New-York tribune., 1921-02-17

that New York city taxpayers, quite
aside from the sanitary aspects of the
problem, will be paying a big premium
on an antistyphus insurance policy
for the entire nation.
"lf typhus reaches this city it prob
ably will be by one of this ports side
doors, through which vermn-infested
immigrants are being sent here"
According to telegram received by
DR.. Copeland late yesterday from
United States Senator William M. Cal
der, TO whom he had telegraphed for
the speeding up of Federal measures
here, the state quarantine station at
Rosebank, S. l., with its Hoffman ISL
and auxiliary, will pass into the hends
of the United States to-day. Senator
Calder's telegram said
Omitted States Public Health Service
expect to obtain title to-morrow to
Quarantine Station, New York, and ad-
wise me they then will have control
and conditions complained of will be
remedied almost Immediately"
sl,500,000 Warrant Drawn
The news contained in the Senator's
message was borne out in a dispatch
froh: Washington last night which
quoted Ewing Laporte, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, as saying that a
warrant for more than $I,50G0o0 in
favor of the State of New York had
been drawn by Che Treasury in pay
ment for the station. The dispatch
also said Frederick A. Wallis, Commis-
sioner Of immigration at Ellis Island,
is expected in Washington tomorrow
for conference with Commissioner
General Caminetti on methods to pre-
vent entrance of typhus into the United
States through immigrants landing
here.
A telegram from Assistant Secretary
Post Of the Department of Labor was
less encouraging. The official told the
Commissioner Of Health in his message
that he had received DR.. Copeland's
telegram Of February IA and had re-
ferred the matter to the Surgeon Gen
eral. However, DR.. Copeland said the
messages showed that action is being
taken in Washington. He spoke in
praise of the Surgeon General, Hugh
S. Cumming, for his efforts in seeking
to have the Federal authorities give
the port the necessary facilities for
fighting back the dreaded disease.
The commissioner intilnated that un-
less the service here was improved be-
yond that existing at Boston the gov
ernment's acquisition of the Quaran-
tine station might not prove so effec-
tive as hoped. He was less satisfied
last night, he said, than he was on
Tuesday, because of the necessity of
protecting the city now from every
shipping. angle.
Health Board Tightens Rules
The Board of Health yesterday, at
the instance of DR.. CopelanG adopted
several resolutions of stringent ma
ture with respect to the dscouraging
conditions reported. One of these reads
as follows:
No person from a vessel lately
from an infected port or from a YES
sci in which there lately has been a
person sick of an infectious disease
shall be permitted to land or come into
the City of New York, unless such
person shall have been found free from
infectious disease or free from evil
dence indicating that such person is
not likely to be a source of infection
to others. All such persons found to
present suspicious or definite evidence
o1 infectious diseases shall be detained,
isolated and cared for in the manner
and place designated and approved By
the Commissioner of Health"
Another resolution adopted declares
oil ports in the Mediterranean, includ-
ing Trieste and Constantinople; all
ports in Asia; all ports in South
America; certain ports on the Gulf of
Nlexico. including Vera Cruz, Tampico,
New Orleans, Pensacola, Galveston
beaumont and Port Arthur, and all
southern and eastern Baltic ports, are
infected ports.
The third resolution adopted pre-
scribes that every person suffering
from typhus, every person exposed to
the disease through contact, and their
premises and effects, shall be subjected
to examination by the city health force
and fumigated and disinfected.