New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-27
COMMISSIONERS OF HEALTH
REMARKS OF THE MAYOR ON The QUARANTINE
suBJECT-THREE FATAL CASES PROM TINE
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REMARKS OF THE MAYOR ON THE QUARANTINE
suBJECT-TBREE FATAL CASES PROM rHR
STEAMER COLUMBIA.
Sept. 25.-Pyesent, the Mayer. Mr.. Clancy, Mr..
Hazwel. Drs. Thompson, Rockwell and Miller.
The Mayor, at the opening Of the meeting, laid b.
fore the BOARD letter which he he'd received from
M %Ss pSs sS sssAy Ss q. ssss pre-
Health Of lsr~klyn unanimously the 22d instant,
and which fully endorsed the pursued and tho
position taken by tho Board Of Commissioners Of Emil
grafton in relation 10 the immediate reconstruction q
the hospitals and other baidings at the Quarsatiso
Station and sssc in regard 10 the proposition that ~
vessels hereafter coming from yellow fever ports sha0
discharge their cargoes, ventate and de out their
Quarantine in the Lower Bay, instead OF being allowed
to shake off their infection, a. heretofore, at the Old
Quarantine anchorage, between the shores OF Long L.
lard and Staten Island.
The MAYOR said that he was glad to know that the
Health authorities of BROOK yn had taken cognisancc
of the emergencies of Quarantine growing out Of
the destruction Of the hospitals and other buildings e
that station and that the action Of the Commissioners
of Emigration, had been fully approved. brooklyn.
he said, judging from the readiness with which yellow
fever spreads the shores II her suburbs haa -
much at stake a., If not more. in Quarantine ansirs
than many other localities Of the port; and that he be-
ieved that this especially rue in regard to the
project Of compcllG yellow fever vessels to perform
their quarantine ySolly below the Nsrrows.
The Mayor further said. that what the Commission
ers Of Emigration had done and proposed 10 do "a
meet tho ants Of Quarantine, matter Of neces-
sy a. well duty under the laws Of the State thaS
they were bound to provide hospital accommodations
for the sick at Quarantine and for those which may
arrive there and also residences for the officers and
employees If the institution that the question OF 70
| moving Quarantine had not and ought not 10 have
anything to do with the proper and faithful discharge
| of such duties; that the Commissioners under the
statute had no other alternative ser the destruction
of the buildings at Quarantine, but ~ provide forth
with suitable premises for the sick aud that the Legs
ature has prescribed for such an emergency even 10
| kban hapyo
money ON the credit Of the state for such purpose
In reference to tho character of the baldngs which
| the Commissioners Of Emigration had resolved 70
erect at Quarantine, the Mayor said that they would
all be substantial but plain and permanent onc-story
| buildings and uf nur-combustbe material, priuet-
paly Of brick, that at first the Board inclined flavor
temporary structures, but when they came to cons'dss
that during the Winter often times more patients arc
sent in the Marine Hospitals thar at any other seq
| son Of he year; that temporary wooden shantios
would answer for Winter purposes - wards fos
patients. that combnstible temporary structures
would be nearly if not quite, expensive as pesua-
nent ones and beside that the question or hope "
removing Quarantine cannot dettact from the policy
| of erecting permanent and comfortable hospitals and
buildings al Quarantine, for the reasons first that
the arson outrage perpetrated by the mob al Quaran-
tine has essened II not destroyed the chances OF OBJ
tanning new site for the institntion and, second,
it were possible to obtain Sandy Hook, or any other
year two, to effect the removal, and meantime the
sick of smallpox, ship fever, cholera and yellow
fever, would require the care, comfort and shelter,
which, with temporary structures, could not be rem
dered to then--wben all these reasons he said were
considered by the Baard, the opinion was unanimous
! in favor If substantial buildings.
As to the project OF purifying yellow fever vessels
wholly in the lower bay, and of prohibiting them
tirey from lying at the upper Quarantine anchorage,
| the MAYOR said that he believed II would make tho
port and especially Staten lsend, safe from the
spread the existence OF yellow fever lie said
tie source of yellow fever in the port OF had
always been from vessels aud cargoes and never from
the Marine Hospital; that such had been the invsn.
able experience, as he was informed, OF every port
where the disease Dotindicenous and that hence,
if the infected vessels and their cargoes hereafter arc
wholly cared for in the lower bay then said the Mayor,
Quarantine in every Of danger will be prscti-
cay removed, and, comparatively, alta slight expense
to tue State.
The following report made In relation 10 three
fatal Of fever from the steamer Columbia, aud
ordered on tile
The steamship Columbia which arrived at this port
the 18th inst from Charleston, with a crew Of II
persons, has had sickness board since the 2lst
inst Since her arrival she has had three Of yell
low fever and three deaths. These cases need, per-
haps particular mention, from the singLarity Of each
one. The frrt one was that OF person who worked
his passage from Charleston He, with al others o.
board war ported well the arrival Of the vessel.
On the morning If the 18th inst, 70 my SURPRISE
dead body was brought ashore from the vessel. !
Immediately examined the body, and found thai the
nan had Enthusiastically died Of yellow fever
The next day the 18th inst, Capt. Berry rePotod
10 ne H. at his stewardess i'll OF dnThna- I'M
uediately asked DE-. Walser, Assistant Physician of
the Hospital visit her for on board Oh tho .hip
Ne did 80 and repuhed her disease ~ be Of doubtful
character She continued rapidly TO grow worse, and
died ou the third day from her attack Before death,
the character Of hen dsear developed hscu and vas
PRONOUNCED yellow fever by the hospital physcian.
ihe third cnse WAS that OF the second stewart who
died il less than days from the time ne was re-
ported by the oEoers OF the ship " be SICK HIS case
admitted Of no doubt To it, character From the
above facts, draw hat one concbisoni thai tho
cases were each OF very malignant character, term
hating us stated ia death ~ less than three days.
Rs.ue.-a.ly c G. MAIIBK,
Deputy Hath Ohheer
The Board granted permission TO the Brig fredereco
70 proceed a1er discharging cargo at Quarantine.
After some routine business the board adJourned u
Monday.