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Show DEADLY TJPII LOUSE PERIL FEARED New York Health Cummis- sioner Says Disease May ( Break Out " I NKW YORK, Keb. 19. Typhue may break but In any part of the l'nited I i States a the result of vermin In- tested Kuropean Immigrant, belnir ! 'i admitted by federal officials, accord- J Iny to fr. Royal W, Copelnnd, city J health ccimmiMioner. In an Interview today Cnpeland de- 1 rlared the development of threa ty- j phua cases In Cortland. N. Y., Hear 1 rivracuac. Indicated that nn Indetar- nttnable number of the disease carriers car-riers had penetrated the Interior of the country. There I no mean of telling how many Immigrant, either Infested with typhus or carrying the deadly typhus louse, got by the federal health authorities au-thorities before we established the reexamination process now In force." ConHand said. TheperiodApLJncubalionfor.JEheH typhus germ i twelve l twenty days. ror that reason we may expect to know very shortly whether any persons already Infected with the din-ease din-ease were admitted to the country before we undertook the present precautions. pre-cautions. "But apparently the greatest danger la from persons who, while they may not have been infected at the time of their admission, carried the typhus louse In ' their clothing or baggage. This vermin may infect them later, or it may be communicated to other persons In railway trains, stations, streetcars and other public phice. Disease spread In this way might not develop for weeks, or even months.' Typhus and Sleeping Sickness Attacked WASHINGTON, Feb. If. Surgeon General Hugh Cumming of the United State public health service today extended ex-tended the federal sanitation battle against the deadly typhus fever and Sleeping sickness. Typhus now ravaging rav-aging Poland and central Kurope has appeared sporadically here. Deaths from sleeping sickness are being reported re-ported with increasing frequency. Dr. Cumming, who took charge of tha New York harbor quarantine following fol-lowing the discovery of more than twenty cases of typhus aboard an Atlantic At-lantic liner, soon will have available $200,000 in New Tork In tha typhus I prevention fight. This sum was voted rito a bill now In its final stage of1 Wasaga of congress. SPREAD REPORTED. Re porta that the disease haa been found outside New York City reached here. Should th disease spread In any interior locality, the battle to pre-vent pre-vent Its reaching the epidemic stage would be greatly complicated. Giant delonsing plants would have to be set op In localities where typhus gained a foothold much Ilka those used by the army during the war. Typhus la contracted only through the bite of a louse, public health physician explained ex-plained here today. The diseane spreads only where filth and Insanitary Insani-tary living conditions prevail. |