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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

BUREAU OF
PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE

 

OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
IN REPLYING ADDRESS THE WASHINGTON

SURGEON GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH
AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE

July 10 1912s

Assistant Surgeon Lawrence Kolb,

Public Health and Marine Hospital Service,

Reedy Island Quarantine, Port Penn, Delaware.
Sir: (Through Medical Officer in Command)

The Bureau has reviewed the findings of an inspection
made by Surgeon W. G. Stimpson into your conduct in connec-
tion with the inspection of the steamer HAVERFORD which ar-
rived at the Reedy Island Quarantine Station on June 4, 1912.

It is needless to recount the circumstances connected
with the case, but the facts are that had you read the bill

of health carefully enough you must have noted the entry in

st hand writing to the effect that a case of convalescent smalil-

pox with family had been sent ashore in charge of the port
medical officer. This notation having been made in the hand-
writing of the vice and deputy Consul, it would seem would
have attracted your attention, even though the Surgeon and
Steward did tell you that there had been no other cases than
the ones accounted for in your quarantine declaration.

This breach of trust on the part of the ships Surgeon

and ships Steward ,although reprehensible, does not relieve

you of your responsibility in determining the health status ©

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of the vessel. You have caused considerable criticism and
expense in connection with the matter, which it is not easy
to explain, and you are informed that your failure to recog-
nize in the HAVERFORD a certain source of danger to the public
health causes the Bureau much displeasure, and more care ig
expected of you along these lines in the future.

Respectfully,

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Surgeon General.

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