Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-30
CHOLERA IN new YORK CITY.
Tt Jumps Quarantine Barriers
and Scatters Death.
Every Precaution Taken to Pre-
vent the Plaques Spread.

Cholera has broken quarantine and ap-
peared in New York City. four deaths OF it
being officially acknowledged by the Board
of Health, two other deaths of it being semi
officially admitted and three other sus-
picious cases reported. All this occurred
within the space of eight days.
Following is the list of the dead:
Charlotte Beck, thirty-one years old, diet
at her home. No. 1864 Second avenue. hav-
ing been i'll less than twenty-four hours.
Peter Calaghan, an unmarried stableman,
who boarded with his sister at No. 3lS East
Forty-seventh street, died after an illness of
four days duration. He was thirty years
old.
Minnie Levinger. child under two years
of age died at No All East Forty-Sixth
street. She had been i'll about two days.
Charles McAvoy, age thirty-fve, an I'M
married plasterer, boarding at No. S79
Tenth avenue, died after illness Of about
twelve hours
William Wigmann, age fifty-fve, died in
his home, at No. 76S Eleventh avenue. He
had been ill in the house for eight days.
Sophia Wigmann, sxty-three years old,
Williams wife. She was attacked with the
cholera about twenty hours before her hus
band died
No evidence could be found that the di-
sease had been communicated by passengers
from infected ports. ana the Health OficsrS
were of the opinion that the cases were
alarm.
The first three cases were developed in a
poor. but clean neigh oOrhOOd on the East
Side and in all the cases the victims had
lived for a long time in the vicinity of where
they were stricken.
None of the dead were immigrants newly
arrived. McAvoy, the most recently lande1
of them ALL had been in the country ten
years. None Of the dead belong to the
nationalities among whom the outbreak of
the disease was feared. The surroundings
of none of them showed the elements
of filth AMI squalor wherein the pest pecu-
liarly loves to breed, None had so far as
known co ne into contact with the cargoes
of any ship discharged before the present
rigid quarantine was instituted, though
most of McAvoy's old jobs were
done about the docks. and William Wig
man, of No. 768 Eleventh avenue, who was
the fourth victim, and whose wife was the
second, had, two months before his seizure,
worked for a butcher who supplied the
Hamburg American Company with meat.
Whether the disease was borne across the
city from the place OF its appearance IN
Tenth and Eleventh avenues, or whether
its East and West Side victims met I'M
known to each other at some one point and
thence carried the seeds of a common death
to their widely Sc 1arated homes was also
mystery.
Police ofic 9rs were placed on duty at the
front doors of the infecte l houses for the
purpose OF c1ecHing the entrance OF any but
known inmates.
The bodies OF the victims were removed
from the houses with care disinfected after
the autopsies were performed and placet in
sealed metal collins for burial
On the second daY after the Health De-
partment issued its bulletin Mary Conerty,
dom 4stic, of No 692 Second avenue, was
taken to the reception hospital suffering
from cholera. Several suspicious cases were
reported to the Board OF Health. City
quarantine lines were ma ie more stringent.