Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
DIES FROM CHOLERA
SWinburne Island Case RouSes
New York.
VICTIM WAS WATCHMAN
Quarantine Employe Thought to
Have Ptomaine Poisoning.
DIR. DOTY FEELS NO ALARM
Says All Precautions Are Being
Taken-Six Others Ill
With Disease.
VICTIM WAS WATCHMAN
DIR. DOTY FEELS NO ALARM

NEW YORK, July 15.-The death today
of Patrick Gushing. a resident American
and former day Waterman at Hoffman
Island quarantine station, from Asiatic
cholera, has aroused some apprehension
In New York of the spread Of the scourge
beyond the limitations of the quarantine.
and vigorous steps were taken today to
stamp out any possible sources OF in
fection. Health Officer Doty himself says
there is no cause for alarm.
The ward in the hospital on Staten Is
land where Gushing lay for twenty-four
hours. supposedly Ill of ptomaine poison
ing; has been cleaned and fumigated,
while a strict quarantine has been es-
tablished at the home Of his wife and
children. In the opinion Of DR.. Doty,
Gushing contracted the disease from So
called cholera carrier, as there had been
no recognized case Of cholera on Hoff-
man Island at the time Of his leaving
there, for seventeen days.
AS soon as the first case occurred among
passengers Of the detained steamer
Moltke, DR.. Doty instituted a search for
Gushing. who had left the states en-
ploy, and learned that Gushing was in tn
hospital. A deputy health officer ex.
amined Gushing and ordered his removal
to the SW1nburno lSlanQ ttOSpltaI, WAeTo
he died today.
The case need not cause alarm, DR..
Doty says in q statement since the pre-
cautionary measures Instituted were
promptly and thoroughly carried out.
Situation Is Satisfactory.
All those who might possibly be ex-
posed to the disease will be kept under
careful daily observation by the health
authorities. says the statement. The
situation as regards the country at large
is satisfactory. There have been no Sec
ondary cases following the isolated cases
at Auburn, N. Y, and in Brooklyn, and
none Is anticipated in the Staten Island
case.
While Cushing's death reveals the first
native case of cholera in the present
epidemic. three deaths from the disease
have occurred at Swinburne Island in the
last three days. According to DR.. Doty
six other cases exist at quarantine. Two
Of these are serious. Three Of the six
were brought in by the steamer Perugia,
which arrived last night from Naples
The Perugia Is still at quarantine. The
other three cases were among passengers
and crew Of the Moltke, which arrived
from Naples on July 3.
There are now under observation at
quarantine 205 steerage passengers
and forty-three of the crew of the
Moltke.
Disregarded the Quarantine.
This tally does not agree, however.
with that Of Charles Dushkind. coun-
sci for immigrants. who recently made
charges against DR.. Doty that are
being Investigated by a special COM
mission Mr.. Dushkind attempted at
the inquiry today to prove by Charles
Leavitt. a carpenter at Hoffman Is
land that there are ten new cases
there. Leavitt said he had heard such
report. but did not know how au-
thentic it was.
Leavitt declared on the stand. how
ever, that he had disregarded the
cholera quarantine and came last
night to his home on the East Side
here, wearing his working clothes,
which had not been fumigated.