The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-07
FEVER PATIENT DIES IN NEW YORK All Suspects in That City Game
 From Panama THREE CASES OUT OF 200 Body of the Dead Man Will Be Gre mated--Dr. Dcty Says the Case
 Was Very Carefully
 Isolated.
THREE CASES OUT OF 200

New York, August 6.-One man died of yellow fever at New York detention hos pltal at quarantine today, making the third case of yellow fever on ships enter- ing New York this summer and the sec ond death.
 "This is the first time in five years" said Health Officer Doty, that New York has been attended by more than one yellow fever case in a summer William B. Smith. a pantryman, taken off the steamer Advance from Colon last Thurs day with nine others died today with an acute case of yellow fever. Seven other members of this party are still under in- spection, but am positive that they are not suffering from yellow fever. The other two yellow fever patients came here early in the summer.
 Not one of these fever cases, Dr. Doty said, has come from the fever districts in the United States. Panama has supplied them all and this is tine first time since 1Ss7 according to the official health rec ords at the port of New York, that fever cases from Panama has been either threatening or numerous.
 Third Out of Two Hundred.
 
 day, Ifs only the third case out of fully two hundred subjects who have been taken off ships here His death today, which came so suddenly that we cannot even learn where his family is, proved that the thermometer is not merely the only safeguard against yellow fever en- tering New York, but almost perfect protecton.'
 The pantryman was discovered Thurs day among a row of the Advance sailors lined up for medical examination. Up to Saturday night under the mosquito-proof netting at the detention hospital where each of the fever suspects is isolated, Dr. Doty says that Smith was apparently as well off as any of the other men from the Advance, who had only slight attacks of malarial fever Late Saturday evening, however, Smith grew suddenly worse. This morning he could no longer speak, and before noon he died.
 Body Will Be cremated.
 The programme with the yellow fever dead is cremation and this will be car ried out with Smiths body on Monday. The steamship company which employed him will be asked to look up the pantry mans relatives.
 There are at quarantine nineteen other persons who were taken off ships because their temperatures were higher than the degree fixed, as the lowest danger signal for yellow fever suspects used in ex- amining the ships which enter New York. Only two of these persons are from New Orleans All except one are from the Panama district. Dr. Doty says that the two from New Orleans will be released within another day, and that there is not the least danger that any of the suspects have been suffering from anything worse than malaral fever.
 At the hospital on Swinburne Island. where only those patients actually suf- fering with some sort of fever are taken, there are still sixteen men, all members of the ships crew Three of them are from the Seguranca, six from the Avona, and seven from the Advance.
 Others Not Jeopardized.
 "The deathy of Smith today Dr. Doty said, ''I regard merely as an isolated case which has not in the least jeopardized the safety of other persons at quarantine"
 At Hoffman Island, the detention sta tion for persons who are not actually i'll but who are under suspicion, all the sus- poets were released today, two from the El Paso from New Orleans, and one from the steamer Ligonier from Port Ar thur, Texas.