The New York herald., 1921-03-03
SURGEON GENERAL
URGES TYPHUS FUND
Appeals to Congress for APP
preparation Of 81, ,291,330
for Atlantic Ports.
DIR. COPELAND ALSO ACTS
Sends Messages to Speaker Of
House and Secretary Tum-
ulty in Emergency.
DIR. COPELAND ALSO ACTS

Dispatches from Washington last
night said that Surgeon-General Cum
mings OF the Public Health Service ap-
pealed to Congress during the afternoon
for the appropriation OF si.2Sl.3So.
which has been requested by DR.. Royal
S. Copeland. Commissioner Of Health In
New York city. and other Atlantic sea-
board health officials. as a campaign
fund with which to fight typl,us and
other diseases being brought into the
country by immigrants. The Surgeon
General explained. II was reported. that
In accordance with suggestions OF DR..
Copeland and other officers the fund
would be used to provide additional
dorrnitory and delousing facilities at
the immigration stations In this city.
Philadelphia. Boston and Baltimore. He
said X would be divided so that New
York would receive s4s5.62o.
Surgeon General Cummings described
the poor facilities at Ellis Island and
Quarantine. declaring that this port re-
qu!red a station capable Of handling
5000 aliens daily. To make Hoffman
Island what II should he he said a $780,
900 water supply system is needed. The
remainder Of the s4s5.s2o would be u;ii-
lied to provide sleeping quarters and
bathing barracks.
| DR.. Copeland sent messages during the
day to Frederick II. Giilett. Speaker OF
the House. and Joseph p. Tumulty. secre-
tary to the President. asking them to get
| behind the request for the appropriation.
He said he hoped the President would
send special message to Congress call
ing attention to the disease peril.
One typhus patient died yesterday at
Quarantine and new case developed
! S.ta ,to- 70 rytn ar-a q
Hungarian woman, who arrived in New
| York February from Rotterdam. She
was passed through the quarantine and
immigrant stations and went TO Mes
sena, ST. Lawrence county, February 10,
where she became III q. week later.
The State Department OF Health an
nounced the case was under strict quar-
antine and every precaution was being
! taken against the spread OF the disease
among persons with whom the woman
had been in contact.
Commissioner Copeland was dis
tressed upon receipt OF private mes
sage from Washington TO the effect that
the quarantine bill virtually has no
chance of being passed at this session.
1T means Congress IS disregar ding
absolutely all attention to the needs OF
the country" he said. 'and Is leaving
the gate open for cholera, typhus and
bubonc plague. Unless the money is
appropriated tomorrow we must wait
neutrality-suspicious. until next December
before the present disgraceful conditions
can be remedicd."
The steamship San Guisto. which was
one OF the first to bring typhus to the
| United States, will be funilgated to-day
with cyanide gas al Quarantine. Her
! crew Will be taken off and q skeleton
crew substituted. She will then be per-
mitted by the local Health Department
to dock az her pier. No. Z. North River.
! The San Guisto has been four weeks at
! Quarantine.
! Two deaths and seven new cases OF
/ sleeping sckne5s--encephalitis lethar-
I gica---wero reported yesterday. The
!, deaths were those OF Amelia Wagner. Z
months. 1341 Flushing avenue. Brook
! lyn, and Antoinette Grazioh. years. 81
! Mulberry street.