| Show BARD HEALTH OF AMERICA plendid System by Which Death Dealing Diseases Are Prevented from Gaining a FootholdRe jnarkable Work Done in Germany Ger-many and Japan BW J YORKIn the ofllce of Dr Alvah H Doty i health officer of the port of New York at quarantine there Is a big globe such as Is used in the public schools that is covered m 4 little tacks Every one of those M Indicates that at the place Lj it Is sticking there Is today or o yesterday a case of the cholera bubonic plague or the yellow h er and Dr Doty the officials of the i a fed States marine hospital sprvlce i Ifjshlngton and the army doctors w all about every one of those a ej where it came from how many sjare that are affected whether it r i mild case or a bad one and ex 11 what the health authorities in t ss particular sections of the world doing to combat It i lien the visitor to Dr Dotys of bears the story those little tacks t I he realizes what a splendid sys b 3 it Is that guards the western d from the Asiatic scourges and Impossible It almost Is for any of sse scourges ever to get a foothold t Jilacoiintry But great and thorough L Is 1 the work of American medical a iorltles they are ably seconded by i work of the foreign departments r 1 today everycitizen of every part t this country owes a debt that caner can-er be paid to the splendid men of 1 any and Japan whose work holds la beck the spread of the cholera and e plague one guarding the western land the other the eastern fron against the advance of the dish dis-h ° 7 IAISE FOR JAPANESE s Jr Doty said tie other day that the IF jinese health regulations are tot to-t F second to none in the world and s it the Japanese sanitarian have I pd to the front as among the very a 1J 1 II 1 t f r l r Dr Alvah H Doty trained and most efficient the leal world has over known And work that confronts these wonder i little men of the mikados empire he greatest In scope that ever med men were called upon to perform all around them the cholera and plague are raging and the least let on their part would mean that the ionic plague or the cholera or Ii i would probably become epidemic Japan and that would mean Its pos e spread to the unlnfected islands the i Pacific Australia the Hawaiian ads and possibly the American shadow shad-ow do Dr Doty Surgeon General man of the United States marine iltal service the army and navy tors and the quarantine officers of other great American seaports track of the worlds health And they do keep track of It and it la this vigilance In prying Into whats the niattur with our foreign neighbors that has made this country the healthiest and the best protected from a stand point of sanitation on the face of this earth Now take this big globe that is covered with tacks and look at Port Said at the entrance of the Suez canal There is a telltale tack stuck near that place and that tack means that somebody or some people out there have the bubonic plague apd that every ship that stops at that port and then comes to America will have to stand the closest of Inspections to show that nobody on board or any thing In her cargo conceals the germ that Is responsible for the most horrible hor-rible disease with the exception of leprosy the world bus ever known SENTINELS EVERYWHERE Dr Doty has a sentinel on duty at Port Said and at every big port In the world and that sentinels duty Is to keep a close watch on the situation there and to watch every single ship that passes on her way to American waters This sentinel is not watching watch-Ing for the plague and cholera only but he must keep a record of every single case of sickness no matter how mild or how harmless so far as Infection in-fection is concerned and make a report i re-port in writing or by cable to Dr Doty This report reaches New York weeks ahead of the arrival of the vessel ves-sel that is being watched and it Is then sent back to all the ports that the vessel is likely to stop at on her way to New York from Suez At each of thede ports an American health of ficer goes aboard and finds out how that case of sickness Is being treated treat-ed and the condition of the suspect The result of this vigilance Is that when the ship gets to New York her skipper learns within five minutes after he drops anchor oft quarantine that Dr Doty knows more about the health of his crew and the condition of his cargo than he does himself He has to tell Dr Doty everything ho knows about that case of sickness and when he gets through answering questions ques-tions Dr Doty knows exactly where that case of sickness probably orig inated and he knows how everybody on board that ship Is even down to colds and pains In the back As every body knows the cholera Is prevalent In Russia and the map reproduced hero which Is a reproduction of that telltale globe at quarantine shows that It Is not only In St Petersburg and Nijnl Novgorod but at various other places as well ORIGINATED IN INDIA Now how did this cholera get Into the dominions of the czar Dr Doty knows He knows that It originated In India and for more than a year that globe in his office has told every week the story of Its slow but sure advance ad-vance on the capital of tho Russian empire The American health officers watched the advance of the disease like hawks They knew the Russian system of combating it was not the best and they feared all along that it was going to reach St Petersburg and maybe Llbau Russias one great Atlantic At-lantic port So far Llbau has escaped But Dr Doty and his assistants are watching that city and they know how everybody in that city Is getting along so far as their health Is concerned The other day the Korea one of the few transatlantic lines that fly the Russian flag steamed Into New York from Llbau with about 400 Russian Immigrants on hoard and what happened hap-pened to that ship during the 21 hours it look to examine her passengers crew and cargo Indicates how splen dldlj thorough is the system that stands guard for the health of tho American people on the Stolen Inland side of the Narrows Three different examinations every man and woman and child and all the crew from skip per to stoker had to submit to The slightest rise tn temperature above the normal meant that the unfortunate was due for I a medical third degree thai when over proved beyond all doubt whether or