New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
xoD,Ncrp From CHOLERA.


,oc, r,.srs-A WARNING THAT SHOULD DE
Needed.
Tho united testimony of the attending ply
s,.ns and The Brooklyn Board of Health shows conclu
s,v.lv that the death OF Mary Ann HARRISON at NO "
orans,.,t. Yesterday morning, the result OF
severe attack Of sporadic cholera Dr. Jewe of No lOl
Hcksst attended Mrs Harris IN consultation with Dr.
John C. Johnson No. 81 Henry-st Dr. Jewett said
that Mrs Harrisons disease caused by the filthy
and unwholesome condition of the premises The house,
though IN a respectable neighborhOOd, Is so smut
IN that there is little ventilation Mrs Harrison lived IN
the lower rooms and two families occupied the upper
stories of tae house. Besides general accumulation
OF garbage and dseaSebreeding material in the back
room of the lower floor lot Of damaged frecrackers
had been stored there by James Callahan These IRE
crackers had become saturated with bige-waier while
in the hold of the ship which imported and Callahan
had stored them IN Jdy-St About week ago the
sergeant OF the Brooklyn sanitary Police ar
rested Callahan for keeping nuisance IN
Jay-st. THIS offensive smell that caused Gala
hans arrest came from the decOmposing fire
crackers. He removed them to Mrs Harrison's; and
though the up yesterday IN the Brooklyn Pc
lice Court, he did not appear. 1t was not because
these 1rccrackers had from China bringing germs
of the disease that they caused this attack of cholera
said Dr. Jcwett but that decomposing vegetable sub
stances allowed to ferment in the apartments or
on the premises where the patient lived. The families
up look emacated aud unhealthy, and 1t would
not at all surprising If they should be attacked by
some zymotic disease Mrs. Harrison might have been
attacked by typhus fever any of the diseases engen
dered By fifth and want of ventilation quite as naturally
as by sporadic cholera, Of which she died"
Dr. Coubng, the President OF the Board Of Health
and Dr. Cotton. OF the sanitary inspectors visited
the premises yesterday. They immediately put men at
work cleaning up and dsiniectug the house, and eX
pectci before night to have the premises in healthy
condition. The Health officers say that they 90 not De-
ieve that there any o. the epidemic influences III
Brooklyn that wOu.d produce true Asiatic cholera.
sporadic cholera at any time be engendered
by such surroundings these and it would be strange
IL such condition Of filth and rOttng vegetable matter
did produce fatal disease of soma kind lnvestlga
ton has demonstrated that sporadic cholera may appear
as the result of th but Asatc cholera, which, always
epidemic be eugendered by the transportation OF
the germs Of that disease The or line in which
this disease has been moving has not approached TINS
section OF the country since the epidemic OF 1856.
Mrs Hirrison's residence hill. and a twelve
inch must have made the drainage OF refuse mat
ter very rapid and complete. Tue water Is supplied
from hyran and there be chance for the cholera
germs TO be carried TO the wells from which the water
drunk by others might be drawn In the history OF the
spread and development Of the cholera In the West last
Summer clear that the germs Of that disease I'M
preguated the wells from which the wafer used in the
community drawn.
With reasonable amount OF there can be no dan
ger OF tie CHOLERA This Of Mrs Harrison will be
good thing the Board Of Health believe, If II teaches
househocrs take better Of their premises in hot
weather. The Sanitary Inspectors Will redoube their
vigilance and Will prosecute any one permitting decay
ing vegetable matter 10 lie around his house.
ship carpenter named Chandler Of No 10 Fifteenth
st. Brooklyn, had a attack of cholera morbus
yesterday which magniied into case OF sporadic
cholera The attendant physicians stated that their pa
tent had none Of the symptoms Of Asiac cholera and
bad quite recovered Some physicians believe that Mrs
Hlrrisou's disease was also cholera morbul.
DIT James, the Assistant Sanitary superintendent,
stated Yesterday that the Sanitary Superintendent did
not think there was any occasion FOR being alarmed by
the case OF sporadic cholera Brooklyn for taking
any precautions against the disease further than con
t,Du!ng unremitt!ngy the inspection OF buildings and
the abatement Of nuisauceS-a work that has been
gong on siuce the first month OF Spring The case in
BROOKLYN would have occurred just readily In New
York ind n like conditions Il evidently sporadic
case Tie city was in very healthy condition !;
a fact which the extraordinarily low deathrate made
evident The inspectors reported that the streets were
clean in every part the but-up portion Of the city
but i'm the new districts, where the streets were I'M
paved they were bad condition. The physicians OF
the city also stated they had not been dong 50 poor
business for years as at present There great
nuisance in any part OF the city. The Sanitary In
spectors have inspected buildings during the past
week The following buildings were inspected
Seven hundred and sixty-eght tenement-houses l3i
private dwellings So other dwellings, 9manufdctories
% stores As stables "a slaugheThouses, atrenderng
establishments 3manure dumps, sewers, SO sunken
lots 20 yards and courts 50 cellars and 70 houses wherein
there were patents suffering contagious diseases.