The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-14

When ! arrived and learned the action of
DR.. Mcintosh. / Immediately requested the
captain to drop the painter of the boat in
which the sick man was on 10 the tug. and
towed the man back to Angel Island. When
l got near the shore / saw one OF the en-
plOyes patrolling the wharf with double
barreled shotgun on his shoulder. At a
distance DR.. Mcintosh was seen coming to
the wharf with gun on his shoulder also.
He took the gun off when he came TO the
side of the wharf. l asked him his reason
for refusing to allow the sick man to be
landed. He said in the first place that he
was crowded and that he had received in
structions to take no more people on the
island. l then called his attention to the
fact that there were only three patients in
the laZaretto. He replied that under no cir
Gums tances would he receive this patient L
said, We are going to land him here. The
station Is established &c receive these
cases.
"'The man can't be left here replied DR..
Mcintosh. as long as the man on the
wharf has gun.
Dr. Lawlor here drew himself up and his
eyes flashed with all the fire OF States
rights in the ante-bellum days as he went
on: 81 told DIR. McIntosh l didn't care for
80 guns or Calling guns. that the place for
the sick man was right there; that there
was plenty of room, and | meant to land
him. He said: L wont receive him. l
was angry at the way he was brought here.
l wont take all these people on the
steamer"
Il answered this" continued DR.. Lawlor.
''by pointing out that there was no ono
else sick on the steamer; that those on
board would remain there till the Gaelics
passengers had been released.
Under these circumstances Dr. McIn-
tosh allowed the man to land, and the poor
fellow was taken In tow by small skiff
and tugged to the landing on the other side
of the island"
THE man has fairly typical case Of
variola." said DR.. Lawlor. "but he has
passed the secondary or suppurative fever.
Still, there Is no telling but what the ex-
posure to the cold fogs and winds at so crit
zeal stage may not set mp pneumonia and
kill him."
The China Is moored on the east side of
the island little to The south Of California
City. The cabin passengers were fumigated
yesterday afternoon, and at O'Clock to-day
the tug Mllen Griffith will 90 over and take
them off. The steamer viii be kept in
quarantine with the rest of the people on
board till the Gaelic's passengers are re-
leased.
Yesterday morning DR.. Lawlor tele-
graphed the facts in the case TO the Board
of Health, and was instructed TO have the
sick man removed 10 the Island the passen-
gers. mails and baggage thoroughly fumi-
gated and the steamer detained till the steer
age passengers could be transferred to the
island.
After getting the sick man into the lazar-
etto DIR. Lawlor returned to the steamer and
inspected every one on board.
1t Is evident that there is a deep preju-
dice in the Chinese mind against vaccna-
ton. In Inspecting the Chinese and
Japanese passengers DIR. Lawlor caused
them to strip to the waist. He found that
not more than per cent Of the Chinese
passengers have The marks of successful
vaccination, while of the Japanese 65 per
cent had taken WELL" Dr. Lawlor obtained
unequivocal evidence that the Chinese, after
submitting to the compulsory vaccination
required of all Monaghan passengers on the
steamers, were in the habit OF sucking the
cuts made by the lancet Immediately after
the operation so as to remove the virus be-
fore IL could inoculate the system. In the
case Of the Chinese passengers quarantined
from the Rio, it was found by DIR. Mcintosh
that the willy Mongols practiced the same
deception, even going to the extent of suck
Ing the virus from each others arms as soon
as the vaccination had been performed. AS
result, - OF the reyaceinated patients took
the disease, which was not stamped out I'M
til ell the passengers had been vaccinated
beyond doubt of trickery or failure.
'There are two things" said DIR. Lawlor,
''that ought to be done at once. The au-
thorities at Washington should erect a
number OF small, cheap barracks on the
island. They need not hold more that 80 or
40 persons each, and then when q case oc-
ours it would be easy to corral the patients
right there. Therthere should be sort of
steamer coming into quarantine, and have
arrangements made by which the patient
and his effects can be got out without any
one on the steamer coming in contact with
him."
OF the 300 Chinese on the China 142 are
for San Francisco, q for Panama and 81 for
Havana. There are now 663 persons in
quarantine at Angel Island, but of these
$50 will be released on Saturday, on which
day the Ch!na's load will be transferred as
the vessel will be locked. The China has
case Of leprosy on board, and one case of
blindness from cataract. As the latter pa
tient is liable 10 become a public charge he
will probably be sent back with the leper
patient. There is some talk also Of inauir-
ing into the coming of the $50 Japanese on
the China, as the contract labor law may
have been violated in their case.