The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-17
THE RIO ARRIVES.
A Report That Cholera Is Spreading
in Northern China.


in Northern China.
The Pacific Mail steamship Rio de
Janeiro from China and Japan by way of
Honolulu came into port yesterday morn
ing and anchored off Black Point. The
quarantine officer boarded her and after a
careful inspection found no sickness and
the vessel in good sanitary condition.
There were ninety-eight passengers, OF
which eighteen were whites, eleven Jap
anese and sixty-four Chinese. One pas
senger, Mrs. Bacon, had been taken on
board at Honolulu. Herself and effects
had been fumigated before being received
aboard the vessel. There were many
others ashore at Honolulu anxious to take
passage for this port.
No freight was shipped at Honolulu,
and the mail was received only after Cap
tain Smith was assured that it had been
thoroughly fumigatcd. The steamer did
not come to the dock, but remained in the
outer harbor during the shipment of the
mails. There had been fifty-eight cases
and forty-four deaths reported in the city
since August II, which shows that the
cases had fallen from eight to three per
day.
The surgeon of the ship reports that the
city of Yokohama is in a bad sanitary con-
dition from cholera. There had been up
to the steamers sailing forty-seven cases
and thirty five deaths.
At Nagasaki no passengers were taken on
board and no freight taken from the shore,
only from a steamer direct from Shanghai,
China. There had been seventy-one cases
and fifty deaths from cholera. No
whites have been attacked by the plague.
There was no cholera at Hongkong. In
Honolulu the steerage and holds of the Rio
Janeiro were fumigateG with sulphur. No
water was taken aboard either for use by
the people of the vessel or for washing
decks. All water was supplied by the
steam condensers.
Yesterday the passengers of the bark G.
S. Allen were released from quarantine
after undergoing fuinlgation at Angel
Island under the direction of the United
States quarantine officials. They came
over to the City last evening on the tug
Redmond.
To-day the people on board the steamer
Rio de Janerio will be released as she has
been over nine days from Honolulu and
no cases of cholera have made their APP
pearance-the period of infection being
five days.
DR.. Chalmers states that he would not
have put either the Allen or the Rio de
Janeiro in quarantine, as they both pre-
scented clean bills of health and there was
those vessels. But In the case of the
British Marionette from Brazil with bal
last of sand shoveled up on the beach at
Rio de Janeiro the case is different. That
cargo must be disposed of by being
dumped overheard and the vessel fuml-
gated.
Captain Smith of the steamer Rio de
Janeiro reports that the cholera is spread
ing in Northern China and the authorities
have really no control over the epidemic.
At Chez Foo the disease is attacking
natives and whites alike and hundreds die
daily. 1t has crossed the frontiers and is
ravaging the Russian territory and among
the poor classes the mortality is frightful.
The bark S. n. Castle is now due here
from Honolulu and she will be quaran-
tined with all her passengers when she
arrives.
Captain J. Mcfarland, late of the tug
Governor Perkins, has been put in charge
of the Federal quarantine tug George B..
Stern, and will be actively engaged during
the danger period.