The record-union., 1892-09-15
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14-Now that Ash
attic cholera has developed among the
jewellers in this city, each may ask his
neighbor, "Well, what of it?" This ex-
preston implies no over-confidence. 1t
lies within each individuals power to
assure his own personal safety almost
beyond peradventure. He has but to
drink no water and milk except such as
has been thoroughly boiled, and to eat no
food that has not been thoroughly and
freshly cooked. He will abstain from
butter and cheese, and may then possess
his soul in serenity. Cholera will pass
him by.
Ever since the Moravia arrived in port
as a harbinger of the dreaded plague the
State and local officials have been strain
ing every nerve to prevent its gaining a
foothold in this city and being spread by
various channels to the country at large,
but while they were all looking seward
cholera has quietly made its presence
felt In our midst, and five corpses to-day
mark it's advent. How did it get in? is
the question on everyone's lips. The
Health Officers are puzzled, but the ut
most precautions are being taken to pre-
where the patients lived two doctors have
been stationed, to remain constantly on
duty, enforcing the most rigid rules of
cleanliness, seeing to disiniection, etc.
No family must move out of house with
out written permit.
The idea is to overwhelm and stamp
out the disease in each house, as was done
with typhus upon its first appearance
That this can be done was successfully
demonstrated IN the cholera outbreak of
1916. The doctors on duty in each of the
infected houses will remain there until
the danger of further outbreak is finally
passed. The health officers fully be-
Eeye this will be before long. Other cases
are expected to develop from scattered
centers of the contagion, but none in the
same buildings. That is the way the
health officers propose to drive cholera
from the city, now it has got in, and if
the citizens will use reason and not get
into foolish and needless panic thew are
sure they will succeed, though they by
no means undervalue the danger. Every
possibility, every feature of the cholera
epidemic has been discounted and pro-
vided against.
1t is hard for the department to trace
the cases so far reported, because all of
the victims are dead. The situation IS
Identical with that of 1866, when cholera
suddenly appeared in three or four widely
separated places in the city, after it had
OSSI SUCCESSFULLY OUT the
previous fall.
The first case this year was Charles
McAvoy, plasterer by trade, who lived
on Tenth avenue. The only possible
clue may be that he had been working
about the wharves. Yet, none of the
pest ships had come up to the wharf
McAvoy was seized with cramps last
Monday evening, and the next morning
took to his bed, dying Tuesday evening
Two doctors diagnosed the case as Asiatic
cholera and the house was disinfected as
measure of precaution. Doctor Biggs,
who made the autopsy, declares, how
ever, that its result was mot at all sug-
gestive of Asiatic cholera, while showing
familiar signs of cholera morbuS,o
In spite of this statement, however.
some Of the intestinal fluid was taken to
the sanitary headquarters and cultivated
in jellitine and produced crop of cholera
bacllll, and the nature of the disease was
no longer open to question. Eight DAYS
have elapsed since McAvoy's death The
cause of the long delay in ascertainine
the facts is not stated.
The other victims were William w.
Wigmann and wife of 76I Eleventh
avenue, Charlotte Beck of 1874 Second
avenue and Minnie Levinger of All East
Forty-sixth street. There have been
other cases, of which the board has not
yet made official report.
1t is said at police headquarters this
evening that the disease had been brought
into the city by butchers taking meat to
the guaranteed Hamburg steamships.
but this could not be supported.
President Wilson said this evening that
there was no occasion for excitement in
this city. The Health Department had
taken every possible measure to prevent
the spread of the infection.
Sanitary Superintendent Edison said
there was no danger of cholera becoming
epidemic. There would be sporadaic
cases, he said, for at least sixty DAYS. nm
til real cold weather sets in, which will
have the effect of stamping out the
disease.
The health officials have sent to Ellis
Island for the passenger lists of all yes
sells which have arrived there since Au-
gust 18th. Every effort will be made to
trace the passengers as far as practicable.
Edison said the infection which caused
cholera to break out here must come
through some quarantine. The source of
the infection is being investigated very
carefully.
The quarantine lines at Fire Island and
the hotels were guarded by twelve de-
tectlves from New York last night to pre-
vent their escape. This morning DR..
Nolght reported the health of the passen-
gers excellent, there being only few Incl
dental troubles among women and
children. While there was some grrImb-
ling, the majority of the passengers ex
press satisfaction with their accommoda-
tons. All opposition on the part of the
bay men has disappeared.
DIR. Jenkins telegraphed that he will
probably release the Normannia,s Das-
sengers tomorrow.
The Thirteenth Regiment will remain
at Babylon to prevent any interference
with the landing of passengers.
The steamers Rhynland and Amalfi
were released from quarantine this after
noon. The men who died on the Heligo-
land are Michael Bolandies, after twenty
four hours sickness, and O.. ID. Heaffman,
after twenty hours sickness. All are we'll
on board now.
DR.. Walser reports the following new
case on board the Scandal: Stoman Eli
towitch, taken i'll this morning.
The steamer Majestic left here at 4:34 P.
NJ. for the dock.
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
Five Deaths from the Dreaded Plague
in the City.