New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-05
THE REPORT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT.
r,,r K.RAN,NIAs SICK PAsSENGERs-THE
MAssILIA FROM NAPLES DUE IN
FEW DAYS.

4 FEW DAYS.
Washington Aug. 4.-Surgeon-General Wyman, OF
the Marine Hospital service was III direct teiesrapo
communication with Health officer Jenkins at New
Vr, this morning respecting the Anchor line steamer
Eoromonia which arrived at that port yesterday Dr.
Ienkins reported to Dr.. Wyman this morning a.
follows:
The vessel cleared from Naples on July IS with AL
MESSENGERS officers and sufficient 70 make total Of
"a per ems All in good health, according 70 the
hin o health All yaccInated, AMI their effects wer
nsnoced On tn second day out Rosa Buccolo died. tn
surgeon making the autopsy stating the cause of death to
Le congestion OF the lungs and that sh was well when
he came on roard. The vessel touched at Gibraltar oil
the 9Oth where the consular wise Of the bill of health
was granted by the Consul who after writing in the above
statement said steamship leaves port in free prati1ue
NAV add that this patient had diarhoea as we'll Fol-
lowing is the history OF the two that died just be-
fore reaching port: An Italian, aged forty years was
,alcn suddenly ill., and wa, found In very PROSTATE
condition complaining OF pain in the right side ana diar
rhoca He was removed Immediately To the hospital On
August 2 treatment, h seem 70 slghty improve
Later on he rapidly wore with diarrhoca ana
vomiting and some cramps h leg, and arms lie died
at = a m on the 3D. on the 1st an Italian woman
40 twenty. three began 10 have diarrhoea' win gei
nrostraton and pulse She continued to grow weak
and complained OF abdominal pain. She o'gan sinking IN
the night and died the morning OF the Sd. and was
blr d az saa There several of diarhoea te
tween the nth July the lst OF August The Ne'se
ba, been ol red Lower Quarantine AMI the passengers
viii be tansi rr,d at once They will be detained hNe
days at least
soiIed from Naples four days before Assistant sur
geon Young. who on the watch there for the Marine
Hospital service got the Information that choera hu
appeared in the city. Inc lact that no deaths or
pr6ounced have occurred on the vessel slnce
prccauon Will be taken by the Health Officer to make
sure the disease mas disappeared before me pas;
r frsSs steam ' AMI ever other respect the vessel will
be- treated though the deaths on board actually oc
.l,,lar -lafl flayt "A or
In his official mail report to the Marine iio'plaai @
service under date Of July 20, which has Just peeil
received surgeon c. b. Young gives sone ih,sresms % m
Inc movement Of the steamship Massilla. On Juiy
10 he sent the news OF four fatal cases oi choiera
widely scattered on July IL, case with choeraic
SYMPTOMS occurred at rortici. suburb OF the city
and early Monday another Both were spreLly
in the Mercao' which Is one Of the poorest wards,
| perhaps the worst, In the city. iy nec. OF good
| fortune surgeon Young says, the result oi me
6act, riologcni examination communicated to him
Comma bncllu, found, the observer being a
bacteriooeis, of distinction The cases had no history
Of contact and were all In the persons of residents
| 1'his Information reached Dr. Young Just a. ne mo
completed the preliminary examination o. 4 tne 9sSsnIs MSs
| This steamer is bound Tor New-iork and her passage
be about eighteen days SO ,hnt IN ihe orpiV,
coarse of events she will probably reach Ne"-f orn
"opn n,nS sovs he at once Investigated and found
that only about "A half dozen of the passengers h;lo
arrived in the city when cholera was discoNereu no
precautions he took with regard to The passengers u"
Under date Of July "a. Assistant surgeon D. ,a, w
Prown OF advises the hospi,ni 81, r,-id.d n
se Isam %srecns chamber at that port and that IL
was successfully used r dlsnfccilns some csnsbip %
sSas' werrn vbrh sii,d from Ocnoa July 10 Win 10.
persons ON board. bound fot New on , towns
va t" w ,ln,u ioi Cuneo Allessandria ana NoNl, 10
be on the safe side he instrucea "",.s,a 'ra hase IA
that persons coming y ,rS ays before sailing. and that
| their baggaye must De ste'"e~'