The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-15
WILL IT SPREAD?
Health Officials Using Every Pre-.
caution to Prevent 1t.
THE PASSENGERS AT FIRE ISLAND
VIII Probably Be Released Today-The Gen
eraI Situation Reassuring-More Steam
ship Arrivals with the Disease on
Board-Five Deaths Already
Reported in the City.

New York, Sept l4-Now that Asiatic
cholera has developed among jewellers in
this city, each may ask his nelghbor:
well, what of itl''
This expression implies no over conf
dence. It lies within each individuals
power to assure his own individual safety
almost beyond perRdventure. He has but
to drink no water and milk except such as
has been thoroughly boiled and to eat no
food that has not been thoroughly and fully
cooked, and will abstain from butter and
cheese, and he may then possess his soul in
serenity. The cholera will pass him by.
Ever since the Moravia arrived in port as
a harbinger of the dreaded plague. state
and local officials have been strsining every
nerve to prevent its gaininga foothold in
this city, and being spread by various chan
nels TO the country at large, but while they
were all looking seaward, the cholera has
quietly
MADE ITS PRESENCE FELT
in our midst, and i've corpses today mark
its advent.
How did it get here, is the question or
every ones lips. The health officers are
puzzled, but insist on precautions being
taken to prevent its spread. AT each of the
houses where the patients lived, two doc
tors have been stationed TO remain con-
stantly on duty, enforcing the most rigid
rules OF cleanliness, seeing TO
disinfection. etc. No family must move
oct of the house without written permit
The idea is TO overwhelm and stamp out
the disease II each house. as was done with
the typhus upon it's first appearance. That
this could be done was successfully demon
strated in the cholera outbreak of 1866.
Tho doctors on duty in each OF the in
fected houses viii remain there until all
danger of q further outbreak is d lally
passed. The health officers fully believe
this will be before long. Other cases are
expected to develop from scattered CEN
tiers Of contagion, but zone in the same
buildings. That is the way the health Off :
Gers propose to drive the cholera from the
city now it hiss got in, aud II the citizens
viii use reason aud not get into foolish
and needless panic they are sure they will
succeed, though they by no means under
value the danger
Every possibility, every feature of the
cholera epidemic has been discounted and
provided against 1t Is hard for the de-
partment to trace cases SO far reported, be-
cause all Of the victims are dead.
The situation is identical with that of
1866, when the cholera suddenly appeared
In three or four widely separated places in
the city after it had been successfully
guaranteed out the previous fall.
The first case this year was Charles M.
Cavoy, 8 plasterer by trade, who lived in
Tenth avenue. The only possible clue is
shat he may have been working on wharf,
yet none of the pest ships came to the
wharves.
McAyoy was seized with cramps Mon
day evening and next morning took to bed,
dying Tuesday evening. Two doctors
diagnosed the case as Asiatic cholera, and
the house WAS disinfectsd as measure of
precaution. Or. Biggs, who made an
autopsy, declared, however, 1t was mot at
all suggestive of Asistic cholera while
showing familiar signs of cholera morbus -
In spite or this statement however, some
of the intestinal fluid was taken 60 the
sanitary headquarters and cultivated in
1eIIitine produced crop of cholera bsciIla
and the nature of the disease is no longer
open to question. Eight days nave elapsed
since McAvoy's death. Whist caused the
long delay in EscertRining the exact facts
Is not stateu. There have been other cases.
OF which the board has not Yet made an
official report
twas said ut police headquarters this
evening that the disease mad been brought
into the city by butchers taking meat to
Qlarentined steamships, but this could not
be supported
The names Of those who died from chol-
ara are:
Charles MoAvcy, died Sept. g. address
net known
Mrs. Sophia Wigman, died Sept. 10, ut
76S Eleventh avenue.
William Wigmau, husband Of Sophia
W;gmsn. died at the same address the fol
lowing dsy.
Minnie Levanger, child, died Sept IL. at
al East Eorty-sixth street.
Charlotte Beck, 80 years old, died ysster-
dey forenoon at l754 Second avenue.
AL these cases we're originally reported
70 the health authorities as suspected
CHOLERA and have been under the investi-
CATION OF Yhy sicisns con aected with
the department Professor Herman
Biggs, who is in charge of the division
Of pathology and bactereology, has
been making meteorological examinations
Of TIE Intestinal fluids taken from the
bodies ci suspected cases. He reported to
the department this afternoon the result OF
his examinations and announced unhesitat-
,nrly that The cases were Asiatic choiera
without doubt.
William Wigman was SO years old and
his wife. Sophia, was 90 years old He had
been sick for eight days and mis- wife had
been sick fer about the same length Of
.ime. She dad on Saturday and he on
Monday. The physicians in attendance re-
ported they believed the cases to be cholera
and by order Of the board of heslth the
bodies were removed 10 the detention hos
pitai, where they were examined by Pro-
lessor Biggson.
Charlotte Beck of l764 Second avenue
was found sick IN her apartments yesfer-
day morning. She was attended TO by Dr.
Ysnderga.tz, who saw her at $3.50 o'clock.