Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-13
THE TYPHUS FEVER
Must Be Entirely Stamped Gut by
New York's State Authorities
If THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH IT.
The National Government Has No Right to
Interfere Until
IT BECOMES POSITIVELY NECESSARY
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH-'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The attention
of DR.. Walter Wyman, supervising sur
geon of the Marine Hospital service, was
to-day called to the outbreak of typhus te-
yer in New York. To THE DISPATCH re-
porter DIR. Wyman said:
'The quarantine at New York is State
institution, in the management of which the
Government has no part. The Marine
Hospital service has charge of the medical
examination of immigrants at other
ports than at New York, but at
New York an exception is made, but
the medical staff is under the immediate
control of the Immigration Bureau, and no
official of the marine hospital service is con-
nected Herewith. With regard to the
management of the cases of typhus fever, OF
course that devolves upon the local author
tiles, as in the case of other local epidemics
The Nation Ever Ready.
When, through want of proper State or
local authority, or through want of suffi-
cient funds, request is made by the State
authorities upon the National Government,
it is then that the marine hospital service en-
ters the field, as was recently done in Georgia,
where an extensive epidemic of smallpox
prevailed on Harris Neck, and on request
of tie Governor of the State this service
took control, isolated the patients, erected
temporary barracks and hospitals, vaccin-
ated the community, and wiped out the
epidemic, the last case reported being about
January /.
'''The health authorities of the inland
cities, to which these immigrants may be
destined, should be promptly notified, so
that they may cause % careful examination
of the person and baggage of the 1mml-
grants. On account of cholera and other
contagious diseases that have prevailed
within the past year in the Orient, great
care should be exercised at the seaboard
quarantines.
Timely information From Abroad.
''This bureau has received a number of
communications from the Consuls within
the past few months, giving notice CT the
shipment of unwashed wool gathered IN the
infected districts, and in each case notice has
been sent to the health officer of the
American port to which the vessel was
bound 1t was only on the 9th instant that
1 received communication from the Con-
sui at Hull, England, notifying me
that q cargo of goatskins which had
been gathered in Eastern Russia,
and which were suspected of being infected
with the plague, was bound for the port of
New York per steamer Colorado, which in
formation / telegraphed at once to the
quarantine officer at New York. 3"
Mr.. Owen, Chief of the Immigration
Bureau, said that the matter had not
vet been reported to the bureau
by the local commissioners He
could not, therefore, know what
steps, if any, would be taken to prevent
spread of the disease. Mr.. Owen added,
however, that he felt entirely confident that
the New York authorities would do what |
ever is necessary.
Eleven more cases of the typhus fever
were reported by the New York authori-
ties to-day, making 6S in all