New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-16
CHOLERA GETS VICTIM
ON STATEN ISLAND
WatChman, Taken III at Home, Is
Sent to St. VinCent'S, and Dies
on SWinburne Island.
AN IMMIGRANT ALSO DIES
Witnesses from Quarantine Say
They Came to City Without
Restriction"-Three New
Cases Appear.
AN IMMIGRANT ALSO DIES

cases at Quarantine were the total OF
yesterdays developments.
DR.. Alvah II. Doty, Health officer ~
the Port, said last night that it was
quite possible" that cases Of cholera
would develop I'm the interior OF tho
country, naming as his reason for enun-
ciating SO alarming probability that as
some persons are better carriers OF
cholera germs than others it was quite
possible" for the disease TO be trans
mitted by them long after the ten-day
period of detention at Quarantine.
DR.. Doty added that in his opinion
there was no doubt Of many more cases
OF cholera being received at this port
during the present season because OF the
great number Of cases reported at Medi-
| terranean and other ports.
Patrick F. Cushing, Of No. II Finger
board Road, Clifton. Staten Island, who
had been employed as a night watch
man at Swinburne Island, died from
cholera at the hospital there yesterday.
He became i'll a mis- home last Wednes-
day. and at $40 p H. on Thursday was
| euh'i W 81" IlitUl I1OSlltdl, lslk-
ingston. He was placed in a room by
himself, and his case first was diagnosed
as ptomaine poisoning
Then a culture was taken Of his blood
and cholera was found to be the disease.
He was removed to Swinburne Island
at o'clock on Friday afternoon.
The three new cases of cholera were
discovered at Quarantine yesterday on
board the steamship Peruga, of the
Anchor Line. from Palermo
Pietro Mazzoa, an immigrant. who had
been under surveillance as a suspected
cholera patient, died at the island yester-
day. His death is said to have been due
to cholera
Several witnesses from Hoffman Island
have appeared at the state investigation
Of the charges against Dr. A!vah H.
DOty, Health officer of the Port, since
last Thursday. the clothing of none Of
whom was fumgated before they left
the island
In the testimony against Dr. Doty by
Charles Dushkind, lawyer FOR the COM
planning immigrants. was the assertion
that an epidemic of cholera had de-
veoped on Hoffman Island as a result
of carelessness on the part of the health
officers. DR.. Doty later denied this.
Asked why witnesses for the island did
not first fumigate their clothes before
appearing at the county courthouse, DR..
Doty said yesterday that cholera was
not transmitted in clothing. and that he
did not attach Importance to fumigation
under existing conditions
DR.. Doty issued the following state
ment last night regarding the cholera
situation at Quarantine:
There remain at Hoffman Island POS steer
age passengers from the steamer Aloltke,
which arrived from Naples on July 8 The
physician in charge at Hoffman Island re-
ports this evening that these passengers
are all apparently well. There are under
observation in addition TO these, forty
three members of the steamers crew and
two stowaways, also in apparent good
health.
Up to the present time there have been
removed TO Swnburne Island Tor observa-
ton as suspected cases OF cholera seven
passengers and one member Of the crew.
ton six of these have proved 10 be actual
cases OF cholera, one is highly suspicious
and one Is probably not cholera. There
nave Dctn lllIee uctktuS among this number
from cholera, namely: Gabrielle Mastro-
bouni. aged eighteen years, who died July
u; Lucia Daidone. aged siXty-nlne. who
died July Is. and Pietro Mazzola, aged afty-
six years, who died July l5.
Witness Exposed to Cholera.
Charles Leavitt. a carpenter at HoY-
man Island, testified yesterday before
Judge Charles ~ Bulger, the Governors
commissioner. that although he had
been instructed by Dr. Rmer to return
to Hoffman Island on Friday night, as
the employees were under quarantine he
went instead to his home in this city,
and that his clothes had not been fuml-
gated before he left the island
Don't you know that Dr. Doty re-
ported yesterday that two men had died
from cholera. that two others were se-
riously i'll with the disease and that four
other suspected cases exist?" asked Mr..
Dushkind.
II don't know" said Leavitt
Did you hear the doctors talk about
putting the island under quarantine be-
fore you came over here Thursday 10
testify"
Htdlu Nl'iil NdtNliiS dboAl IT, III.
Rlmer told us all TO come back. He said
we were all under quarantine"
Mr.. Dushkind called the commission
er's attention TO the testimony, saying il
was highly important. lie added:
"Dr. Doty is guardian OF the health OF
this port. and yet he permits men TO
come here directly from this cholera-i
tested island and mingle with thousands
of citizens Their clothes have not even
been fumigated."
Leavtt then admitted he had not gone
back 10 the island Friday. but had slept
that night at his home, at No. > Cannon
street
In the Heart of the East Side.
"In the heart Of the East Side?" asked
Mr.. Dushkind.
Yes"
Leavitt started the present investiga-
ton. on the stand he seemed TO regret
It. He admitted he went TO Jewish
newspapers and described alleged con-
ditions at Hoffman Island; also that he
sent other employees TO Mr. Dushkind
; with letters OF introduction. in which
Mr.. Dushkind was informed that the
t bearers were willing to testify.
: Lcavtts method on the stand yester-