New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-20
NO CHOLERA IN THIS TOWN.
SoSAYSTHE BOARDOF HEALTH
SOME SUSPICIOUS CASES BEING INVEST.
GATED.
ONLY ONE VICTIM ON swINBURNE ISLAND NOW
ALL THE RET IN A CONVALEsCENT STATE
LITTLE FEAR OF AN EPIDEMIC
HERE-RUGIA'S PASSENGERS
ALLOWED TO LAND.

HERE-RUGIAs PASSENGERS
ALLOWED TO LAND.
Another day has passed and new
Of undoubted cholera have been
reported in this city. Three suspicious cases
are now being considered by the health officials and
a biological examination is being made There seems
to be fear Of cholera epidemic. The
cabin passengers OF the Ruga were released from
their quarantine and landed at the pier of the Ham
burg Line last evening. The steamship state Of
Nevada was placed under quarantine at her pier and
the discharge of her cargo stopped because OF the
death Of stoher hoard II is not thought that he
died from cholera still the health authorities wanted
to be on the safe side No at Quarantine
were reported. There is only patient in the
hospital Swinburne Island all the others being In
the oonvaescent ward
What Is suspected to be OF Asatic cholera
was discovered late yesterday afternoon. About eight
days ago there returned from Bay Shore L. L. William
schlemrner, hardware merchant. whose store is at
No. 2O9 Bowery and whose home is at No. 81 East
Eighty third-st Mr.. Schlemmer, with his family had
spent the summer at Bay Shore. and accompanying
him on his return to town his coachman, Louis
Wenhagen, hiry-fve Years Old who is unmarried and
whom Mr.. Sclemmer had employed for many years.
When Weinhagcn had stabbed Mr.. Schlemmers hoses
he went to his old lodgings in the big boarding house
sept by Mrs. Gunther at Nos. and Extra Place.
This boarding house gives shelter to $50 men. all
married.
weinhagen, having returned to bis city
life. went about his work much as
usual, and apparently in perfect
warning. and while preparing to start ont his days
work. he stricken with what seemed TO be par
tculary acute attack Of diarrhoea, accompanied by
physical and mental prostraOn. This, at all events.
the diagnosis OF the physician who attended him.
But time and Wenlagen's condition showed
no Improvement the men in the house, with cholera
their minds, became alarmed. 1t was not until
Wain
sickness assumed a definite phase. There was the
vid pallor the sunlen eye the icy coldness of the
eXuenAties the vomiting, the shivering fits and the
collapse that seemed 10 indicate cholera.
The ply scian in charge if the felt justified in
reporting it to the Health Board. The physicians Of
the Board decided after examination. that Wein'ascn
must be removed to the Reception Hospital They
would not commit themselves the positive statement
that the case was one OF Asaic cholera, but they ad
mitcd that the symptoms were OF the right kind. At
the Reception Hospital last night the doctors who are
watching Weinhagen still declined officially to diagnose
the case, but they looked grave over it, To-day they
will. In all probability. issue al official report.
When II was found that Weinhagcn would be re-
moved to the Reception Hospital, many OF the $50
dodgers in the house got ont of it with all possible
haste The orders of the Health Board were prompt
and effective Inside Of two hours the huge four
story house had been fumigated and dreiched with
danfecants, and doctor was left in charge Of It,
men who remain in the building
Bulletins which were posted In the office OF the
Health Board yesterday at 10 a. M and at D. M de-
cared that no Of cholera had appeared In tho
city. President Wilson said "Thcre is NJ cholera In
the city present and. as no sickness has appeared
at any Of the houses which known to have been
infected think there Is to hope that the city
win be free from the disease for the remainder Of the
year. OF shall continue to be waclful and
to take every possible precauon against cholera We
will keep our organization In fighting trim and will be
prepared to check the cholera If it appears again.
Mr. Wilson was in consultation with Commissioner
BRYANT and other sanitary officials during the day. but
they did not transact any business of Importance 1t
vas said except to quarantine the steamships State
Of Nevada at her dock North River and Twenty-frst
St. and prevent the unloading OF the cargo pending an
Investigation IN the Of John Knox. the stoier. who
died on the vessel on Sunday evening Knox had been
ashore and had been drinking liquor freely Upon his
return to the vessel Sfnday afternoon he was at
tackled with vomiting and darrhoea, and he died AZ
80 p. There was reason to think that Ill
death was natural result OF intoXcation bu' as soon
rs the Health department had been Informed the
usual precautions suspicious case were observed
Knox,s body was moved the dsnfecting station In
Fast sxteenth-st and dsinfccants were used freely
on the steamship and on the pier. YESTERDAY the
vessel was cleared Of longshoremen and the work OF
unloading her stopped
President wilson, OF the Health Board, informed
captain OF the steamship we CohiHf"!
that permission would be gwen TO resume the work as
,oon as an Investigation had satisfied the Board that
Knox dad no. die from cholera. An autopsy Oh
KNOCKS body WAS performed by Dr.. Biggs at the olsl
fectipx station carly in the day. DR.. Bryant who
vas present said that the results were negative.
pc did no, believe that Knox had died from cholera
hut II WAS decided 10 await the result OF the biological
Investigation by Dr. Biggs who said he probably
ceu,d make a report on the case TINS afternoon
DR. Ei.gs WIZ, making investigation also IN the
case Of James Carr, the captain Of the canaiboat
Harry Cahil who d.ed in ewBruISWlok, y. 81
an sii,nday win symptoms similar 10 those observed
In the caSe OF Knox. A sanitary Inspector was SEM
from this city New Brunswick ana he 0paiheu lVi
avauinats,n by DR.. Hiygs sample OF intestinal nud
from Cars body. The canalboat was quaiahuheu
20 epdav Al Tniiticth-st aud the North RlVer .
nr Ramsay OF No 81 West Twenty ninth,st, who
Rod heen called 20 attend a man named smhh dt no
400 West Thirty frsts but II was sa.d NJ the 'tei
~ Contagious Diseases late in the afternoon at al
Investigation had shown smiths illness 70 pe not cor
taciolIs and there reason TO think ne haa 'e
cholera ,. .....,.o,oa n, h.v
MARY Cenerty who was no longer suspected OF nay
ing cholera was said recovering from ner attack
~ indigestion YESTERDAY. and SIN the only patent
at the Reception Hospital 1870, ,.o,ors shin
The twenty I'VE additional meSical inspectors WIZ
were appointed week reported to Chief Inspector
Roberts Yesterday and were set 10 WORK making III
sections in tenement houses.
Commissioner brennan, of the Street Cleaning De
Ppnsrd Yesterday and said that the streets would be
kept as clean as possible
IN AID OF THE HAMBURG SUFFERERS.
In response to appeal made in this city for