The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-04-13

UNITED STATES QUARANTINE STATION ON
CHANDLEUR ISLAND, MISS.
ing hospital. Three other vessels will
be kept on duty as adjuncts to the Del
aware Quarantine Station-the steamer
Charles Foster, for boarding and the
steamer Pasteur and the steam barge
Zamora, for disinfecting. Two other
vessels will aid in the administration
of the Gulf station at Chandelier
Island-the steamer William Welsh,
for fumigating and naphtha launch,
for general utility. At Blackboard
Island another steam launch will be
used throughout the season, and at San
Francisco the steamer George M. Stern
berg will perform general services
and likewise the steamer Iroquois at
Port Townsend, Wash, donated by the
Navy Department for that purpose.
If disinfection is found to be neces-
sary in the case of any vessel it must
be done under the direction of the con-
sui or medical officer, and the vessel
must be pronounced clean and free
from contagion before taking on its
cargo. The character of tie cargo also
must be inquired into before it is
placed on board. Merchandise and
personal effects coming from an in
fected or suspected district must be
disinfected before shipment. Old rags,
old jute and gunny cloth gathered in
an infected or suspected place or port
cannot be shipped during the preva-
lence Of the epidemic and for thirty
days after the port has been declared
free from it. New merchandise,
however, as textile fabrics and
the like, which have been
packed and prepared for shipment
with a special view to protection from
moisture, may be exempted from dis
infection. But old rags and textile
fabrics used in the manufacture of
paper, and feathers, hair, hides, ETC.,
collected or packed in any foreign port
or place, must be subjected to disin-
fection, either by boiling water, ex-
posure to steam, exposure to sulphur
Gus acid gas, saturation with carbolic
acid, or exposure to sulphur dioXide.
There must be likewise a similar eX-
animation and disinfection of passen-
gers before embarking, and the main
tenance of rigid disinfection daily on
the voyage. Passengers are to be di-
yided into two classes-cabin and
steerage. Each cabin passenger must
produce satisfactory evidence as to his
place of abode for four days previous
to embarkation, and if he has been ex-
posed to contagion, he must be de-
tanned for term to be fixed by the in
spector, and his baggage disinfected.
Steerage passengers shipping from an
infected port are to be detained five
davs under medical observation in
specially provided quarters. These
precautions taken, there is but little
likelihood that any vessel can start
from the other side with cholera aboard,
and at all events, the possibility
of cases to be handled on this side
will be reduced to the minimum.
Should cholera break out on the vessel
at sea, the sick must be separated from
the rest of the passengers or crew, and
in case of death must be saturated with
strong disinfecting solutions and imme-
diately buried in the sea.
On this side any vessel arriving with
cases of contagion aboard must be de-
tanned for a period ranging from five
to twenty days At all ports here
where there is no national or local
quarantine, vessels will not be per-
mitted to enter until the collectors of
customs at those ports are satisfied that
the vessels may come in without dan
ger to the public health, and in case
any vessels are found to have had such
disease aboard during the voyage, the
collector must remand the vessels TO
the nearest quarantine station, there
to undergo publication under the regu.
lar national regulations.