Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-15
SIX FATAL CASES.
The Dread Cholera Forces Its
Way Into New York.
NO OCCASION FOR A PANIC.
The Health officials Say the Plague
Is Completely Under Control.


Only After biological Examination, TO
Make sure the Cases Were Genuine
Asiailc Cholera, Was the Announce
mcnt Made That the Deaths, the First
of which Occurred Nine Days Ago.
Were occasionod by the Imported
scourge-No New Cases Have so Far
Developed and the City Is in Good
Condition TO Isolate aud stamp Out
the Germs.
NEw YoRR, Sept 15.-Six deaths from
Asiatic cholera among the inhabitants Of
New York city have occurred within eight
days That is the sum and substance Of the
announcement now made by the board Of
health Of the result Of the diagnoses, au-
topsies and germ cultures which have boon
going on since Charles McAvoy, a man Of
all work and most lately butchers helper,
of SO Tenth avenue, who had had slight
cramps In his legs q week ago Monday
evening" died Of cholera Asiatica on the fol-
lowing evening.
Each OF the houses 76s Eleventh avenue,
8ls East Forty-seventh street, All East
Forty-sixth street and ,76l Second avenue,
whore the other five victims were stricken,
the fifth no later than last Tuesday, is gar
risoned by the physicians Of the cholerr
squad, and so far infection has not gone
forth from them.
None Of the dead-there are at this writ
ing no more sick-are immigrants newly ar
rived. AicAvoy, the most recently landed
Of them all, had been Ina the country ten
years None of the dead belongs TO the ma.
tionalities among whom the outbreak Of
the disease was feared The surroundings
Of none Of them showed the elements Of
filth and squalor wherein the pest peculiar
ly loves to breed None had, 80 far as
known, como into contact with the cargoes
Of any ship discharged before the present
rigid quarantine was instituted, though
most OF McAvoys odd jobs were done
about the docks; and William Wiegman. OF
7OS Eleventh avenue, who was tho fourth
victim and whose wife was the second,
had two months before his seizure worked
for butcher who supplied the Hamburg
American company with meat
Like In 1860.
The pest has In short repeated its sar.
donic tactics OF 1860 and crept in by some
portfolio or embrasure impossible to guard,
when the sanitary garrison OF the town was
repellngit successfully at gateway and sally
port,
From that epidemic of 1866 there arc hope.
full signs for the outcome OF the so far iso
lated infection of today. The pest then was
held in check at first, as it has been for the
past nine days. Had frost then been as
near at hand ms IL now is there would have
been no epidemic OF 1860 to record. An
other lesson Of that time is that OF the 1890
and odd deaths due to the disease between
April and November less than 500 were In
the city proper. Blackwelrs, Harts and
Randalls islands contributed go OF the fatal
cases.
SO TINT the citizen Of Manhattan island
IS IN every year OF his lifo far more liable 90
extinction from pulmonary diseases, whose
death rate Is far higher, and which in
grip seasons has run up nearly 800 a
week, than he would have boon 10 death
from cholera had no lived In that year OF
the present generation when the Asiatic
destroyer was at it's worst.
Plain old native, everyday pneumonia
win probably kill three TO the much hor-
aided foreigners one between now and
New Years, oven II tho foreigner shows
much more activity than he hitherto has
done.
There is yet another lesson Of the Cpl
demic Of 1905 which should be learned n,
much by rote as tho succinct directions OF
the board Of health. That is that among
the things which prodispose to cholera, tn,
two commoneat causes after "wantn ar,
'intemperpncen and "fear.n
Two cases among the crew Of the Heligo
land oil tank steamer without passengers
from Hamburg. were yesterdays addition
TO the pest roll at quarantine. Tho dreadeJ
Bohemia hes not yet arrived.
The Health Doctors Not Alarmed.
The report that actual cases OF Asati
cholera have existed in New York for thl
last week in spite Of daily official bulletin
70 the contrary, spreads wet blanket owe
the doctors keeping the scourge from pass
ing the ocean gateway. The flash Of dis
enlargement which spread over the face O
Health Onicer Jenkins when told OF the oili
cial admission made by the New York cit
board OF health was certainly natural, Will
his instant exclamation ~ don't believe !
got in by quarantine, simply voiced the be-
lief of all who have been stationed here an
watched the enforcement OF quarantine reg
Nations.
Medical Commissioner Of the Healt
Board Dr. Bryant said, 81 do not thin
that the disease viii become epidemic.
This, he says, Is almost assured from th
fact that no suspicious cases have occurre
since yesterday. "There seems to be bu
little danger" said he, $50 far, and II
public need not be alarmed. Every pr
caution has been taken by the board
health to combat and crush the diseas
wherever it may appear