The Portland daily press., 1894-11-01
AN INFECTED SHIP.
The Crack Liner Lucania MAY Be
Detained.
On Account of the Small Pox Aboard Her
She Is Being Fumigated at Her Pier
in New York.


New York. October 31.-Two new cases O
small pox developed yesterday among tn,
eighteen stewards confined on board til,
CunaId steamship Lucania at her pier a
the foot of Clarkson street, North River
The new victims are Samuel Fairweathe1
and Joseph Powell, Cecil Browne an6
Charles Phillips, who were striken Octobe,
%, when three days out from Liverpool. are
now on North Brothers Island. Fairweathel
and Powell were taken yesterday from the
ship to the reception hospital at the foot o1
East Sixteenth street. No one is allowed tc
board the ship except the health inspector
who visits the dock and examines the
Iuarantined stewards every day.
Dr.. .Pointon, lhe ships surgeon is on board
caring for the meL. Whether or not the
Lucania will sail on Saturday, her next
sailing day. depends upon the spread of the
disease the next few days.
DR.. Cyrus Edison of the health board CON-
missioners sustains the action of Deputy
Health Officer Tallmadge. who allowed the
ship on Friday night to pass quarantine
with only ffty-fve minutes detention,
after the first two small pox patients had
been taken of. He said:
II think Or. Tallmadge did what was
right. AS soon as DIR. Pointon recognized
the cases the men were at once isolated.
All the 95 steerage passengers had been
vaccinated before leaving Liverpool,
Those who were not gave conclusive proof
that they were recently inoculated. Every
day at o'clock the steerage passengers
were subjected to medical examination,
and no traces of the disease were found.
The ship has been fumigated and disin-
fected at her pier. / visited the Lucania
today and thoroughly inspected her. DIR.
Pointon is good surgeon and will do his
work we'll. Small pox may break out and
spread among the confined stewards, but
not among the passengers who have been
landed.''
DR.. hlvah H. Doty. chief inspector of the
Bureau of Contagious Diseases, was seen at
his office yesterday. Speaking of the Luz
cania's stricken stewards. he said:
Our inspectors visit the ship every day
and make frequent reports. There was no
danger in allowing the passengers to dis
perse. specially the steerage passengers.
All of them were vaccinated. When small
pox breaks out in tenement house we do
not compel everybody who lives in the
nate them and allow then. to 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 contagious disease injecting he occu-
pants of house, the rear court of which
adjoins the rear court of house in which
some one is suffering from the disease. The
men vera isolated and in different part
of the ship from the passengers. We have
fumigated and distinfected 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 has been de-
tanned for vaccination and observation on
Hoffman, island for two weeks. were trans
ferred yesterday to Ellis Island. During
the fourteen days, which is the period of
incubation of small pox. no new case of the
disease manifested itself. There had been
one case of small pox in the Kronprinz's 8
steerage, and she was detained three days
at quarantine.