The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
CHOLERA ON HAND
New York Is Up Against a Fight
With Disease.
Fifteen Cases Are Being Treated
on Swinburne Island.
SIX VICTIMS ARE DEAD
Germ Was Brought From Naples
on the MOItke.
All Passengers and the Crew
Are Under Observation.

washington, July 1.-THE entire pub
lie health machinery of the government
has been put in motion to fight off tba
Cholera invasion from Europe. All con
sular reports from Europe bearing on
cases at any points are being carefully
studied by officials here and the pub
nc heaith officer at Naples has been in
Structed to cable a report every five
days as to developments in italy.
All sn1ps are being watched here and
aDrodo and special Instructions have
oeeh issued throughout the service TO
case. -'l' eiie "is-
A public health service expert. hur-
@ Lleu 70 New York city. is expected to
work IN cooperation with DR.. Doty ami
otner health authorities there
Six Deaths in New York.
New York, July 1.-THE fight to
par choiera from the port of New YORK
continued today. with a federal exnert
nelplng the local health department.
me z4S persons who arrived here two
weeks ago on the steamer Nfoltle and
are still under observation. will under
go archaeological examinations ana n
more rigid quarantine wiz be enforced
at SWlnburne island, where fifteen
cases OF the disease are confined. with
-FOUR others under suspicion.
These cases, with the five deaths
that nave occurred since the Moltke
brought the germ here from Naples
show the reality of the danger the citv
faces from the epidemic now raging in
southern Europe.
While nothing even approaching a
panic exists here now, the situation is
recelVlng greater attention aid DR.. Al
van h Doty, health officer of the port
has felt called on to issue n reassur-
ing statement. DR.. Doty saws that the
cholera germ can be received in one
way only, through the mouth, and that
there is no danger in ordinary contact
with persons who have the disease.
However, Charles Dushkfns, counsel
for the complainants at the snvestiga-
ton of DR.. Doty's conduct. now in
progress, declares his belief that the
cholera patients now in the hospital
caught the disease not on the steamer
but at the immigration station, where
all the passengers were detained after
| Handing.
The danger, or rather, the under
standing of it, IS further increased by
knowledge of cholera carriers These
persons, DR.. Doty says. may transmit
the germs. although themselves abso-
lutely free from their ill-effects and be
as great a menace to others as a man
dying from the disease
Another death from cholera. oc-
CURED at the Swinburne Island hos
pital during the night, making the
total six The latest victim is Francis
Farander, aged IA. The quarantine Of
ficers said today that conditions at
Hoffman island were satisfactory. The
steamer Perugia, from the MedIter-
ranean, is still at anchor in ouarau-
tine, while her passengers are under
observance.
The European Situation.
Chiasso, Switzerland. July 17-Tha
London reports of the number OF
cholera victims at Palermo. Italy, since
May are exaggerated, according to
information received here.
Although it can not be known with
official exactness, the dead at Palermo
may reach 2S0, but not 1900 as has
been stated
The cholera situation both at Paler-
mo and Naples is now said to be i'm
proving. In Palermo tho daily death
average is 20 and at Naples II. At
Leghorn there have been a total of 13
deaths since the epidemic first ap-
peared while at Spezia the fatalities
have numbered Z, at Brescia 3 and at
Pisa, 1.
No cases of cholera were found
among the PSI passengers and qI
members of the crew of the Perug.a,
All persons aboard, however, remain
under close observation. The ship fs
being disinfected.