Salt Lake Herald | 1892-02-16 | Page 2 | Quarantining Typhus Immigrants

QIRrantnln2 Typhus Immigrants NEW YORK Feb 15Tha steerage pas sengern of tho steamer City of Berlin were all transferred to Hoffman Island this morning and the snip after being thoroughly thor-oughly disinfected nd cleansed was allowed al-lowed to proceed to her dock Sixtyseven Rusvau steerage passengers of the steamer Boyoulaad wero sent t Hoffman islud for observation The remainder re-mainder of tbo steerage passengers were allowed to proceed with the ship to her dock after being disinfected Different transAtlantic steamship companies com-panies carrying immigrants to this count coun-t r try are greatly exercised over the typhus fever outbreak and especially over the action of tho health officer of the port in placing quarantine in such large numbers of immigrants as the companies are obliged to support the immigrants while they are in quarantine There ere now due at this port a large number num-ber of steamships and in them many immigrants from all parts of Russia All these Russians will be held on Hoff mans Island for a week or ton days The agent for the North German Lloyd steamship steam-ship company today cabled instructions to tho other side to refuse to take any more Russian immigrants I is probable other companies will take the same action