The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-16
CAUSES LITTLE ALARM
General Opinion that New
York's Health Board Can
Throttle the Cholera.
BUT ONE NEW CASE IN THE CITY ANT
NONE IN THE BAY.


Quarantine Against New York Vessels
by the United States OF Columbia.
NEW YORK, Sep. 16.-The most import.
ant development of the cholera situation
is the discovery Of the first living cholera
patient in this city, and her prompt re-
moval to the reception hospital. The in
tricate and carefully planned municipal
machinery for combating and stamping
out the cholera, which was made ready
before its use became necessary, is now in
active operation.
Its practical effect has been demon
strated during the past two days, ana the
results obtained in the city proper are the
best arguments against any alarm in the
city over the situation. An immense
amount of work was transacted yesterday
by the Health authorities and the other
city officials.
Down the bay the news is cheering
There were no deaths and no new cases
on any of the qusrantined ships, nor on
Swinburne Island yesterday.
The steamship Bohemia, the last Of the
line from Hamburg, which has on
board more than 1000 steerage passen-
1t is the last of the immigrant bearing
feet that will come in.
The Health inspectors have reported an
other case of cholera. The victim Mary
Comfy, 10 years old, residing at 692 I'd
avenue, has been removed to the St..
Johns Guild Floating Hospital.
Miss Comfy came to this city from Ire
land six months ago. She remained with
a family named Lyons living at 692 I'd
avenue until she secured employment,
seven weeks ago, when she entered the
employ of Mrs. Maria Finn. who keeps a
boarding house at 221 East 31st street.
She was taken ill at 8 o'clock, and by
midnight the entire household was ex-
cited the girls condition. DR.. Kane,
who was called in, pronounced her a suf-
ferer from Asiatic cholera. DR.. Dilling-
ham of the Bureau of Contagious Dis
eases visited the house and found the girl
! in the second stages of Asiatic cholera
He caused her removal to the hospital.
Immediately upon her removal the work
of fumigation and disinfecting was be-
| gun, everything with which she had
come in contact being destroyed
How the girl contracted the disease is
| a mystery, and intense excitement pre-
vailed in the tenement house from which
| she has been removed.
Mayor Grant has issued proclamation
| to the public in which he says the Health
| Department has shown entire competence
| to deal with the cholera. He anticipates
] no spread of the disease, and asks the
| people TO have confidence in the provisions
adopted by the Board for the safety OF the
| people. lie also invites their aid in en-
forcing sanitary regulations for the main
tenance of health.
The Board of Coroners have decided to
cooperate with the Health Board in COM
! batmg the disease, and all the coroners
and their physicians are requested to be
on duty every day, so as to meet all
| emergencies.
1t was decided by the Health Board to
send all immigrants who are sick on Ellis
Island directly to North Brothers Island
| by boat, instead of through the city as
| formerly.
1t is said that rags from European ports
are being landed in Brooklyn daily. The
authorities have been notified, and are
making an investigation to-day.
The public having been notified that
Asiatic cholera has made its way into this
city and that six deaths have already
been caused here by the pest, the people
are anxious to know whether there are
any cases of the disease still in the city
The Health Board is accused of holding
back the news until the last moment and
It is now believed by some that the Health
Officers are likely coneealing other facts
and that they may be aware of other
cases at the present moment. The charge
that news of the arrival of cholera was
held back is not altogether true. The
cases were reported by the attending
physicians as suspicious, but it was not
until after an examination that the true
facts were learned, then the public was
| notified.
Investigations have shown where the
cholera probably came from in at least
one case and suggests the source of the
| other contagious. 1t came through The
port of New York. Immigrant passen-
gers on the steamer Friesland, which ar
rived here on Aug 30, seem TO have
! brought the disease to little Minnie
| Levinger who died on Sep II. They
are traced back to Antwerp, which they
reached from other cities in Europe,
no doubt infected with cholera When
they reached Quarantine there was illness
reported on board and after few hours
detention and so-called fumigation, they
were permitted to proceed.
From the steamship pier the passsen-
| gers scattered over the city and country
-Four young women of the company
went TO No. All East Both street. where
little Minnie lived. 1t appears that being
| greatly interested in the child they spent
! some idle hours playing with it
There is every reason to believe that
| the infection was in their clothing; that
they innocently carried it about with
them, escaping its dangers themselves,
and that from their clothing the child got
the disease which carried it of in "a
| hours
In the case of Callahan plausible con
nection seems to be established between
him and immigrants who, arriving in the
city by transatlantic steamers, went
south by the Mallory line, to whose pier
Callahan was often taken by his business.
he was a butcher.
In the other instances the relatives and
| physicians have not been able to suggest
the precise method of the infection, but
1t seems not unlikely that it came about
in some similar way
The quarantined passengers on Fire Is
| land aWpal at ba