The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-15
FOUR new CHOLERA SUSPECTS
RuT va MORE ACTUAL CHOL ERA,
SAYS DR. UO7l.
This in Answer 10 lawyer Dusbkin ind's A..
sertion That six Gases sf Choiera
HAL Beeu found-Testimony ~ to
Bad Couditions on Hoffman Island.


That there had boon an outbreak OF
cholera on Hoffman Island within the last
few days and that ii had been kept quiet
by DR.. Alvah n. Doty. Health Ohicer Of
this port was the charge made last eve-
ming by Charles Dushkind. the lawyer
who is representing the immigrants who
have complained to Gov. Dix Of DR. Doty's
administration. MIR. Dushkind sought
to bring this out from Q witness before
Commissioner Bulger. Who Is hearing the
evidence against DR.. Doty The witness
could only say that he didn't know any
thing about it personally. but he had
heard something to that effect
This has been kept from tho news
papers, said Lawyer D,nhkind after
adjournment DIR Doty went 10 Hot
man Island suddenly on Wednesday
morning He got there about o'clock.
He threatened to put the island under
strict quarantine at once and to allow no
one 10 leave it. l understand only the
witnesses who have come to this nvesti-
CATION have been allowed to leave the
island
Several cases OF cholera have been
discovered. about six. ] understand.
They are cases where cholera has actually
developed, not suspects. They were sent
to Swinburne Island. where contagious
diseases are handled
The facts are as follows. said DR. Doty
last evening when he was told Of what
Mr. Dushkind had said. About two
hundred passengers from the steamer
Moltke were sent to Hoffman Island
about ten days ago because there WAS q
cholera suspect on the Moltke. Since
then there have been three other sus-
poets. making four in all The actual
presence OF cholera has not been dis
covered No one has been sent to Swim
burne Island Hoffman Island is no
more under quarantine than il has been.
but Of course it is n quarantine station
and certain rules are followed. but no
unusual ones have been put into effect
There was nothing unusual in the fact
that | went TO Hoffman Island about
o'clock in the morning | 60 there
about that time almost every morning.
The witness produced by Lawyer
Dushkind was Charles Lsavitt. who is
carpenter on HOFFMAN Island Mr.. Dush-
kind qualified him by showing that he
had been chief carpsnter on the Yankee
in the Spanish American War and that
he had service medals Carpenter
Leavitt's testimony didn't appeal to
Lawyer Dushkind later on. who asked him
il hs was lying Leavitt hotlv said he
wasn't Commissioner Bulger intervened
to cay that he had confidence in the testi-
, mony OF Lesvitt and that he would rely
| a great deal on il. On the whole II was
| considered that Leavitt's testimony was
favorable to DR.. Doty.
Ii was brought out that since the in
| vesti igation began mattresses which had
been used by immigrants on Hoffman
Island had been burned. Leavitt said
that the mattresses had been soiled, that
they had not been in use for long time
and tha, they had actually been in storage
before they were burned. He said IL
wasn't true that immigrants from q ship
suspected Of having cholera case we're
allowed TO mingle with immigrants from
| ship on which there might have been
smallpox. They were kept in separate
quarters and a rope was used TO keep
them apart. A couple of watchnen
also were used for the purpose, but some
| times it happened the passengers from
one ship mixed with those from another.
II was hard to keep them separated,
the witness said.
He denied that he had told Lawyer
Dushkind that dormitory had not been
fumKatei in years. In fact he knew
ittl. about the fumigation methods
lie knew that recently a sewer pipe had
broken and that well which supplied
part OF the drinking water for the island
had been contaminated As soon as