New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-26
FEDERAL CONTROL OF TIE QUARANTINE
DIR. LEWIS \. sAYRE THINKS 1T THE soKESf
WAY 10 KEEP OUT CHOLERA.

WAY TO KEEP OUI IbOifsh"'
The venerable Dr. Lewis A. sayre said to 1riouie
reporter Yesterday that 1t WAS folly u oiSsu'o ".
t,rt that the danger Of cholera getting footho'd
80 ,,o., .borcs ,s Immediate and serious. The doc
, has nassed through the three visitailons vi ''o
scource one dating back TO lo32, ana as ho'"e
CITY Physician has had oricial experience i' hs"''
M disease He took charge. IN the absence OF heai'h
Officer Svinbu1e, Of the last cholera SNIP '''o 1N
lon;a that reached tho port Of New YORK. i"', ""'
IN .he fan of 1868. The Atlanta came from "a''
brrr whore then as now the cholera r'ecu. ~
80 d..I with this stricken ship 30 vigorously ana
"a oncientlv that the sc0nrgc was confined 10 h'r
hold and he went bravey among the sich unu .''
dead 10 enforc. the quarantine ana 10 "1I''''''''
treatment to tie suffering .,o
We must have Federal control OF tho quai"'Ino
-on,.,co,, s,ld the doctor "Unformity and rigid
administration are the great necessities oi '"e "ou'
For roo, than forty years have tried 10 mahe ""'
,r Tho IDEA Is this: The country Is hhpe !"
49,, an endemic or a scourgo through any one y"
i,s morris II eleven ports have perfect systems VI
npar,ntlne and the twelfth has lax o'' VI ''''o
n, au the people of the land arr aoN'hHcy d. ,lo
merry Of that twelfth pot. THEREFOR Pu''""'"'s
'hn,,,d Ia Uniform at all the port o. entry AHu
, ,ror mat can be brought about Is for Inc
ecnc.al Government to take cont:'' ana m'ke ~ -,
:, norld he c,rred on under strict military ulsciP"c
20 in.re effective admins rA'Ion'
IL VII Illustrate this by reference 10 ~" 'NF
e,ce q l,4- and ls40. In the fall OF - t"o 'H''i'
Grant shps left IIavrc for America ohe '""'
Xcv,- York and the other 10 Ne"-orieahs. po'" w
y.,,,cI cholera nj sea. The New-IorR sup va
,,, ,,,, adequately ard ID. disease was kept wi'h"
~, u,5tts of the staten Island Hospital "HeFe t'
,r u.r,. ,reoted Il finally wore Itself out ana uln
,ot suread At New-Orl-ans IL was dHci'"'' '
chocr, ship l.ndcd her people with the o'seae l" Wv,
clotlo, and in their systems What was t''e ''Su''
Cholera spread, and It just TOOK hoiu u '"' ','
malt AZ
Then II went up the Mississippi "'luI'e ~ 49,,
tur, Mcmplls and st Louis. Then, following "o
-, ~. .,,erce a. II always does. Il went 10
rt,o,,, and thence by water and rail 10 the o'hcI
,tr Ito towns. and In May. Of l-4o, IL fr''nco
vnv, York SIX months after II had been stAric' "'
hv onr quarantine seryicc. llah the service ~ ~.
Orleans done It's duty as the New-i"h sc'N''
,ho,-lnd, of lives and countless money N'"''
through the paralysis OF trade "o"u nave '''" ,
.. c,od quarantine system under the "rhei'
,.a.,,,o o,,t ,vouId have stopped that sc0urSc All"
- T., certainly no less a necessity this day ana hou''
g., the prc.cnt danger OF the approach oi cho'c''
than It was IN l5is" .,. sam,
Dr. Sayre said further that the 'ihport'n, .''"H
prcyeniion for when the d ease 700" hpi p"' '',
ro,n be done 70 stay IT. fatal WORK. he u'."nS
cha, the discoveries Of DR. Koch VIII u'""H''f
result in radical changes in tho treatment oi ~
-, ,t,t =, far a. he knows no such roN"luuni -,
Uractice can a. yet lc regarded as an h''o'pnS"0'
The problem" he said, as 70 hnd an o1p,ar @gsn'
.,,., vIu do. ruv tha cholera bacillus hnn ''t"
~. a.' re po.on without destroying the life o INC
person affected. .., e. ,,,e COUNTRY II
{, or,"ts here IL must be imported The ihine j. ~
prevent It's importation. We hay cond'1m. ,ne oycr
groSny ont OF The unclctnness OF streets, the ",
sID"St,c ~ tencments. bad drainage, etc, wmOn
WonM promote the spread Of cholera should EY y
start here; bat as say, IL must pc po 'n,risr,nf,no
,on II rnst be- made uniform and strict at all .ac
nort, Of entry. and the only way II can , nG cnn
~ - fnr INC Federal Government 10 take iuii GU"
,rl and enforce II with military precision