Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-09
MENACE OF CHOLERA CONE
Surgeon General Wyman Has the Sit
nation Under Control.
HEALTH OFFICERS ON THE ALERT
auaEantine ana Inspection ReEuIa-
tiOns So Perfect Not Believed
Disease Can Reach This
Country.
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NEW YORK, Oct. s.-(special Telegram.)
1t was officially announced today at
quarantine and az Washington that the
menace of cholera had been effectually re-
moved from American ports. The precau-
tions taken abroad at all ports from which
people who had been exposed to the in
lection must embark had become so
effective that there was no longer any
reasonable chance Of an infected person
embarkng for this country,
These precautions consisted in OBTAINING
passengers for observation at all suspected
ports until It could be certain they had
not been infected. This has been the work
of Or. Walter Wyman, head OF the United
States public health service.
In addition, the watch against cholera
at this port had been made so stringent
that health Officers OF the port said today
New York is practically impregnable
against a serious inroad OF cholera"
Surgeon Wyman in Control.
over In Washington Is a little gray
haired man with a short mustache Just
turning to silver. He is a quiet man, un-
ostentatious, seldom speaking, almost shy.
But he holds cholera menace to America
in the palm of his hand
This man Is Surgeon General Walter
Wyman, who directs every measure that is
adopted to bar the Asiatic death from this
continent. And under his supervision the
barring of that death begins, not at Amer
lean portss but thousands of miles across
the seas.
At Naples. at Genoa, at MarsellIes, al
Southampton, at Trieste, at Hongkong and
Shanghai are American doctors whose sole
duty is 20 watch that no person with symp-
toms Of cholera or ships infected with the
disease sail for this country.
The steorAge passengers who wish to shir
for this country from the cholera infected
ports must first pass under the eyes OF
these examiners. But that is not all. Les
dormant cholera break out among them or
the voy. -ge,. they are first put aboard ex
animation ships In foreign harbors FOR
five days, the time in which cholera
usualiyappears. II at that time there is
no illness among them they are allowed
to embark on the vessels sailing for Amer
| lea, which have been fumigated from stern
to stern whose water and food supplies
/ Esve been examined and which have re-
ceived the official 20. X"
Methods of Doctors.
The examinations Of those already exam
ined passengers Is redoubled when the
ships reach quarantine at this city, where
Surgeon General Wyman has stationed
more physicians
The first step is for the doctors from the
station TO board vessels as they come ia
anchor off quarantine. The doctors are
met at the rail by the ships master and
surgeon. The first question asked by the
boarding officer is II there have been any
cases OF contagious diseases during the
voyage, and IL there have been CASTRO
intestinal disorders. such ailmens are the
forerunners OF cholera and a case Is never
allowed 10 land without a microscopic
examination 10 prove beyond doubt that
the cholera germs do not exist.
With such extreme methods Of precau-
ton, 81 Is impossible for cholera to enter
the city, Il is with this knowledge that
the Treasury department. today reached a
decision 10 put no embargo on merchan-
disc and passengers coming 10 this coun-
try from infected countries.