[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool Port Health Authority.

  • Port Health Authority of Liverpool. n 2014184020.
Date:
1911
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Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The greatest centre of clanger, however, was in Italy. On June 5t’L a passenger, who had arrived by the ss. “ Saxonia ’ from Naples, died of Cholera at Trieste. Cases of Cholera developed amongst emigrants reaching New York by vessels which had left Naples on June 1st, 2nd, and 7th, and by another vessel which left Palermo on June 7tli. On June 18th Cholera was reported present in Naples and on June 22nd. 32 cases were reported from Palermo. It rapidly spread through Italy until 37 provinces were infected, a severe outbreak of the type associatp‘l with water-borne infection occurring at Leghorn. By the end of December Cholera was reported as extinct throughout Italy. On June 25th Cholera appeared in Marseilles; it would appear to have been imported from Italy, possibly through the agency of infected shell¬ fish. An uncertain number of cases occurred in the South of France. Some 112 cases of Pseudo-Cholera occurred in Paris, the organisms isolated from cases, though atypical, being almost certainly only modifications of the true comma bacillus. A few cases occuired in Barcelona and the vicinity of Tarragona. Cholera appeared in Tunis and Tripoli and refugees from Tripoli conveyed the contagion to Malta in October. Cases of diarrhoea removed to the Port Sanitary Hospital from the ss. “Flavian” from Palermo and the ss. “ Venedotian ” from Genoa and Marseilles were found upon bacteriological examination to present no evidence of Asiatic Cholera. One of the most alarming circumstances was the manner in which emigrants from Italy to New York developed Cholera during the voyage or subsequent to arrival. Some 26 cases of Cholera were thus noted. Towards the end of July sporadic cases began to appear in New York and Boston. The American quarantine authorities then made bacteriological examination of all immigrants from cholera-infected countries. Seven cholera “carriers ” were found in this way at New York and one at Quebec. This method effectually guarded America from what appeared a very threatening danger. With the appearance of Cholera in New York all vessels reaching Liverpool from New York or Boston were visited by the Medical Officers and all cases of gastro¬ intestinal disorder were investigated. None, however, proved suspicious of Cholera.