Evening star., 1921-02-13
MUST CLEAN SHIPS
IN WAR ON TYPHUS
Authorities Order Frequent
Fumigation as New Step to
Check Menace.
By the Associated Press

Ey the Associated Press.
| NEW YORK. February 12.-Strict
enforcement of precautionary meas
ures providing for periodical fumisa-
| ton of all ships conveying immi-
grants to the port of New York was
the latest development today in the
fight being waged by federal and
municipal authorities to prevent the
| spread of typhus in this country.
Ports Covered in Orders.
! The regulations prescribe that ships
| transporting immigrants must be
fumgated after each voyage when
sailing from the following ports: All
! ports in Asia. including the Straits
Settlement, Japan. the Philippines and
! the Malay archipelago.
All ports in Africa, including the
! Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde
| Islands and Madeira.
| All ports in South America. except
! vessels from Dutch. French and Brit
ish Guiana. All Mediterranean ports.
| including ConStantinople and Trieste.
| Ships plying between New York and
i the following ports on the Gulf of
Mexico: Vera Cruz, Tampico. New Or
| Jeans. Pensacola. Galveston. Beau
| mont. Sabine. Orange, Neches and Port
! Arthur.
! Vessels from all norts in Mexico eX-
! cept Vera Cruz and Tampico. Nicara-
j qua. Costa Rica and Colombia must
! be fumigat% once every four months.
~ Cases AOiated.
! All ships. irrespective of these rcgu-
! lationS. must he fumigated once every
| six months for the destruction of
rats. The thirty four cases of typhus
discovered by authorities have been
| isolated on Hoffman Island. where
| they are being treated. One of the
| patients is not expected to recover.
Six imm grants suffering with
measles. who arrived on the liner
! Adriatic today. are being detained by
i the federal authorities. Local immi-
/ grafton authorities were advised to
/ day by telegram from the federal
! commissioner of immigration at
| Washington to proceed with their ad-
mission of aliens in this country in
| the customary manner. leaving to the
, municipal authorities the responsible
J ity Tor such steps as they may see fiji
to take after the immigrants have
left the federal stations.
City Authorities Act.
Immigrants setting foot on Manhat-
tan Island today. especially those
from typhus infested countries, were
subjected to a stringent medical eX-
animation by twenty-five inspectors
of the city health deDartment who,
acting upon orders of Health Commits
sIoner Copeland. opened headquarters
at the municipal ferry house at the
Battery. Fifty police reserves were
called out to keep the migrants
in line as they alighted from a barge
bringing them from Ellis Island.
Commissioner Copeland announced
that he had ordered the examination
to make sure that no immigrants en-
tered this city in Il filthy condition,
although the immigrants had pre-
Yiously been examined at Ellis Island
Nearly 800 steeraee passengers who
arrived on the steamship Ryndam
several days ago and who were held
up because of typhus casts aboard
were the first to pass through
Hundreds of friends of the i'm
migrants gathered about the ferry
house and sought to greet them as
they arrived from Ellis Island The
rush was so great that the health
officials put in call for police re-
serves Several woman inspectors
were pressed into service to examine
the woman immigrants.
Commissioner Copeland said that he
had been refused permission to es-
tablish the city inspection station al
Ellis Island He declared the munic-
ipal health authorities must be salts
fled that immigrants entering the city
are fit persons to mingle with the
population"
We have been led to take this
stand he added, because Of our sad
experience of last week, when we
found two patients with typhus fever
who had been sent to Long Island
College Hospital supposedly suffer-
ing from pneumonia. Later another
immigrant was found in Harlem Hos
pital suffering from typhus"
More Ships Ordered to BOstOn
BOSTON. February 12.-Diversion
from New York to this pert of the
Italian liner Re D'Itala and the
steamer United States of the Scandi
navian- American line also was or
dered today Whether they will de-
bark here passengers who pass the
tests was not made clear The Italian
liner has 1,50O persons from Mediter-
ranean ports. while the United States
carries 500 passengers from Copen
hagen.