The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-07
DIS HERB or COLON FEVER.
SECOND YELLOW JACK DEATH OF
THE SUMNER AT QUARANTINE.

Patient . rantFyman On the Advance. On
which NOBODY Else Had the Disease
Drainage Mere eer,1ceable Against
Mosquitoes Thsn Shot guns Are.
fellow fever claimed At the quarantine
hospital on Swinburne Island yesterday
the second victim for this year. He was
william e. Smith, . pantryman on the
Panama Railroad CompaAy's steamship
Advance. He died at 1880 o'clock yeeter-
day morning on what the doctors think
was the seventh day Of the disease. They
have few cases almost every summer at
quarantine here.
The difficulty In determining cases Of
yellow fever was demonstrated In Smiths
case, as II was not until Saturday night
that DR.. Doty and his sssistants decided
that Smith had anything but mAlariA
fever. Had 1t not been for the thermom-
eter test, TO which DR.. Doty 10 subjecting
all persons arriving from Colon and other
yellow fever ports, Smith would have got
through quarantine.
When the Advance arrived here last
Thursday all those on board were sub
jected to this test. Smiths temperature
was found to be l02. Seven Of the others
had slightly elevated temperatures, but
Smiths was the highest Smith. who was
q big fellow. declared up and down that he
was not in the least sick. and except his
temperature, DR.. Doty eaid yesterday,
there was absolutely nothing about the
man to suggest an illness.
Smith was taken to Swinburne Island
along with seven others from the Advance
and all were put In the ward DR.. Doty
has fitted up for yellow fever suspects.
This is surrounded by mosquito netting.
On Friday Smith confessed that he felt
pretty sick. He also told the doctors that
inasmuch as he had been taken to the hos
pital anyway, he thought that he might
as we'll admit that he had been feeling q
little under the weather for three days
before the Advance reached port. As the
Advance had been out from Colon over
the Ave days period the doctors had bean .
little puzzled as to how any one aboard
could show tho early symptoms OF yellow
fever a. late a. the day Of her arrival. As
q result Of blood tests they found on Satur-
day that Smith had genuine yellow fever.
Tho other yellow fever death on Swinburne
Island this summer was that Of Frank
Leary OF Buffalo. an employee Of the Canal
Commission who also contracted the dis
case at Colon and died bore In Juno.
All Of tho others taken from the Ad-
vance arc rapidly recovering. They had
malaria. There are now fifteen patients
on tho island, all from Colon. Two sus-
pects from New Orleans taken from the
FL Paso and one from the Lgonier from
Port Arthur. Tex. were discharged yes
terday morning.
DR.. Doty talked yesterday about the yellow
fever mosquito, which has never been found
north Of Virginia.
There Is absolutely no other way BY
which the fever Is communicated but by
this mosquito no said. l: takes one OF
these mosquitoes twelve days after it has
bitten yellow fever sufferer to develop
the ability to communicate tho disease
by biting another human being. In that
time there is a good chance that 1t will die.
II In a region where yellow fever appears
you keep isolating the cases as quickly
as they appear. 80 that the mosquitoes
don't get at them. the epidemic is bound to
cease before long. We haven't had one
case from the Gulf ports yet
II draining the Staten Island marshes
rids that territory Of the native mosquito.
or at least minimizes the evil the Gulf ports
may be provided with useful hint about
the yellow fever MOSQUITO.