Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-05
Steamer from Italy is Held at
New York Quarantine---Hun-
dredS of Passengers Aboard.
MAN With THE DISEASE
DIES ON BOARD SHIP
Two Other Foreign Vessels Are Also
Held by the Authorities and Heath
Officer In Charge Makes Statenent
as % Conditions Found Some Sus-
picious Cases Aboard.

OBy Associated rcsss
I NEW YORK. Oct. i.-The steam
ship SAINT Anna, from French and
/ Italian ports, now detained at quaran-
| tine. had n case Of cholera ABOARD. /
J The victim. a man in the steerage, |
died on September %. and was buried
at sea. Two other cases OF intestinal
/ trouble are under observation. Mean
while the SAINT Anna, carrying PA
! first class cabin passengers, some of
them prominent Americans, and 1,0T2
/ in the stecrage, is held as a possible
cholera carrier" pending further in
vestigation.
Announcement Of the foregoing was
made tonight by DR. A. +. 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 precaution, detained at
quarantine the steamship Moltke,
from Geona and Naples and the
steamship Virginia from Naples.
| Tomorrow he will hold a confer
ence with DR.. Walter Wyman, sur
geon general of the marine hospital
corps. Together they will map out
a campaign of protection.
Another Suspicious Case.
DIR. Doty's statement discloses not
only that cholera patient died
aboard the SAINT Anna, but that a.
| steerage passenger, suspicious case,
removed from the steamship Germa-
MIA On September 90. subsequently
died on Swinburne Island. EXamina-
/ ton indicated, says DR.. Doty, that
this also was a cholera case. DR..
Doty's statement was issued after
an examination of the SAINT Anna
which arrived late last night from
Marseilles. Naples and Palermo. The
ships surgeons presented report OF
! the death in the steerage caused by
gastro-intestinai affection. The vic
tim died within three days.
Dr. DOty, commenting on the case,
says:
Doctor Makes Statement.
1.-THE history Of the case indicates
very clearly that the man died OF
cholera. No other cases have devel
cpcd on the voyage. but there are two
/ cases of intestinal trouble among the
| steeragc passengers at present. Cul-
lures have been taken in these cases
and the bacteTiOloical examination
TINS far shows no evidence of chol-
J era. The final result will be ready
/ tomorrow. The inspection and exam
nation Of the SAINT Anna shows that
/ everything has been done on board TO
prevent the spread of the disease.
The MOiike. which arrived last
night from Genoa and Naples. has on
I board one suspicious character. a
stceFage passenger. but no action will
be taken with the vessel until the
result OF the ARCHAEOLOGICAL oxamina
ton is known. The SAINT Anna is re-
/ carded as a possible cholera carrier
and in any event passengers who
. have been exposed TO the patients will
b, transferred 10 Hoffman Island.
On September 26 the steamer Ger
mania arrived from Marseilles and
I Naples. On boarding the steamer n
found an unusually good medical re-
port. 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
TO case Of any nature in the ships
hospital. and a special report by the
surgeon showed that there we're no
Intestinal troubles. But for the past
three or four months. as an extreme
/ prct auiion. have had removed from
all steamers from Mediterranean ports
/ all sfccracc passengers Who have az
piled for treatment during the voyage
in order that obscure OF irregular
cases Of cholera may be detected.
Reports Another Death
/ six Of the passcuccrs Of the Ger
mania who we're reported on the sur
rcor's journal a. having applied 70;
! treatment for minor troubles. bu.
we're well on arrival. were removed
g. Svinburuc Island. Two days later
one 81 this group. Maosain Scobain.
AGED q years. a Greek. was given
/ treatment. Twcniy-four hours later
the patient was IN a condition Of col
I lapse and died in twelve hours.
Although the autopsy showed no
I evidence 81 cholera. the examination
Of the sccrcfions ~ the intestinal
tract showed the presence n suspi
rious Organisms. Specimens were
sent % fr. ". n. Park. % the health
department 81 this city. ana 10 Dr.
Anderson. The hacicrioloEisi 81 tho
I nifcd States marine hospital scr
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