The San Francisco call., 1899-07-01
NIPPON MARU
MUST SHIFT TO .
THE STREAM
State and: Nation at
War on Germs.
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LOCAL: DOCTORS DETERMINED
PORT LAWS MUST BE OBSERVED
BY ALL VESSELS. ~: RI.
Renewal of the Old Fight: over Who
-. Shall Quarantine the City. !: ..:..:
~. :. :. Features Of the =. r: + +: !: :
Plague j :: r. !: y: =.
PORT LAWS MUST BE OBSERVED
BY ALL VESSELS. !. III: +: ::

!" The State quarantine and the. Federal
! quarantine" have at laSt:locked @horns=an
+ the old: fight for. authority: over. any
| Asiatic GERMS which may. chance to- enter
! this port fs.-on in earnest. q: On the one
kside the. Federal. officers threaten to @re-;
tain on: board infected vessels and State
|: officers who may visit her; Whe ther;> on
FqGarantine business or curiosity and. the
! local health authorities have declared they
| will confne.i in the Pesthoiise any one: who
comes; ashore from -a.:vessel not. regularly
! passed by the State :qlarantfne officials ::
| % The: root: Qf:.the Trouble is :the#NtppQn
A1aru, the Japanese liner. just; released by
the Federal authorities from: quarantine
after having a case of -bubenic plague on
board The vessel had: passedsth health
regulations of the port of. Hawaii and
+ those are practically the same as the: rules
| here. for while the quarantine Of Hawaii
is not under the laws of the United States
| II is supervised by. a. medical expert ap-.
I &c inted for the: duty. by. this country
| The, Nippon Maru:*is at. the, Pacific. Mail
dock; but. that is. as far s she has: been
! able: TO go When she. passed the. Federal.
quarantine :fhe Officers thought she. was
out OF trouble :: but she flad.:t0 reckon.
with; the local men, and they are not: dis
posed, with the example. of. the"transport
+ Grant before them; to show; any lie eniency.:
They insist that~alf State quarantine reg
l5,lftions. shall: be strictly. Complied: with
|, and in. that stand. they have the $ba ekng
|. of the: local Board.of. Health; expressed at:
ia meeting .held~last, evening - :. :: :.
T. The. sensation: of: the. meeting was the
report; of. the bacteriologist the board. >
/ DEW. H. .Barbat; that. hts: examination
of the glands of the two j Japanese; picked,
they were infected :. with the buhonic
plague. They had come from,.the Nippon
MaFu and had been; presumably drowned
while trying to break the duarantine,:. I'm
/ HIS examination DR.. Barbat< had proceeded
I only as; far as a :microscopica1 examfna-:
! ton, however; for: as soon as he had
decided that the germs he found in. the:
glands taken: from the Japanese ,resembled
the germs of the bMDo1fc plague he called
I IN the members Qf.the Board. of Health,
I: and they ordered him. to- destroy the
glands, the Instruments and the apparat tus
used in:the. test-fn' fact: everything that
could in ANY way lead TO further infec-.
! tion;s Ieaving: only the germ specimens
which DE. Barbat had secured and which
he had rendered harmless: =. -. -: -
l. With this report as a, basis; the board
decided to take. no chances, There was
+ a great. deal of talk. over. the matter, but
the result: of it all was that. the Nippon
! MaEu: would: have TO leave her dock. and
t faction. of the State authorities or there
would be trouble. :: The State. laws must,
| be complied with or every man connected
with: or. concerned. in the: disobedience
/ would be placed under arresta"was. the
dictum;of the. board. %: - =. :.
Dr.. Chal1mers, the retiring Quarantine.
l.
scTibed how they had been treated when
+ they went out to the. Mart- to perform
their duties. They had been warned not
TO land on the island and not to go aboard
| the ship, and the penalty for disobedience
/ was fifteen days in quarantine. DR.. ChaI-
mers vowed that so far as he was off,
/ cially. concerned he was not even aware
that the Maru had arrived in port. He had
not been notified of the number of pas
sengers. the number of her crew, of the
cases OF sickness nor of the state of her
|. bill of health. In fact, he knew nothing
Of her, although his duties required that
he know everything. He had demanded
all the information he was required to get.
but the officers of the vessel had refused
to give him any facts regarding the YES
his statement with the fact that he had
seen at least one man whom he had seen
working among the effects of the infected.
Vessels cargo on kearny street in this
city. and he gave further instances to
show the quarantine was not as strict
u1dfr 2df1s1 Federal bd methods & as It might be-
wharf DR.. Chalmers ordered her into the
stream again on the ground that she had
first officer, who was then in command
refused to move the steamer except by
order Of the captain. Chalmers then
called for guard of police, and when il
arrived the order was given that no per-
son or thing should be landed from the
vessel. The gangway was hauled up and
the boat remained in that state all night
1t was expected that H. r. E. Espev.
attorney of the company, would be on
nanu at Ihe meeting, but he did not ar
rive until after the gage of battle had
been flung down and the board had de-
cided the steamer must go into the
stream. When he did come, however the
board convened again and for half an
hour held secret session in which Mr..
ESpeY was told what his clients had TO
expect, He was informed that there was
no gainsaying the authority of the State
and the vessel would have to conform to
what had been ordered. He asked what
the board would be satisfied with and
he was told a trip into the stream and
a thorough fumigaton-one to the salts
asked how long that would take. ana
was notified it would be at least forty
eight hours. His only answer was that
pany. Later on Captain Anderson, rep