The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-16

So Says Mobile Register In Re-
ference to Reported Fever
Cases There.

The following special and appended
comment is clipped from the Mobile
Register OF yesterday
Pensacola. Fla. September IA
Considerable excitement was created
this afternoon when the afternoon pa
Der published an article to the effect
that for three days last week there
were forty deaths in Mobile, supposed
40 have been caused from dengue
fever. and that in one day over slX-
IL new cases appeared. The im1or-
nation upon which the article was
based came from a ship carpenter,
who said he had received a letter
from a friend In Mobile. in which e
was stated that dengue fever was
PLAYING merry cain" in that city.
The article also said that matters
lookea very suspicious. Mayor Bliss
oil this city Immediately began an In
vestigation to ascertain II the report
was correct over the lOng-distance
telephone he talked with former res
ideut OF this civ. who is now in No,
bile. and received he assurance that
there was positively no truth in the
report, and that there are no suspi-
cious cases OF fever there. This
statement allayed all fears and ru-
uOrs. State Health Omcer Porter,
who is here. has also received inf0r-
NATION of a similar character.
The Registers Comment.
Yesterday evening Mayor Charles
III Bliss. OF Pensacola. communicated
with Mr. John w Burge. Of this
city. formerly a resident OF the FlOri-
Ca port, giving the information that
letter had been received in Pensacola
from a person I'm Mobile containing
highly sensational statements about
The health OF this city. The writer
Claimed TO know that there had been
forty deaths from denguo fever in
Mobile within three days
Mr.. Burce sought Dr. Rhett Goode,
city health officer, and related to that
Official what the mayor Of Pensacola
had teicphoned. DR.. GOode obtained
the m0ruuary record for the three
days mentioned and, obtaining com
munication with Mayor Bliss by tele-
phone read of the list to him. As q
matter 81 fact there were only thir
1oon white and ten cOlOred deaths
during the entire week and these In
cludeT two accidents. three people of
advanced age who had been ill fOs
months and two infants who hardly
survived birth. There has been but
one death IN Mobile this week, said
Dr. GO0de.
The Register called up Mayor Bliss
and he stated that he taken no off,
Cal action on the alarming stat8
ments contained in The letter. that
De had read Dr Joseph GoldberEors
report and that DE was very glad TO
learn Shat Mobile is in the fortunate
C0naldon described SIN the report /
1iayor Bliss stated that ho sought
positive Information by telephoning
Nr. Burge and having fun confidence
tn any statement that gentleman
would make
Asked the name Of the writer OF
the letter. Mavor Bliss answered that
The Information had come TO him
secondhand and that be did not know
the name and could not then obtain
&c. He stated, however, that the letter I
BAD been received by a ship carpenter /
formerly belonging 10 Mobile. who
goes by the name of "Blly' White .
The Register correspondent at Pen
sac2a was instructed 90 fnG billy .
White and get The name of the letter .
writer, but mp TO this hour the shir /
carpenter had not been located.