The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-09-08


,ers are coming into the United States from
he infected districts aforesaid, and that
they and their personal effects are Liable to |
introduce cholera into the United States, and |
hat vessels conveying them are thereby di-
:ect menace to the public health: and it having |
oeen further shown That under the laws OF the |
several states quarantine detentons may be |
imposed upon these vessels sufficient length |
If time to insure against the Introduction Of |
contagious diseases, it is hereby ordered that no
Jessel from any foreign port carrying immigrants
shall be admitted to enter at any port OF the
United States until said vessels shall have I'M |
iergone quarantine detention Of twenty days |
unless such detention is forbidden by the laws
If the state or the regulations made thereun-
ier) and of such greater number of days as may
oe fixed in each special case by the state au-
:horities.
"Ths circular to take immediate effect. ex-
,ept in cases of vessel aoat at this date, which
will be made the subject of special considera-
ion upon due application to the department.
walter WYMAN,
"Supervising Surgeon General United States
Marine Hospital Service.
CHARLES FOSTER, Secretary Treasury.
"Approved: BENJAMIN HARRISON
1t is admitted in official circles that
every precaution necessary has now
been taken by the government officials
who are charged with the responsible
ty of keeping out the pestilence and
nothing remains except to strengthen
The medical examiners along the
Canadian border and provide for
better methods of inspection
and disinfection in many southern
ports which are now admitted to be
weak in this respect. Neither the pres
dent nor any of his advisers is sure
that the regulations adopted will pre-
vent an invasion of cholera, but they
say that they have exhausted every re-
source, and if the disease comes it will
nave to be met and dealt with in the
proper way.
STRICT QUARANTINE.
New YORK. Sept. 1.-The steamship
Moravia, which arrived from Ham burg
on Tuesday night, having had. it is al
legged, twenty-five deaths from cholera
among her passengers GssIiing The trip,
has been sent to the lower quarantine,
miles south Of Swinburne island. She
lay in Gravesend bay Wednesday
night, and at daybreak hoisted
the yellow flag. warning all YES
sells to give her u wide berth. No new
cases of disease have broken out
among her passengers. DIR. Talmadge,
after working among the vessels in
the upper quarantine visited the Mo-
ravia. He was met by Capt. Shiele and
the ships doctor, and the three made
= tour of the ship. The two women
who were attacked with the disease
on the voyage here were found to be
On the road to recovery. They are
convalescing in an isolated part of the
ship. The Moravia's passengers were
all compelled to battle during the
afternoon. The steamer will remain
below Swinburne island until the
health officers are certain that all
trace of the plague is removed from
her.
THE CONTRACTION.
DR.. Talmadge, of Health Officer Jen-
kins' staff at quarantine, says in regard
to the cholera contagious:
ut cannot be too distinctly understood that
cholera cannot be taken through the air. 1t is
not IN the air. The only way to get the disease
is to take the germs into the stomach or bowels,
either with the food or through the medium OF
contaminated water The germs must be swal-
lowed in some way or you cannot have cholera
Cholera is infectious, but not contagious
l might bring cholera germs with me and
crush against you, but unless the germs fall
INTO the stonavn-as they might in a hundred
ways, by passing the hand to the mouth by
eating anything handled by Or near infected
people-there would be no cholera. The food,
and especially TIE drink, is what should be par
ucularly watched in times OF cholera
When the copy Of the circular OF
Surgeon General Wyman, sent out by
the Associated Press, was posted in the
maritime exchange it caused a sensa-
ton among the members. All the
steamship agents at once sent for
copies of it. 1t formed the chief topic
for meditation and conversation during
the rest Of the day. All of them, how
ever, submitted without murmur to
the conditions imposed and declared
themselves anxious in every way to
hold up the presidents hands in his Ell
forts to keep cholera out of the country.
THE SITUATION ABROAD.
LONDON, Sept. 3.-The cholera in
Great Britain seems to have been fair
ly mastered. The chief physician OF
the local government board said that
the outlook was entirely satisfactory.
He said that, although about thirty
cases of cholera at all the ports Of
Great Britain. had been dealt with
during the past ten days, there was nc
instance of the disease spreading be.
yond the person first attacked. Also
lutte confidence prevails among the peo
pie that the sanitary condition of Eng.
land will secure the country against
the ravages of bacili bred in foreign
9Th.
HAMBURG, Sept. 3.-The harm done
TO the rest of north Germany by official
incompetency here is enormous. Per.
sons fleeing from the city in the last
Eve days have carried the infection to
twenty-three other north German
towns. In Lubbock. Liegnitz, Ruda,
Bergedorf, Neukiroh, in upper Silesia,
Delmenhorst, Madgeburg and more
han . dozen villages the breaking out