Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-15

HOW DID IT etT rHCRG7 is TIE
QUESTION.
Precautions Taken 10 Prevent It's
Further Spread. Each
House Isolated.
rive 'orps.s Mark Its Advent Notwlth.
standing All Precautions.

NEw NORK, Sept. ll.-NOw that
hAlauc cholera has developed among
the dwellers In this city, each may ask
HE nfghb0r; DWELL, what Vt it2"
This expression impllrs NJ overconh.
dence. 10 lies within each indivldu.
a'H power 10 assure his own personal
eafety almost beyond persdvcntufc.
He has but 10 drins no water ane milk
except euch nB has been thoroughly
hOiiod, and 10 eht no food that mas not
beon thoroughly anu fully cooked, and
10 abstain from butter nni cheese,
and no may then possess his soul In
serenity. Cholera viii pass him by.
Ever since the "MurayiR" arrived
In port, state anu local officials have
been siraining every nerve 10 prevent
cholera gaining footholi la this city
nnd being spread by various channels
10 the country at large, but while they
were Nil looking seward, cholera
quietly made II presence iolt In our
midst and five corpsos ,odny mark It's
advent.
How did It get int The question lie
on every one's lips. Tne health
CelccIs are puzzled, hut stringent pre-.
cautions are being taken TO prevent It's
spread. At each Of the houses where
the patients lived, two doctors have
been stationed, 10 remain constantly
on duty, enforcing the most rigid
rules Of cleanliness, seeing 10 disiniec.
ton, etc. No family must move out
OF the houses without q written permit.
The idea IN TO OveTwhclm aud stamp
cut the disease In each house, AS was
done with typhuB upon lie first appear
auoe. That this could lie done was
successfully demonstrated In the
cholern outbreak Of 1866. The doctors
on duty In each Injected house VIII
remain there until danger Of further
outbreak IL finally passed. The health
officers fully telleve this Will be- before
long. Other cases are expected 10 dc.
velop from the scattered centcfs Of
con,nglon. but none In the same build
ings.
pose 10 drive cholera from the city
now that II has gotten In, and II the
citizens will use reAEon and not get
into
FOOLISH AND NEEDLESS rANiC
they are sure they will succeed, though
they by no means underestimate the
danger. Every possibility, every
feature Of cholera epidemic has Leen
discounted and provided against. IL IA
hard for the department % trace the
csses 10 far reported, because all oil the
victims are dead.
The situation IL identical with that
OF 1855, when cholera suddenly np-
peared In three or four wi1ely separat-
ed places In this city after Il had been
succcfsiully quarantined out the previ.
Gus fall.
The first case this year was Chap.
NJ. Cavoy, plasterer by trade, who
lived on Tenth avenue. Tho only
possible Clew was that he may have
been working on wharf, yet none Of
the ptet ships come 10 wharf. Me.
Avoy was seized with cramps Monday
evening and the next morning took TO
bed, dying Tuesday evening. They
diagnosed the case as Aslatic cholera,
anu the house was disiniected ns
measure OF precautiOn. DIR. Biggs, who
made the autopsy, declared, however,
that It's result was "nOt nj all sugges.
tive OF Asiatic cholera, while showing
familiar signs OF cholera morbua." In
spite OF this statement, however, some
Of the Intestinal fluid was given TO
sanitary headquarters and cultivated
IN jellitine produced crop OF cholera
bacllln, and the nature Of the disease
II no longer open 10 question. Eight
days have elapsed since cAyOy's
death. What caused the long delay
In ascerlaining the exact facts Is not
stated.