, 1881-12-30
BRINGING The PEST.
what the New York Health
Officer Thinks Of the
Situation.
90 Long as the Immigrants Pour In,
> SMALLPOX Will Come with
''- Them.
, Tho Nenfth Authorities Cannot
Prevent It Under tho Pres
ent Laws.
There Is No Guard at Port Huron to
Stop the lngress Of lie
Contaglon.
Forty Students of the Keokuk Mod
ioal College Infected with
Variola.
SMALLPOX Corpse Shipped from
Chicago for Their Dis
Hcctlo1ls
II.
Forty Students Of the Keokuk Med
ioal College Infected with
Variola.
A SMALLPOX Corpse Shipped from
Chicago for Their Dis
Hectiofls
Thirty-seven Places In the State Of Illinois
Affected by tho Prevailing
Disease,
vhnt tl,c Now York HEATH, omcer says.

n;saoaa.
What the NOW ofk Ibeaitts VlAeef n"Ss'
aptc'11 Ot.po'en 70 !. ~ ea'eaao t'toant |
NEW YORK.. Dec. %9'-Io'npla'hts naYHs ptop
mado ifol,i "ss.e.n o..,es tuas xn.. VII. ,ar
cnala W ultus,J @ s',HIu W s'o tor u,.t nM"s.
ant!nc. Dr.. Willinm ~. Smith. tue Health Ohleer
Of tho port, who may 10 considered m autnnf''
", snya TINT thoro can bo no hhsn'ato pro'eot1oh
from tho Introduction OF smnli-pox oS ltnmi-
gsalits without enforced examination haa Fao'
clnat1on ut tho bcllhnsns OF tne VOYAGE 1Hpis-
lsion foFbidtlng the landing OF IInhi'Rrahts ah-
III these requirements have been complied Win
might, IN hts opinion, be long step Ill aasahco.
An effort to enfo'co examination hnu
yacciuntton without lcE1elation ms NJ
ready been begun by him ny mems OF
cIrculor addressed to owners and mhnnEcfs III
steamship lines Mt tho 1'orso OF NOW iork' ure-
ing most strict measures 70 Insure pFotccuon
aaafnse tho intfoaueuon OF smau'poA' w my
other inleotious a'scase. ou Nus. no"s ~
m!hd, d. sh'1tn shSs toahy' that' "n"e
SEAllI.Y 4'W,00o ALIENS
aEu arriving in this port yenrIy, thoro Is IN av'
erago ot only forty Vessels !n[ccteu wltn small.
pux. Thoru aro very many casoa ~h'ch aFo
latcDt whom tho patients nrrivo here' ana Wh'ch
no skill 1t, tho world can detoct bofora they havo
dosoIopeo GO ,..,,,, ~, ~, co,,,,rv oro,,s+
what 1ea' pFo,ecuon .1.. nas .no COUNTY, asa'ns'
tho spfcna OF eMa!s-po*F taenf
"Thera car be no absolute protecaon so lon9
As tho system OF 'aspcoon IN ao.ee n" ,s,Ia - %
e1tendcd to tho principal polntS tarouHn "nlch
thc i,ntujgeants pass, Or which they mako their
dcstinnt,nns.
HAVE @ No pounr , o,,-
that many of the casca which pass from our Oh
servat'o" undctaotca .acyc!ol'. few days after,
.u'"s =. ".,,has,,tes ~ IN ,,t;.c,noi o,ttca
~ y, sro sso nv swos, "na Norshwc,t yenr auo loat
May to talto measures to gunrd aRnlnst tho
dissemination Of tho seeds OF contagious or in-
fecslous disease. ,,.u.
no" long uoyou uot"Ii ns.a.. p'a1oasors "A' '"''
con.e to this port IN intcotod voesolss
"Tho lcugth OF tholr detention dopends on tho
maer IN mn.1r sny n ,r,n iho yny-
Eox haso ecen trcatea On noaaa a"sus a suo Wy
sse ,oatea sur,nr the
TIE INITIAL srAeE,
TINT Is, forty .cish. hours before tho eruption.
Tho ship Is allowed tn go up TO tho city, ana 10
land her apparently vol passengers rs
wv" ns .ncy ',,. n"s' a,,,,,oa M ~. ,,,a notionts
ana mo co'nlfa't"e".S osu"p''u ~ w" pa .
nave heeh d!slnlectea' ane.e ~ "ooe'asss .t Nv
restriction p,aeSa sp1 % hte sy ,hou ,n small. % a.
rs ,ne.o omi"rants mov a. have tho
=, nu" =. .asso .n ....,,..,.*,
osensol m Us s1aso .. lheuoAaon'
"Ycs. but, understand inc, thla lenlont tEeAt'
,nstnnrca WHARF tho cnses on shlpbuaril have
mn, Imcn vsc,1 J.a1otct during avery mart of tho
,ro,;, 80 nvorv i,,g.ctfn,,s ,crto1 nf tho t,tH.
.ssc
Ar, THE srEERA0E rAssEynEns
arr t,rtnncd nnd kent under observation until
the cIrcuts Of tho yaocIunt,on aro shown to bo
nrn,cct,va. mr. mnttl fho f1ll jnoubattyo stnve Of
ths dIscasn has nnsscd. In Tho caso OF tho Nc
yn,a mn messengers. and In TINT Of tho Itnlla,
sio wcrc vncntrmto,l anta held ut uotfmau's d
ixsra ,,ndcr nhaorvotIon until tho protective
rnor,s ~ ,.nrcinnt,nn hnd sbovn themselves,
THAT 1vnr, ann, in tn f,naIo f,or,lon from tImu
to linn In drlnunt;ons of 100 cccb,"
,,non nr.,,,, ~ tto nrcvcntlvo moaauraa that ho
haI ."S.,', ,to ,,n,tcr oomcl,,1od m foiiors: