Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-25
DIR FAD VISITORS
Yellow Fever Cases Have Reached
Our Shores.
NO GREAT ALARM FELT HERE
Officials on tho Alert for Three
Terrible Scourges.
LATE COLERA REPORTS

LATE COLERA REPORTS
Yellow fever has reached the shores Of
| this country, but thanks to the efficient
guardianship Of the coast. through the
quarantine regulations, 1t is probale that
the dreaded disease will be kept out. Last
Saturday a ship infected with the germs
of the scourge reached Galveston and has
there been disinfected before being allowed
to depart for New York. A letter was re-
celved during the week from Charles
Schaeffer. United States consul at Vera
| Cruz. by Surgeon General Wyman Of the
Marine Hospital service. stating that the
British vessel Jassamore had that day lost
her mate from yellow fever. after having
been sick on board several days. The
health officers OF Texas, Louisiana and Flor
ida were notified at once by the bureau
to look out for the plague ship which was
| bound for Galveston by way Of
Tampico. On Saturday word was
received from the agents of the vessel at
| Baltimore, stating that she had arrived at
Galveston with sickness on board. and a
wire was sent to Health Officer Swearingen
or Texas, who went at once from Austin to
inspect the ship. This morning DR.. Wyman
| received the following telegram from him:
l. I inspected the JassamOre yesterday.
Her second engineer died Of yellow fever
on the 10th. Twenty-three men are on
board. no sickness now. She will leave
probably Wednesday for New York. / have
given Instructions to the captain to call at
Dry Tortugas II any other cases develop"
As soon as this message was received
word was sent to DR.. Jenkins, the health
officer Of New York. warning him OF the
| coming OF the Jassamore, and he will be
III olll lrd NH aba
Thus the chain of precautions Is kept up.
The country to the south of the United
States Is full Of the fever and the hospital
| service Is straining every nerve to pre-
not germ has developed In this country.
Havana Cases.
There Is also an infected ship, the Alba
toss. at Dry Tortugas. Florida, the ma
tioral quarantine station, which came from
Havana with two cases on board. She is
being cleo nsed and detained. The regula-
tions require the detention Of a suspected
vessel for fve days after disinfection
There is some fever in Havana and con-
oiderable at Cienfuegos, whence there is
much shipping to these shores There Is a
tanitary inspector there. however. who
keeps the officials here well informed Of the
departure Of all suspected craft. This sys-
tenn OF sanitary Inspectors was inaugurated
last season and proved very efficient. DR..
Wyman thinks that In the absence of an
international agreement between the Unit
ed States and all the southern countries
this system Is the only safeguard that can
be adopted. The consuls at each port are
Washinsso. s ss W %e ifaS Is sssss to
bad bill Of health on leaving port But it
- the early warning that reaches here be-
valuable and this Is furnished by the In
srector. as well as. In some cases, as with
the Jassamore. hy the consuls. The gov
ernments to the south care little or moth
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leaving port on shipboard. and will do
| nothing to prevent the spread Of the dis
ease.
Up to the present it looks as though the
fever would be kept out this summer.
| though there Is no knowing when a germ
may develop in Florida or be brought
sailor. Yet DIR. Wyman anticipates no
trouble this summer. Rio Janeiro Is filled
| with the fever. aid late reports show that
there are from sixty to seventy deaths
Two other scourses.
There are two other visitors besides the
! fever that this government Is exceedingly
anxious to exclude this season, as well as
on all occasions-the China plague and the
Asiatic cholera. Reports from the plague
are still alarming. and the greatest precau-
| tions have been taken along the PACING
| coast to keep 1t out. The government has
| fine chain or quarantine stations along the
coast, and England has efficient means at
Vancouver to keep out the plague. lnstruc-
| ttons have been given to every government
official and warnings have been sent to each
! state functionary to be on guard against
| this Mongolian guest.
| Reports from the cholera are reassuring
| In a certain degree. The following interest
! ing letter was received day or two ago
by DR.. Wyman from Surgeon Fairfax lr-
| win. who Is on duty at Berlin. for the pur
pose Of keeping this government informed
as to the progress of epidemic diseases in
Europe: In general terms II may be stat
ed that cholera has increased considerably.
| especially In Russia, since my last report.
In Austro-Hungary 1t appears to be sta
tionary. and in Germany TO be under con-
troll; at Myslowitz, indeed, 1t is said to have
disappeared. The weather remains cool,
but with rain every day
In regard to France. l sent you the fol-
lowing telegram: Comma bacillus. Paris
cases, found This was sent in conse-
Quence Of Information received that in two
| Of the fatal cases Of cholera at Paris the
comma bacillus has been demonstrated.
These deaths occurred between the 9th Of
May and the I'd Of June. The Information
has been confirmed, as the fact Is now puo-
hshed in the Journals l stated in my last
report. In effect that 1 believed these cases
would prove to be Asiatic cholera, thinking
of the doubtful water supply 1t is Of
course. of the utmost Importance to know
the source Of infection In these cases,
whether the water Of the Seine, infected
clothing, or persons from other localities.
mere is, al present, an extensive move
| ment of, Russian Jews going on Their des-
tination / do not know yet. but the
| German government, while making every
possible effort to prevent the entry Of
cholera. pass these emigrants on and get
rid Of them as quickly possible. In the
department of Fnisterre from May Goth to
the 25th there were seven cases and one
death.
The cholera at Mysowitz is officially re-
ported to have disappeared, and no more
cases are reported. Six cases have
Cured in the Vtstua region, one in Schilno,
| two in cOultry districts and three In
Plehnendorf. Schino is in the district Of
The m, and Plehnendorf Is In DanZg One
of the cases was a workman, who con-
tIacted the disease on a raft in the ViStula
river, where there were other cases.
Plehnendorf Is small town on the Baltic
near the mouth Of the Vistula and very
near Danzig."
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