The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-15

10 always communicated. He IL to teach b
the tenants TO burn all garbage. vegetable
hre 10 brisk, and let no offal be thrown in
the street. No family must move out of the
house without . written permit Should now
cases develop In the house, these are his in.
structions: All discharges from bowels or
vomit of sIok persons to be received in
vessels containing disinfecting fluid before
emptylng into the closet or privy. All
soiled bedding sheets, pillow cases, blan-
kets. handkerchiefs or rags to bo removed
et once and put into pail or tub, with
ward boiled for half an hour. Dri mixing
vessels or other vessels used by patients
not 60 be used again without being thor
oughiy cieansed by boiling soapsuds.
READY FOR AN ATTACK.
The summer CORDS of fifty tenement doc
tors was recently turned into an expectant
cholera squad. The idea Is to overwhelm
and stamp out the disease In each house. as
WAS done with the typhus. upon it's first
appearances. That this could be done was
successfully demonstrated IN 1866 The
two doctors now on duty in each infected
house will remain there until the danger of
further outbreak has finally passed. The
health officers fully believe that this will
be before long. Other cases are expected
to develop from scattered centers of
buildings. That is the way the health
officers. propose to drive the cholera
from the city. now that IL has got
in. and If the citizens will use reason and
not get IN foolish and needless panic
they are sure that they will succeed. Ev-
erything is ready for an attack. The
floating hospital Is in order. and the pro-
posed cholera camp. the site OF which is yet
the departments secret, can be occupied
on the brietest notice. There is no panic
ND md. hx-rr ov.,s q hon
ters. Every possibility, every feature of
cholera epidemic has been discounted and
provided against.
How the disease slipped through quaran-
tine and got in is. as before stated. a mys-
terry which tho doctors are trying to solve
by tracing each case as far back as possi-
bic. 1t is hard to do that because all of
the victims are dead. Of none of them had
the department any notice until they had
died. The situation is identical with that
peared in three or four widely separated
places in the eity-In Ninety.th,rd street
and In Mulberry street, quite five
miles apart-after it had been
previous fall. Then, as now. q fleet Of
plague-ships lay in the bay. But the cases
of cholera that broke out then Ia New York
had no connection with quarantine. TIE
real origin OF the plague was never discov-
cred. The first case in that epidemic was
tnat of q widow who lived on the rocks In
Ninety-third street, above Third avenue.
The first case this year was that of Charles
McAvoy, who died at No. $40 Tenth avenue.
He was plasterer. The only possible clew
may be found in the statement that he had
been working about the steamboat
wharves Yet mono of the pest ships had
come up to Its wharf.
THE FIVE VICTIMS
Charles McAvoy was seized with cramps
in the legs on Monday evening, bat felt
better in tho morning, and went to his
work. At IL O'clock in the forenoon he
came home and said he was sick. He went
TO bed and had fresh attack of cramps.
The pain extended to the abdomen and
Kidneys and violent diarrhea and vomit-
ing followed. DR.. Robert Deshon. of No.
354 West Fffty-sixth street. as called in. He
diagnosed the case as Asiatic cholera and
called DR.. II. Robinson. of No. 402 West
Fifty-elghth street. in consultation. He
confirmed the diagnosis. In tho evening
McAvoy died, and the doctors notified the
Beard of Health. An autopsy was held on
Mcsrey's body and the house was disin-
fected as a~measure OF precautlOn. The
result of the autopsy was declared by
DIR. Briggs to be mot at oil Suggestive OF
Asiatic cholera. while showing the familiar
signs of cholera -morbus." However, some
of the intestinal fluid was taken to SAM.
tary headquarters and an attempt made
to raise comma bacillI in it by cul-
tivation in o soil of gelatine and beef
soup fine crop was the result. The
germ had been found. The nature of the
disease was no longer open to question.
Eight days have elapsed since McAvoy's
death. What caused the long delay In as
certaining the exact facts of his death is
not stated.
William, Wigmann and his wife Sophia
were an aged couple who lived alone at No.
761 Eleventh avenue. He was tifty-twO
and she sixty-three years old. She was
ssss s.ssd of r' .na dsd daT. after an said I'D
Before she was dead her husband fell
i'll and died two days later, while she lay
yet unbnried. An autopsy WAS made upon
their bodies ut the reception hospital last
night. DR.. Biggs had barely got through
with his examination of the intestinal
contents of the two cOrpses before he was
called TO the hospital to perform an autopsy
on Charlotte Beck. That was early this
morning. 1t was the discovery Of the
her bowels that caussd the OFF, icials to Issue
q proclamation to the board this afternoon.
Mrs. Beck was seized with violent
cramps In the leg and abdomen yesterday
morning. DIR. Nandergally was called in.
He diagnosed the case promptly as Asiatlc
cholera and potifed the health board. He
saw her at 9:25. At IL o'clock she was
dead. She d!ed in collapse.
The fifth case is said to be that of Min.
ME Levinger. a child. who died Sept. II. at
No. All East Fortieth street
There have been other cases of which the
board of health has not made an official re-
port. A colored waiter. fresh from New
port, was seized with cholera NOR
bus. SO it was thought. in o FIRST
avenue clearinghouse three days ago.
surgeon from the Presby terian Hos
piral refused to take him away in his am
bulance. and the health departments sick
wagon was sent for. He died on the way
to the hospital. 1t is now believed that his
death also may have been due TO Asiatc
cholera, but the Board of Health shows
that it does not share that belief by not
putting the house In which he was taken
ill under quarantine.
1t WAS said at police headquarters to-day
that the disease had been brought into the
city by butchers taking meat to the quar-
antined Hamburg steamers. but this could
not be supported. 1t was later determined
away from school and &c disinfect and
fumigato the premises daily.
THE HEALTH BOARDS BULLETIN.
The bulletin issued by the Health Depart
ment this afternoon, at 2 O clock, stated that
all the cases were originally reported to the
Health Department as suspected cholera
and had been under the investigation Of
physicians connected with the department.
Prof. Herman Biggs. who Is in charge of the
department of pathology anu bacte-
riology of the Health Department, has
been at!work!making the meteorological ex.
animation into the testinaf fluids tax en-
from bodies of the suspected casea Prof.