The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16

ports received indicate that the pres
ence of cholera here has stirred up all
sections of the country. Havana has
declared New York ships unclean and
other cities are preparing to closely
sorutinize trains from New York. AS
usual there are great many cases re-
ported here and in other cities which on
investigation turn out to be simple acute
ordinary intestinal troubles. The only
case of cholera reported this afternoon
by the health inspectors was Mary Con-
| nifty, aged nineteen years. residing at
No. 500 Second avenue. She was re-
moved to st. Johns Guild floating hos
pital, at the foot of Sixteenth street.
Mayor Grant this afternoon gave out
the following
"MAYoR's OFFICE, Sept. Is.
'TO the public: The dreaded cholera
has appeared in this city and the health
department has SO far shown It's ability
to arrest the disease promptly. The
health department and departments of
charities and correction are fully
equipped to arrest and care for every
case and stamp it out OF the immediate
locality in which it is discovered"
The proclamation goes on to say that
the reception hospitals with doctors and
| nurses are all equipped and ready to
receive and isolate each case as It is
discovered; that physicians are closely
watching the thickly populated tene-
mont districts; that Federal and State
authorities have established quarantine
stations for those coming from abroad;
that the chamber OF commerce is taking
active measures TO lend assistance; that
ly1, Al
be wanting, and that the excessive foar
on the part OF the public is not justified.
The mayor calls for confidence in all
these provisions to care for the public
veal. The record of the past in stamp.
ing out typhns and other infectious dis
eases, the proclamation reads, should
| justify faith in the ability Of the health
department to master the monster
cholera, that has come to US from for
eign lands. The public will be intelli-
| gently advised as to the progress of the
disease. The paper closes as follows:
YRest assured that all will be done by
the authorities to meet every emer-
gency, and with the confidence of the
public and their aid in enforcing sani.
tary regulations, the cholera will be
mastered, health restored, and peace,
| good order and happiness maintained. {"
NORFOLK, Sept. l5.-[Speciall- Quar-
antine Medical Officer Thon's order,
| quarantining this city against New
| York, has been issued and goes into eff.
| fect to day.
New York, Sept l5.-[Speciall-
| Mary Connerty. who was taken to the
cholera reception hospital to-day, came
from Ireland six months ago and went
to live with friends named Lyons, at
the tenement No. 692 Second avenue
She got service in Mrs. Flynn's theat-
rical boarding house, 22l East Thirty
first street, and was in good health un-
til midnight Wednesday, when she was
ssized with violent pains and vomiting
At her request she was removed to the
Lyons tenement.
DIR. Kane pronounced her sickness
cholera and notified the Police. Inspec tor
| Dollingham confirmed this diagnosis.
No. 162 Second avenue is tenement in
which eight families live. The house
was thoroughly disinfected to day and
the bed which the sick girl occupied
was taken away and burned. All her
clothing was also burned. The em-
ployes of the health department won't
to Mrs. Flynn's boarding house and
took away the bed in which the girl
slept while there and whatever clothing
she had there. Everything was burned
to destroy infection and the house dig
infected. A physician has been detailed
to watch the house from which the girl
| was removed.
How she got cholera is mystery. AS
far as can be learned she has not visited
any persons who have recently arrived
| from the other side. There was much
Excitement around the neighborhood
when the girl was removed. a large
crowd had gathered and it took several
| policemen to keep the people back. 1t
Is believed the girl will die. The ply
| sicians have possession of some of the
girls vomit for biological examination.
This is the first case of cholera reported
in this city in which the patient was
alive.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15.-fSpeciall
-There is q marked decrease in the
number of new cases Of cholera in Rus
STA, particularly in the Volga towns and
In Caucasus, where the disease has
| ragged with extreme violence.
ANTWERP, Sept. 15.-lSpecial1- The
measures taken here to repress cholera
are totally insufficient and the policy of
the municipal authorities, who, des pite
the fact that cholera victims are daily
taken to the hospitals, continue to deny
the existence OF the disease, has caused
the general public to forego the personal
precautions that no doubt would tend
greatly toward checking the disease
As q result the epidemic Is spreading.
Since yesterday ten cholera patients
been taken to the hospitals and there is
a strong suspicion that there are other
victims i'll at their own homes of which
no report has been made.
HAVANA, Sept. 15.-[Spe ,ial Tho
board Of. health met to-day and re-
solved hrst, to declare all vessels arriv.
ing from Now York since the tn inst
unolean, and all arriving from other
United States ports since the same date
| suspicious.