Ogden Sun | 1905-08-08 | Page 8 | Yellow Jack Has Victim in New York

YELLOW JACK HAS VICTIM IN NEW YORK death ia second to occur in metropolis being third case out of suspects new york august C one man died of yellow fever at new york detention hospital at quarantine today making the first case of yellow feer discovered on ships entering new york this summer and the second deai this Is the farst time in five years said health officer doty that new york has been threatened by more than one yellow fever case in a summer william B smith a taken off he steamer advance Advah ce from colon last thursday with nine other suspects died today with an acute case of yellow fever seven other members of this party are still under inspection not one of these fever cases dr doty said has come from fever districts in the united states panama has supplied them all smith said dr doty today Is only the third case out of fully suspects who have been taken off from ships here his death today came so suddenly that we could not even learn where his family is up to last night smith had apparently as good a chance of life as any of ahe other fever suspects who have spent a few days at laughing ah fever suspicions and gone away in perfect health the was discovered thursday among a row of the advance sailors cuned up for medical examination he was louder than the others at the examination and when dr doty laughing removed the thermometer from him with an indicated temperature of he made a test a second time to be sure there was no error so healthy did smith appear taken to the detention hospital smith retained his charting good nature until friday morning then he gave in and admitted that since about last monday he had been fellipe ill late saturday evening smith grew suddenly worse this morning he could no longer speak and before noon he died the program with a dead fever victim is cremation and this will be carried out with smiths body on monday there are at quarantine 19 persons who taken oft ships because their temperatures were at least 98 only two 0 these persons are from new orleans all except one of the others are from the panama district at the at burne island where there are only those patients actually suffering from some sort of tover there are sixteen men three are from saturina Sa gurina six from the avon ess and seven from the advance the death of smith today dr doty said 1 I regard merely as an isolated case which has not in the least jeopardized the safety of other persons at quarantine