Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-04
THE CHOLERA 1NITAlY.
Interesting Reports Received by Surgeon
General Wyman.
The Death on Board the Karaminfa
What Surgeon Young Says OF
the Progress Of the Di.ease.

Surg. Gen. Wyman Of the marine hospital
service was in direct Geographic communi-
cation with Health Officer Jenkins at New
York early this morning, respecting the An
Choir Line steamer Karaminia, which ar
rived at that port yesterday.
DIR. Jenkins report to DR.. wyman this
morning was to the following effect:
The vessel cleared from Naples on July
Is, with All passengers. officers and crew
sufficient to make total of ga persons
All We're in good health according to the
bill of health. All were vaccinated and
their effects were inspected. On the second
day out Rosa Buccola died. the surgeon
making the autopsy stating the cause of
death to be congestion OF the lungs, and
that she was Ill when she came on board.
The vessel touched at Gibraltar on the
10th, where the consular visa OF the bill
of health was granted by the consul. who.
after writing in the above statement, said
the steamship leaves port in free fratique.
1 may add that this patient had diarrhoea
as well Following is the history Of the
two cases that died just before reaching
port:
AN Italian, aged forty years, was taken
suddenly i'll, and was found In a very pros
trate condition. complaining of pain in the
right side and diarrhoea He was removed
Immediately to the hospital. On August 2,
after treatment, he seemed to slightly inn
prove. Later on he became rapidly worse.
with diarrhoea and vomiting and some
cramps in the legs and arms. He died at 8
am. on the Sd. On the LIST an italian wo-
man.. aged twenty-three began 10 have
diarrhoea, with great prostration and pulse
weak.
He continued to grow weak and COM
planned of abdominal pain. She began
ing of the Sd. and was buried at sea.
There were several cases of diar-hoea be-
tween the 18th of July and LIST Of August.
he Caa1 haC s1-l.
Quarantine and the passengers will be
transferred at once. They win be detained
five days at least.
Precautions Will he Taken.
It appears from this statement that the
Karamania sailed from Naples four days
before Assistant Surgeon Young. who was
on the watch there for the marine hos
pital service, got the Information that
cholera had appeared in the city. The fact
that no deaths or pronounced cases have
occurred on the vessel since the Sd instant
is encouraging, but nevertheless every pre-
caution will be made by the health officers
TO make sure that the disease had disap-
peared before the passengers are landed.
The baggage will be disinfected by steam
and i'm every other respect the vessel will
be treated as If the deaths on board actu-
ally occurred from cholera whether they
In his official mail report to the marine
hospital service, under date Of July 20
which has Just been received. Surgeon G.
B. Young gives some interesting informa-
ton concerning the outbreak in that city
and the movement of the steamship Mas.
silia; July 10 he cabled the news Of -four
fatal cases of cholera. widely scattered
Sunday. July l6. a case with cholerais
continuous with the city on the south, snd
occurred in the 'iMercato." which is one
Of the poorest wards. perhaps the worst
BY a piece of unusually good fortune
Surgeon Young says the result Of the bac
Gated TO him. Comma bacillus was found
the observer being a bacterfolog1st of dis
tin ctiol.. The cases had no history o,
contact and were all in the persons OF
This information reached Dr. Young Just
as he had completed the preliminary ex.
July q, with about $50 emigrants. This
steamef Is bound for New York. and hei
passage will be about eighteen days. Sc
IN esb New OF
August 9.
DR. Young says he at once Investigated
and found that only about a half dozen OF
the passengers had arrived in the cit,
when cholera was discovered. The pre-
cautions he took with regard to the pas
sengers by the Massilia have already beer
stated.
A steam DisinfectfnE Chamber.
Under date OF July "a Assistant Surgeon
b. w Brown of Genoa advises the hos:
pital service that the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company have provided a steam
disinfecting chamber at that port and
that il was successfully used in disinSect-
ing some OF the baggage belonging to emil
grants on the steamship Werra. which sail.
ed from Genoa July 19 with 9o7 persons on
board and bound for New York.
The Genoa papers. he says. report cholers
at the following towns in northern Italy
Ounce. Allessa ndria and Now. To be or
the safe side he instructed emigrant agents
that all persons canning from those towns
would have 10 remain in Genoa FIVE days
before sailing. and that their baggage must
be steamed.