Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-06
.HOLERA NEARS NEW YORK.
Steamship SAINT Anna Has Case Of the
Scourge.
VICTIM WAS IN THE sTEERAGE
Prominent Americans Are Detained
at Quarantine Under Suspicion
of Having Been Exposed TO
the Dread Disease.

NEW YORK, oct. 5-The steamship
SAINT Anna from French and Italian ports.
now detained at quarantine, had case
OF cholera aboard. The victim, a man in
the steerage, died on September % and was
buried at sea. Two other cases OF intes-
final trouble are under observation. Mean
while the SAINT Anna, carrying 224 first
cabin passengers, some of them prominent
Americans, and 1,O72 in the steerage, is
held as a possible cholera carrier" pend
ing further investigation.
Announcement of the foregoing was made
tonight by DIR. A. IL. Doty, health officer
of the port, who has been fighting to keep
cholera out Of this country during the
epidemic abroad. In addition to the SAINT
Anna he has as a precauuon detained at
quarantine the steamship Moltke, from
Genoa and Naples. and the steamship Vir-
ginia, from Naples. Tomorrow he will
hold a conference with DR.. Walter wey-
man, surgeon-ge general of the United States
marine hospital service. Together they
will map out campaign OF protection.
DIR. Doty's statement discloses not only
that cholera patient died aboard the
SAINT Anna, but that a steerage passenger,
a suspicious case" removed from the
steamship GermaniR on September 26, sub
sequently died. Examination indicated,
says DR.. Doty, that this also was a case
of cholera DR.. Dotys statement was is
| sued after an examination of the SAINT
Anna. which arrived last night from Mar
seilles Naples and Palermo. The ships
surgeons presented q report OF the death
in the steerage as having been caused by
gastro-intestinal affection. The victim
died within three days.
DR., Doty said tonight;
/ ssFrha Malta which arrival In
night from Genoa and Naples, has on board
one suspicious case. a steerage passenger;
but no action will be taken with the vessel
until the result of the ARCHAEOLOGICAL exam
ination is known. The SAINT Anna is re-
garded as a possible cholera carrier and
in any event, passenger9 who have been
exposed to the patients will be transferred
to Hoffman island.
| ''On September 26 the steamer Germania
| arrived from Marseilles and Naples on
boarding the steamer, 1 found an unusually
good medical report. The affidavit of the
master and surgeon showed no deaths In
transit no cases of infectious disease and
no suspicious cases; in fact there was nc
case of any nature in the ships hospital
and a special report by the surgeon showed
that there were no intestinal troubles But
for the last three or four months, as ar
| CAuohto pASCdullOAi nave TSulONCS
from all steamers from Mediterranean
ports all steerage passengers who have ap
piled for treatment during the voyage II
order that obscure or irregular cases o.
cholera may be detected.
six of the passengers on the Germania
who were reported on the surgeons journa
as having applied for treatment for mino
troubles, but were well on arrival, were re
moved to Swinburne island. Two days late
one OF this group, Greek, was given treat
ment. Twenty-four hours later the patien
was in a condition of collapse and died Il
twelve hours, . .
Although the autopsy showed no evi
dence of cholera, the examination of tn
secretions of the intestinal tract Shove,
the presence OF suspicious organisms
Specimens were sent to DR.. w. H. Park o
, the health department of this city, and t
DR.. Anderson, the bacteriologist of tn
United States marine hospital service.
THE results were presented to me yes
terday afternoon and indicated that tn
patient died of cholera.
This is q practical demonstration @
what is known as cholera carrier that Il
persons who may carry organisms Of tn
disease without any symptoms to indicat
its presence. In this case 1t was demon
: strated that extreme precautions were full
! justified. AS the Germania case gave
practical phoof of cholera carriers it II
dicates that in the future additional meas
! ures must be put in force"