The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-07
DEATH AT NEW YORK.
Demise of Fever Patient Regarded
 Isolated Case.

New York Aug. 6.-One man died of yellow fever at New Yorks detention hospital at quarantine today, making the third case of yellow fever on ships entering New York this summer and the second death.
 This is the first time in five years, said Health Officer Doty. that New York has been threatened by more than one yellow fever case in summer. William B. Smith, a pantryman. taken off the steamer Advance, from Colon, last Thursday with nine other subjects, died today with an acute case of yellow fever. Seven other members of this party are still under inspection. but positive that they are not suffering from yellow fever. The other two yellow fever patients came here in the summer. Not one. of these fever cases, pr. Doty said. has come from the fever districts in the United States. Pan- ana has supplied them all, and this is the first time since 1897, According to the official health records at the port of New York, that fever cases from Pan- anna have been either threatening or numerous. "Pantryman Smith," said Dr. Doty today. lis only the third case out of fully 200 subjects who have been taken of from ships here. His death today, which came so suddenly that we cannot even learn where his family is. proved that the thermometer is not the only safeguard against yellow fever entering New York, but almost per feet protection. The pantryman was discovered Thursday among row of the Advance sailors lined up for medi- cal examination. Up to Sunday night. under the mosquito proof netting at the detention hospital. where each of the fever suspects is isolated, Dr. Doty says that Smith was apparently as wsell of as any of tho other men from the Advance, who had only sligNt attacks of malarial fever. Late Saturday evening, however, Smith grew suddenly worse This morning he could no longer speak and before noon he died.
 The program with the yellow fever dead is cremation, and this will be car ried out with Smiths body on Monday The steamship company which employ ed him will be asked to look up the pantryman's relatives.
 There are at quarantine nineteen 9th CT passengers who were taken off ships because their temperatures were nt least 9S degrees, the lowest danger sig nal for yellow fever subjects used in examining the ships which enter My York Only two of these persons are from New Orleans. All except one of the others are from the Panama dis trict. Dr. Doty says that thc two from New Orleans will be released within nnother day and that there is ot the least danger that any of the suspects have been suffering from anything worse than malarial fever At the hos pital on Swinburne Island, where only those patients actually suffering with some sort of fever are token. there are still sixteen men, all members of the ships crew. Three of them are from the seeuranca, six from the Avona and seven from the Advance.
 The death of Smith today" Dr. Doty said, T regard merely as an isolated case which has not in the least jeopar- dized the safety of other persons at quarantine"
 Al Hoffman Island. the detention sta tion for persons who are not actually III. but who are under suspicion, all the subjects were released today. two from the Fl Paso from New Orleans and one from the steamer Ligonier from Port Arthur, Texas.