not he was ftee from the scourge ALL ON BOARD WELL The examination of time Korea showed that everybody on hoard wan well and that the water they had drunk and the food they had eaten was not infected with the cholera germs for the water and the food and the clothing are Inspected Just us closely I as are the passengers and crew for the admission of a single germ might mean the Infection of Now York Russian Immigrants also come to New York In hordes on board tho great German the Scandinavian the French the British and the other lines whose European terminals are north of the Mediterranean For every Russian passenger these ships carry they bring a certificate from the health authorities of the home port that shows that I each of those passengers i passen-gers has been watched for live days in order to make certain whether It Is 1 dangerous for the health of New York and the United States to allow him to sail If ho stands the test they let him go but if his condition Is suspicious sus-picious he Is sent to a hospital and eventually returned to the land of the czar nrThis This Is where the Germans get Into the game and the way they do their work makes them deserving of the gratitude of the entire civilized world for as everybody knows Germany Is I the great gate through which the Cam ished millions of the czar escape to other lands where liberty is universal and the secret police are not the most Important adjuncts of governments That these people from an empire where cholera and the plague are known to exist have never as yet spread the disease In the domain of the kaiser is due the American authorities au-thorities say to the vigilance the skill and the magnificent training of the men who are on duty In that country JAPANS HEAVY BURDEN On the other side of the world the Japanese are bearing the burden that the Germans are shouldering on the other side and they aro making a record rec-ord every hit as creditable as that of their brethren of another race India the home of plague and cholera Is directly di-rectly in the path of Japanese commerce com-merce with Europe and where the Germans have one ship and one country coun-try to watch the Japanese have a dozen doz-en ships and as many countries to keep tab on There was a time when the cholera made headway In Japan but that was In the days prior to the rejuvenation of the most wonderful 1 people of the modern world Today there Is cholera and there t Is also the bubonic plague in Japan but both are held splendidly under control con-trol by the Japanese sanitarians It 1 Is deati to the rat and the flea In all I Japan today and the fact that the plague Is disappearing from that country coun-try tells the way the battle Is going In the far eastern work the American army doctors must not be forgotten for at Manila there Is another serious situation but tho doctors under Col Hoff a New Yorker who is said to stand an excellent chanco of soon being be-ing placed at the head of the medical l corps are working day and night and the cable tells us that they are con fldent and that the tide of battle has hitV already turned and within a few weeks the cholera will have passed I SOURCES OF PLAGUE China and India are of course the countries where the modern sanitarians i sani-tarians will have to lIght the greatest of all battles In behalf of humanity India has been stricken for centuries and the outlook that she will ever be entirely free of these scourges is at the present time a very dim one A look at the quarantine globe shows how plainly the origin of these great contagions can be traced to the Indian In-dian empire The Indians are Moham medans and Dr Doty and his colleagues i col-leagues In the fight for health and cleanliness say that this region to a great extent is responsible for the spread of these diseases The pil t grimages to Mecca the exalted the holy of holies of the Mohammcdani are the one great cause and tho statistics sta-tistics prove It The Moheminidnns as all the world knows make these pilgrimages pil-grimages to The Mother of Cities In great tmclenu hordes sleeping on decks of dirty ships drinking water that has never been pure and eating food In which the germ of cholera anti the plague uio sometimes Known to exist These ships touch at ports and time pilgrims come In contact with people peo-ple of other countries That result Is the spread of cholera and the plague nnd today many sanitarians declare that the presence of the cholera In Itussla can be directly traced to theso religious hordes who go to Mecca to worship at the shrine of their faith ALL NATIONS HELP Let not the Australians the New Zealanders and the doctors of Scandinavia Scandi-navia Great Britain Franco and the Mediterranean countries be forgotten They are all In this light for humanity and to their vigilance nnd skill the German the Japanese nnd the American Ameri-can doctors give tho sincerest praise To revert to the Americans take the story of the plague fight In San Francisco Fran-cisco where Surgeon Blue of the army has done such great work and the extermination of the plaguecarry i iirc 1 RliI I P IIi I i IflmPrT ° R 1 j1E arM ha r Health Offcer Leaving Suspected Vessel Ves-sel After Inspection Ing rot and flea Is being pushed relentlessly relent-lessly so relentlessly that Gen Funs ton when he relinquished command of the department of California publicly commended the great work that was being done to make San Francisco healthy as well as beautiful All the world is familiar with the yellow fever fight Today New Orleans Or-leans Mobile Brunswick Porto Rico and the Isthmus are forever rid and Cuba and Panama soon will be of the danger of an epidemic of the yellow malady In this work the medical world will forever remember the names of Gorgas of Moore of Woodruff Wood-ruff of Lazare and a host of other American medical soldiers every one of whom did his part In the great struggle that has practically eliminated elimi-nated this dense from among the health dangers of the universe And New York Boston Philadelphia Now Orleans and all the other great At lantlc ports In this land are safe today to-day and San Francisco Seattle and all the great ports on the Pacific soon will be for Dr Doty Surgeon General Wy man and the army and doctors say so and when they say so it is truethe record proves It |
