Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-17 | Page 1 | Checking Cholera

iCfiECKING' ' Danger to New York If City Is Now Secog- nized by Experts II New York, July 17. Tho fight to bar cholera from the port of New 1 1 York continued today with a federal I 't expert helping the local health de-l,partment. de-l,partment. The 24S persons who ar-jjft' ar-jjft' rived hero two weeks ago on the Kfsteainer Moltke, and are still under fo observation, will undergo bacterlollgl- t. cal examinations and a more rigid I SBqiiarantine will be enforced at Swin-m Swin-m i burne Island, where fifteen cases of 1 thc disease arc confined, with four I I others, under suspicion Hi These cases, with the five deaths In that have occurred since the Moltke mh brought the germ hero from Naples, Kr show the reality of tho danger the Kj city faces from the epidemic now rag-Be' rag-Be' ing in southern Europe. ff While nothing even approaching a lit panic exists here, the situation is re-$ re-$ crivlng greater attention and Dr. W& Alvah H. Doty, chief health officer of B the port, has felt called on to Issue mt a reassuring statement Dr Doty says lltr that the cholera germ can be receiv-ll receiv-ll ed In one way only, through the Ifit mouth, and there is no danger in or-jsT1 or-jsT1 dinary contact with persons who If' have tho disease. However, Charles IL Bushkins, counsel for the comnlaln- ''ants at the investigation of Dr. Doty's p official conduct now in progress, dell de-ll clares his belief that tho cholera pall pa-ll , tients now in the hospital caught the It ' disease not on the steamer, but at the m Immigration station where all the pas-It pas-It sengers were detained after landing. J ' The danger, or rather the understand-W understand-W Ing of It. is further increased by tho . comparatively recent medical knowl-K knowl-K edge of cholera carriers These peril per-il pons, Dr. Dotv says, may transmit , the germs, although themselves abso-9 abso-9 k lutely free from their effect, and be B ' as great a menace to others as a man dying from the disease.