New-York tribune., 1905-08-29

| custom house. had this to say of the way in
which Captain c. Thorsen, of the Hiram.
tered his ship:
He came in here. hardly able to stand on Sat
urday. He was a very sick man. and two of his
sailors supported him His ewes were bloodshot
and he was very feverIsh He sat in chair
for a while and then was taken back TO the
ship.
Captain Thorsen removed to the Touro
| Infrmary the next day, and was deirious from
the hour of his arrival He died the following
| Tuesday. The death record shows typhoid with
| complications, but there are several physicians
| IN New-Orleans who are ready to take the stand
and testify he died from yellow fever.
The records show that the Hiram was held
only twenty minutes at quarantine, and that
IT Dr, Ihomas did not examine the captain, on the
rough and stormy voyage.
rzd14 AIter the Hiram episode the State Board Of
pe received from an infected port unless ii had
t peen out six days. This it is said, juggled
n+i4 iet IN vessels from ports which had not been
"0'iieu OF the ruling, and one vessel was let in
FRUIT TRUST SCHEMES.
The Fruit Trust then changed it's port to Mo
| olle' out because they had no unloading
| chinery there tried to get back to New-Orleans.
| Surgeon General Wyman found it necessary TO
| send telegram from Washington which ac-
| cording to all accounts. read:
do not allow any bananas or any banana
cars to leave New Orleans until further orders"
The plan Of the fruit company to unload at
! Chalmette. five miles below New-Orleans tha
scene Of the Battle of New-Orleans, is said to
| have been blocked at Washington Then the
fruit company is said to have tried for port in
Jefferson Parish. the opposite side of the
| river Failing in this they returned to Mobile
IN the mean time cancelling all Improbable con-
| tracts which they had made with planters in
| Honduras
| Several things combined to bring out the off,
| cial announcement of yellow fever in New-Or-
| leans. DR.. Smith, of the Marine Hospital ser
vice, stationed at that port heard of yellow fever
| IN the Italian quarter and went to investigate
| on his own responsibility. He found several
! cases and asked the health authorities about
them An anonymous letter sent to the Cover
| nor of Mississippi caused the first quarantine,
| and another letter to the Governor Of Texas
caused that official to send q physician to inves-
| tigate.
| When outsider begins to ask reasons for
| official concealment opinions differ. All ag ee
| that New Orleans suffers terribly from the quar-
! Gntines which other States impose for their own
| safety. Many be found who declare that
| New-Orleans has had yellow fever since the last
| epidemic year and beaten 1t out" in other
| words. put down a few sporadic cases before
the disease became epidemic. There also is
! unanimous opinion that a physician who an
! nounced yellow fever, where the dread disease
| did not exist would lose all standing.
| 'IS II graft ?" the Tribune correspondent
! asked Tr. L. G. lie Beuf, president of the Or
! leans Parish Medical Society who is of the
most earnest fighters against the fever epidemic.
Il wish you any one else could furnish me
proof that one of health officials had accept
| ed money to conceal this thing" he said. Il
would not wait for law l would take few Of
my friends md we would go to that mans office
and throw him out Of the window. no matter
! how high up IL was"
| Yet. at what is now known a 'parlor ses
| sion," held in the office of the Mayor, July 10,
! two days before the existence of fever Off
! cially admitted. Dr.. Souchou's defence OF the
| United Fruit Company was marked that the
! owner of one Of the most important newspapers
/ in the South arose and said:
you had better take your fruit trade and drop
! it in the middle Of the Mississippi River than
! bring such calamity w-OrleanK.'
! A prominent attorney remarked:
He should be a paid attorney of the fruit
! trust"
/ DR.. lie Beuf declares that there is a sure rem
! edy coming for future years. He declares that
J the medical profession has sufficient backing to
/ insist that the local health officer be appointed
! by the Council from two names chosen by the
/ Orleans Parish Society. and that the president
! of the State Board be appointed by the Governor
/ from two physicians Of standing nominated by
! the State Medical Society. He says Il at what
! the physicians of New-Orleans call post NOR
! Cem" is surely coming, and that those RESPONSE
ole for the present epidemic will be made to pay
! the penalty, despite commercial or other infu-
| ences. J. F. D.
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