New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
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1'hreeIyplnus;
Gases Found
In Cortland
All Victims i'm Upstate
Town Are i'm Family of
Immigrants Who En-.
tered u. S. at This Port
twenty Aliens Get
Verralin at Ellis
Eleven Others Seized ON
Train From Boston; City
Extends Health Gordon


i News of the development Of three
4 s,ses of typhus fever in an Italian
! immigrant family at Cortland, N. Y,
I and the discovery that score of aliens
yho arrived ate this port several days
40 on the steamship Adriatic had con-
.tacted vermin at Ellis Island after
being accorded a clean bill of health
bg local authorities, we're the high
lights yesterday in the typhus stu
ation. Other features were:
News was received from Washington
that Senator Calder had had added to
tse deficiency appropriation bill in the
\ Senate All appropriation of 100000,
rcuested by the Public Health Serv-
lie for improved quarantine facilities
4. the port of New York Commits
soner Of immigration Wallis, who was
N conference with officials in Wash
iagton Yesterday, is said to have ap-
proved the request.
Eleven ver,nin- infested immigrants
were found among passengers. arriving
in this city by railroad from Boston.
Ten of them were taken from among
seventy newly arrived foreigners who
we're brought into the Pennsylvania
terminal on a diverted New York, New
Haven & Hartford train. The incident
resulted in the extension of the health
Gordon to take in the Pennsylvania
terminal. Railway officials said the
diversion of the train was uninten-
tional
Florida Officials Seek Conference
A report was received that Florida
health officials have become aroused
b. the typhus danger and are coming
to confer with Health Commissioner
Copeland
Two more steamships were diverted
from this port to Boston--the Zee+
land, from Antwerp and Cherbourg,
with ! 200 passengers, and the Llthua-
Ma from AAtweTp, with the same mum
6er They are expected to put in at
Boston next Monday and Wednesday,
respectively. The Rotterdam, with
2,150 passengers, also may be diverted
10 Boston. She is due Monday or
Tuesday.
The discovery of three cases of ty-
phus fever at Cortland prompted DR..
Hermann NJ. Biggs, State Commit ssioner
Of Health, to telegraph DR.. Leland e:
Cofer, health officer at the Port of
New York, and Surgeon General Cum
ming, asking what measures are being
taken or contemplated to protect the
people of tie statea against the admls-
sion Of the disease. The three Cort-
land eases make a total of six that
have developed in the state in the last
few weeks. Besides these, three of
which were discovered in this city within
the last three weeks, four cases have
Developed among immigrants detained
a! Quarantine.
The Cortland cases, DR.. Biggs ex-
planned, occurred in a family that
sailed from Naples December 1e and
arrived in New York on January 5.
Inc first case developed on January 16,
the second about two weeks ago and q
tEird member of the family is now i'll.
they are under strict quarantine at
Cortland. Because the State Depart
ment Of Health has no jurisdiction
over international quarantine, DIR.
ibiggs asked for information regard
eral health officials.
commissioner Copeland said that the
Federal authorities had let this family
'hto the country apparently infested
win the vermin that caused the dis
ease.
~ Contract Vernin at Ellis Island
Deputy Health Commissioner Mona
ghan reported to Commissioner Cope
land that twenty of the 24O steerage
passengers from the steamship Adri-
aus snf examined yesterday by physicians
anu inspectors of the Health Depart
mem ment at the receiving station at the
pna.Iery were sent to Willard Parker
hospital for delousing. These same
passengers, DR.. Monaghan said, were
sssamined by the local health squad a
ssw gays ago when the steamer docked
~ allow Its first and second cabin pas
SINGERS to land. At that time the
i Ieeiage passengers were found clean
yermin. After landing the cabin
passengers the ship took the steerage
\ gsssengers to Ellis Island. Drs. Cope
"s ,as'a and Monaghan said the condition
Il sl.Me Me passengers yesterday indicated
II ME, me. they had become infested while on
h Ilis Island.
/ ~ !, am more afraid Of Ellis Island"
II an, -, COMMISSIONER, 'tnan i am OF
Il Ss snip that enters this port. If |
H Ids Iss,iny my way would declare Ellis
Il ';aaa yae an infested port"
H io;nass Cunard company yesterday
X Wasa the international Mercantile
n tSst tst'ae Company in giving assurances
4 sva . equipment will be provided for
Il saisy ship of these lines to cleanse and
b ;,'vsse u sIs Its passengers while en- route
/ wnn11s s1hls port. If every steamship line
H itiia itisa cooperate with the health authors
Il coast 70 this extent, Commissioner
/ fspslend said, there would be little
N ation tisoa tor worry over the present situ-
\ According to DR.. William r. Jenkins,
h isa isa = Officer of the Port dur
\ a ,soe oe typhus and cholera epidemics
Co,aogIas agas and 1893, who called on DIR.
Amos,d Assnd yesterday, there should be an
eass eas'lesn @ physician at every foreign
me- ine ~ 1wnose nose duty it would be to exam
Amsn,a immigrants about TO embark for
Jens;nea' Diseases like typhus DIR.
eIas eysIaa said, follow one another in
sss ss There is danger now Of chol-
spiaemlc, he thought.
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