New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-24
HEALTH OFFICERS on THE ALERT HERE
THEY HAVE LITTLE FEAR OF VISIT FROM
TIE CIIOLERi-TIIE EPIDEMIC OF
THE DI.EAsE IN 1866.

THE DI:EAsE IN 1866.
The officials of the Health Department. have been
keeping watch OF the newspaper reports "hich s"o"
IN. rapid spread OF cholera In Europe ana nave Dee
eypccng TO hear Of the arrival OF the dreaoed ueeac
at This mort President Wilson said YESTERDAY iI j
plain that cholera has become epceihic III eo'oi'
noes in Furope from which 1t might easily Dc I'M
nor,ed ~ this CITY, The disease may make Its aP
rearancc here any day We rely upon the Quarantine
rcvnlatons and the strict watch kept by HeaIh ohoe
Jenkins and his assistants 10 keep the ohoera OUT vi
the city, MS IL kept out In 1887. III l'ht year wv
cholera WAS brought 10 Quarantine by the s'eaihshlp
ni,opr,a hu Il was not permitted to get to the city
The last epidemic of cholera in Newlork WAS IN looo'
There were some scattering cases III tue ioi"" ~ =
yoer Since then the city has been free from th2t
disease. =, .,,
an cbo.ra comes this fall shall not be caught
unp~pared. Every reported case OF choe'a "o'ou, "
Is being investigated that no case oi oho'ciN S"i
pass unno,ice. Thus far no suspected case vi 'o',
h.s b.en reported The Health Department is ra''
80 ,so,,t. any tr,,e cases and TO do everything that
con he done 10 stop The spread Of the disease
Sanitary Superintendent Edison SAID: livery u"S
that falls to bring the cholera now increases 'e
chances that the city will ecape serious "oupc "
tho disease does not come before the winter sets H.
Frost kills the cholera germ ana stops 'ho Spio""
OF the disease promptly and checuVcV' IL u"'
disease should reach the city late In the iaiL 'eTe
n.sa he no fear that 1t will cause much mor'ah'l
think II Is highly probable that the eholera VIII
come as far as Quarantine this fall, but IL snoulo
he kept out OF the city. The PubIc shouiu N"o
that the period OF incubation In choicri Is sho'' d"
compared with that OF typhus fever. l~rSoh eN
nosed TO cholera will have the disease WITHIN II
period ranging from twenty four hours 10 thIec " .
~ he has 1t at all. 1t is certain, therefore, u"'
nersons who catch the disease in any European port
must be attacked with it before reaching 'hiS port
There IS the best to believe that the uise"
coud not pass Quarantine undetected, as any c'scS
Of the disease carried shpboard mnst necessarily
develop before the s"lltest vessel '"' ''''
ocean"
Notwithstanding the expressions OF commence III
the Quarantine officials, the physicians of the he'"
Department would not be surprised any day W rc
ceive a report that genuine case OF choier'' I'D"
been found in the city, the germs OF the olse+'S
m,yht be carried from Europe In Injected cio'h'nS o
merchandise which is hept in close parcels or boHe
on sbpboard In case OF the discovery OF the
disease In this city, it is said 10 be the Intention o
the Health Board to isolate patients In buimhgs WIN
I'M the city limits and not to send them 10 Nor'n
Broiler Island President Wilson has announced
that he will give prompt information To the p"onc'
through the newspapers OF the hrSl ease oi so"
cholera found In this city.
The cholera arrived In the port OF New iorK III
November. 1865, via Havr. by the steamship At
lanta but luckily the Quarantine Officers stopper u III
the Lower Bay and held the disease In cheek but III
April 1856 there came into the harbor the ehigian
ship Virginia in distress She had los 'hiis ono
passengers on the VOYAGE. few davs arcr"au came
the shin England, with $50 mmigi arts. This mum
Der all that was icft OF the i-," "i'A ~ "
had sailed.
The Immigrants who hBd died from the cholera al
Quarantine In the winter had been buried on the
southern end Of Wards Island. Up 10 April 90 Sher,
had been no deaths from the terrible epidemic IN inc
city itself. But on that day woman who lived In n
UYhlrfn mi
the burial ground Of tile cholera dead. Mrs. Jen
kps WAS taken suddenly III, and the doctor who was
called summoned the health officers. When she died
twenty hours acrward. 1t positive that the nrSt
case OF cholera had appeared in the city.
Luckily they had a Health Board In those days that
was energetic and manly. Instead OF washing '"hc
In scientific disputes to whether the cholera case
was infections and epidemic, or sporadic and not IN
f.ctlous 1t at once had the shanty and all nearby
neichbors quarantined and had coal tar and crude
carboic acid spread thickly the surrounding
grounds on the third day after Mrs. Jenkins death
her baby six months old. died. The next case ap
peaicd on May 9. hve-nlles away. at No; 10 Mu
berry st. But this pau-nt recovered MulDffs 81
was the worst place IN the city to have epidemic
get foothod n and the street was dc0dorzc1 ana ans
Infected fl desperate s 9'e IN Ifm th tT erT c Down %
the Bay, ship after ship brought In doomed passsn
gers, and the hospital Islands near quarantine
NV And on June the terror began to attack New
York. On June an old lawyer, r; A. Frazer, was
seted with the diseuse and died twenty yiour hours
later In his home, at No. 3Q3 Broomest. his i Slier
dressing for the funeral Then followed cases thick
and fast They cropped up everywhere and especially
i'm Cherry st. Plttst. West Twcncthst. and Waverley
place on July 81 the epidemic swept the city.
lip to this day the deaths had amounted TO from onT
to six daily On that day hity-three were laAeh III
and thirty seven died almost at once In seven dhNS
up TO August 10 1866 died In NcwYorh and liroohlyn:
On the Islands In the river and bay 800 persons dien
o,It Of about COO One-seventh of The total number
OF prisoners in the Kings County Penitenary died In
a single night ,, J.,
There we're altogether 73G deaths from cholera I'm
New York City and }73 In Brooklyn In August In
September there go here and 50 III Br"oHyh.
The greatest number OF deaths occurred In Baxter and
Mulberry SITS.