The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-07-28
FEVER SPREADING
RICKENCITY
OF NEW ORLEANS
Surgeon White Says the
Situation IS Very
Ug.y,''
.GUITERAS WILL ASSIST
Famous Specialist Now on
His Way 10 Scene of
Epidemic.
GUITERAS WILL ASSIST

The Marine Hospital Service here re-
ceived dispatch from Surgeon J. II.
White, st New Orleans this morning,
saying that the statistics of the yell
low fever outbreak for yesterday
showed twenty-six new cases and two
deaths There are now twenty-five
fever focl in addition 10 the large orig
inal area where the disease first made
its appearance. Or. White closed his
message with the statement that the
situation was very ugly"
From Bay St. Louis, Miss, Surgeon
Eugene Wasdin reported that a thor
ough inspection disclosed no suspicious
fever cases. Bay St. Louis yesterday
joined the other Mississippi towns in .
strict quarantine against New Orleans.
a cablegram to Surgeon General Wy
man this morning from Surgeon c. p.
Wertenbaker, assigned to duty at
Havana reports that the steamer Mo
bile, from Mobile. Ala. and the schoon-
er Sirocco, from Gulf ports. have ar
rived in Havana harbor, each with a
suspected case of yellow fever aboard.
Both vessels have been quarantined.
Appeal to Federal Authorities,
Governor Vardaman and United States
telegram to Surgeon General Wyman
today, urging that the Federal authori-
lies take control of the l5cal maritime
quarantine patrol along the coast Of
that State.
Dr.. Heber Jones, president of the
Memphis. Penn, board Of health, wired
the service today that no cases. Of fever
had been found in the city, but that
every precaution is being taken In line
with. the suggestions or the Federal
health service
Three deaths from yellow fever on the
lsthmus OF Panama were reported today
by Governor Magoon, as follows:
Jacob PiCLh American, locomotive ma
! cinist under the mechanical engineer.
! His home was Pittsburg, Pa,
! J.. {. Switzerland. Scotchman, foreman
under division engineer at Culebra. His
: home was Geneva, ". Va.
/ Alfred Brown, Jamaican. employed al
! Colon.
Investigation in Order.
There will probably be an invesHga-
/ ton OF the management Of the fruit
/ steamers landing at New Orleans. The
( Government regulations are very strict
! and Il il is true, as believed, that the
/ fever was brought to this country by
,he fruitcrs any violation of the health
rules on their part Will cause quick pun
+ ishment OF the captains and other shiL
( officers responsible.
! Dr. John GuiteTaS, the famous yellow
( fever specialist. is now on his way tC
/ New Orleans. where he viii act in al
/ advisory capacity while the ep!demi,
lasts
! Dv. Guiteras has been member of ths
faculty of Harvard since 1906 He was
born in Matanzas, Cuba, on January 4
lS52, and was educated at La Empresa
IN that city. He received his doctors
. degree in 1873 from the University oil
! Pennsylvania and from 1879 until 1889 he
served in the Marine Hospital Service.
In all yellow fever epidem"s sine,
1881 Dr.. Guiteras has served as an eX-
pert in this disease, and in this capacity
he served on the staff of General Shat
! ter in the Santiago campaign of 1898
Dr. Guiteras is prominent in Cuban poll
{ tics In this country and IS the editor u
/ La ReVista de Medicina Tropical.
He is the vice president of the Associa
tiOu or Health Officers of North Ameri
ca the superior Of the board of heaIti
( of Cuba. is a member of the executive
committee OF the Sanitary Couferenc,
OF American Republics, the Association
Of American Physicians, the College o
Physicians of Philadelphia. the Ameri
can Public Health Association and tht
Academy OF Sciences of Cuba.