On a chronic cholera carrier / by J.G. Adami, A. Vallee and G.E. Martineau.

  • Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926.
Date:
1911
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Credit: On a chronic cholera carrier / by J.G. Adami, A. Vallee and G.E. Martineau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    not appear so marked to other expert observers on the ship and at Quebec. In the three or four hours during which the suspect was at the immigration building at Quebec it was not observed that he had to retire. As soon as possible after Dr. Bailey’s diagnosis of the case, all the immigrants were ordered back on board, the suspect, perhaps unnecessarily, being conveyed on a stretcher, and now the ship was sent back to quarantine at Grosse Isle. It was only some two hours after reembarkation that the patient had an evacuation. This was very watery, being little more than bile-stained, discoloured fluid. The patient was now under strict supervision, and the surgeon placed the fluid in two sterilized glass jars, one of which was delivered to the United States authorities for transmission to Washington, and the other forwarded to Dr. Page, at Quebec, for transmission to Dr. Adami at Montreal. On arrival at Grosse Isle early the following morning the patient was able to leave the ship unaided, walking briskly along the gangway and so to the quarantine buildings. His future history may be briefly epitomized. Within two days he was passing normal stools, and from now on till his deportation on May 30th, he had no further attack of a diarrhceal or choleraic type. In the spring, however, he manifested definite signs of mental aberration. On this account it was that, after his stools had been absolutely negative for a month, he was declared an undesirable, and was transported back to Europe. Lastly, it deserves note that the suspect consistently protested that there had been no cholera known in the district from which he came, and Dr. Monti- zambert, from official declarations, has been unable to trace the records of any cholera at Libau or within two hundred miles of that port during the last twelve months. Bacteriological Examination In accordance with the recommendations of the International Quarantine Committee, the Canadian regulations regarding cholera are that should a case be detected on board ship the officers and passengers who have been in contact with the case are detained at quarantine, where they are under observation for five days, and if no further cases of the disease show themselves during that period, they are then discharged and permitted to proceed to their destinations. Both on this account, and again for the reason that this was the last voyage of the Royal George to Montreal for the year, and because the season was perilously near its close, so that navigation might be interrupted at any moment, it will be seen that it was all important that a