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Just before the German S.S. Hansa left Hamburg with 993 passengers and 400 crew for her latest Manhattan-bound voyage, seven of the crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...
...relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus saving hours for the passengers, hours and dollars for the ship's operators (TIME, Feb. 1). The Hansa was one of 84 ships having this privilege...
When time came last week for Dr. Grieshaber to ask for radio pratique, he decided that the fever and nausea among the Hansa'?, crew was the result of their inhaling hydrocyanic acid gas left in the hold when she was last fumigated against rats. No law required him to report this kind of accident to Chief Quarantine Officer Akin. So the Hansa steamed past Quarantine, docked, debarked 993 passengers. An inspector of the U. S. Immigration Service, Dr. Henry M. Friedman, went aboard for a look-round. What he saw in the crew's hospital sent him running...
Chief Quarantine Officer Akin snapped into action, ordered everyone quarantined aboard the docked Hansa. All passengers, however, had dispersed. To each went warnings by telephone or telegram advising him to beware of typhoid fever (which takes about two weeks to incubate), and to have doctors examine his blood, urine and stools for germs. Dr. Akin exploded: "This physician certified to my department that there was no prevalence of any dangerous or infectious disease on board, and if the presence of 24 people suffering with fever as high as 103°, nausea, weakness and headaches does not indicate the existence...
...long been one of the most important milestones ahead for aviation. Last week the milestone apparently was at hand. Germany, long ago first in the air with a dirigible service, announced that mail plane service across the South Atlantic would start Feb. 3. On that day a Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which...