Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-06
CHOLERA RECORD.
MORE CASES AND MORE DEATHS ON
QUARANTINE VESSELS.
serions situation with Respect to the
scourgo In New York Bay--The Me
tropoiis Unaffected.
tBy telegraph to the pIspa.ch.l

NEw York. September b.--Tbe following
bulletin was posted at the Health Depart
ment Office at 10 o'clock A. NJ;
No cases Of cholera have occurred in
this city, and the city is more exempt from
contagious disease than at any time in
several years.
by order of the Board of Health.
"CHARIKs g. WILSON, President"
Bulletins will be posted by the Health
Department here every morning and after
noon, announcing whether cholera has
made its appearance in the city or not.
SUNDAY AT QUARANTINE.
Four more deaths from cholera and two
new cases Of the disease were reported
from the fleet at lower quarantine beyond
New York Bay last night. Emma Horne,
s years old, who was sick with the disease
in the steerage when the Normannla ar
rived, died about noon.
Heinrich Lummers, AZ years old, ste
ward on the Normannia, was attacked IN
the morning aud died while being trans
ferred 10 the hospital on Swinburne Is
land. He had been acting as nurse to the
chalera patients. Three steerage passen-
gers on the Rugia showed symptoms of
the dread scourge when the ships sur
geon made his rounds early yesterday
morning. Before sunset Antonio Hara, q
17-year-old girl, was dead. The other two
were taken TO the hospital on Swlnburne
Island. They are Christine and Peter
Hansen, brother aud sister, aged 10 and s
years, respectively.
Abraham Schneiderman. the S-year-Old
boy in the Moravia's steerage who was
stricken after the ships arrival last We'd
nesday, died yesterday morning. Selma
Horne. who Is lying Ill with cholera in the
MoraviR's hospital, has been gwen up by
the doctors, and 1t was not thought she
would live till sunrise.
DEAD BODIES cREMATED.
The bodies of the dead were cremated
IN the retoTts on Swlnburne Island last
night. There were four oremations and
three the day before. making seven
funeral pyres in tho lower bay which the
cholera is responsible for.
One of the health officers announced
yesterday that If relatives desired TO claim
"a body IL would not be cremated, but en-
balmed, and after being kept some days IN
o reception vault would be turned over to
them.
The sick passengers on the Normania
were transferred TO the hospital on SWIM
burne Island Yesterday, and last night the
steerace Of the vessel wss disinfected with
steam. the immigrants having been trans.
ferred 10 Hoffman Island. DR.. Bryant and
DR.. Abbott are in charge Of Swiuburne
Island now. DR.. Talmadge is to assume
charge OF the lower quarantine station to-
day, and DIR. Sanborn will board the YES
scls at the upper station.
All vessels will be allowed to come to the
upper station, whether cholera IS suspect
e1 on board OF not. After to-day the po-
lice boat Patrol and two tugs will do police
duty around the cholera fleet, which con-
sists of three ships at present.
The Stubbenhok was ordered from lower
quarantine to upper quarantine yesterday
noon after a partial examination of her
passengers. She comes from Hamburg,
but there are no signs Of cholera ON board.