Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

me s 3 Gs,f quarantine. As onlthe chande-
ieur Islands, twenty three miles on the
coast on Mississippi. with hospital on
North Chandelier Island. La; the sixth
A. t,a San Francisco quarantine, the
f,neat In the world, at Angel Island,
Cal. the seventh Is at San Diego, CAL;
and the eighth and last one Is at Fort
Townsend. Wash.
Ports Protected.
The Cape Charles quarantine pro-
tects the cities and townson the cnesa-
peake Bay and its tributaries, Including
the cities of Norfolk, Richmond and
Hampton, Va, together with Washing-
tom and Baltimore. The Delaware
breakwater quarantine protects Phila-
delphia and Chester, Pa. Camden y:
j.. and Wilmington, New Castle hEo
Lewes. Del. The South Atlantic ana
Key West guarantees protect the
southern coast; the Gulf quarantine the
ports from Florida TO Texas; the fors
Townsend and San Francisco quaran-
tines the upper Pacinc coast, wnsro
there Is danger OF cholera from China
and Japan; and the San Diego quaran.
fine the lower Pacific coast, which must
be guarded against infection from the
ports OF South and Central America ana
the Southern Pacific Islands.
The marine hospitals proper, which
| can be utilized In the treatment OF $50
| lated cases OF cholera inland, are nine
| teen in number, grouped into eight
separate geographical districts. The
| North Atlantic district includes three
hospitals, located, respectively, at Bos-
ton. Mass, Portland, Me-. and Vine
yard Haven, Mass. The middle Az
| iantic district contains only one nos
pital, that on Staten Island, n. \. Inc
South Atlantic district includes Two
one at Baltimore, Nd, and one at VII
miugton, N. G. The district OF the
| Gulf embraces three hospitals, at Key
| West. Fla. Mobile, Ala, and New OF
leans. La. The district OF the OHIO
comprises three also, one at Louisville,
Nv. one at Cincinnati, Ohio, and one
at Evansville, Ind. The district OF the
Mississippi likewise includes three,
namely. at st. Louis, Mo-, Memphis.
Tenn, and Cairo, Ill. Then, there is
the district OF the great lakes, with
hospitals at Chicago, ILL.,, and Detroit,
Mich, and, lastly. the district OF the
Pacific, with hospitals at San Francisco
and Port Townsend, Wash. In add
ton to the regularly established quar-
antine plants are the improvised camp
at Fort Pulaski. at the mouth OF tne
Savannah River, Ca, and Camp Low,
outside of New York, Of last summer
: bitter memory.
. In the entire marine hospital service
/ there are now employed upward OF oO,
/ persons, mostly highly skilled ano
I trained men, distributed among ths
q quarantine stations and marine. hospi'
Z tails. DIR. Walter Wyman is the sur
4 peon general in command OF THIS serv
: Ice. and his assistants are Surgeons ID
Z w Austin, f. w. Mead, J. j. kinyoun
and q. T. Vaughan. Besides there ar
sixteen other graduated surgeons
= TWENTY-FIVE passed assistant surgeons
Q eighteen assistant surgeons, seventy
II six acting assistant surgeons, ana tnlrl
d hospital stewards. The remaining %
J. persons are nurses, attendants, seamen
J. and quarantine officers OF variou
Q grades.
Is The Quarantine Fleet.
% The quarantine service has at its dis
L posal feet OF six finely equipped yes
ii sells. Four are disinfecting steamers
a. the Pasteur, the Robert hoch, IN
j. Welch. and the George Nj. Sternbere
IN cited with sulphur furnaces, tanks an
le other apparatus for fumigation. Th
es other two are superb sea-going steam
e. ers = the Dagmar and the Charlie
re Foster. The Dagmar is on duty at IN
IN Delaware breakwater and the Charlt
lg Foster is at the Cape Charles quaraI
oy tine. q,
he The quarantine process employed
We the marine hospital service consists Q
ne First, overhauling suspected yessel
lis their inspection, detention, and fumig
, ton. the disinfection OF passenger
baggage or cargo, ano the transfer
sick persons to the quarantine hosp
tails and immuring OF suspects In GA
racks. The fumigating act prescrip
| by the Treasury Department Is Pc
| formed with chloride OF mercury, 81
| INJURIOUS oxide and steam heat, togeth
with cleansing and flushing with
] water. Not only are cargoes subject
TO this disinfection. but baggage
q nersonal effects, and also the persons
certain classes of suspects. The prof.
vessels. lighters, launches, buildin!
piers, wharves, and appliances ior y
work are provided at all the establish
II quarantine stations.
Anticipating Invasion.
Last summers cholera excitem'
=, was the first experience our natiol
ing quarantine service has had with
'els foreign infection in epidemic form siI
ia the memorable yellow fever visitat
ma of 1878. 1t is not known to the wor
but nevertheless 1t Is fact, that
marine hospital service foresaw
cholera invasion and prepared to m
n "a far ahead as October, 1891, WI
the pestilence prevailed only In ASH
~ Turkey. Steps were taken then at
a norts of Marseilles and Client, WIN
rags were transhipped from the infec
territory for exportto America, to pre-
cute. through our consuls, rigid Oil
lection. But irrepressible CONNER
interests. conflicts Of authority
Jurisdiction and want Of conference
TER the quarantine regulations proven
absolute thoroughness in this WORK
anu that when, in July and August last,
nest invaded our own shores the q
hntIne Authorities were obliged 70
mere forth the most strenuous exertion
itlne secure in this country only pa
- escape from the scourge tnat
aFlicted France, Austria and Germ
2 notably Hamburg; and they wouIo
nm have been even thus partially sucs
eNlN full had not the President Issued
nv proclamation suspending all lmml
II ton for twenty days. Inc SUI
events OF that period are still viVioi
membered by our constructing pc
: with sense OF dread OF what ma,
= 4 be In store next summer.
u DIR. Wyman, the Surgeon Gener
!. Il charge OF the Federal quarantine
> vice is OF the opinion that mighty
tie will have to be waged tnroug
the coming spring and summer ag
the foreign enemy.
The opinions OF DR.. Wyman
.o-o all other sanitary experts