The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-02
William Minnihctt Re-
 moved to Hospital
CAME FROM LOUISIANA
Board of Health Makes Imme-
 diate Announcement.

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 William Ninnihstt. . lunbernan 3soU Kentwood, La. is at the Emsrgenoy Hospital, two and . half mNse xrom the city, suffering from disease whach ~.s isst nirht ofncially declared by' the Board of Health to be yellow 1eveSs
 Minnehett was taken i'll Friday nAQ1e at the Capitola Hotel Early eafos0ay mornine Dr. Robert 0oldthwAite. Casy physician, was called in to give mn medical attention. pr. 0oad1nWass immediately recognised the uneee ok the Louisiana lumberman ~ oeine ox fer of pr. Goldthwaite. Ainnshett VI removed to the Emergency Hoapaoe two and . half miles from the oiey eo the upper wetumpka Road.
 Dosrd Of HealthAs Stnte1enes
 The statement ofhcially made Dy 0A Board of Health a to MinnAhAtcs caee ana County Health Ohncsr R. N. Pitse is as follows:
 gro the Citizens of Montgomery;
 Tt becomes the duty of this board tO announce the presence in Montgomery of one case of yellow fever. in the per- son of William Minnihett. who. accord- ing to his statements. reached Mont gomery on Monday night. July l.sn. from Kentwood, La. On last Friday night, July 2sth, he was taken sick at the Capitola Hotel. He was seen carly Saturday morning by Dr. Goldthwatts. the City Physician, who suspected tha nature of the fever and who at once made arrangements for the removal of Minnihett to Emergency Hospital and ordered his room at the hotel fumi- gated. This was done. After having pursued this course. Dr. Goldthwaite at once reported the case to the Board of Health, which heartily approved of the steps he had taken.
 Was Under Observation. "Since Saturday at noon Gin less than four hours after the patient was first seen) this case of yellow fever l has been under observation at the ! Emergency E Hospital. two and a half miles from the city. The patient is and has been in screened room and tstfli further protected by mosquito l net over the bed. While strongly sus- pectinE the nature of the malady. we were unwilling to make statement T case of yellow fever. The last doubts were removed today and we determined to give the facts to the public without delay. -s. Tn this connection we wish to say that there is no need or cause for alarm. There will be, we are sure, no spread of cases from this one. as 1t was promptly seen, isolated. and every thing done to prevent infection by mosq quitoes. The case is not a severe | one, and we trust the citizens of Mont gomery and vicinity will not allow | themselves to become panic-strfckens | for we pledge ourselves to report | promptly any other cases should they occur. There are no other suspicious cases in Montgomery, and we feel that | it would be folly for our, people to | leave their homes on account Of this | one case. for 1t has been frequently | demonstrated in Havana that patients sick with yellow fever can be carried | through the streets in screened wagons and treated at nearby hospitals and no other cases occur, no case having de- veloped there since that city was freed | from yellow fever several years agn. l "w. M. wilkinson. Robert Goldthwaits. Shirley Bragg. "J. L. Gaston.
 | Board of Health. l "R. N. Pitts, | County Health Onicer.s Dr. Sanderss Statement. In connection with the discovery o4 | the Minnihett case Dr. W. H. Sanderss State Health Oficer. made the follow ing statement:
 | the above announcement need not giva | rise to any apprehension on the part of the people of Montgomery or Of the State.
 "The steps taken to prevent auE l spread from this case are sctenttncal- ly correct, and 1t Is believed will prove adeauate No occasion whatever Sx-l fists for the declaration of quaranttne against Montgomery on account of tho case above reported |.
 'State Health Oflicer.s
 The room Minnehett occupied waA fumigated. screened and treated in ev- cry way known to science to prevent l the spread of fever which was sus-l pected, but not known at that time. In the meanwhile the case was under the l surveillance of the members of the Board of Health Of Montgomery. Adopting a policy that was not fol-, lowed in 1897, the Board of Health im- mediately made known the presence | of a case of fever near Montgomery, as soon as the members of the Board were sure that the stranger was suf- fering from the disease. The Board used every precaution to make sure that 1t was a case of fever before the official announcement was made. As closely watched as was the case of the stranger at the Emergency Hospi- tai. the members of the Board of Health yesterday became convinced that the Louisiana man had brought the only case of yellow fever into Montgomery At a special meeting held last night the official declaration was made.
 The Board of Health immediately announced the result of its decision. No attempt was made at secrecy. The people of Montgomery. the people of Alabama, were taken into its conf dence A statement to the people of Montgomery was immediately prepared and handed to The Advertiser for pub lication.
 The policy pursued was quite differ l ent from that which followed when fe- yer broke out in Montgomery in 1897. At that time the fever was in Mont 1 eomery for more than five weeks be- fore 1t was officially recognized and de- clared The first suspicious case ap- | ueared about September 9th. but 1t was l five weeks afterwards. on October 18th. before official announcement was made that a case of yellow fever had been found in the city. In the meanwhile n