New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-13
u. S. Blocks
City's Fight
On Tvplnus
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typhus a5asS s ahat ahs
Elians have perished from abroad"
He added that DR.. Cofer was. a sssfssss
ing,s the Health Department I'M agery
way possible and that he was I'D r.
Commissioner Wallis was not respon-
sible for the action in Washington.
} Liners Cable New orderst
Steamship lines, through commit
tee of the International Steamship
Conference, were again notified by Dr..
Copeland yesterday that no person not
thoroughly -deloused would BIO perl
mitted to enter the city. When the
lines learned that their previous int
depreciation Of the Health Commits.
sieners' order was correct cablegrams
were dispatched to the foreign Offices
Of the lines in question, advising those
Offices of the order and urging rigid
inspections Of passengers and their
baggage, prior to embarkation for this
port. -
Four ferryboat loads of the 800
third class passengers Of the steamer
Ryndamf, held for examination down
the bay, were brought from Ellis Is
land to the Battery yesterday. A num-
Der Of these were detained by the
health inspectors Of the city for de-
:lousing after they had passed through
the Federal authorities hands. They
were taken to Willard Parker H spi-
tai, where stsrilizNg plant has baen
offered for the use Of the Health Des
partment. /
One immigrant who had been passed
by the Ellis Island officials, according
to inspectors under DR.. Louis A. Har-
ris, of the Bureau of Praventablet DIS
eases, and Dr.. H G. McAdam, Of the
Bureau Of Institutional Inspection, who,
with Dr. Frank j. Monagha1, were
in chareatof the local examining force,
was held For further examination after
vermiE-infected clothing had been
found il. his luggage. DIR. Copeland
said he was of the opinion that this
man, who is q Bohemian, is not suf-
erer from typhus symptoms, but only
needs a thorough cleaning, which he
will receive at Willard Parker los
pitaL All lice, the Commissioner Said.
on persons coming from the sLevant.
Examinations to- Continue
The examinations by the city health
force will continue at the Battery sta
ton and at piers of the steamship lines, !
it was announced, the lines having
agreed to cooperate with the city in
every way possible.
The Health Commissioner would offer
no exploration of the diversion, by
several of the lines, of steam ships to
the port Of Boston. Dispatches from
Boston during the day told of the d.
version to that city Of the Italian liner
De d'Italia and the steamer United
States of the Scandinavian-Am erieAn
Line from New York. The tia ian snip
has 1900 passengers from Meditcrra-
mean ports and the United States is
bringing 600 passengers from Copen
hagen.i Passengerg or@r the, Hollsnd-
America liner Nieuw Am5tefAaH Sspd
th q Red Star liner Finland @hS bass
the immigration AUTHORITIES at; Bdston
will also be landed there instead Of at
New York. Orders were receiveds there
yesterday, supplementing. those If the
day before, making Boston the place of
debarkation as we'll as of examination,
because, itwast said, of continued con-
gestion # Ellis Island. = IS8s.b.
There are $500 passengers on the
Nieuw Amsterdam and the Finland.
Of the typhus cases lund ~ TIE a. TIM emit.
at Hoffman Island and at tie Ruaran
tine station one was reported 5yester-
day by DR.. Golfer as fataa, ~
Code To Be TnforSsd
The Health Depar tneflt forwarded.
copies of the section Of the sanitary
code. which prescribes regulations for