Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11


out" "If such a thing should happen,
she will be detained at quarantine un
I'll 20 days after the last case on board
has ended. We will take no risks.
"Are the steamship companies CO.
operating with you or are they quietly
going on their own hOOS?"
They are helping US all they can.
IL is 20 their own interest TO do so. II
cholera once gets into this country and
spread through Ontario and the north
west it will kin the immigration traffic
and the enormous Worlds Fair business
that we expect 70 do next year"
"DO you expect the cholera here"
81 do. / expect IL here this week"
'IS not that a startling statement?"
at may be, but it is the truth never
theless, the quarantine appliances az
Crosse Isle at the present moment are
utterly inadequate TO prevent its en-
trance. All the experts VINO have visit
ed the island are unanimous in that
point"
Chow do your medical men regard
the situatiOn?"
As one OF extreme gravity. They
fully endorse all we have DONE"
W ltu - bub ubAb uioOblLb VI bLO
Central BOard?"
Tomorrow, In Quebec. 1 am leav-
ing for Quebec tonight, in order to pre-
side at IL. Yon can depend upon it, we
are OmiJtiug no precautions"
New YORK, September 10.-The Her
aid publishes the following interview
with DR.. jenkins:
when DR.. jenkins dropped into an
easy chair ia his office and consented TO
an interview, IL was after 9 o'clock last
night. asked him about the appeal Of
the Normannie passengers TO Governor
Flower. He laughed as l read the ap-
peal aloud to him, paragraph by para
graph.
s'What nonsense" "How ridiculous.
That's a lie" were his emphatic COM
ments as ne listened, and no one Of the
counts in the least disturbed him. He
said:
"In a general way I will say that the
gentlemen who have drawn up aud
signed this appesl-excellent people,
dOubtleSs-are entirely mistaken in
their assertions. They have not been
neglected, we are not incompetent, and
the situation on the NOrmannia is not
at all what they declare ii TO be. You
can sum the whole thing up in nut
shell by saying that those cabin passen-
gers want very much TO get ashore and
.write1Gcordingly."
"Bwas lake and detailed
81 ments, for instance, that the bodies
OF cholera patients have been left on
steamer for 24 hours or more"
And 1 make a positive statement
that such is not the case. l have not
known OF a dead body being left for
that length OF time on the Normannia.
Have you. Dr.. Tallmadge?"
~No, SIR" was the deputy
health ofliceE's prompt reply.
'sThey say that the steamer has not
been properly fumigated."
That is silly. Why, we have
done nothing but fumigate and dis
infect these steamers ever since
they arrived. IL is true that GER
tain portions OF this work ordered by
US were left to be carried out by the off,
GERS of the steamer. We cannot be
everywhere at the same time, and the
NormSnnia people must not imagine
that theirs is the only ship in the bay.
Possibly on one or two occasions there
has been q lack OF diSinieCtants on the
steamer. 1 believe that is fact, but it
is not nv fault The Hamburg-Ameri-
can Company hes been instructed by US
10 send disinfectants 20 their ships in
sufficient quantities. l can't take the
blame IL they will not do what l tell
them"
DO you mean that 1t is the business
OF the steamship company TO furnish
diSinfectants2'
Il understand It so, but I would add
that Ia view Of the importance OF the
matter, l have myself repeatedly sent
disinfectants on board. DR.. Watson
took enough bichloride OF mercury on
board the Normannia the other day to
dlsirfect q dozen steamers. Is not that
SC, dOctor?"
1T certainly is" said the New Brigh-
ton physician, who is cholera veteran.
ST would say after d thorough vista
tion and inspection OF the Normannla
that this complaint or appeal IS aoSo-
lutsly with justification"
"Aud how absurd 10 is for them TO
pretend they have not been in communl-
cation with medical expert, conunued
DIR. Jenkins. "Dr. SaDbOrn, who has
been a quarantine official for years, has
been aboard the Normannla seversl
times q dav, and is now stationed there
permanently day aud night. Besides
that, from the very first, full lnsTuc-
tions were given TO the ships surgeon
for any emergency which might arise
Chow about the water?
NThe captain of the Normannia imme-
diately on his arrival received positive
orders TO boil his entire supply OF drink
ing water, so it might have been used
with impunity whether IL came from
the river Eibe or anywhere else. Fur
thermore, the Hamburg-American Com
panv was ordered 20 send regular sup
Div Of water to their ships. In this re-
spect again they have, believe, failed
in their duty"
Then you admit that the Normannla'
and perhaps the other steamers also,
may have been inSuiicientiy supphcu
with drinking water"
'It is quite possible, bat 1t Is the com
panv's fault, not mine. have felt the
urgency OF the matter so koenly that
several time, although it is Quite out OF
my jurisdiction, L have sent supplies OF
water down 70 these steamess from my
own reservoir here Oh Staten ISlanu
and IN my own tug, the Manhattan.
"Why is it the company have failed
N supply the steamers with water
Did thew know il was their buSineSS?'
ssThev knew it perfectly well, but
pretended they could not Ind water