St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-05
Is CHOLERA COMING?
Reports of Cases on the Kar-
mania-What the Massila May
Rrine


mania-What the Massila May
Bring.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman, of the marine hospital
SERVICE was in direct personal tele
graphic communication with Health
Officer Jenkins at New York early this
morning. respecting the Anchor line
steamer Karmania, which arrived at
that port yesterday. DIR. Jenkins re-
port to DR.. Wyman this morning is as
follows:
The vessel cleared from Naples July
10, with All passengers, officers and
crew sufficient to make total of 524
persons. All were in good health ac-
cording to the bill of health; all were
vaccinated, and their effects were in
spected. On the second day out Rosa
Bucoola died, the surgeon making the
autopsy stating the cause of death to
be congestion of the lungs, and
that she was we'll when she came
on board. The vessel touched at
Gibraltar where the consular wise of the
bill of health was granted by the consul,
who afterwards wrote in the above
statement, and the steamship left
port in free nratique. l may add that
this patient had dlarrhWa US well. Fol-
lowing is the history of the cases that
died just before reaching port:
An Italian aged forty years was taken
suddenly iii. and was found in a pros
trate condition complaining of pain in
the right side and diarrhRa. He was
removed Immediately to the hospital.
On Aug. 2, after treatment, he seemed
to slightly improve. Later on he be
came rapidly worse with diarrhHa and
vomiting and some cramps in tine legs
AID arms. He died at "a. III. the third.
On the first an Italian woman aged
tWentv-thTee began to have diarrh9a
with great prostration and pulse weak.
She continued to grow weak, and cOm-
| planned OF abdominal pain. She began
sinking in the night and died the morn
| ing of the third, ana was buried at sea.
| There were several cases of diarrhRa
between the 18th of July and 1st of
| August. The vessel has been ordered
to lower quarantine, and the passengers
Will be transferred at once. They will
| be detained five days at least"
In his official mail report to the ma
rIne hospital service, under date of July
| 20, which has Just been received. Sur
geon q. B. Young gives some interest
ing information concerning the out
break in that city and the movement of
the steamship MaSsila. The Massila
sailed on July % with about $50 emit
grants. and will probably reach New
York about Aug. 9. DR.. Young says
that only about a half-dozen of
the passengers had arrived in the
city when cholera was discovered. I'm
der date of July "a. Assistant Sur
geon b. w. Brown, of Genoa, advises
the hospital service that the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship Company have
provided steam diSinfecting chamber
at the port and that it was successfully
used in dlsinfecting some of the bag
gage belonging to emIgrantS on the
steamship Werra. which sailed from
Genoa July 80, with 907 persons on
board and bound for New York. The
Genoa papers. he says, report cholera
at the following towns in northern
Italy: Cuneo, AIlesSandria ard Novi.
10 be on the safe side he Instructed
immigrant agents that ali persons COM
ing from these towns would have to
remain in Genoa five days before sail
ing and that their baggage must be
steamed.