the Washington, Baltimore
and Cape Charles steamers at the
Point. They were compelled TO go to
Norfolk in the morning to connect with
these steamers. thereby losing an en-
tire day. Now, however. the electric
cars connect With the boats as usual
and the United States mails are com
ing in on regular schedule.
The Washington, Baltimore and Cane
Charles mails have been coming to this
City by way Of Norfolk and Richmond.
but beginning yesterday they came in
directly from Old Point. where they
were they We're left by the steamers.
outgoing mail in the evening catch
these boats, leaves as before. and the
postofllce force has resumed its resula:
routine.
The resumption of traffic over the
electric road VIII benefit ma terially
those merchants who deal with Wash
lnston and Baltimore, and will be d
source Of pleasure TO men, women and
children who spend their evenings at
Old Point and Buckroe Beach
me Hygeia Hotel is doing j rushing
Duoness, notwithstanding the fact that
the quarantine against Old Point has
been raised only a few days. Mr. F.
~ Pike, the popular manager of that
famous hosiery. says his house is re-
celvnS guests daily and will remain
open throughout the summer. When
the yellow fever broke out at the Sol
dlers' Home. there was a panic at Old
Point. but MIR. Pike stuck by his hote.
and kept ut open as long as there We're
people there who wanted accommodate
ton. He remained there during the
entire quarantine period making pre-
pdIdllonS- TO nave MS mouse ready 10
open with the raising of the quaran-
tine. AS result, the Hyge;a now en-
ploys its full force. and is being con-
Quoted on the same excellent plan
which has always characterized Mr..
Pixies management.
1T us understood that the Chanberln
Hotel closed yesterday and will not
open again until October J.
So many letters have been received
in Washington from inmates Of the
Soldiers Home. both by individuals
and the newspapers denying the exis-
tence of yellow fever there. that Sur
geon General Wyman felt called upon
to give out all interview asserting thai
there is no doubt 1T is yellow fever"
despite this, writes the Washington
correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch. and the reports of the doctors
who have diagnosed the malady as ye'-
low fever, there arc many experienced
who are now more firmly conyince.i
than ever that the whole thing was a
gigantic scare. destitute of any posi-
tive evidence that the dread scourga
had been introduced or gained q foot
hold within the duaramtined district.
the general concensus Of opinion
among medical men Of reDute Outside
the sO-callcd infected region seems to
be that t ht: initial diagnosis was a ms
take.
ut is we'll established fact" said
one of these, that the disease known
as yellow fever is an acute febrile dis
order due to the action Of a sIecfi.
virus. the exact nature of which has
been in the past, and is yet unknown
1t occurs cndemica!ly in the West In
dies. Epide1nics of yellow fever have
occurred in the United States as rar
back as 1888 and during that year the
fever was the most seriius that ever