The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-10
SHIP SCOURGEDBY SCURvY.
TINE ZELDA LOsT ONE MAN AND
ALL BUT ONE WE'RE SI0R.

or,-..- r.,-,. a.. D,..,.. Va, w.r,.ner,.
.ut the FVe,I,b Omc,r anyu IL was sureIy
Scsrvy-vo,aas se ProIsnEed THAT RTesh
Vegetables ana Limo Suioe Ran short.
Four roptbs out from lava. the Norwegian
FvuI n,on.hs u oa," $500" .,,h
bark Eida reached TINS port yestoruag WIN
hor Captain and six out Of nine of her crew III.
She had buried her steward, Elias 1ohhsseh, AZ
sea. After the FIRST month there had not
beon a day when half of tho men were in
~ oonditJor % do their vort and the arst
~. ~ tsn ohosrJ ,,ho sn,,rc,v sr-
capped the illness. This took the form Of OK
.rnr,o i.o.,,,do "a ,o.Ln..a Iooaoping M the
LII nsSmon ,@S. "US ahSo,,OU and on,.oIa.
ton. Cant. Andreasen, who Is still suffering
trom a. dsc,or.s a. 90 ho the real Oriental bori-
berl, but Health officer Doty, who boarded the
vessel at Quarantine, says that IL is scurvy.
Whio tho symptoms OF tno s"o nro 30
Identical as to deceive the layman, there are
certain psculiarities of scurvy which are sp-
pafon' y u phyHio,an' "nu ~ n"
mentS are totally different, for beri'bori 10 a dis
s scupv IoI !. S'roc,, T~I traco"SIo to molputrition,
sourNy 10 uirocIiy IrAo0sOlo W n".u '''
Only insufficient or poor food can cause IT,
Tho Elida WINS at various ports in Java for
.hort throo r,orth. she had aboard fourteen
ABOUT tnree months sne n"u eSo"Fa
Ttilntiap. which mort she left on Nov. 20, tho
steward went in swimming in the bay. although
he had been warned against 1t. and a few days
lator he was taken i'll with fever and swelling
:. no 10y. N"N "I IT, -
their next port, three OF the SAILORS were uo"h
found it necessary TO sond them and tho stew.
ard to tho local hospital, where they lay Ill for
t aI,Son TSssS, while Mspo t5 Si,s shlP wS' Ss Cured iTT fh1 tho
vessel was out but q day. having sailed for
Padang on Dec. 90. when one of them sickened
again and soon after the others suffered q re-
, lapse and two other cases appeared.
Al Pndang these Ave patients were put in the
month for their recovery, finally sailing for this
port on Feb. ., Almost Immediately the stew
ard came down. again with aggravated symp-
toms, and from that time to May 30, when ho
ISStest work and yery little Of that. Mean
time the mon who were in the hospital at Ba-
tavia became iii again, as did those who had
been patients at Padang, the illness being
dMv fhere would be- barely esl enough men 10 handle
the bark, while again only one or two would
~ the voyage Was characterized by good wealth.
or, with the exception of heavy northwest
ship was 100 DAYS out. whereby she was
driven a considerable distance out of her
course. During this blow the Captain found It
Gent number of men able to take any part in
the work. Even those whose illness was not so
severe but that they could bear a hand would
fall exhausted after an hour OF exertion or even
less. Capt. Andreasen himself was barely able
to- walk when he landed Yesterday, so swollen
we're his legs. 10 Nv
At Quarantine the CAPTAIN told DR.. Doty that
uone 81 his men were suffering from berl -beri.
and that he had n slight attack of IL himself.
hui the health o%f1cer. after looking at the men
and asking them a few ouestions, diagnosed the
trouble IA unmistakable scurvy. some of the
sailors Complained that they had not had enouRh
to- eat. but as the Captain was also q victim
rather than tho quantity of the food is in fault.
The men ana not alle9e that they were III
treated. DR.. Doty was told the symptoms which
Cha racterize the stcward's Illness. and was OF
the oninion that his case was also scurvy. The
bark was NOT held at Ounrantine. None OF the
caaes on hoard ia serious. and a few days OF
good food and rest will nut the men on their feet
again. II was said that ono of them would com.
Main To the SorweGian Consul, but he did not
mt. in an appearance at the consulate yester-
day'
liant Andreasen went to the Office of the
,bip's agents G Tobias & Co. in the afternoon
,vhere he toIi about the VOYAGE II Is evident
that no hones,iy beiicves tho trouble with him
sair md HE men n he not scurvy. but beri
bcri. and from his account il appears that while
The camse for the disease Law In the scarcity OF
smitobIe nroyisinns' The reason for this scarcity
vas that hc had Under reckoned the time of tht
retTrn rovape He said:
"0n Tho ont VOYAGE we had a cask of linz
Juice aboard and used 1t freely in the soup
When We left PadanR on the return there WERE
only a few bottles left, but we had plenty o.
men got canned meats two or three times