Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-06-05 | Page 8 | Typhus in Poland is Menace to U. S

Ii TYPHUS IN POLAND t IS 13 MENACE MENAGE TOILS TO U. U S S. r I I I. I f f Maj j. j Gen Rupert e Blue Vire Wires s I j for Medical Inspectors V at Foreign Ports I i Paris Pane June 4 4 MaJ Gen Con Rupert Blue I I I former head of or the tho United States public pub pub- lie lic health service Be who is 15 In Europe Europa to toI I investigate he health th conditions with Dr I G. G M. M Converse of or the American health service has hae just Juat opened offices In Paris He Ho has cabled to Washington for tor five o additional surgeons cons to bo be sent Bent to northern ports to inspect all third class eliuM passengers for America In view of or the prevalence of ot typhus In Poland General Blue said two c cases cages of t ty ty- ty pIma had had h been found round among Polish sol- sol dier returning to America Ills His principal principal prin prin- cipal m mission lesion In in Europe Is to aid Inthe In Inthe the tho enforcement of or the tho Amoric an quarantine quarantine quarantine antine law of February 15 15 1893 He expected to st stay only a few weeks but found the situation fraught with such serious possibilities for tor tho the United States that he has haM decided to stay all 11 summer Hummer and has hae asked foran toran increased increase staff stift to aid him in Is his work The presence of or many cases eaSM of ty- ty ty typhus and cholera In Poland is grave danger to the United States because Polish emigration to th the United States is le increasing dally daily nn said sald Dr Blue Blu to to- to da day I I 1 have advised ad placing a Bon leo ice surgeon on at every big port At present pres- pres ent nt wo we 0 have e only two at Naples an and Danzig made mado Inspection of oC I 1 have o Just an the northern ports and will soon go to tho the Adriatic to see that the tho steamship companies there thero carry out the regu regu- lations Two cases of ot typhus have o been discovered on board a a. transport taking taking- some omo of ot General Mailers Hailers Polish arm army back to America Wo Yo are requiring that all an third class passengers bo be inspected In- In and disinfected and held for tor twelve days at the ports of or embarkation tion Dr Blue gave o It as hl his opinion that t typhus and cholera probably would spread to western vestern Europe before the end of or summer