The morning call., 1892-09-15
Five Deaths Have Occurred in New
York.
PROEOUICED THE TRUE lSIlTIC TYPE.
Fears Of Further Spread of The Terrible PeSti
IeRee-Rigid Sanitary Precautions Are
Being Taken.
Special to TIE MORNING GALL

New YORK, Sept. 14.-Now that the
Asist.c cholera las developed among the
dwelerS in this city each may ask his neigh
Dor. "Well, what of it?" This expression
implies no over.cOnidence 1t lies within
each individuals power to assure his own
personal safety almost beyond perad-
venture.
he has but TO drink no water or milk
except such as has been thoroughly boiled,
and TO eat no food that has mol been thor
oughly and freshly cooked; he will abstain
from butter and cheese, aud may then pos
seSs his soul in serenity, as the cholera will
pass him by.
Ever since the Moravia arrived In port as
the harbinger of the dreaded plague the
State and local officials nave been straining
efery nerve 10 prevent its gaining footho Id
In this city and being spread 5y various
channels to the country al large. But While
Sll were locking seaward the cholera quietly
made its presence felt in our midst and five
eoIpses to-day marked its advent
How did ii get nS is the question on
every ones lips. Tie health officers are
puzzled, but the utmost precautions are be-
ing taken to prevent its spread. At each of
the houses where the patients lived two
doctors have been Stationed to remain con-
stantly on duty enforcing the most rigid
tlop, etc. No family must move out OF the
house without written permit The idea
Is 10 OveTYheim and stamp out the disease
In each house, as was done with the typhuS
fever upon its first appearance. That this
could be done was fully demonstrated in the
cholera outbreak of 1866.
The doctors on duty in these infected
house Will remain there until all danger of a
future outbreak has finally passed. The
health officers fully bslieye that this will be
before long. 0iher eases are expected 10
develop from the scattered centers of the
c0ntagion. but none in the same buildings
That is the way the health officers propose
10 drive the cholera from the city now that
II has got in, and if the citizens will use rea-
son and not get into foolish and needless
panic they are sure they will succeed,
though they by no means undervalue the
tbe danger. Every possibility, every feature
OF the cholera epidemic has been discounted
and provided against.
IL is hard for the department TO trace the
cases so far reported, because all of The vic
tins are dead. The situation IS identical
with that OF 1866, when The cholera sud-
denly appeared in three or four widely sep
aTated places in the city, after il had been
successfully QuaraDtned out the previous
fall. The FIRST case this year was Charles
McAvery, plasterer By trade, who lived in
Tenth avenue. The only possible clew may
be that he had been working about the
WharVes; yet none of the pestships had
come up 20 the wharf. McAvery was seized
with cramps last Monday evening, and next
morning took to his bed. dying Tuesday
evening.
Two doctors diagnosed the case as Asiatic
cholera. and the house was disiufected as a
measure of precaution. Dr. BiggS, who
made the autopsy, declared, however, that
the result WAS mot at all suggestive Of
Asiatic cholera, while showing the familiar
signs Of cholera morbus." In spite of this
t1fa bnr oF s.,&z
fluid taken 10 the sanitary headquarters
and cultivated Ia ge.atine produced crop
Of cholera bacilii, and the nature Of the dis
ease was no longer open to question. Eight
days have elapsed since McAvoy's death.
What caused the long delay in ascertaining
the exact facts is not stated.