New-York tribune., 1921-02-15

ls.Yr.-Old Brooklyn Boy
Victim; Report Woman
If Hoffman Island, am
Immigrant, Also Dies
II. s. to Take Over
Quarantine To-day
/ NJ. NJ. Donates Ship as
Delousin g Hospital;
Other Ports ON Guard


While additional measures were be-
ms taken at this port, at Boston and
:. Providence yesterday to strengthen
tAe lines of defense against the typhus
,.vsr plague, the first death from the
disease to occur within the city itself
,iBee 1892 was reported to the Health
n.uartment from Brooklyn.
The victim was James Halligan,
.irsteen years old, of 63S Fifty-sev-
.vtb Street, Brooklyn, who died in ct.
g,,y's Hospital Sunday night, after an
illness which began January 16.
10 this death there was added last
sirht information of another. but not
legally within the confines of the city.
Francesca Flecko, forty years old, en-
Italian woman Immigrant who arrived
last week on the Italian liner San
Giusto, from Trieste, and who was one
ot the tbirty-four typhus-infected i'm
migrants removed from italian ships
in the last two weeks by health author
tiles at this port, died last Saturday
light at Hoffman Island.
There have been number of deaths
rom typhus fever at the detention sta
ricns in the Lower Bay the last few
usrs, but, according to DR.. Royal S.
Copeland, Commissioner Of the Depart
nent Of Health. the death of James
IIalligan is Che first that has been of
fcialy reported as due solely to
typhus infection from any one of the
present FIVE boroughs since the year
mentioned.
No Cause for Alarm
Authorities here see no cause for
arm in the single death.
Following information of the death
rom typhus in Brooklyn and the
cath Of the immigrant on Hoffman
sland and the announcement by Dr..
leland Cofer, Port Health officer at
Quarantine, that he had succeeded in
obtaining from the International Mer-
eantile Marine the steamer Minnesota
i0r use as q delousing and cleansing
staIlon, Ewing Laporte, Assistant Sec
fetary OF the Treasury, in charge of
public health, announced last night in
Washington that the United States
probably VIII take over the Quarantine
s3atlen. within the next twenty-four
aours."
Transfer of the title, he said, is ex-
fscted to be completed by tomorrow,
snen Federal medical authorities will
ssame charge of the anti-typhus cam
lagn at this port. Additional facili-
sss theh will be provided for detecting
3phus cases and the present medical
aa 5 will be increased, Mr.. Laporte
Dr, Cofer and Commissioner Cone
4nd said they were great v encoura eed
ly this concession of the steamsb; -
'npany, and that il was highly i'm
sl.aht that newly arrived immigrants
,Aested with vermin should undergo
borough cleansing before thew are
alnea over TO the immigration au-
lOrties at Ellis Island.
ms now will be possible. for as
yen as the big steamer can be ripeed
@ gss delousing station, with beds Tor
sIW or ls600 OF the immigrants. rations
sacea on board and corps of doctors.
5ssseS, maids and porters ASSIGNED to
IVY on the ship, the task of making
Si new arrivals hygienically ACCEPT
ssss. sss :. % the city of New York will be
at0rmed speedily. "
ship viii Go TO Quarantine
4. S. Franklin, president Of the
- y? offered the vessel at a confer
,i ,ass win DR.. Cofer, for the benefit of
~ ar sns y steamship lines landing passen-
ssn srs mere 1t is hoped that the shin
ssr :" " moved from her berth at Hobo
6a ~ aa anchorage at Rosebank, where
tso quarantine Station is located, some
tysns so-aay Incoming ships could
,Ss Set M,a shelr third class passengers to
-Stinesota while at Quarantine. and
- ,."es to their peers. ro.table
ss.. s..."e can be set up in the vessel to
reeSad Sniu0aate y, almost 5000 persons, if
sSS s;a' y She is of 10000 tons register
aant a. ship afoat ' A
TINS plan to use the Minnesota
GA g5esnsing station Is carried out .
~ ~ Health Commissioner Coueland
I gss,a ,a., KY, I think it will go far
as 4.u so.l relieving the situation here. By
seia,s ,0peeration of the Quarantine Of
tue steamship men and the
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