The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-04
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
The Case In Mulberry street and that I'm
Ninety.thlra street Re mar kAbIe BtSto-
menL of Mr.. JeDhins-RepOrtf frOn the
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Ninety.thiFd street Kn nAssr r. able y tDto'
ment of Mr.. JeDhAns-RepOrt frOnn ths
HOsptIal ship
Mrs. Mary Cole, OF No. ll5 Mulberry street,
whose sickness Ot cholera was mentioned IN yes
teruay mornings Times, was alive last evening,
but not expected 10 recover. She was attacked
by diarTh9a, with vomiting, on Wednesday
morning, and her illness becoming severe and
painful, she summoned physician. DR.. Gomez,
OF the Sixth Ward Dispensary, attended her, and
nnOng her suffering from cholera, he lmmedi-
ately communicates the intelligence to the
officers OF the Board Of Health. .A
DIR. Harris hastened TO the couch OF the
patient, and having verified the case as one of
undoubted cholera, instructed Drs. Smith aud
Southwick, OF Bellevue Hospital, to attend the
woman during the night, and ordered tnat the
house be thoroughly ventilated, and that car.
bonic acid aud salts of iron be employed as dis.
infectants. DR.. Harris made a second visit to
the place yesterday morning and found rhe
woman easier, the cramps having ceased to
annoy her. Last evening Mls. Coyle was alive,
but no hopes OF her recovery were entertained.
Mrs. Coyle is a "atl7e of Ireland, aged about
80 yeats. Her husband IS seaman, and arrived
home rom voyage on We lnesday night. She
moved into the apartments where she fingers on
May-day, and Grst busted herself IN cleaning
and whltewashing the place; and it is PROBABLE
that excessive exertion Chrew her into cholera.
The house Is a rear tenement-house Of the
largest class, and is tenan ed by about one hun.
dred persons, .
Sanitary superintendent Dalton has not
deemed 1t prudent to remove the unaffected
tenants of the house 10 the Battery Barracks, as
there are vacant rooms in the building, into
which families can move while their apartments
are being ventilated and cleansed. Mrs. Coyle's
two little children have been taken away by
their relatives; but other occupants OF the house
have been permitted to remain.
STATEMENT OF MR.. BERNARD JENKINS.
Mr.. jenkins, husband OF the woman woo died
on Tuesday in Ninety-thrd street, near THIRD
avenue, called at the Times Office yesterday,
and SAID that long ago he buried in his lots, to
the depth OF eighteen inches. ali eXcrementtIouS
matter on his premises; and that it Is net true
that Mrs. Jenkins handled or had anything TO
do with filth in mis- rear yard prior tn the attack
which took her of. Mr.. jenkins adds that his
wife was subject TO vertigo while nursing her
children and he believes that she did not die OF
cholera. He says that so far from having any
water in the cellar of hlS house, as has been
reported, the cellar is perfectly dry, and has
been SO q long time; and instead OF five
families, only three d~elt in the building He
indignantly denies the assertion that the place
is dirty, and asserts that he has painted and
whitewashed The premises within month. Mr..
jenkins also makes a remarkable statement con-
cerning the conduct OF an allopathic physicSn
who met a homeopathic physician in his house,
the substance of which is that the latter was
doing quite well when the former entered and
that the alloDathic physic an, with a curse,
kicked over the medicine of the homnopathist,
and generally misbehaved himself. Mr.. Jenkins
has lett in the Times office the names oil the per-
sons Lnteres ted.
MEASURES TAKEN BY THE HEALTH OFFICERS.
Residents OF the neighborhood have de-
manded the demolition OF Mr.. Jenkins house
but DR.. Dalton thinks that thorough clealsng
and tumigation will answer, and he has caused
the cleaning and iumgation TO be
made. The families have been com
fortably quartered at the Battery
Barracks there to be kept until their late
abode shall have been made dit for habitaion.
-Four familes-in all, twentV-three persons
are quartered in the barracks, and they are
represented as being cheerful and well cared
for They are not kept as in prison, but they
are all required to be within the enclosure be-
fore O'Clock in the evening" No person is per
mItted tt take any uninspected bundle into or
from the Battery inClosure.
Drs. Harris and Dalton believe that if they
are, hereafter, promptly notiied OF cholera
cases, they can check the disease in its incipi-
ent stages; but in case OF the prevalence of
diarrhea they fear a panic among the inhabl-
tants of tenement-houses-a panic which may
be more disastrous Than even the much-dreaded
cholera. Much difficulty has been experienced
in securing good female n0rses who have no
fear OF cholera. Application has been made to
the various mission societies; but many of the
nurses whom they recommended are not fitted
tor the work.
FRod THE LOWER BAY.
The following is the latest from the Lower
bay:- .....
Total number of cases on board the Hospital.ship
new cases.
Total May S....................... 8. .lO8
The new cases were William II II, aged IS, from
GayGn, Ireland, and Patrick McGavey, &c. from
Dublin. .-..- ...
The cabin passengers of the England and Vir-
ghlid have zone to the city. .u ...
d. II. BIssELL, Deputy Health Officer.
May 3, 1866. a|
The application of the cabin passengers of the
Vtrgtnta and England for permission to land,
was referred by the Board OF Health to the Port
Physician, and at the meeting yesterday OF
officers of Quarantine, Emigration, and Health,
permission was granted. The passengers ac-
cordingly came up yesterday afternoon.
The5 application which the Quarantine Com
mission recently made to the War Department
for authority to use the point of Sandy Hook
for the erection of temporary hospital buildings,
did not contemplate the landing OF cholera
patients there, the intention being, rather to
disembark unniected passengers, and treat the
sick on board hospital ships. A Committe OF
Conference had been appointed by the authori-
ties of New jersey, and it is hoped that this
committee and our health officers may arrange
plan for the adjustment of New York and New
Jersey quarantine dsputes.-N. Y. Times