The sun., 1897-12-06
a NATIONAL QUARANTINE.
surrsou. oenerai wynan Urges the Estasli,A
tueut OF one.


WARRINGTON. Dec. 5.--Durng the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1907, says surgeon.Genera
Wyman of the Marine Hospital service, in his
annual report to Secretary Gage. there were
BA,477 patients treated at the hospitals and dis
psnsaries under his charge. This was 673 In
excess of tho number treated there tho previous
year; but the total expenditures from the Ma
rino Hospital fund (s53s,356) were $21, 900 less
than those OF last yoar
To meet the growing demands Of the service
now regulations have been prepared and will bo
shortly issued. Tho discipline of the corps is
reported as being excellent. and tho Surgeon
General invites attention to the excellent work
done by the officers during the recent visitation
Of yellow fever in the South. Three officers con-
traotod yellow fever and one met death by aoci-
dent In the line OF duty.
Medical and surgical statistics and contrib
uted articles by officers Of the corps on topics
related to their professional work are contained
in tho report. The increased work OF the bureau
necessitetes an Increased clerical force, which
the Surgeon. General asks may be provided for.
rear Of SLs cholera. smaipos, the bu6onie plague,
and yellow fever, and the measures adopted BY
the bureau with regard to each. and md diseusses d g
cases of leprosy, in the nineteen countries
ss q eS ss sSc% RSs
metely, 10000 in India, tho maximum; $500
| In Hawaii and 2oO In the United states. Tho
Of tho disease is declared to be the acillus
leprte, which Is contagious, but not hereditary,
| and the conference recommended isolation as
the 10 best means q preventing its its spread; ..,,
ticaiiy and historicaiiy treated in the report.
Up to Nov. 10 the number Of cases officially re-
| had l, 1872 cases and 244 deaths. The Surgeon
Gensra that there is little doubt that he
| experts had marked effect in controlling
| much more extensive epidemic. Ocean Springs.
Miss, where the disease was first discovered in
Of its entrance into the United States is not yet
determined. Two skilled bactoriologists Of the
| bureau are now making an investigation In Ha'
vana OF the nature and origin of the disease.
| Sanitary inspectors of tho hospital service
were maintained during the year at Rio. Ha.
yana, Santiago dc Cuba, Colon, Aspinwall, and
Yok okohama. An officer also visited the ports oi
| China.
Tho report gives a full description Of the
eleven national quarantine stations. and an
national regulations at San Francisco and
| Sabine Pass. Tex. where, on account Of local in
adequacy. interference was % necessary; Atten ten
the national quarantine station on Ship Island
State quarantine h. on 81 ,.i,O 5eigh6oEns h EnI
Germ respecting the Ship Island station on &C
he 81 saws been falsely stated that the ISLAND
! is five miles out, whereas y is really twelve
| The station was located on Ship Island In 1894
| after storm had destroyed the one at Chloride
| Surgeon. General Wyman repeats his recon-
| mendaton for the enactment OF q strict nationa
| creases as tho years go by. II q new law cannot
| be passed. he urged the strengthening of tht
present law TO prevent interference with inter
state commerce and to prevent tho spread o
| disease.