It came in. It was dealt with afterward with remarkable success. in my judgment. for it is a disease much more malignant and more likely to be transmitted than cholera. and yet it was not dealt with until after all these deaths had taken place. Senators will notice that the deaths were more numerous among citizens of New York than they were among the infected immigrants themselves. and that typhus fever has not left New York yet. It appeared to be stamped out last winter. There was little heard of it during last summer and fall. but now in the cold weather of the winter that very typhus fever has reappeared in the city of New York. and since the Senator from Tennessee and myself left that city there have been twenty or thirty cases of such fever fully developed in the crowded lodging houses in the city of New York. So I say that quarantine will not be sufficient. that sanitary preparation will not be sufficient. and that the only radical plan and complete measure the United States can adopt to keep out this dreadful disease. which is not much feared now because it has not yet come. but which will create a panic when it does come. is to practically break up steerage passages. and to keep out alien immigrants who wish to come here for settlement during the present year.
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