The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-07-20
CHOLERA CLAIMS
ANOTHER VICTIM

NEW YORK. Special Directly after
his return Tuesday from Washington.
where he had gone to confer with Sur
geon- General Wyman on the cholera
situation, DR.. a. II. Doty, health officer
OF the port, announced the death OF
Anna Mia, thirty-two years old. an i'm
migrant who had arrived here on the
steamship Duca degli Abruzzi
After being landed from the steam
snip the woman went to BROOKLYN fell
Ill and was attended by a doctor. who
notified the Health Department that
the case was suspicious. The depart
ment notified Or. Doty, who asked that
the patient be sent back to quarantine
rms was done and the woman was
Isolated on Swinburne Island. She died
there at 10 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing.
For some reason of his own. DR.
Mansfield, to whom The World was re-
ferred by the Brooklyn Health Depart
ment as the physician who had had
charge or the case, refused to say from
what part OF the borough the woman
had been taken, nor would he relate
any circumstance connected with IL
Dr. Doty said that, clinically there
was every reason to believe the woman
had died OF cholera. He added IT would
require a ARCHAEOLOGICAL test to GER
fanny determine the question. and that
the result OF one he had ordered Will be
made known today.
This is the second cholera suspect
landed from the Abruzzi. The other
appeared In Auburn, n. Y. a dispatc
from Washington announces that q
MEMBER or Ir. Wymans STAFF has been
hurried 70 that city to look into the
case.
To a reporter for The World who saw
him at Quarantine Wednesday after
noon. DR.. Doty said there was no oc-
caSion for alarm over either case He
said that at the conference with the
Surgeon General Monday they agreed
that the detention period should be ex-
tended from five to ten days. All that
Is required to make this decision oper-
alive is the sanction of the Secretary OF
81 IL 10 !
Will be obtained Immediately.
This doubling OF the period Of deten-
ton must exert immediate influence on
immigration, particularly from Italian
ports, and more especially from Naples
and Palermo. one close to steamship
AFFAIRS said the lines bringing immi-
! fected with cholera would find the cost
| imposed by this extra period Of deten-
ton so great that financial reasons
would impel them TO discontinue steer
age traffic until all trace OF infection
! has disappeared.
1t was only quite recently" DR.. Doty
| SAID, that the medical world discov-
| cred there was a new danger in chol-
| era This is the cholera 'carrier'-one
who Is infected with the disease and
| who unknowingly carries II until some
! unusual cause develops II. There car
| be no doubt that these two from the
| Aoruzzi were cholera carriers The
$50 passengers were thoroughly exam
med on arrival here and the shiI
showed a clean bill of health The
| development of the disease nine day.
later shows that a fve-day period o1
| detention is not enough.
| we are somewhat in the dark about
cholera carriers While typical case.
OF cholera present themselves within
hve days after infection, there ar,
other cases the incubation of which
may cover period of weeks. isolated
cases of cholera may appear anywhere
But If proper precautions are taken Al
individual cases we may dismiss am
Imunity."