Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-08
THE DREAD SCOURGE
Arrives by Steamer Moravia-A
Veritable Ship of Death.
Timely and Sensible Order from Presi-
dent Harrison.

New YORK, Sept. 1.-The scourge o.
Europe is knocking at our doors. Chol
era entered New York harbor shortly
after dawn yesterday ON the Hamburg
steamer Moravia.
Twenty two dead was the record
made by the awful disease among the
the steamships 300 passengers on the
short voyage hither.
The Moravia was halted near the Mar
rows, her prov again turned seawarG
by the vigilant quarantine officers, anG
her infected crew and passengers land
ed on an island where science will have
its hand to hand struggle with the ma
levolent disease without danger to the
inhabitants of New York.
The peril of the plague now lies in
fresh arrivals-in the certainty that the
deadly bacillus has crossed the seas
and may leap ashore from any steam.
ship now arriving from the infected
ports.
President Harrison heard the news in
the midst Of his busy day of confer.
ences and compliments at Whitelaw
Reid d's home at White Plains, and acted
with characteristic promptness, After
hearing authentic reports from New
York the President abandoned his trip
through New York, SO long planned
and pleasantly anticipated, and that he
should at once return to Washington.
1.-THE danger may not be imminent u
he said, "but delay may be fatal, and
this is not moment for delay"
Shortly after the Presidents arrival
in Washington he met Surgeon General
Wyman and members of the Cabinet,
and after an hours deliberation the
following special circular was issued
Treasury Department, Office of Super
vising General United States Marine
Hospital Service, Washington d. c.,
September 1, 1892:
To Collectors of Customs, Medical Off
GERS of the Marine Hospital Service,
Foreign Steamship Companies, State
and Local Boards of Health
1t having been officially declared
that cholera is prevailing in various
portions of Russia, France and Ger
many, and at certain ports in Great
Britain, as we'll as in Asia, and it hav-
ing been made to appear that immi-
grants in large numbers are coming
into the United States from the infected
districts aforesaid, and that they and
their personal effects are liable to in
troduce cholera into the United States,
and that the vessels conveying them
are thereby direct menaces to the pub
lie health and it having been further
shown that under the laws of the seve-
raj States, quarantine detention may be
imposed upon those vessels a sufficient
length of time to insure against the in
PRODUCTION of contagious diseases, it is
hereby ordered that no vessel from any
foreign port, carrying immigrants, shall
be admitted to enter at any port of the
United States until said vessel shall
have undergone quarantine detention
of twenty days, unless such detention
is forbidden by the laws of other States
or regulations made thereunder) and of
such greater number Of days as may
be fixed in each special case by State
authorities.
This circular to take immediate eff
feet except in cases of vessels afloat at
this date, which will be made subject
of special consideration upon applica-
tion to the Department.
Signed. WALTER WYMAN,
Supervising Surgeon General United
States Marine Hospital Service.
CHARLES FOSTER, Secretary Treasury.
Approved, BENJAMIN HARRISON.
The opinion of the Attorney General
that the President is legally empowered
to take this step accompanies the Cir
cular.
1t is thought that the effect of this
circular will be to practically stop i'm
migration from Europe for the time be.
ing, and thus will be brought about a
result which the popular mind believes
desirable. Steamship companies, it is
argued, will not care to bring emf
grants to this country and support
them for long period before they are
allowed to land, as such traffic would
be Improbable.
Secretary Foster says: ut is well
for the public to know that the State
authorities and steamship companies
are acting in perfect accord and hearty
cooperation with the Government, all
being determined to exhaust their le-
gal power to accomplish the prevention
of the introduction of the dreaded dis
ease. The Postoffice Department is
cordially cooperating. From the mo-
ment this Department had knowledge
of cholera i'll European ports vigorous
measures were taken to place Gordon
of quarantines around the entire coun-
try, and we are gratified with the thor
oughness of the work done"
The condemned revenue steamer Ew-
ing has been fitted up for hospital ser
vice at Cape Charles, to which any
passengers on infected vessels can be
removed if health officials think they
are likely to convey the infection.
Colonel H. and the Roman Beggar.
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