Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-05
MORE CHOLERA ARRIVES
The Plague Laden Vessels
Guaranteed at New York.
THE HEALTH OFFICIALS vIaILANT.

No Precautions WIN BE Neglected TO
Keep the Disease at say-Detroit Quar-
antines Cannda--The Appalling Rate
OF Mortality Continues in Hamburg.
NEW YoRK, Sept. 5.-Cholera's cloud
hangs heavily over New York bay. The
news from the pest ridden steamers an.
chored Off swinburne island received from
Health Officer Jenkins when he returned
to the upper quarantine station told Of four
more deaths from the Asiatic scourge, and
two new cases that had not terminated
fatally but probably would.
The Normannia furnished two of the
names for the death list, the Rugia one and
the Moravia one. This swells the number
Of deaths on these three steamers during
their voyages and since. their arrival here
TO thirty-eight. The last report gave the
number of patients now under treatment
as five.
There were no pest ships among the
steamers which arrived yesterday This
news will be a great relief TO New Workers,
for the reason that the French line steamer
In Bourgogne, with more than thousand
persons on board, hailing from the infected
port Of Havre, was among the arrivals
Her coming had been looked forward to
with fear and trembling. She reported
that she had no sickness and had had none
during her passage.
Passengers in a Panic.
The stubbenhuk, which arrived Saturday
from Hamburg and which was sent to the
lower bay for fear she would prove TO be
plague ship, was sent back to the upper
station yesterday. There is no sickness on
her and it is believed none win appear.
She viii be held, however, until all danger
is past.
Appalling enough, however, was the stu
alton Of affairs down where the Normannia,
the Rugia and the Moravia swung atanchor.
Panic broke out among the more than l,500
passengers who are quarantined on these
vessels. Men offered any amount Of money
to be put ashore anywhere. Men and wom-
en- suffered from nervous collapse.
During the passage across these passen-
gers had no conception of the awful work
that deaths agent was doing aboard. On
ships that are anchored under grewsome
yellow flags, with little else to occupy their
thoughts except their fearful predicament,
they cannot but watch the work of remov-
ing the sick and the dead from the steamers
to the hospitals aud the crematory Oh Swim
burne island. Health Officer Jenkins says
the panic among the passengers is no worse
than might be expected
Asiatic cholera 1t Is.
That it is Asiatic cholera which has caused
the deaths on the quarantned steamers
there seems to be no doubt Its virulence
seems to permit of no other statement. It
can no longer be said that it is not cholera
because it only attacks children of tender
| years. The death lists of Saturday and Of
/ yesterday show that it strikes at men as at
! children, and results in death even between
sunset and sunrise, as In the case Of the
steward hammers, Of the Normannia. Such
meteorological examinations as have been
made 90 to demonstrate that the scourge is
/ Asiatic cholera.
The authorities are doing everything pos
sible to check the disease on the detained
ships. AS soon as a passenger is taken sick
a transport takes the sufferer from the ship
to the hospitals on Swinburne island. The
dead arc at once carried to the crematory
there, the fires of which are kept going
night and day.
AT midnight all the bodies were inciuer-
ated which were on Swinbnrne island at
that time, and the bodies of all others who
had died were placed IN the retort. There
has been delay in getting the sick from the
Rugia on account Of lack Of transports, but
after this every new case win be taken to
the hospital as soon as developed.
Edward Gallagher the bacteriologist, is
at South Beach examining the water and
the drift matter on the shores, to see
whether there Is danger Of the cholera be
ing communicated to Staten Island in that
way.
DR.. Jenkins announces that there will
probably be made arrangements by whicl
mails can be carried between the quaran
tined steamers and the shore. These maili
will of course be thoroughly fumigatol
and will always be carried on tug whicl
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