Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — MAY QUARANTINE TEAM [ARTICLE]

MAY QUARANTINE TEAM

Government Surgeon to Report on Condition of Highlanders. Washington, April 9.—Surgeon General Walter Wyman of the United States public health and marine hospital service, after a conference with District Health Officer Woodward, designated Assistant Surgeon Sternberg of the navy to go to Richmond, Va., today to make a thorough examination of the players of the New York American team who may have been exposed to smallpox through Hal Chase. Upon Dr. Sternberg’s report will depend whether the New York team will be permitted to open the baseball season here next Monday.