St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-30
Exhaustive Report on the
Quarantine Arrangements
of Eastern Cities.
PopuliSts Do the Bidding, in
City Convention, of Re-
publican Advisers.
James Fogapty. HighWayman,
Makes a Desperate Dive
for Liberty.
John v. Ryden and His Queer
Actions--Doings Of the
Courts.

The committee on health and hospi-
tails met yesterday. The report of the
committee on the quarantine systems
of the East and Canada was adopted
most interestiDg-in fact, the only re-
port of the kind ever printed and will
prove of inestimable value to city
authorities and health officials:
Acting under your instructions,
dated Sept. 6, 1892. directing eXamina-
ton of frontier and seaboard quaran-
tine stations, your committee have the
honor to report that, the first point eX-
amlned was the Sault Ste Marie, where
we found DR.. Floyd, an American
health officer, on duty examining immi-
giant trains and quarantining the same
upon the Canadian side, superintend
ing the construction Of steam ap-
paratus, demanding the Canadian
authorities, police to patrol quar-
antined cars, and prevent the es-
cape of immigrants. as far as possible,
either into the adjacent towns or across
the river by ferry boat. Those preventa-
tive means were only partially complied
with, for immigrants entered the towns,
crossed the river and landed upon our
:
tine restrictions. Twenty days quaran-
tine having been established, our officers
were determined to enforce it, while the
authorities upon the Canadian side pro-
tested against being made dumping
ground for the accumulated filth and
disease of Would-be American citizens
while in transit.
1.-The only visible means
To Combat Cholera
was one box car side-tracked, to which
was attached one end of rubber hose,
the other end connected with a station
airy steam engine about 100 feet from
the car; clothing was hung on ropes in
side the car and the doors closed. while
steam was turned on for two hours;
when articles of clothing were removed
they were saturated with moisture.
There was no thermometer to indicate
the temperature in the car, and, there
fore, no means for telling positively
insure protection had been reached. No
provision was made for sterilizing
trunks or clothing worn on the person
of the immigrants. No bathing rooms
or water closets, except on car,
which contained twenty-seven immi-
grants. the accumulation of night
soil and other refuse upon the
ground for a period of twenty days, and
the foul odOrs arising therefrom, is, in
our opinion, sufficient reason for rapid
change in the condition, treatment and
surroundings of those unfortunate peo-
pie. Provision made by the Canadian
Pacific Railroad corporation at Quebec
for the
Reception of migrants
and the consideration of their comforts
are commendable-a building $50 feet
long by so feet wide. The main part of
feet. The 81" part, first story, is divided
into dining room, cooking room, bath
rooms and water closets. Each room
was found clean and in good sanitary
condition, well supplied with heat,
light, and hot and cold water. The
building is two-Story and half frame
structure, divided into long waiting
rooms, with several bedrooms, furnished
and matron in charge. Taken as a
whole, the building is commodious and
we'll adapted to the wants of the immi-
grants.
"A box car stands on the side track,
near the wharf where the baggage IS
landed from the vessels; inside are coils
of steam pipes and ropes running the
full length of the car. When this car is
filled with clothing the doors are closed
and the steam turned into the iron pipes
from one of the large railroad engines.
1t appears from the construction of this
apparatus that both steam and heat are
applied to the contents of the car stimuli
taneously for an hour or two.
'GrosseIsle, the station on the St.Law-
renee river about thirty-one miles below
Quebec, where the river is about fif-
teen miles wide, is admirably adapted
n Oft Ixy q CT hn
island is about mile and aquarter long
and three-quarters of a mile wide, easily
approached by ocean vessels. Upon one
side of the island is wharf where all
infected materials,
SMALLPOX, Cholera or Typhus
fever patients are landed. The patients
are taken from there in an ambulance
"a model Of perfection). equipped with
everything necessary for effective and
instant use to wooden hospitals of ample
size, especially arranged for cholera.
typhuS fever and smallpox cases.
About three hundred yards from these
buildings is brick hospital two stories
and half high, capable of accommo-
dating about one hundred convalescent
patients.
"Quarters for doctors, nurses and
other attendants are in close proximity;
ing, imported rags and soiled material
of every kind are burned; this process
we witnessed and approved as being
proper sanitary precaution.
Upon the other end of this island
is what is known as the quarantine for
immigrants suspected and detained. or
exposed to contagion, without any sick
ness being present. Here we saw sew
eral long one-story buildings, in all said
to be sufficient to accommodate 1,SOO
| people. Those buildings are supply
frame structures suitable for summer
use, and well lighted and ventilated.
"In connection with the prlvies there
was an arrangement or valve, which
could be closed and at the same time
admit disinfectlng solution, so that all
discharges are treated chemically before
they are allowed to run into the river.
A police patrol, day and night, prevents
any mixing of
Healthy With Diseased Irnmi-
grants.
1.-THE wharf is the ordinary kind of
| timbers and plankS. about $50 feet long
| and 50 feet wide. Upon this wharf we
| saw what is known as a steriliZing an
| paratus. When the sterilizing opera
ton is completed the sterilized articles
are removed without any apparent dam
| aye W luo texture OF COl0fS. Each
package being marked, it is handed to
the owner, who proceeds to pack IT in
trunks, which have been washed with
corrosive solution or carboliZed solution.
This completes the disinfectlon process
on shore.
For the disinfection of vessels there
is special boat provided with sulphur,
furnace and blow wheel, with asbestos
hose where sulphurous acid gas can be
thrown into the ship in any quantity re-
quired; also an apparatus for corrosive
sublimate solution, which is used for
washing all portions of infected vessels
before sulphur acid gas is used. There
| is also steamer used 10 carry passen-
| gers from infected vessels to the island.
! and by inspectors at quarantine to board
| incoming vessels. This boat has hose
and disinfecting spray for instant use,
as well as steam ready night and day,
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