The New York herald., 1872-11-11
KING CHoL ERA.
No Present or Immediate Danger Of His Com
ing-Ths Arrangements for His Reception at
Observation-Disclosures Of the Authorities

The reported appearance Or cholera on the
Danube, In Saxony, in Ireland and in Cuba may
naturally excite apprehensions in the minds of our
citizens of the dread monarch's march hitherward
In the coming Summer. To understand, there
lore, the nature OF the preparations made
at Quarantine In anticipation OF such dread con-
tingency-the nature OF the disease and how 1t
can be met and vanquished at our very gates
Is matter Of the highest interest and Importance.
HERALD reporter visited Quarantine on Saturday
last to learn the condition Of afrairs. He came
away perfectly satisfied that should
THE CHOLERA VISIT
our shores it will be met and stopped in the Lower
Bay. This, 1t is to be hoped, will have the effect Of
restoring confidence II, unhapply, there should
exist in this community any over-timid persons.
The efrective measures adopted by DR.. Car
nochan to prevent the entrance into New York.
and through 1t the country, have been continued
by DR.. Vanderpoe the present Health Ofllcer
and quarantine regulations are to-day as efficiently
and effectively maintained as In the heat OF Sum-
mer. The reasons for maintaining in Winter the
precautions OF the warm season are, as explained
by DR.. Mosher, that in reality there is always
danger from contagion brought by ships from in
fected ports or from ports where the pestilence
has once appeared. Cholera, apparently overcome
by medical skill and wise sanitary measures d
rected against 1t, will often hide its horrible head
for season, and then suddenly and mysteriously
reappear to renew its work OF destruction. There
Is
NO SPECIAL DANGER
now.
But eternal vigilance is the price OF freedom from
pestlence. The cases Of cholera reported from
Cuba are not considered by the Quarantine author
tiles as indicating danger to US Just now. In the
Winter of 1869 cholera appeared in Cuba,
tad hot thara wa IN
the island two hundred deaths from IT
daily. Yet in that Winter the disease did
it would have been checked in the lower bay, just
as 1t Will be exterminated should it appear in the
THE THEORY OF CHOLERA
is, that the ship that brings 1t into port must be
emptied Of its passengers and crew. the well peO.
and S t the sick at % once removed to hospital And
should the disease show itself again and appear
among the well passengers, the persons affected
moved to hospital People cannot under any
circumstances be cleaned Of cholera while on
board an infected vessel. Isolation and cleanliness
will check cholera and this treatment II fully car
rled out, will always prevent IL from getting into
the city and the same treatment, If pursued on
land, DR.. Mosher insists, would at any time stop
the progress Of cholera Now for the means Of
THEORY OF THE HEALTH OFFICER
and his deputies. The writer accompanied Dr.
Mosher, the indefatigable and able deputy OF DR..
vanderp0e, on visiting and boarding trip to the
lower bay, and made careful examinatian OF the
two islands devoted to quarantine purposes. The
first Of these islands Is wnat Is termed
NUMBER TWO, OR HOFFMAN's ISLAND.
Under DR.. VanderpOel's management, and owing
to his persistent efforts, the buildings on 1t are now
occupancy this Winter. They are constructed so as,
with the necessary ofices, &c, to accommodate
buildings has frequently been described. Here 1T
is designed, In case cholera should come after the
works are fnshed, to send all the well passengers
| Of ships in which cases have appeared.
WEST BANK HOSPITAL.
The larger and lower establishment is in splendid
order. Captain ORourke who for so many years
occupied the position OF superintendent. resigned
some time since, and was succeeded by Major Col
vile, who seems to thoroughly understand his
deed, through his deputies excellent discl-
pline everywhere throughout the Quarantine
ship full Of passengers can be discharged in twelve
| hours, the people sorted, set apart and provided
for. the steamers Andrew Fletcher and Fenton Mt,
are always readJ for duty and "a are provided with
' THE ALBANY AND DELAWARE,
the two large steamships ofwar placed at the dis.
anchored in the Lower Bay, and will be kept there
BY Dr. yandsrpoel to meet any nre emergency that
arise saaG during g te sne leay I'd
gers these ships will be returned TO the govern
ment. as the ample accommodations OF that esta-
is also ready when required. She IS hospital
and stOreship, and Is used in Summer as a Lower
Quarantine boarding vessel.
DISINFECTING
Is still continue on vessels coming from certain
ports. The best dislnfectant is peat; but, Of
course, that remedy cannot be used on
ships. In the hospitals on West Bank
the wards used by patients or about to be used
are heated by steam to 1l2 degrees. This 1t Is
claimed, and experience seems to justify the belief
will kill the poison.
In conclusion be 1t said that the Quarantine
officers apprehend no present or immediate danger
from cholera, and that should 1t make its appear
ance they are well prepared to meet 1t.