The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Russia was placed under quarantine by the local port authorities when she arrived at the Shanghai Hongkew Wharf Company's Hongkew Wharf from Manila and Hongkong yesterday afternoon, On board the Russia was one case of suspected cholera, a child having died en route.
The Russia came in on schedule and tied up at the wharf as usual; the yellow flag, meaning quarantine, bad been hoisted, however, and no one was allowed either to go ashore Or to come on board. In the meantime, a medical party, consisting of quarantine officers headed by Dr. Furukawa, was examining the ship and the passengers.
Piles of mail and luggage accumulated on the wharf as the quarantine officers went about their task. At 410 pin, Dr. Furukawa left the ship, and the quarantine flag came down. A number of people on the wharf proceeded to go on board, but a few minutes later passengers and Visitors were once more stopped from either boarding or leaving the ship. The final "all clear," however, was given by the River Police soon afterwards and the Empress of Russia was expected to sail on schedule at 4 o'clock this morning.
The cause of the alarm was the death en route of a Filipino child, death, it was suspected, being due io cholera. No less than 32. Shanghai-bound third class passengers were placed under quarantine, and six of these were sent to hospital for observation. After this, however, the ship was able to go about its normal unloading and enquiries at the local office last night indicated ro change in the sailing time for Vancouver.
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