The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-27
YADERLAND DEATHS QUEER,
SHfP AND Immigrants SENT
BiCk TO QUARANTINE.
Health officer Takes No chances with II
Fatal Pneumonia Cases in one Com-
partnient, Although Pneumonia Plague
Has Never Come Except From india.


. among the steera 60 passengers of the Red
star steamer Nadcrlsnd. Health Officer
! Doty has taken The precsuton OF ordering
/ the vessel ~ 90 back 70 Quarantine and Of
sending all the -teerage passengers to
Hoffman Island 10 he DELAYED pending
! METEOROLOGICAL examination now being
made in the case Of three OF the dead mon.
( The Gutopsies showed that oil three had
1 pneumonia, Pneumonia Ia not uncommon
/ on shipboard. but eleven deaths from
( the disease ~ one ship is unprecedented,
and the fact that the death- occurred among
/ passengers in the Same compartment of
! the steeraee has raised suspicion that II
! might be an infectious form OF pneumonia.
/ There is form OF plague known as the
! pneumonia plague. It ia not so well known
~ the bu5ouic plague and il has not been
] known at all except as coming from India.
There is very little chance that tie deaths
on the Vaderland were caused by i, but DR..
Doty decided to take no chances at all, and
! ordered the ship baol. TO Quarantine yester-
day afternoon after She had been two days
at her pier
! In addition 70 the Investigation which
Dr. Dory is making to determine
whether the yaderland brought in a con.
| looking INTO complaints made by some
OF her immigrant passengers Of The con-
dillon OF tho ship and their treatment.
The Collector ia charged with seeing that
! the navigation laws are observed and he has
issued an order detaining the vessel here
until his investigation Is finished Tie
Naderland was scheduled 70 sad tomorrow
but on account of the Collectors order and
knDut,a. ha -
/ 10y Or. Doty will take almos. two days
she can hardly get away on that day
According to Or. Doty, the deaths were
reported by the ships surgeon 10 the board
ing officer at Quarantine Us due 10 pne,i-
monia. To reporters who boarded the vc--
rel tina ght. the doctors said that they were
due TO exhaustion following seasicknes-
with a congestion Of the lungs in each case
DR.. Doty was away when the boarding
officer allowed the yaderland to proceed
tO her pier He did this. Dr. Doty explained
yesterday because not only did the ships
surgeon give a good report OF tie cases.
hut his statements We're borne out by two
doctors on board whom he had called into
consultation
In addition To receiving their statements
the boarding officer looked at man who
was still sick and at the two bodies then
on the ship There were no siE- ~ an
eruptive disease, and the chip had come
from clean port, The sick mar. died later
When DR. Doty got the officers report Of
ten deaths from pneumoniR he aid the
-hip should never have heeu passed he
tried to get the Red Star pier tho ne xt morn
ing by telephone. The storm was at its
height and II was several hours bFfote he
got the ship, BY that time 275 OF the $50
stee rage passengers had been landed on
Ellis Island and wer, in the hunds Of the
immigration authorities Tho rest had
started Tor Ellis Island but had been
obliged TO turn back
over the telephone IN Doty 4rIcred
thnt not another man should leave tie
ship and that the Vaderlnnd should return
70 Quarantine. The officers of the line
said that 20 get her down % Quarantine in
the teeth OF the storm was impossible 70
Or. Doty sent deputy mp 10 take charge
Of the ship until she could come. Nobody
was allowed 10 board the vessel or leave her
!. was not O'Clock Yesterday afternoon
when the Yaderland finally got under
way for Quarantine. Ia the meantime
DR. Doty had been in communication with
Com missioner Williams al Ellis Island
and found that seventeen immigrants
from the Naderland had been passed and
AtlANfAl- III lOiN Sent OUT men 10 lDlk
them all mp and keep them under observa-
ton.
Such Storage passengers from the Vadei-
land As had been landed on Ellis Island had
peen IN detention pen with 5U other I'm
migrants Three went to the hospltal
two suffering from eye trouble and the third
with frostbllten feet, save for these three I
all passed the medical examination. At
DR.. DOty's request, Commissioner Williams /
allowed all the rest to he transported down
TO Quarantine. TO be detained at Hoffman
Island.
There will be 975 Of the immigrants on
Hoffman Island when they all get there /
SO far, said DR. Doty last night, every
thing seems 10 show that the men whose
bodies we secured died Of the ordinary
form of pneumonia The congestion re-
sembles that IN ordinary pneumonia rather
than that which indicates the pneumonia
plague. 1t is most Improbable that the
examination will reveal the lattcr disease
Ilhese people came from part OF hungary t.
where no cases Of plague have been reported. +
Furthermore the pneumonia plague. which /
il very virulent has occurred In India I
and nowhere else and that il should get
from there 10 Hungary is most improbable .
We have had cases OF bubOnio plague OC- I
casionally but only once in while on (
ship from Calcutta, has pneumonia plague
ever turned up here
There are plenty OF chances FOR catching
ordinary pneumonia aboard u ship. cs-
peclhllY IN llc stttThEt. Az the same time
when you have eleven deaths from IL, all
occurring in the same compartment il Is
suspicious aie for that reason | was un-
willing 10 Ec,'pt the physicians report
until | was .hSolutely sure that it was
pneumonia add nothing else SO far. |
may say the olly thing suspicious * the
number OF deaths. The result Of the ex-
animation sill! ee known by Friday night
II II shows infectious disease we will
keep every one under observation for ten
days II the plague bacillus is not re-
yealed we will let them all go at once The
fact that there nre no mon cases Of sick
ness leads vs. 10 hope that everything ia
all night. The condition Of the ship mas
nothing 70 do with the origin of pneumonia
plague. filthy ship might help 10 spread
IL. but that is all. ia
In regard 10 the condition Of the N2der-
land 1t was said at Ellis Island yesterday
that good many complaints mad been
made. Collector Stranahan was informed
Of them and authorized Francis +, Hamil-
ton the counsel 70 the Collector. TO make
an iny estigation 10 eee IL tho Passenger act
had been violated. The dispositions OF
several immigrants have been taken. They
stated that they had 20 eat meat that was
almost raw and smAling potatoes which
made nearly everybody sick
One man said that TO get proper food