Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-07
EIGHT DIE OF FEVER
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GERS who have had experience dealing will
yellow fever epidemics.
One Denth In NeY York.

| NEW YORK, Aug. .6-One man died OF
| yellow fever at the New York detention
hospital at quarantine today, making the
| third case Of yellow fever discovered on
ships entering New York this summer
! This is the first time in five years"
| said Health Officer Doty, that New York
has been threatened by more than one yell
| low fever case in a summer. William b.
Smith, a pantryman. taken of the steamer
| Advance, from Colon last Thursday with
! nine other suspects, died today with an
| acute case Of yellow fever. Seven other
| members of the party are still under in
spectlon. but 1 am positive that they are
not suffering from yellow fever The
other two yellow fever patients came early
in the summer"
Not one Of these fever cases, DR.. Doty
said, has come from the fever districts of
| the United States. Panama 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 the fever
cases from Panama have been either
threatening or numerous.
| "Pantryman Smith," SAID Ir. Doty today
'is only the third case out Of fully 200
| suspects who have been taken of from
ships here. His death today, which came
so suddenly that we could not even learn
where his family is, proves that the Their
mometer is not only a safeguard against
yellow fever entering New York. but al
most a perfect protection"
Death Comes Suddenly.
| Up TO last night Smith had apparently as
! good a chance of life as any of the 1877
! other fever suspects, who have spent a
few days at quarantine, laughing at fever
suspicion, and gone away in perfect health.
| The pantryman was discovered Thursday
among a row OF Advance sailors lined up
for medical examination. He was louder
than the others at the examination, and
when DIR. Doty laughingly removed the
thermometer from him, with an indicated
temperature of 102 he made the test a
second time to be sure there was no error,
so healthy did Smith appear. Taken to
the detention hospital at Swinburne island,
Smith retained his chatting good nature
until Friday morning. Then he gave in
and admitted~that since about last Monday
he had been feeling ILL., Up to Saturday
night, under the mosquito-proof netting
where each of the fever suspects is
isolated DIR. Doty says that Smith was
apparently we'll OFF any. of the other
men from the Advance, who had only
slight attacks of malarial fever Late
Saturday evening Smith grew suddenly
worse. This morning he could no longer
!
Body VIII he Cremated.
The program with the yellow fever dead
is cremation, and this will be carried out
with Smiths Dody on Monday The steam
ship company which employed him will be
asked to look up the pantrymans rela-
tives.
There are at quarantine nineteen other
persons who were taken off ships because
their temperatures was higher than the
lowest degree set for the danger signal for
yellow fever suspects used in examining
ocean travellers who enter New York.
Only two of these persons are from
New Orleans. All except one OF the others
are from Panama districts. DR.. Doty says
that the two from New Orleans will be
released within another day and that there
is not the least danger that any of the
suspects have been suffering from anything
worse than malarial fever.
At the hospital on Swinburne island,
where only those patients actually suffering
with some sort of fever are taken, there
are still sixteen men. all members of
ships crews Three of them are from the
seguranca. six from the Avona and seven
from the Advance.
THE death of Smith today" DR.. Doty
said. II regard merely as an isolated case,
which has not in the least jeopardized the
safety of other persons at quarantine.
At Hoffman island. the detention station
for persons who are not actually i'll, but
who are under suspicion, all the suspects
were released today, two from the Elpaso,
from New Orleans, and one from the
steamer Ligonier, from Port Arthur, Tex.
Illinois Lines Drawn Tighter. !
CAIRO, Ill, Aug. Cdr. w. II. Galland
of Chicago arrived here today and Joined
the force of health officers, making the
number of inspectors now seven besides
DR.. Egan, secretary of the State Board of
Health, and his assistant Dr. Palmer.
DR.. Knewitz will arrive tomorrow from
Frieberg, Ill, and DR.. Lovewell will go to
Thebes to protect that point. A large
number of Inspectors are required to make
thorough inspection at Cairo, over
a dozen passenger trains and a number
of boats enter Illinois from the south
every twenty-four hours. II DR.. Egan
finds his present force of inspectors insult
fclent he will increase the number to
meet the demand. There was a big rush
for health certificates today. DR.. Egan
has as yet received no reply from the
state health boards OF Missouri and Ken
. lucky. He sought their cooperation In
D making the quarantine against the yellow
Q fever district effective. There has been
t some objection on the part of the people
of the adjoining states to the Illinois in
I spectors going through the trains outside
= of Illinois. SO far the objection has not
n been strenuous, but If It becomes so the
7 trains will be inspected as they cross the
. river and should fever patient or suspi-
cious case be found they will be sent back
e across the river.
= car load of bananas received yesterday