Evening journal., 1892-09-07
CHOLERA STILL RAGING.
Twelve New Cases Discovered
in New York Harbor.
THE CITY FREE FROM THE PLAGUE


WIN BE Able to Pass the RigsI Quar-
antine Rehabilitation Dead
Hurried Into Unmarked Graves.
NEW YonE, Sept From ssven TO four
teen miles of salt water still separate the
borders Of. New York city from the drea9
Oriental plague which has stretched its arm
of death across 5000 miles Of ocean. There
has been no outbreak Of Asiatic cholera H.
the city itself, according TO the bulletins
which are now issued twice daily by the
board Of health. And these bulletins are a
most Wholesome check upon panic, discour-
aging and notwithstanding sensational and
uusconthc diagnoses Of intestinal disorders
in the thickly settled tenement house dis
tricts.
But in the harbor deaths pirate, cholera,
stil threatens with breeding swarms Of
bacili the waters Of both the upper and
lower bays and continues to add to the
number of his victims Yesterday there
was another death-this one from the Rugio
added TO the grim catalogue Of victims ON
sea and in harhor
There were twelve new cases reported
Z
crew OF the Normnnnia, as well MS one OF
the Nomannia's passengers on Hoffman
island Aud also there arrived the steam
ship Eihe, with AGO steerage and SOP first
and second class passengers from Bremen.
a port now infected, but not So when the
Elbe cleared; the Corean from Glasgow,
clean port, with 22O passengers; the Persian
Monarch, from London with 30 cabin pas
sengers; the Eysa, from Gibraltar whence
came our last visitation OF cholerlD with
230 passengers and the Cachimere, from
the dangerous port Of Marseille5 with ass
! passengers.
All Qunrantined.
There had been only one death upon all
these VESSELS during passage, and that was
upon the Elhe from heart disease. But,
though all these ships had a clean record,
the Quarantined population Of the harboi
/ keeps growing.
And meanwhile the separation Of those
/ exposed to infection is still delayed and
| still the detention of hundreds of passen-
gers, presumably exposed to no direct con-
/ tact with the deadly germs, must continue.
! The cabin passengers of the Normannia.
! from which the fteeruge passengers have
! been removed TO Hoffman island, still re-
main ON board the ship.
The special police patrol continues 10 guard
the quarantinod vessels from contact with
williully inquaitive visitors. A further pre.
caution against bringing the germs on shore
is the order forhddug bathing on the
shores of Staten Island near the Narrows.
Today there Is due the steamship City OF
New York Among her passengers are the
wife ana daughterof Secretary OF the Treas
ury Foster, who viii receive, the secretary
has himself announced, exactly the same
treatment as all other passengers
Upon the cabin list of the City OF New
York Is also booked the name of Chauncoy
M. Depew. An excursion down Che hay TO
meet him, arranged 10y G. G.. Clark IL. Wal
| ter Webb j. NJ. Toucey, j B. butcher and
w. j. Van Arsdale, has OF course been
abandoned
Wiii Keep the Plague out.
Health Officer Jenkins has written 20 the
secretary of the treasury that be viii curry
ont the presidents order that all immi
grant ships sailing after Sept. ! be detained
twenty days i'm quarantine.
Ex-Surgeon General Hamilton, after his
visit TO quarantine, said he was confident
cholera would not enter this city.
The commnndunt OF the Brooklyn navy
yard has placed tug and two steam
launches at the disposal Of DR.. Jenkins to
prevent unauthorized communication with
the steamers at quarantine.
Recorder Smyth has called tho attention
of the grand jury 20 the plague, quoting
the law governing trospassors Of quaran
time.
Commissioner Gilroy says Croton water
IS an right and tine city health board has
decided TO stop the use of water from
driven wells should an outbreak of cholera
oCcnr.
The health department Of Brooklyn viii
not permit rags TO be landed there, no mat
ter whence they come until all danger Of an
epidemic is passed
Tho state BOARD Of Health.
The state board OF health met at the Muir
ray Hill hotel and ratified the action takei
by Secretary Lewis Balch i'm connection
with the cholera trouble, authorizing the
circular sent ont boy him to the severa
health officers of the state under date O.
( Aug. 81. There were present at the meet
ing Thomas s.. Dawes, of Saugerties; DIR
John vs.. Whitbeck, of Rochester; DR. Jo
, seph ID. Bryant, of this city and Dr. Balch
The board went into executive session
and after agreeing TO the instructions com
d municatcd by Secretary balch unanimousl.
passed the following;
On
rious boards OF health under the jurisdiction o.
tho state board Of health De directed 60 repor
30 lh1 secretary of the state board as To- wha
| preparations they have made as 90 lhe imror
l. taticn of cholera and what preparations tho
, haye made Tor the care of the sick. Tho Score
u tary SIS instructed Co formulate and issue sui
il nuio Instructions relating Co the treatment au
h. disintecfion OF cholera patients and an utho
y articles liable to propagate the disease.
Resolved, That immediate steps be talson @
. provide sufficient funds 90 meet the demand
for all necessary protection of the state again.
cholera. Also. that che secretary Dee autho,
izod 20 appoint che needed inspectors OF Oh
70 northern boundary of the state and 90 hX thei
d compensation and instruct them In their a.
). ties.
The board recommended that the drain
age of Hoosic Falls be looked into and in
proved.
Money 20 Fight the Plague.
TRENTON, Sept c. Governor Abbott hs
" authorized the New Jersey state beard
health Go draw upon tho state treasury +,
ulouqvs needed fo take fronar rrpenufior