Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-23
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
IT'S RAPIDLY COMING OUR WAY
AND WE MAY GET YET.
Buffalo and Quebec Have the Disease and
IL Steadily Marches Westward
Detroit Inspectors Opinion.

Five deaths from cholera have occur
red in the city of New York. The an
nouncement of the first case on land
came like stroke of lightning in
storm. 1t has been expected and
dreaded and yet it has been hoped that
the city could escape. The pest has
appeared, but only in scattered cases.
Following is the list of dead: Charles
McAvoy, 35 years old, plasterer, $40
Tenth street; Mrs. Sophie Wigman,
90 years old, 76s Eleventh street;
William Wigman, aged So, 76s Eleventh
street; Minnie Levinger, aged one
year and eight months, All East Six
teenth street; Charlotte Beck, 80
years old, 1904 Second avenue.
How these five people were taken
with cholera is mystery. 1t is almost
certain that il has not reached the city
from the quarantine. The precautions
there have been too strict and the city
victims had absolutely no contact with
any of the suspected vessels or anybody
or anything from the suspected vessels.
There are more ways than one for
cholera to get into city.
Now that the germs have succeeded
in invading the city, the authorities
are Thoroughly aroused. The houses
where the infected people lived and
died will be carefully guarded and the
scattering cases that are eX-
pected will be quickly isolated.
1t is not thought that there will be an
epidemic. The cases are scattered and
in the poor American rather than the
foreign part of the town. The rigid
precautions, the approaching cold
weather and the common sense feeling
of the Gothamites all tend to the belief
that the pest will be kept down. Yet
New York is alive to its danger.
Another Plague Ship With Eleven Deaths
Another plague ship in the port of
of New York and another story of dis
ease and death on the voyage. Eleven
more victims added to the long list of
those who have died of cholera be-
tween Hamburg and New York.
This is the story of the steamship
Bohemia, which has reached New York
and anchored in the lower quarintine.
Her coming had been dreaded. She
left Hamburg at the time when the
pest was at its worst, and her 6sl steer
age passengers gathered from the in
| fected regions of Germany and Russia
were expected TO bring cholera with
| them.
The captain reports IL deaths on the
voyage all of which were children.
| The Bohemia carried no cabin passen-
gers
Death From Cholera in Buffalo.
There is considerable excitement in
Buffalo, n. Y, over the announcement
| that cholera had broken out in the
city. 1t was officially announced by
Health Physician c. w. Howe that 15-
years-old Rudolph Schmotee had died
from the disease. The boys home is
at IL Wasmuth avenue. DIR. Howe
said the the boy vomited necessarily
and his thirst was abnormal. His case
grew rapidly worse. He was taken
with spasms and died in terrible con-
WILSON'S. He had been sick just 70
hours, much longer time, the doctor
said, than a cholera patient would sur
vive under ordinary circumstances and
also longer than one would live If
taken with cholera infantum.
At the Doors of Quebec.
Following Immediately upon the
heels of the alarming reports from
New York of five deaths in that city
from Asiatic cholera comes u report
| JnaJ the beduT line SuedIneT LAKE
Huron, which passed Father Point in
the st. Lawrence bound for Quebec has
Asiatic cholera on board and that siS
deaths have occurred during the
voyage.
Meantime great distress is reported
from quarantine at Quebec among the
steamship passengers now detained
there. The rain came down in torrents
and there is no accommodation for pas
sengers save that afforded by old open
sheds without beds or furniture
kitchens or tables, towels or bed linen
and where all kinds of people of boil
sexes must live and sleep together.
Cholera in Michigan in Two Weeks.
Cholera is due in Michigan in tive
weeks according TO Dr.. j. j. Mulheron
United States health inspector at De
troit. at is almost inevitable" the
doctor declared. 1.-The history of chol
era shows it to travel at the rate of 81
miles day and | think we will have il
here sure. 1t can hardly be avoided
The whole country is in for struggle
with the disease. 1t is my earnest be
lief"