Show VIGILANCE THE PRICE OF HEALTH I 1 new yew V voile nn d tile tho stated aro are Guar cled Asit Agal lirt Cho irra I 1 I 1 when the new newcomer cotner fro from m fore foreign u lands draws near the port of new mew york vork ho be first sew sees the blue hills of jersey und the attractive slopes of 0 staten state island and a few minutes later his hi attention i n called to a rather unattractive structure away to lis his left on what seeing to be a mado made island ordinarily doca not interest him but just jast now it is the 0 above all others to be anxious about not only for him bat tor for americans tor for it is quarantine station and its officials official scrutinize ever every y incoming voyager wilh moi moio e than detective minuteness minuteness tile tho li structure lias has an unpleasant resemblance to those thosa old ware warehouse honses which were turned into Iiii sons during tile tho civil war but internally it is quite a 1 pleasant ant place there the health oscer of tho the port dr W T jenkins jenkin is as absolute as tho the czar la Is in russia Riis and lie he or somo some of his assistants drs A T tallmadge madge E C sanborn henry bienenfeld and john N B cran ran board every vessel that comes in among them and their helpers about every language in europe is spoken ordinarily the inspection spec tion is formal if tho vessel carries passengers its doctor presents his statement the captain shows that lie saile I 1 from a clean port and that ilia hia passengers came from I 1 legions where no epidemic prevails tho the passengers aro are simply looked over tho the permits aro are signed arid anil in a fow minutes all go on their way rejoicing to the city not so in these days now the whole ship is literally 11 smelled over ac there are fick people on ol 01 board they are carefully examined and tho ship doctors dia diagnosis ilonis and notes on oil the tha cases RIO ato scanned scanned with supra medical vigilance the ste steerage crage especially is minutely examined ain ined tile sick fire are then alien removed to ilia hospital on ne island near island the he quarantine station bein being on the latter all steerage ijas si leugers digera are then called up they fie fre fr slowly along between the quarantine doctors who notice every ones walk complexion and general appearance if there is the Ernal smallest lest suspicious sign the passenger is told to stand aside for fora a more thorough inspection eye even U a eli slight b ht eruption of the tha skin is enough 7 n 46 W 1 1 V X V M 1 va 6 A g Z DS dit iLLIAM ir T then serious wo k on tho the ba baggage i e j b egins begins sometimes with sulphur but of late generally with steam the clothing J and bet bedding ding are hung up ill in in an airtight room an and d steam burred on oa till the temperature in there is ii judged to be at de begs s that cooks the lifo lit out of ct the germs sulphur is generally used in the stee steerage rago itself every box bos and bale and package pac kige is opened anti and the contents spread pread out the passengers h i their cleanest clothes retire and every door and crevice is closed meanwhile iron pots of lot coals are placed 11 sulphur ll having been laid on each to tin ill amount of three pounds to every 1 cubic feet of space by tho the time tima thi fill workers cart can ret get oil out b the sulphur begin i to blaze and for hours that stee steerage raZe is a very good imitation of Top liet sonic some times all the woodwork is washed with a solution of corrosive sublimate russian baggage is always fumigated and passengers paie scrutinized with patti particular cular care germans require less care and french least of all as the french port authorities allow none to sail who have not clean bills of health if tile the vessel is from an all infected port then the passengers 7 lot is liard hard indeed they must go to gnara quarantine antine and remail till every possibility of disease developing is passed their chief amusement b bu in ing to look up tip through the romantic narrows to the iho spires of the city for which they aro are longing health jenkins is confident confident 0 his ability to stop tho the cholera if it coines by that way and the fact that tl at a vesel teel ve te sel el with many cholera cases on board arrived in august 1837 1867 and that it was promptly stamped out one as the ahre e I 1 goes is encouraging lie has recen inspected the abo hospitals carefully ar ranged all tile tho dis infecting and I 1 literally L p t his quarantine on a war footing |