The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-05
FEVER STATEMENT
OFFICIAL PAPER ISSUED ON THE
SITUATION AT TAMPA.
PORTER STATES THE FACTS
WILL MAKE A THOROUGH DIAGNo.
SIS AND INSPECTION.

CordOn Thrown Around Tampa and
No Tickets Sold to Points south OF
Washington Except to Macon, At
Ianta and AsheviIIe, N. C.-These
RestrictiOns Will Be Continued
Until Thorough Investigation
Has Been Made.
Tampa, Fla, Aug. 4-Dr. ]. Y. Porter,
state health officer. tonight at 1880
o'clock, issued an official statement of
the situation here. The statement says:
In compliance with the health statutes
of the state of Florida, and the rules and
regulations of the State Board of Health,
the following is promulgated for the infor-
nation of all concerned:
Three cases of yellow fever at Tampa,
with one death, have been reported offici-
ally TO the state health officer, and quar-
antine restrictions on travel to and from
Tampa have been Immediately ordered.
These restrictions will be continued un>
ti more thorough examination of the
cases reported as yellow fever can be
made, for it is fully realized that undue
haste in this matter is neither demanded
nor in consonance with sound sanitary
judgment.
1T is desired 30 again see these cases
before decided diagnosis. both by the
state and the United States authorities
shall be arrived at and announced.
There have been no additional cases
reported to-day. The present sanitary con-
alarming or dangerously serious"
The proclamation further recites the
various quarantine regulations that have
been enforced.
situation Is Unchanged.
The yellow fever situation here remains
practically unchanged to-day. The fever
Is still confined to the two cases reported
i last night.
Dr. ]. Y. Porter, state health officer.
n arrived this morning from Key West and
n look charge of the health regulations of
the city. Dr. Porter was accompanied
4 BY DR.. ]. H. White, assistant to Surgeon
General Wyman of the Marine Hospital
Service, and these two authorities with
! Dr.. L. w. Weldon, local agent of the
state board have made a thorough ex-
animation of the existing cases.
4 Under orders from DR.. Porter. Sheriff
Spencer this afternoon established a
complete Gordon about the city, placing
armed guards on all country roads,
81 bridges, ETC., with instructions to allow
y no one to pass, going in either direction
4 unless provided with a signed order from
either Dr. Porter or DIR. Weldon. This
4 Gordon practically shuts Tampa in from
8 the surrounding country.
Sale of Tickets Restricted.
4 Passenger trains on the Plant System
\ now run through to Port Tampa without
stopping here. Orders to railroad ticket
agents were made more stringent to-day
and they are prohibited from selling tick
cts to any point south of Washington
latitude, unless to points which they are
sure will admit passengers from Tampa
Atlanta and Macon, Ga, and Asheville
N c., are thus far the only cities which
have wired, through their Mayors, theil
Willingness to receive refugees. The ex'
odus tonight was very small. the ma
s'4'S VI buS pdSSShSclS SOiuo "
The City Council, at last nights meet
Ing, instructed the Mayor to appoint q
committee of expert local physicians tc
visit the two existing cases and report
on their condition, and as to whether
they considered them yellow fever pa
tents. This committee, composed of DR.
J. 7. Green, acting city physician; DIR
E Falanga, an Italian expert, and DIR
Nunez, a Cuban, reported on their inves
legations tonight They pronounce the
Baker case not yellow fever and the Par
ker case as Suspicious