Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-16
CAUSES LITTLE ALARM
General Opinion that New York's Health Board Can
 Throttle the Cholera.
BUT ONE NEW CASE IN THE CITY ANC
 NONE IN THE BAY.

that the Board of HeaIthAis Suppressing Facts-ProclamatiOn by ths Mayor Normannia'a Passengers Free To-day Quarantine Against New York Vessels by the United States Of Columbia.
 NEW YORK, Sep 16.-The most import ant development of the cholera situation is the discovery of the first living cholera patient in this city, and her prompt re- moval to the reception hospital The in- tricate and carefully p1anned municipal machinery for combating and stamping out the cholera, which was made ready before its use became necessary, is DOW in active operation.
 Its practical effect has been demon strated during the past two days, and the results obtained in the city proper are the best arguments against any alarm in the city over the situation. An immense amount of work was transacted yesterday by the Health authorities and the other city officials.
 Down the bay the news is cheering. There were no deaths and no new cases on any of the quarantined ships nor on Swinburne Island yesterday. Gs
 The steamship Bohemia, the last of the line from Hamburg, which has on
 
 gers, is due at Sandy Hook at any hour It is the last of the immigrant bearing fleet that will come in.
 The Health inspectors have reported an- other case of cholera. The victim, Mary Conity, 19 years old, residing at 692 2d avenue, has been removed to the St. Johns Guild Floating Hospital.
 Miss Conity came to this city from Ire land six months ago. She remained with a family named Lyons living at 692 2d. avenue until she secured employment, seven weeks ago, when she entered the :. employ of Mrs Maria Finn. who keeps g., clearinghouse at 221 East 31st street.
 She was taken i'll at 9 o'clock, and by midnight the entire household was ex- cited a the girls condition. Dr. Kane, who was called in, pronounced her suf- ferer from Asiatic cholera. Dr. Dilling- ham of the Bureau of Contagious Dis eases visited the house and found the girl in the second stages of Asiatic cholera. He caused her removal to the hospital. Immediately upon her removal the work. of Immigration and disinfecting was be- gun, everything with which she had come in contact being destroyed.
 How the girl contracted the disease is. a mystery, and intense excitement pre- vailed in the tenement house from which she has been removed.
 Mayor Grant has issued proclamation
 
 Department has shown entire competence to deal with the cholera. He anticipates, no spread of the disease, and asks the | people to have confidence in the provisions, adopted by the Board for the safety of the | people. He also invites their aid in en-. forcing sanitary regulations for the main-A tenance of health.
 The Board of Coroners have decided to- cooperate with the Health Board in com. all fhao | and their physicians are requested to be on duty every day, so as to meet all. emergencies.
 It was decided by the Health Board to- | send all immigrants who are sick on Ellis: Island directly to North Brothers Island by boat, instead of through the city as l formerly.
 It is said that rags from European ports: are being landed in Brooklyn daily. The, authorities have been notified, and are 1 making an investigation to-day. The public having been notified that Asiatic cholera has made it's way into this, | city and that six deaths have already been caused here by the pest, the people are anxious to know whether there are. { any cases of the disease still in the city. | The Health Board is accused of holding back the news until the last moment and it is now believed by some that the Health Officers are likely concealing other facts and that they may be aware of other cases at the present moment. The charge that news of the arrival of cholera was held back is not altogether true. The cases were reported by the attending physicians as suspicious, but it was not until after an examination that the true facts were learned, then the public was notified. | Investigations have shown where the cholera probably came from in at least | l. ,2A .. other contagious. It came through the port of New York. Immigrant passen- gers on the steamer Friesland, which ar rived here on Aug 29, seem to have brought the disease to little Minnie Levinger, who died on Sep. II. They are traced back to Antwerp, which they reached from other cities in Europe, no doubt infected with cholera. When they reached Quarantine there was illness reported on board, and after few hours' detention and o-called fumigation, they were permitted to proceed.
 From the steamship pier the passsen- gers scattered over the city and country.
 Four young women of the company went to No. All East Seth street, where little Minnie lived. It appears that being greatly interested in the child they spent some idle hours playing with it.
 There is every reason to believe that the infection was in their clothing; that - they innocently carried it about with them, escaping its dangers themselves, and that from their clothing the child got the disease which carried it off in 24 hours.
 In the case of Callahan plausible con- nection seems to be established between him and immigrants who, arriving in the city by transatlantic steamers, went . south by the Mallory line, to whose pier Callahan was often taken by his business. He was butcher.
 In the other instances the relatives and physicians have not been able to suggest { the precise method of the infection, but n it seems not unlikely that it came about in some similar way.
 The quarantined passengers on Fire Is- land are in excellent spirits at the pros pect of their early release
 Everything there is quiet and the few troops that are left seem to be out ot