The evening world., 1905-07-29
FEVER BARS
Out
NINETEEN
Passengers
FROM PORT
Two Sent to Pest House,
Others to Hoffman's
Island.

Seventeen persons were taken off the
Panama line steamship scgurauca from
Colon and placed IN Quarantine when
She arrived in port TO. lay. Two mem
bers of the crew. %bedrIdden with fever.
were conveyed TO the pest house at
~Swinburne's Island. The others, who
showed only a suspiciously high tenn
perature, were sent to Hoffman's Island
for observation.
Ten OF the suspected cases were mem
bers of the crew. Seven were cabin
passengers. The two men who went
20 Swinburne's Island were sailors.
Rigid Examination.
DR.. A. II. Doty. Health Officer Of the
Port. who is determined to keep New
York free from yellow fever infection,
made a rigid examination OF the Sc
guranca. His assistants took the tenn
perature of every onc on board from
the captain down. and all who showed
a temperature above normal-the first
symptom OF yellow fever-were quaran-
tined for observation.
The two men sent to S~winburne's ISL
and are not suffering from yellow fever
as far as l can tell" said Dr.. DOty.
but l am taking no chances. sent
them there because they are b .ldcn
and will have there proper care and Sc
clusion in case they develop yellow
fever. The other fifteen showed rising
temperatures. At Hoffman Island a
meteorological examination for their
blood will be made. and II that shows
they are suffering from malaria, they
will be released"
Four Had yellow Fever.
Dr.. Doty learned that four members
OF the S~cgu-anca's crew. suffering from
yellow fever. were removed from the
ship just prior to her departure from
Colon.
The passengers placed in Quarantine
were Miss IIechstel n Henry Boyd.
first cabin passengers, and Juitns
Daniels. Andrew see. c. b. Oster. F,
passcngeTs. Henry fovi aud Miss
Wempe did not show high temperatures,
but tncy were detained because their
cabin mates were suspected.
The Seguranca was released from
Quarantine at noon and proceeded TO
her dock. On board were II Canal
Harrod. Archibald ]. sampson. Minister
To Ecuador, and Capt. Corning, who
will take command Of the steamship
Havana, recently purchased from the
ward Inc.
list at Hoffman Island. when the MOI
gan line steamer EidOrado, which ar
rived to-day from New Orleans. reached
The Quarantine station, Both Were
members Of the crew who were found
to nave abnormally high temperatures,
The kldorado brought no passengers.
No Cause for Alarm.
"Even should the patients from
the Seguranca develop yellow fever a
Swinburne Island there is no ground
for alarm here" said DR.. Doty. witt
a strict quarantine there is not the
least likelihood of the disease getting
into New York. Yellow fever injection
Is possible only through inoculatior
by n mosquito which has derived thu
poison from a fever patient. 1t is moi
transmitted by the clothes or the bod
lily excretions. The most careful re-
search has proven that It Is spread
solely by the mosquito. The cases tina
might be discovered on board ship or
that develop later on Swinburne Island
are treated bv complete isolation in
compartments screened to prevent mos.
way the possibility Of the disease
tlon OF fumlgating these ships. There
Is no occasion for II. Neither IL Il pos.
sible for these ships to carry fever-im-
~pregnated MOSQUITOES from Southern
haroors to this port. Investigation has
demonstrated that mosquitoes follow
h ship only two days."