The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-16
HOW WILL IT END?
Another Case of Cholera Dis
covered in New York.
ANOTHER PLAGUE Snip ARRIVES.
Health Authorities Are More Vigilant Than
Ever-Situation at Quarantine, Fire
Island and Other Points.

NEW York, Sept 15.-After a conference
this afternoon with President Wilson OF
the health department and President Porter
Of the department of charities and correc-
tions on the outbreak Of cholera in the city,
Mayor Grant gave out proclamation to
the public reciting the appearance OF
cholera in the city aud the means taken to
combat it. The mayor calls for confidence
in the provisions taken and says excessive
fear on the part of the public is not iusti-
fed. The cholera, says the proclamation.
is neither Infectious nor contagious within
the common meaning of the word, nor is IT..
In the language of an eminent authority, as
dangerous as q phtheria. The public will
be intelligently advised as TO the progress
of the disease. The paper closes:
Rest assured that all will be done by the
authorities 10 meet every emergency. and with
the confidence OF the public and their ala i'll
enforcing the sanitary regulations, the cholera
will be mastered, health restored, and peace,
good order and happiness maintained
NOTES.
Sanitary Superintendent Edison has had
g conference with Police Superintendent
Byrnes, and over two hundred Thousand
cholera circulars are being distributed
through the city. They are printed In
English, German, Hebrew, italian and
Bohemian
The work of fitting q floating hospital at
the foot OF Sixteenth street is being hur-
ried along.
Among the nurses Offering their services
are many young women of reinemen5 and
education. Tue attire of several Indie ated
q life Of ease and wealth. There have
been many male applicants also.
Pierpont Morgan, treasurer OF the
Chamber of Commerce Quarantine Elmer
'gency fund, acknowledged the receipt OF
an additional S72, 1876 in subscriptions since
noon yesterday; previously acknowledged,
SOS 300; grand Io5al 10 date, Sl3O. 635.
Tomorrow the Normania's passengers
will be brought by boat from Fire island
and landed at the Normanis's pier in Ho-
boken. The landing may be opposed by
the New Jersey authorities.
ANOTHER CASE IN NEW YORK.
Mary Connerty, a l9-year cid girl who
came from Ireland six months ago, was
removed to the reception hospital today
from a tenement on Second avenue, suffer
ing from what is announced as genuine
cholera. II is not known how sne got the
plague. Orders were issued 10 have the
girl removed at once to the reception hos
pital. Six hundred and nlnety-tWO Second
avenue is a tenement in which eight fami-
lies live. The house was thoroughly dis
infected today and the bedding on which
the sick girl had laid taken away and
burned. All her clothing WAS also burned
Employees of the health department went
10 Mrs. Fenn's boarding house, where tie
girl recently washed, and took away the
bed in which she slept on there and what
ever clothing she had. Everything was
burned 10 destroy the infection.
The boarding house has also been disin-
fected. Mrs. Fenn's boarders, eight in
number, are professional people. They are
badly scared. A physician was detailed to
watch the house from which the girl was
removed. A large crowd gathered and it
took severel policemen to keep the crowd
back. 1t is believed the girl viii die.
Physicians have possession of some of the
girls vomit for examination. This is the
frat case of cholera reported in the city 10
which tho patient Is alive.
THREE SUSPECTED CASES OF CHOLERA
were reported to the health authorities to-
night but upon investigation by experts
they were pronounced to be cholera
morbus and cramps.
The Bohemia WAS due here about mid
night tonight, but has not yet arrived.
Much anxiety is being expressed by the
health officers of the arrival Of the boat, as
1t is feared she has many cases Of cholera
ahoord