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

the most radical nature and provided
our quarantine organization with an
epidemic fund of 100000, The Off
cials, therefore, have been enabled to
map out plan of campaign that gives
every promise of success. The person
mel of the Marine Hospital Service has
been extended and enlarged, new quar-
antine stations and hospitals have been
projected, the fleet of vessels at the
disposal of the service has been aug
mented, extraordinary preparations
have been made abroad, and system
of inland and coastwise precautions is
being formulated at home.
This plan of campaign contemplates
three distinct and separate lines of
activity; first, thorough quarantine
on the other side of the water: second,
a rigid quarantine on this side, and
third, a quarantine inland to prevent
any possible spread of the plague be-
tween the States and Territories. The
foreign quarantine is an entirely new
departure. 1t Is unique, having never
been tried except in few isolated cases.
At Havana, for instance, this govern
| ment has kept a special sanitary in
spector for a number of years, and his
services in examining and reporting YES
sells bound for ports in our Southern
States have been invaluable But no
general system of foreign inspection
| has ever before been taken by any gov
ernment, and it is hoped by our quar-
| atine experts that much will be accom-
plished from this branch of the service.
| Nine eminent surgeons have been de-
tailed from the Marine Hospital Serv-
ice for this foreign duty at the outset,
under the provisions of the law author
| izing quarantine abroad. They
have already sailed for Europe
They are: Surgeon George Pur-
Vance of Philadelphia, assigned
to Liverpool Passed Assistant
| Surgeon w. j. Pettus of Buffalo, N. Y,
assigned to Southampton; Assistant
| Surgeon M. J. Rosenaw, now abroad,
assigned to Antwerp; Passed Assistant
Surgeon j. II. White of Savannah, Ga,
assigned to Hamburg; Passed Assistant
Surgeon K. M. Woodward, now located
| at Cairo, assigned to Rotterdam; AS
sistant Surgeon Z. r. Houghton of
| Vineyard Haven, Mass, assigned to
Havre; Surgeon Fairfax Irwin of Bos-
ton, assigned to Marseilles; Assistant
| Surgeon B. w. Brown of San Fran
cisco, assigned to Genoa, and Assistant
Surgeon G. b. Young of Pittsburg, Pa,
assigned to Naples. Other medical
officers will be assigned to other ports
from time to time should occasion war
rant.
The present federal quarantine sta
tions will be augmented by the addi-
l tion of at least three others, which will
be established. at once. The eight sta
tions now in operation are the Della
ware Breakwater station, near Lewes,
Del; the Cape Charles station at Fish
erman's Island, Va; the South Attain
tic station, at Blackboard Island, Sa-
pelo Sound, Ga; the Key West station,
| at Dry Tortugas Island, Fla; the Gulf
station, at Chandelier Island, Miss;
the San Diego station, off San Diego,
CAL; the San Francisco station, at
Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, Cal, I,
and the Port Townsend station, OFF
Port Townsend, Wash.
A new supplemental station will be
established in the Delaware River at
its mouth, on Reedy Island, for the dis
infection of ships, in connection with
the Delaware Breakwater station
proper, where the treatment of the sick
and the detention of suspects will be
| carried on.
Another new supplementary station
will be established on Hogg Island, at
the mouth of the Patuxent River, in
Chesapeake Bay, Md. Authority to
purchase this island, together with the
necessary funds, was given by Congress
at it's recent session. This station,
when finished, will be operated as an
annex to the Cape Charles Station.
The Camp Low Station, outside of
New York city, established last sum-
mer during the cholera scare, has been
enlarged by the addition of disinfecting
apparatus and an elaborate system Of
bath houses. so that accommodation