Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-01

Rers on tho steamers arriving here eat the
food and drink the water that are taken on
board at foreign ports, both of winch are
likely 70 be infected with the gems Of the
disease,
Under suoh circumstances, quarantine
here Of two or three lays would not be
o sufficient safeguard against cholera. The
matter Is now being discussed by the
Board of Health, and some action will pro-
badly be determined upon.
CITY OFFICIALS PKxPsRED.
President Wilson, of the Health Board,
to-day remarked that he was not sur
prised that cholera had arrived and that
the city officials were prepared TO fight II.
The islands to which patients Will be
sent have not yet been made pub
lie, although agreed upon by the
Health Board. The board to-day is-
sued a circular TO all railways,
ferries, steamboat-ofices, factories, etc.
where large number OF people are likely
iDg-rooms or in the factories there should
be set aside air-tight rooms. These will
be Temporary places Of isolation should
cases Of cholera suddenly develop.
ALL FogndSERs INSPECTED.
Besides the Moravia, the quarantine
officers to-day inspected the Crcassia,
Italia Friesland, Teutonio, and other YES
sells. No disease was found. Care was
taken, however, to have the vessels aud
baggage Thoroughly fumigated. and the
passengers will be detained for few days,
and the vessels then permitted to proceed.
WORLD" REPORTERS ARKRsrKD.
City-Editor Goddard. of the World, and
staff OF World reporters chartered the
tug-boat William II. Hutchings aud at
tempted TO board the Morayia in the lower
bay this afternoon. They were intercept
ed, however, and placed under arrest.
After leaving their tug and coming Oh
board the hCalth-officers' boat, they were
taken before the health officer, who dis
charged them with O reprimand. The
health officers will in future arrest and
punish any and all unauthorized persons
found gong alongside vessels in quaran-
tine.
DR.. Jenkins will make thorough in
vestigation tomorrow to determine the
cause OF the deaths on board the Moravia.
DR.. Jenkins denies omphatically. the re-
port that he pronounced the sickness on
board the Moravia TO be Asiatlc cholera.
A full report will be given out tomorrow
afternoon.
CONFLICTING ORDERS.
James A. Wright, of tho International
Navigation Company, says the steamship
companies are having great trouble over
the manner in which they are knocked
about from pillar TO post by the Trea-
sury authorities. The quarantine COM
missioners and the health officers
of the port, each Of whom seems
to be working on different plans
are giving orders to the steamship COM
panies that frequently conflict. The COM
panies, he says, are willing to do every
thing they can to guard against bringing
cholera here. as IL is in the line OF their
business, but they are certainly harassed
by conflicting orders.
MODEL QUARANTINE STATION.
This is the first time Hoffman Island, to
which the immigrants from infected ports
will be taken. has seen such active service
since 1884 and 1887, when cholera scares
disturbed the country. Ii is about two
miles south OF the Narrows. and 10 built
on tho sand-bar. About 800 immigrants
can be handled there at one time. On It
are the germ-proof dormitories for disin-
fecting, and in every direction the as
sertion so often made by seq captains that
the New York quarantine Is the safest In
the world is emphasized.
EVERY KNOWN PRHcAuTIoN.
Every known precaution is taken on
Hoffman Island to make IL proof against
disease germs The floors of the building
are made OF asphalt, while the ceilings are
constructed of galvanized and corrugated
iron. The partitions are also built oflron,
while the smaller walls in some places are
built of white enameled brick. There are
no mattresses in the dormitory and the
cots are the simplest kind of hammocks
suspended over frames of iron.
Steam does everything. from disiufecting
to cooking. SO perfect is the system that
the refuse water itself can be disinfected
before it is discharged in the harbor.