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CHOLERA In new YORK CITY.
It Jumps Quarantine Barriers
and Scatters Death.
Every Precaution Taken to Pre-
vent the Plaques Spread.

VenI Il6 flague's Npreau'
Cholera has broken quarantine and ap-
peared in New York City. four deaths of II
being officially acknowledged by the Board
of Health, two other deaths Of it being semi
officially admitted and three other sus.
picious cases reported. All this occurred
within the space Of eight days.
Following Is the list Of the dead:
Charlotte Beck, thirty-one years old, died
at her home, No. 1854 Second avenue, hav-
ing been i'll less than twenty-four hours.
Peter Callaghsp, an unmarried stableman,
who boarded with his sister at No. 3t8 East
Forty-seveuth street, died after an illness Of
four days duration. BE was thirty years
old.
Minnie Levinger. a child under two years
Of age, died at No. All East Forty-sixth
street. She had been i'll about two days.
Charles McAvoy, age thirsy-ave an un-
married plasterer, boarding at No. $40
Tenth avenue, died after an illness Of about
twelve hours
William Wigmann, age 6fty-ave, died In
his home, at No. 768 Eleventh avenue. He
had been Ill In the house for eight days.
Sophia Wiemanu, sixty-three years old,
Williams wife. She was attacked with the
cholera about twenty hours before her hus-
band died.
No evidence could be found that the di.
sease had been communicated by passengers
from infected ports. and thu Health Officers
were of the opinion that the cases were
sporadic, and that there was no occasion for
alarm.
The first three cases were developed In q
| poor, but clean neighborhood on the East
Side. and In all the cases the victims had
lived for long time in the vicinity Of where
they were stricken.
None Of the dead were immigrants newly
arrived. McAvoy, the most recently landed
Of them all, had been in the country ten
years. None of the dead belong to the
nationalities among whom the outbreak of
the disease was feared. The surroundings
of none of them showed the elements
of filth and saualor wherein the pest pecu-
liarly loves to breed. None had so far as
known, come into contact with the cargoes
Of any ship discharged before the present
rigid quarantine was instituted, though
most of McAyoy's odd jobs were
done about the docks, and William Wig
man, of No. 1888 Eleventh avenne, who was
the fourth victim, and whose wife was tho
second, had, two months before his seizure,
worked for a butcher who supplied the
Hamburg American Company with meat.
Whether the disease was borne across the
city from the place Of its appearance in
Tenth and Eleventh avenues, or whether
its East and West Side victims met uu-
known to each other at some one point and
thence carried the seeds Of common death
to their widely separated homes was also
mystery.
that the news came out that cholera was alb
solutely in the city. The reporters racod up
to the rooms OF the Board o. Health, only
to hnd them closed and to hear that the
meeting was secret. But from the
clerks, and particularly from Chief Clerk
Golkonan the story was confirmed. The
time dragged on until at last President Will
son appeared wit bunch Of papers In his
hand. They proved to be copies OF the fol-
lowing Health Department bulletin:
NEW YORK, September "A, 1892, 2p. m.
Appended to this bulletin are the reports
Of the psychologists, who have made
biological examinations Of all cases OF sus-
pected cholera in this city. The case re.
ferred to in their reports have been tre'ted
with the same precautionary measures
as would have characterized the
action of the Board If they had
been Immediately and positively recog
! nized. Thus far no secondary cases have
occurred on the premises occupied by the
sick persons nor have any cases arisen from
them. The Board has under examination
the BODY of woman who died with symp-
toms of cholera September IS a. m.
All suspected or reported cases Of cholera
sincs September 1 have been carefully 10.
vestigated and kept under observation. NO
suspicious cases have been reported to this
Board since $50 q. N. Tuesday, September
13
By order of tn, Boar Of health.
CHARLES @. WILSON. President.
EMMoSs CLARK, Secretary.
Recsived at the Health Department, Sep
rembar "A. o'clock p. m.l
Carnegie Laboratory, 333 East 28th st.
NEW YORK, September IS, 1892.
Hon. Charles G. Wilson. President Health
Department:
Sir-We would respectfully report that
! the very careful biological examination OF
the intestinal contents from the body OF
| Charles McAyoy, who died September 8, has
been completed. rhe autopsy, as we re.
| norted showed the anatomical
LESSONS of sporadic cholera, but the
biological examinations snow that
the sprilum Of Asiatic cholera was present
in the intes tinal contents. We, therefore,
declare the case to have been one OF cholera
Asiatica. Respectfully submitted.
HERMANN NJ. BIGas,
EDWARD z. DUNBAR.
September II, 1892.
Hon. Charles g. Wilson, President, Health
Department. So,
Sir-Mrs. Sophia Wigmann, who died on
September 10, 1892. and waose body was re-
ferred to US to determine the cause OF death,
died Of cholera, Asiatica, as has been shown
by the biological examination OF the lntes-
tinaI discharges taken before death. NO re-
| liable conclusions could be drawn from the
nost.mortem or biological examinations
made after death in this case, or or her nus
band, William Wigmann, as both 6odies
had been embalmed. We have no douot,
however chat the cause Of death In ooth
| cases was the same.
The biological examinations in the case OF
the child Minnie Levinger, VINO d.ea sep
! tember II, also show that the CAUSE OF death
I was cholera Asiatica. Respectfully SUD-
mitted, HERMANN ". oI1ss'
After tho issuing OF these bulletins no
oreat alarm was betrayed by the health
Officials at the situation. No sus.
picous cases having been reported
since the death Of the woman Beck
was q source Of great satisfaction to the
Health Department, and the addl,
tional fact that no secondary cases had
bean discovered in the houses where the first
outbreak occurred gave assurance, tney
said. that the pest could be kept unoer con
troll and stamped out with le5s dihcuiey
even than typhus fever or smallpox.
The utmost precautions were taken toward
this end.
As soon as a suspicious case was reported
sanitary inspectors promptly examined 10
| with as much care as if it were known 10 Do
| cholera Asiatica-
The instant that the result Of Profess
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