New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Wilson Asked
To End Clash
Over Typhus
Continued from sasc ons)

in this port and yesterday and to-day
our Health Department found vermin-
covered persons VINO had been permit
ted TO enter this country. We have
offered clerks and doctors to assist
the ellis Island authorities, but they
are not accepted nor are they permitted
TO work on the island. Consequently.
our munic1psT activltIes impose unnec-
essary hardships or the immigrants and
thelr American relatives. Within two
weeks at least three cases of typbus
have been overlooked and permitted to
land and the. passenger lists given US
are absolutely unreliable as regards
addresses. Please ask the President to
investigate and to take steps to protect
our congested city and the country at
large"
Other Cities Send Aliens
Not only have infected immigrants
been slipping in through the regular
channels, but the Health Commissioner
SAID he had every reason to believe
that the passengers arriving on ships
which had been diverted to Boston and
other ports were speedily making their
way to New York by train.
To-day Dr.. Copeland will get in
touch with officials of the Pennsylvania
and New York Central Railroads and
will seek their cooperation in put
| ting stop to this. He intends to
ask 1or the establishment Of Health
Department bureaus in both stations,
so that aliens arriving here by railroad
can be met and inspected in the same
fashion as those coming through Ellis
Island.
Or. Copeland will also advocate bet
ter Facilities for checking up the paa-
seEgers after they have gained an en-
try to this country. Conditions are
said to be deplorable When health
officials go to the addresses given in
/ the passenger lists they find that they
are inaccurate. In many cases the per-
sons they are seeking have disappeared
and cannot be traced q
The eXamjnation Of immigrants ad-
nitted TO the country by Ellis Island
officials will continue and no steerage
passengers from transatlantic liners
@ill be permitted to settle here without
undergoing an Independent inspection
by the city health authorities" said
Dr. Copeland Yesterday. "Our inde
pendent examination will certainly not
be called off We shall continue to ex-
anime all immigrants we can get our
hands on before they are permitted to
enter the country"
Crowd at South Ferry
The fight Of the city authorities
dSdI4lSG d iypuGS SplQSlIlIC - SL6ReQ II!
the Thirty-ninth Street, Brooklyn, Mu-
nicipal Ferry house, where the Ellis ISL
and boats come in at South Ferry. There
were enough policemen lined up there
yesterday from the five lower Mauhat-
tan precincts TO keep in order the 1000
restive persons who swarmed outside.
Most Of them were relatives or friends
of the arriving immigrants, and there
was a good deal of dissatisfaction and
grumbling over the delay and incOnveni-
ence entailed.
A total of $50 immigrants were ex-
amined during the day, and eleven men
and seventeen women were found to
have vernin and were sent to Willard
Parker Hospital, where an emergency
delousing and sterilization plant has
been rugged up. The small plant on
North Brother Island has also been put
into. commission to meet a possible
emergency.
DIR, Frank J. Monaghan, Deputy
Health Commissioner, received a report
at the Board of Health Offices yesterday
afternoon that the authorities at Ellis
Island would not send over any more
boats, but inspectors of the city depart
ment remained on duty until all posi-
bic chance Of another boat coming in
had gone. Dr.. Monaghan said the sit
authorities remained unchanged. He
understood that no vessels from infected
ports were expected for several days.
Since there We're no reports from physi-
clans during the day, he assumed shat
there had not been any cases demanding
immediate attention.
Twenty Inspectors on Duty
The actual city inspection IN the
ferryhouse Is in charge of DR.. Louis |.
Harris, Director Of the Bureau of Pre-
ventable Diseases. His chief of staff
is DR.. Fl. G. McAdam They are aided
by twenty inspectors of the Depart
ment Of Health. The nurses who help
in examining the women are Misses
Mary i. Stenson and Elsie A. Smith,
both employees of the Department of
Health. When the II O'Clock boat ar
rived from Ellis Island yesterday it
had about 100 passengers, including
three employees at the island. They,
in common with every one else, had 10
submit to examination.
Eve are simply looking for symp-
toms" said DIR. Harris. eve don't ex-
-ose the immigrants unnecessarily and