The New York herald., 1921-02-17
NEW TYPHUS CASE,
SEVEN IN 28 YEARS,
IS FOUND in BRONX
Health Dept. Officials In
spect Neighborhood to
Prevent Spread.
DANGER FROM BOSTON
Dr.. Copeland Protests Lax
Methods of Inspection
at That Port.
g.
U. s. TAKES CHARGE HERE
Twelve Day Quarantine for
Ships in Effect on Sunday
i'm Fight on Disease.
U. S. TAKES CHARGE HERE

a case of typhus fever was dis
covered in The Bronx yesterday. II
is the third reported within the city
limits the ast week and the seventh
case of local origin since the epidemic
of 1898.
Other developments in the typhus
situation were:
A message from Senator Calder
to Health Commissioner Copeland
stating that the Quarantine sta
ton here will be taken over by
the Federal Health Service to-day
and conditions remedied almost
Immediately"
The examination by Health De-
partment inspectors of 2a2 i'm
migrants passed by the Boston
quarantine station. who were sent
hore by boat Nine were detained
and the New Haven Railroad at
once issued orders that no more
It's steamships until all danger of
an epidemic has passed.
A special meeting of the Board
of Health was called and resolu-
tions adopted requiring all per-
sons from infected ports or in
fected ships to be examined by
the local authorities before enter
ing the city.
ships Fnce Quarantine.
Washington dispatches said the new
twelve day ship quarantine order has
been drafted and will become effective
Sunday. In this case the Aquitania,
due here Tuesday from Southampton
and Cherbourg. will be detained at
Quarantine for five days before her
3,007 first, second and third class pas
sengers will be allowed to land. Sir
Auckland Geddes, the British AM
bassador, ia on board, but ii is thought
his position win exempt him from de-
lay. ak
The new typhus case was discovered
when the patient. who has been III two
weeks. applied for admission to Ford
ham Hospital. He is Bernard Bard,
So whose home is on the Boston road.
He has not been out of the city for
some time. According to DR.. Copeland,
he must have been bitten by typhus
vernin brought into the city
on an immigrant laden vessel. Typhus
can only be communicated py vernin.
AS soon as DR.. William G. Somerset.
chief diagnostician of the Health De-
partment. had pronounced the case
typhus large force Of inspectors was
despatched to The Bronx to make a
thorough investigation. All the houses
Ia the vicinity of Bard's home were
examined. No more cases were discov-
cred last night Bard was allowed to
in the hospital and Is doing
well, according to reports received by
the Health Department
Senator Calder's telegram was In re-
ply to one from Commissioner Copeland
that Ellis Island was send
Ing hundreds of unclean immigrants
into the city. He said:
THE United States Public Health
Service expects to obtain the title to-
morrow to Quarantine in New York
and advises me it will then have con-
troll and that conditions complained OF
will be remedied almost immediately"
Copeland Praises Cofer.
Supplementary dispatches from Wash
ington said that a warrant for more
than si.5o0.0oo has been drawn in favor
OF the state of New York in payment
for the station. The present Port
Health officer. DIR. Leland c. Cofer.
is a member of the Public Health Ser
vice and probably will be retained.
"The encouraging thing is that DR..
Cofer will have an increased staff and
increased facilities" Or. Copeland said
I'm commenting on this reform. "It is
that with such very limited
facilities he could have done such splen-
did work. During the years DIR. Cofer
has been In charge Of the station. Quar-
antine has been 100 per cent. efficient.
but with the pressure brought to bear
on IL at present II is humanity impos-
sible to protect the port without more
help.
II hope the Government Will continue
TO keep DR.. Cofer In his present posi-
ton, and I have no doubt II will. 1t is
Important because the inefficiency OF
the Federal quarantine service at Bos-
ton has been demonstrated within the
last twelve hours.
'r am much disturbed because our In
spectors found nine badly vermin In
tested persons on the New Haven boat
this morning. This indicates that the
methods used I'm the Boston port are
no more effective than they have been
AZ Ellis Island. To add TO our misery,
one case was taken of with suspected
typhus.
Responsibility for this situation rests
upon the Federal Government. IL seems
10 mo every citizen ought to rise In
his wrath and demand that action be
taken to keep out OF this country un-
clean persons.
Keep an Eye on Boston.
"rt is a we'll known fact among sani-
tarians that the influenza epidemic OF
1918 came into the country through Bos-
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