The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-17
NOT THOUGHT ID BE YELLOW FEVER AT MOUNDV|LLE Dr. w. H. Sanders and Others
 Make Official State
 ment DOCTORS CE 2ISlON
 IS NOT YET FINAL An Italian From New Orleans Was Found Roaming In the Woods l, Seventeen Mlles Below Tuscaloosa.

After careful investigation of a sus- pinious case of fover near Moundville, seventeen miles below Tuscaloosa, Dr. W. H. Sanders, president of the state board of health, and other physicians have is- sued a signed statement to the effect that, in their opinion, the patient is not suf- ferins from yellow fever.
 Dr. Sanders and his medical associates are carefully watching the patient, and will probably be able to state definitely this morning that it is not case of yell low fever.
 Should it prove, however, to be yellow fever there would be absolutely no dam ger from the case, as the man Is sew eral miles from any habitation in an old cotton house. Every scientific preoaution has been taken, and the man has been screened since he was first discovered.
 Went to Moundvllie.
 Dr. Sanders, County Health Officer J. M. Mason and Quarantine Supervisor Barnes Morgan went to Moundville yes terday morning on special train to in vestigate the case. Dr. Mason returned last night and brought the signed state ment with him. The three officers were met at Moundville by Dr. N. E. Sellers. quarantine supervisor at Meridian; pr. ". M. Fau1k of Tuscaloosa and Dr. R. J. Griffin of Moundville. The investigation was very thorough, and Dr. Sellers re- mained in Moundville last night to make further investigation of the case. He will probably return to Birmingham today to make a further statement on the mat ter. The official statement made Is as fol- lows:
 Moundville, August 16, 1s05. A foreigner, probably an Italian, was discovered at Tuscaloosa last Saturday morning and not being able to give a satisfactory account of himself was placed on a southbound Alabama Great Southern train to be returned to New Orleans, from which plac, it was be- lleved he had come.
 , Our best information ih that he left iiie train at Hull, twelve miles south of Tuscaloosa.
 He was seen to pass Moundville on foot Saturday at p. m., without stopping. In Cotton House. l Nothing further was heard of him unti yesterday, when a negro man found hin l two miles from Moundville in rude and abandoned cotton house. far removed from any habtation. He was seen last night by Dr. Faulk of Tuscaloosa ana Dr. Griffin of Moundvile was summons ed and found him in an unconscious condition, and therefore were unable to get any history from him.
 Dr. Faulk saw him again this morn- ing ands provided him with bedding and surrounded him with mosquito netting Proper medical attention and food were given him.
 This afternoon he was seen by Dr. San ders, state health officer, Dr. Mason, health officer of Jefferson county, and Dr. Sellers, supervisor of quarantine for Alabama at Meridian.
 Dr. Faulk has arrived again and will see him further. While the man shows some suspicious symptoms, yet taken as a whole so many of the characteristic symptoms of yellow fever are absent that at present we do not feel justified in diagnosing the case as one of yellow fever.
 The case will be closely watched and the public will be kept Ii iiformed.
 Should the case prove to be one of yellow fever the remoteness of the pa- tent from human habitations precludes all danger of any spread of the disease.
 w H. SANDERS, M. D.
 w. M. FAULK, M. D.
 R. J. GRIFFIN, M D.
 J. M. MosEN. M. D.
 N F. SELLERS, M. D.