The sun., 1894-10-31
MORE SMALLPOX ON THE IucASIA.
Four OF Her Deck Stewards Now ni-The
ship Fumigated at Her Pier.


Two new cases Of small pox developed yester-
day among the eighteen stewards confined on
board the Cunard steamship Lucania at her pier
at the foot of Clarkson street, North River. The
new victims are Samuel Farweather and Joseph
Powell. Cecil Browne and Charles Phillips. who
were stricken on Oct. %. when three days out
from Liverpool are now on North Brother
Island. Fairweather and Powell were taken
yesterday from the ship TO the reception hos
pital AZ the foot Of East Sixteenth street No one
is allowed TO board the ship except the health
inspector who visits the dock and examines the
quarantned stewards every day.
DR.. Pointon. the ships surgeon. IL on board
caring for the men. Whether or not the Iu-
cana will sail on Saturday, her next sailing day,
depends upon the spread OF the disease the next
few day.
DIR. Cyrus Edison OF the Health Board Com
missloners sustains the action of Deputy Health
Officer Tallmadge. who allowed the ship ON
Friday night to pass Quarantine with only ffty-
five minutes detention. fter the first two small
pox patients had been taken OF. He said:
"T think Dr. Tallmadge did what was right.
AS soon as Ut. Pointon recognized the cases the
passengers had been vacCinRted before leaving
Liverpool. Those who were not gave conclusive
day at i o'clock the stcerage passengers were
subjected TO a medical examination. and no
fumigated and dsinfected at her pier. Visited
the Lucania to-day and thoroughly inspected
her. Dr. Pointon is good surgeon and will do
his work well. SMALLPOX may break out and
spread among the confined stewards, but not
among the passengers who have been landed"
Dr. Alvah H. Doty, Chief Inspector OF the
Bureau of Contagious Diseases, was seen at his
ofico yesterday. Speaking of the Lucanas
stricken stewards. he said:
Our inspectors visit the ship every day and
make frequent reports There was no danger In
allowing the passengers to disperse. especially
the steerage passengers. All of them were vac
cinated. When smallpox breaks out in a
tenement honSe do not compel every
body who lives in the house TO remain
within doors. We vaccinate them and
allow them 10 go about their business.
There was no more danger Of the disease being
transferred from one part Of the ship TO another
than there Is danger OF a contagious disease
injecting the occupants OF n house, the rear
court OF which adjoins the rear court OF house
IN W hich some one Is suffering from the disease.
The men were isolated and In di fferent part
OF the ship from the passengers. We have fu-
migated and dsinfected the ship more times
than is necessary In order to be on the safe
side"
The 493 steerage passengers from the North
German Lloyd steamer kronprinz Friedrich
Wilhelm, from Naples, who have been detained
for vaccination and observation on Hoffman
Island for two weeks, were transferred yrster-
day TO Ellis Island. During the fourteen days
which is the period OF incubation OF small l-pox.
no new case of the disease manifested itself
There had beanF enc sase of smallpox en- thc
Kr0Eprinz's stserage. and she was detained
three days at Quarantine.