Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-22
CHOLERA IS ON LAND
Four Victims of the Dreaded
ScOurge Found in New
York.
No Doubt About Their Genuine
ness Gotham on
Guard.
Pest Houses Under Strict Watch
General News OF the
Disease.

! dWeIlerS IN this city, each man may ask
! ms nelghDOr: well, what OF it,
! Ills expression implies no Oyer-conli-
dence. 1t lies within each Individually
! power to assure his own personal safe
| ty, almost beyond peradyenture. de
| has to drink no water OF milk except
! such as has been thoroughly boiled, ana
| to eat 10 food that has not been thor
! Oughly and freshly cooked; he Will alb.
stain from butter and cheese, and may
| then possess his soul in serenity. ChoI-
era Will pass him by.
Ever since the Morayia arrived in
! port as u harbinger of the dreaded
| plague, state officers and local officials
| have been straining every nerve to
| prevent its gaining u foot hold in this
! city, and being spread by various
| channels to the country at large; but
While all were looking seaward cholera
! Quietly made its presence felt in our
! midst and corpses today mark its
! advent.
How did it get in? is the question
! on every ones lips. The health officers
are puzzled, but the utmost precau-
tons are being taken to prevent its
| spread.
At each of the houses where Inc
| patients lived, two doctors have been
stationed to remain constantly on duty
enforcing the most rigid rules of clean
illness, seeing to disenfection, etc.
Charles McAvoy was seized with
cramps last Monday evening and next
morning took to his bed,dying Tues
day evening. Two doctors diagnosed
| the case as ASiatic cholera, and the
| house was disinfected as a measure Of
precautiOn. Doctor Biggs declared that
it's result was not at all suggestive of
! Asiatic cholera, while showing the fam
| liar signs of cholera mOrbus."
In spite Of this statement however.
| some of the intestinal fluid taken to the
! sanitary headquarters and cultivated in
| jellitine produced u crop of cholera
bacili, and the nature Of the disease is
no longer open to question.
Eight days have elapsed since Nc
Avoy's death, and what is the cause Of
the long delay in ascertaining the facts
is not stated.
The four other victims are VIM. Wig
man and wife, of 761 Eleventh avenue;
Charlotte Beck, Of 1,7G4 Second avnue,
and Minnie Levinger, Of All East
Forty-sixth street. There have been
other cases of which the board has not
yet made official report.
1t was said at the police headquarters
this evening that the disease had been
brought into the city by butchers taking
meat to the Quarantined Hamburg
steamships, but this could not be sup
ported.
\ 1t is hard for the department to trace
the cases so far reported because al
of the victims are dead.
The situation is indentical with tlnt
of 1866, when cholera suddedly ap-
peared in three or four widely sep
arated places in the city after it had
been successfully quarantined out tie
previous fall.
The only possible clue to McAyOy's
case was that he had been working
about the Wharves. Yet none Of The
pest ships had come into the wharf.
No family must move out of house
without a written permit. The idea
is to overwhelln and stamp out the dis
! ease in each house, as was done with
typhus upon its first appearance. That
this could be done was successfully
demonstrated in the cholera outbreak
of 1866.
The doctors on duty in each infected
i'm
danger of outbreak is finally passed.
Health officers fully believe that this
| will be before long. Other cases are
expected to develop from the scatter
ed centres of contagati0n, but none
in the same buildings. In this way
| the city health officers propose to
| drive cholera out of the city, now that
it has got in, and if the citizens will
| use reason and not get into foolish
| and needless Pa tic, they are sure they
will succeed, though they by no means
undervalue the danger.
| Every possibility, every feature Of
| the cholera epidemic has been dis
! counted and provided against.
Mayor Grant had a conference to-
| night with President Wilson, of the
! health department and others. They
| took the view that the best service
| they could render the public was to
keep it fully informed of all develop
ments. The mayor found the depart
! ment of charities and corrections fully
prepared to care for the patients.
One Of the doctors formally attached
| to the board of health said tonight
! that present indications point to an
epidemic which will require the most
| stringent measures to prevent it from
assuming large proportions.
New Case at Quarantine.
| Quarantine. Sept. 1.-THE steamers
Rhineland and Amalfi We're released
from Quarantine this afternoon.
DR.. Walser reports a new case on
board the Scandal.
| There was great excitement in the
station tonight upon hearing the report
| of the five cases of cholera which had
| appeared in New York. Dr. Jenkins
| expressed himself as confident it had
not passed quarantine. He said the
| best authorities in the world held that
a stringent and complete quarantine
could only claim to prevent seventy per
| cent. of the possibilities of an introduc-
ton Of cholera into the place.
Chicago Officials Speak.
Chicago, Sept. 14-Dr. B. NJ. Grit
fths, chairman of the Illinois state
} board Of health and DR.. Reilly, its sec
retary were furnished tonight with