Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
LANDED AT LAST.
SIX VICTIMS OF CHOLERA IN
NEW YORK.
one pa.,en. Died Ten Day. Ago. but
Notliag Was Done - Rcaxons for Re lie.
cence- nid Not Want to Alarm the Peo-
pie aud cause Panic.
Hect 1t n secret.

Kept 1t " secret.
1t has developed that, despite the
stringent quarantine, h heroic eNcrts
of the National and State Governments
and the oft repeated declarations OF The
Board of Health to the contrary, the
hold in New York City, and has already
many victims. Not only did it develop
that tho cholera had effected a landing,
but that the Ian ling was effected at
least two weeks ago, the fast having
been kept from the public. That the
fact was made public was due to an
accident-a slip of the tongue of an at
tache of the health office, while notify
ing his super;ors of the discovery of e
new case.
Daily representatives of the press
have asked the officers of the Board of
Health if the disease had showed any
signs of breaking out in the city, and
ven up TO the morning of the above re-
ported discovery were answered in the
negative. When pressed. however, and
presented with evidence that their
secret was a secret no longer, they re-
luctantly admitted that they were in
vestigating the cases of u number OF
persons who had died under circum-
stances which led them to fear that
cholcraic germs might be present."
They could give no dennite reply 10 tho
question, lis there cholera in New
York;" however, until they had received
the report of the b~acteriologists making
the test examinations.
Names of the Victims.
The names of the victims, so far as
could be learned, are as follows:
CHARLES MCAvoY, plasterers' assist
ant, 81 years old.
Mrs. SOPHIA WIGMAN, died at No.
7GS Eleventh avenue.
WILLIAM WlGMAN, husband of Sophia
Wigman, died at the same address.
MINNIE L%EvINGEH, 20 months old.
died Il. No. All East Fo.tv-sixth street.
CHARLoTTA BECK. 10 years old, died,
at No. 1854 Second avenue.
PETER CALLAHAN, an unmarried
stahlcman, who boarded with his sister
at No. Bis East Forty-seventh street,.
died after an illness of four days; &c
years of age.
1t was admitted that there We're a
number of suspected eases now under
investigation, hut the names or locations.
of the victims would not he divulged.
The reason assigned by the officers for
their re.iccnce was that they had no de-
sire whatever to create u panic until
they We're absolutely certain that Chol--
era Asiaticu really was the cause OF
death in the eases under Investigation.
Whatever doubt may have existed in
the minds of the health officers as tc
the presence of cholera in the city was
dispeilc! when the following reports
from the psychologists who had made.
examinations of the cases We're handed
in.
Bac:eriOlOSists' Reports
.CaRSEG1E LAhoEA-oRY. :iss East oath street.
To Charles u. Wilson, President of the Board.
OF Health.
SHINE would respectfully report that very
careful biological EXAMINATIONS of the intes-
final contents from the body of Charles Nc
Avoy, who died Sept. 9. have been completed.
cholera. but the biological examination proves
that the spiritum OF Asiatic cholera was pres
the case one of .Asia.ic cholera. Respectfully
submitted, HERMANN BIGGS.
EDWARD Ii. DuNHAM.
To Charles G. Wilson, President of the Health
iicpartment:
s1K-Alrs. Sophia wiyman. whose body was
referred to us to Diet arnlne the cause OF death,
died of Cholera Asiatica, as has been shown .y
the biological, examination of the intestinal
e easelalges 'a eeuld " lee dra asa'h from; No the 5el no.
mortcm or biological examination made attel
death in this case, or of her husband. Wn!.Wig-
We have no doubt. however. that the cause of
death in both cases was the same. The bio
logical examination in the case of the child,
Minnie levinver. also shows that the cause of
death was Cholera Asiatica. Respectfully subs
mitted. HERRMANN B1GGs
EDwARD X. DuNHAM.
On receipt Of these reports bulletins
We're issued setting forth. the facts re.
garding h presence of the scourge and
its work, as given above. The physi-
clans say that they have been unable tc.
accoun for the presence of chole ra
germs in the cases mentioned, as none
OF the dead persons had been infected
in any known way. Every %precaution
had been taken in each instance to IRE.
vcnt The further spread of the disease.
The clothing and bedding OF each pa
tient had been burned, and the houses.
i'll each case placed under strict quaran-
tine. Thus far no secondary cases.
have been discovered in the premises
occupied by h victims. In the oflcia,
bulletin it was stated that the body Of
n woman who had died under suspicious
circumstances was being investigated,
and that but n new case had been re.
ported. The bulletin further said that
all suspected cases of cholera reported
We're being very carefully watched.
Fears Excited Rather Than AIlayed.
The fact that the board admits that
other cases exist and refuses to publish
their location has an effect contrary to
that which the secrecy is intended to
produce. Instead of allaying. it tends
w cASllS, JIG lculS VI lue people,. anu
keeps them in II condition bordering on
II panic.
The heath officers are very fearful.
that the knowledge of the presence of
the plague in the city will cause Il gem
eral exodus of those who can afford to
leave the city. and Il panic OF fea,
among those who must, perforce. re-
main. and said that there was very lit
tie danger of an epidemic If people
would only keep cool and think more
of carefully regulating their manner Of
living and less of the cholera. Presi-
lent Wilson said that there was no
occasion for excitement in the city. az
Che cholera would not become epi-
dem:c. There was IL possibility that it
would exist in sporadic form for sixty
days or such a matter, until cool
weather sets in and stamps out the dis
ease altogether.
THERE will probably clme a time
when the present tribe of Eastern
coal halons will not need anthracite
coal to keep them warm: on the con-