TYPHUS FEVER SCARE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 53, 26 October 1889, Page 2

TYPHUS FEVER SCARE.

Thb rumour thai typhus fever whs prevalent amongtt the sailors of the Oerman warship Sophia created immense excitement, in the town hvst week. Nothing else wan spoke:: of for three or four days. Tho English and Uuitc.d States Consuls immediately entered into correspondence with tho German authorities ou tho subject., and the doctor of the U ri.H. Adams interviewed the docTor ».f H I.G.M. sltir. Sophie, but at first very tory replies were given, but latei on, through the perseveranoo of tho eonsuls, the doctor r.n.l the cAT>t*ir of the Sophie admitted that the disease from which the svlors h"longing t<» their ship, both afloat and ashore, •vere was tyfchus fovei. Ah hj .on %* this ConfJal very properly circulated a proclai istitjn to American citi*>ns, warning fiiem to tjke all preeauttun,i contagion, and the r*hief Native Folau] followe.l in tho same manner When theee posters were soon bj the Oerman authorities anl th* na'ute of typhus fever explained to them, the Herman Con«ul and the eapt.'.iii of the Sophie eontradictod the statement, and st/ited tlist fh« duesse was not of so serious a character, and thar it wax not contagi ouv This, to a certain extent,allayed the fears of the commuui'y; but pn-asiire was brought f ■• l«e;ir on the Oerman Consn?, which i:;duoed him to remove the psttenta from the o»rman Hospital to M ;!:d."«. It in very fortunate there at n no sti-amers from tho co'onies due i.t.re fjr another week, for if they w«."e leaving now they would nit, under the circumstances, he able to s«t a clean bill of health By the end of next week the true nature of the di-»ea.se will develop itself We hope :o be able to record in our next issue that the fever N only the resale of the hardships suffered by the sailors of the Sophie on the swamps of the Zanzibar coast.