The sun., 1903-03-11
XODDDEATHSON KARAMANIA
CHOLERA MAYBE-ALL on BOARD
HELD AT QUARANTINE.

when the Deaths Began Somebody n
Palermo suggested Poisoning n ths
Explsnatten--The ship Had Sim
liar Experience Ten Yesv Ago
Health Ofioer Doty is inclined TO think
that 1t was cholera that caused six deaths
last month on the Anchor Line steamshir
Karamania. now held in quarantine down
the bay.
Capt. Pierce, all his officers and men
and 1856 steerage passenger, are on Hon
man Island In isolated groups. under sus.
picion. The passengers are nearly all
Italian immigrants. Four OF them ana
two Of the crew died on the voyage OF all
ments that had identical symptoms. The
patients were attended by the ships sur
geon, DR.. Giovanni Nota. and DR.. Saliva
tore Ballaylio, Government physician on
the ship.
When the Karamania got to quarantine
yesterday the Italian doctors reported the
deaths and the physical conditions pre-
oeding them TO Health Officer Doty. Tho
doctors gave no opinion as to the nature OF
the disease. DR.. Doty said after leaving
the ship:
From the meagre report OF the doctors
I regard the cases as very suspicious. A
the bodies were buried at sea, We have no
way Of finding out conclusively by bacteri-
ological examination the nature OF the
disease. All the symptoms. nausea.
cramps and sudden collapse, are 30 similar
TO those Of cholera that propose to treat
the vessel. crew and passengers as II the
disease were cholera. All hands will be
detained until can positively know that
sk.,- fx~o tnf1
aboard the ship appears to be able to ac-
count for the outbreak.
DR.. Doty came TO Manhattan In the even
ing and had q conference with DR.. Herman
NJ. Biggs. meteorological expert Of the
Health Board. DR.. Biggs said he believed
DR.. Doty had done right In OBTAINING the
steamship and her people.
The Quarantine reporters got this history
Of the trouble: The Karamania sailed
from Marseilles ON Feb. 9. bound for
Palermo. When she was less than day
out four Of the crew were suddenly taken
III with cramps and nausea. Two died.
one recovered and the other was sent to
the hospital at Palermo. There. was q
report at Palermo that q hospital doctor
there had said the four men had been
poisoned.
for Naples on Feb. 10 and from Maple. for
this port on Feb. 10. Two days out from
Naples a sailor who slept in the compart-
ment where his stricken shipmates had
been, was found In stupor He recovered.
Other sailors In the same compartment
feeling iii. came on deck and revived. Then
the compartment was stripped, disinfected
and closed.
On Feb. "a passenger was sent to hoepital
with stomach trouble. He died on March
.. Two other passengers died on March
III, and on the same day another passenger
was found dead In his bunk. All these
passe ngers occupied adjoining hunks in
compartment 1 In the storage. Thereafter
there was no sickness in the chip. and all
hands were we'll when she arrived at
Quarantine
On Aug. ,, isoa, whom the Karamania
arrived here from Naples with 41i immi-
grants, a report was published that three OF
her passengers had died OF cholera. DIR.
William 7. Jenkins was thsn Health Od'cer
sengers to Hoffman Island for observation.
No more sickness developed. The three
passengers. q girl and two men. Who had
boarded the ship at Naples. had symptoms
similar to those OF the passenger who dted
on this last trip Of the Karamania.
This n not the season for cholera and II
II was cholera on the karamania the disease
was apparently sporadic. A recent copy OF
Public Health Reports Issued weekly BY
Surgeon General Walter Wyman OF ths
shows that there were ninety-six cases Of
cholera in Alexandria, Egypt. between
Nov IS and Jan. 20. The steamship Royal.
which arrived at Malta from Alexandria on
Jan. II, had six cases OF cholera aboard
and there was one death on the voyage.
The sick were sent to the quarantine island
at Malta. Two new cases developed there
and three patients died. Malta is about .
days sail from Palermo.
The cargo manifest Of the karamania
agents Of the Anchor Line could not tell
what she carries. The usual cargo is made
UP mostly of marble. maoaroni. olive oil
and other Italian products.