The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-16
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK
Why 1t Is Not Expeeted-WhatI Is Doing
TO Prevent It Next Year.

NEW YORK, November l5.-That the
Board Of Health of this city is keenly
alive to the alarming prevalence of Asiatic
cholera in France is evident from the re-
doubled activity of its City Inspectors.
There are twenty-five Inspectors in the
employ of the Board of Health whose
sole duty it is to look out for contagious
diseases and 10 see TO the plumbing and
drainage of tenement houses, Then
there are fifteen District Inspectors and a
squad of thirty policemen who promptly
report all defective and unclean houses
to the Board. The Board of Health
holds its sessions once a week, on Tues
days. At the last session the cholera sit
uation was fully discussed. Among the
members of the Board are gentlemen who,
in that capacity, went through the cholera
epidemic of 1866 and 1867. All the Sc gen.
tlemen agree that the danger from cholera
at this season of the year in New York Is
very slight. 1t Is reasonable to believe that
the germs of the dread disease will begin
havoc in New York next summer, but
it is not reasonable to expect any cpl.
demic of cholera here at Ms time of year
Though the reports from Paris were ten
times as bad as they are, the New York
Board of Health would not at this time be
greatly alarmed. Colonel Emmons Clark,
who is the secretary of the Board, cheer
fully accorded an extended interview on
the subject to your correspondent yes
terday. In the first place he was of the
opinion that the conditions Of New
York and most of the European
cities were too widely dissimllar to ad-
NIT of any fair comparison. While all
sanitary laws are regarded in Europe as
hardships and are as far as possible,
evaded by the people, here in New York
they are welcomed by the majority OF
tenement dodgers and poor people as a
means of salvation and are explicitly
obeyed.
"We do not" said Colonel Clark, Gun
derrate the
AWFUL POSSIBILITIES
Of the plague, but we are conscious Of our
ability to fight it intelligently, which robs
it of more than half It's terrors. You may
not know it, but such Is, nevertheless the
case, that the act Of tho Legislature
which created the Board of Health was
passed in anticipation of the very
disease. New York had reason to
expect visitation Of cholera In the
summer of 1866. 1t had been raging In
Europe and the Eastern countries, and was
reasonably expected to make its appear
ance here. The Legislature created the
Board of Health in February, 1866, and
the Board, In the succeeding summer,
fought the Asiatic plague with great sue
cess. In the eight years that have elapsed
since its creation the Board Of Health has
grown rapidly in capability for eff
tlcient work. 1t has gained the confidence
of the poor people, which is tremendous
assistance. Dwcllers in tenements and
In crowded districts recognize In tho
Board of Health a constant friend.
Whereas, at first, we were obliged to
overcome tho prejudices Of tho people
against what they regarded as iinperti'
nent interference, we now find our warm
est allies in all the crowded districts. IL
Is to-day only from
MERCENARY LANDLORDS
that the Board of Health encounters any
opposition. The owners OF rookeries OBJ
ject to our mandates, which require them
TO make their buildings 1t for people TO
live In. II Is a matter OF dollars and
cents with them, and they often times re-
gard the interference of this board AZ I'M
warrantahlo, but the tenants, the peoplc
at large, are with us In sympathy
II you are inclined TO undcrrate the
value OF this corporation with the sanitary
commission, on the part OF the people at
large you should read the reports OF the
opposition that was met with by the health