Evening star., 1909-08-27
TO KEEP OUT DISEASE
Health Officials to Intercept
Dutch Vessel.
MAY HAVE CHOLERA ABOARD
Surgeon General Directs That Due
Precaution Be Taken.
TELEGRAM GIVES WARNING
Chance That Message Meant Only to
Give Notice Of Rotterdam
Outbreak.
MAY HAVE CHOLERA ABOARD
TELEGRAM GIVES WARNING

Surgeon General Wylnan of the public
health and marine hospital service said
today that all necessary precautions
would be taken to intercept the Dutch
ship Andyk. which Is en- route TO this
country, and lis supposed to have cholera
aboard TIE boat is a. slow steamer and
is due to arrive in Baltimore about Sep
tember g The Baltimore agents are
Dressel. Rauschenberg & Co In response
70 a telephone message from Gen. wy
man, the agents said that they had no
knowledge of any cases of cholera on
board the Andyk.
Gen Wyman said the boat will be in
tercepted at the mouth of the Chesapeake
bay, and will be subjected to a rigid ex-
animation. If found necessary she will
be taken to a. quarantine station at Fish
ernan's Island, off Cape Charles. and win
be held there until all danger of intro
ducing the disease into this country is
eliminated.
Telegram Gives Warning.
That there is cholera on board the ves-
sci IS inferred from q cablegram from the
American consul at Rotterdam, received
by the marine hospital service yesterday,
through the State Department The mes
sage read, Cholera Andyk Wednesday
Baltimore" and was interpreted to mean
that the Andyk sailed Wednesday for
Baltimore and had one or more cases of
cholera aboard. Gen. Wyman said today
there Is a chance that the cahlegram
meant only that there was cholera In Rot
1erdan, and that II will not be necessary
10 quarantine the Andyk. The marine
hospital service Is already gathering full
information regarding the vessel, the
number of the passengers and the crew.
where the boat has been and what sani-
tary precautions have been taken.
Gen. Wyman thinks that the cholera
was probably introduced into Rotterdam
from the north of Russia, where the dis
ease has been more or less prevalent dur
ing the past year. Libau is the only port
in the north Of Russia from which vessels
come direct to the United States, and for
the past year the marine hospital service
has had one of it's agents, DR.. c. NJ. De
Forrest, stationed there to examine each
vessel sailing for the United States, to
see that there were no cholera cases on
board and that proper sanitary precau-
tions had been taken.
No Cases From Libau.
1t has been pointed out that the meas
ures taken by the public health and
marine hospital service have been so sue
cessful that not single case has yet
been reported on an incoming vessel from
Libau.
Surgeon General Wyman last night ca
b!ed instructions TO Assistant Surgeon
Robert a. G.. WollenbuFg, who is sta
TONED at Naples. to proceed at once to
Rotterdam to assist Consul Listoe In see
ing that the regulations Of the Treas sury
Department regarding vessels sailing for
The United States are strictly enforced,
and that all necessary precautions are
taken to prevent the Introduction of the
disease into the United States.
The State Department has received
telegram dated yesterday from Minister
Beaupre at The Hague. stating in effect
that he had been informed by the min
lister Of foreign affairs of the Netherlands
that two cases of Asiatic cholera in Rot
terdam had been reported to him; tnat
all preventive measures had been taken
and that constant examinations of the
water supply showed no contamination.
Develops In Rotterdam.
ROTTERDAM, August 26. : Several
cases OF suspected cholera have been re-
ported IN Rotterdam since the discovery
of the disease here yesterday, notably
among the occupants of a barge on which
child had died previously.
Al today's sitting OF the municipal
council the burgomaster announced that
there had been four deaths from cholera
and that of nine suspected cases now IN
the isolated sheds three had been fatally
infected with cholera bacillus. An ex-
animation OF the others has not yet been
concluded. Forty-two apparently healthy
persons who have been In contact with
those declared infected are under obser-
yation.
There were no further fresh cases re-
ported today. The general opinion Is that
the disease was brought to this port by
the steamer Ellwoutsdyk from st. Pc
1ersburg. The burgomaster has issued
proclamation advising the people to boil
their water and milk, but adds that he
sees no reason for anxiety, as the city's