New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-06
on BOARD THE UNLUCKY SHIP :
WHO The NEW CHOLERA VICTIMS WE'RE.
DR.. JENKINS AND DIR. T,LLMApcE TAKE

DR.. JENKINS AND DIR. T,LLMADGE TAKE \
CHEERFUL VIEW OF THE sITUNT,oY.
Asatic cholera added TO the number Of its
victims in tie Lower Bay YES eriay ON tic Il team
thip Normanna it ,prad from the Stccrage
passengers to the crew. and up TO last night had
! killed ono of them aud stricken down two more
| On the Rugia there were one death and two new
cases Of illness in the stceragc. On Swlnburne
| Island n nyc-monthS- old child which had come
over in the stccragc of the Normanna, died and
a new case of cholera among tie Noimannla steer
age passengers developed on Hoffman Island. and
was AT once transferred to the '-houS" Swim
burnc Island. one Of the nurses who went down
the bay few days ago e. for the chol"rn
patients was taken i'll on one Of the islands also
but her case was not diagnosed cholera accord
in4 70 Dr. Jenkins. He refused 10 say what her
name
This does not seem like cheering news. vet
| Dr. Jenkins said cmphatically last night, in an
swcr 10 a question: Il certainly consider the
state of affairs decidedly favorable. No ease,
have spread among the stccrasc pa,sengcs of the
Nomannia and Ruga. outside of the families
first attacked. This speaks volumes for the good
worl, done by tie ships surgeons"
DR. 1allmadgc. who carefully weighs things
before he speaks, said 10 a Tribune reporter last
night, when asked whether hc dii not fear that
his work was Just beginning: NO. sir | thni;
that the hardest part of IT is over. The ships
ailoat the only ones 10 he feared. II
they bring no new eases or can le a. well held
aS the three which have arrived, there are no
further plague arrivals 10 De dreaded, bccluS"
the steamship companies have stopped shipping
those loads Of stccragc passengers"
That the disease is Asiatic cholera has not been
doubted by the Quarantine doctors since the
Normannia and Rugia came into port. Yesterday
several experts who came down the bay on
visit rs members of health boards gave it a. their
positive scientific decision that the disease
true Asiatic cholera.
An important step was taken ycstcr lay to adj
additional safeguards to the entrance Of the
Narrows in the shape of sixteen members of
the municipal police, with two tugs, which viii
II used to 'cruise around upper aud lower
Quarantine. \ limit Of half mile has been
fixed beyond which vessel may come.
The new eases on the Normannia yesterday
three. and the victims were all members
Of the crew. or thcs', otto Engc twenty We c'r'
Old died The other two cases are those "i
William Qucnf, nineteen ycIn old, aud Theodore
Zinnlzck, who were taken i'll in the .rllng an
transferred at once 10 the hospital on SwlnlMrn'
Island. The rest of the crew of the steain3hlp
were at once taken of the vessel, transferred -
Hoffman Island, and cleaned and diSnfcei"d
On the Ruga, Johanna Buss. ifty-our years
old, who taken Ill on sunday, dlcd Nc'lcr
dav. and two new cases of Illness developed
llcndrick Stcrr, five years old, and Josepht
Pjelloslla, thirty years old They were nISo u
once 10 ken 10 the hospital on Swlnbur.c island
The sipe~ ige passengers of the Rugla are all SIN
on the ship, for it. is not deemed wise 10 allow
them 10 mingle with the stccraGc passengers OF
the Normannia. who are on HOFFMAN l,' VI; w.
The sick from any snip are of course, pun ~
once on Swinburnc Island There are now nine
patients there. The steamship compari have
TO supply attendants for these prop'c ana TIN
81 day for the care of each ratirnt; ne
families Of Patients are kept carefully Solatci III
unused parts of the shifs. TN ne MordNla lh'Ic
have been no new cases. , , ,
relatives Of cabin passengers on board the Nor
MAMMA and Rugia 10 hear that arrangemcnia
are under way for Transferring Them TO s'PiraIc
ffcamcr which will I've anchored in the Lower
Bay DR.. jenkins has made appliratlor Tor =
Sound steamer now lying on Ncw-London, and
hopes TO secure her for the Normannia's cabin
yxhich he may transfer the RuGia's cabin passen-
GERS He said that 1t more for the sake of
alaying their anxiety and apprehension than for
nnv otLer reason ~ he thought there WAS no
DANGER of an outbr'ak ol the choicra a"'"s
The illness of the nurse is felt seriously because
more. But luckily there is prospect OF reIel.
ST. Marks Hospital officials announced that GIcy
were making up party OF nurses VINO wcre
ready 10 take care OF cholera patients III tins
CITY. il there were any, and possibly some Of them
NAV volunteer 10 go TO the hospital islands.
WHAT Dr. SEAMAN THINKS OF THE SITUATION.
DIR l. /. Seaman, OF 40. Is West Tliiy-GrSts St,
I'm This city, is now IN England He has been in
spcctJnc foIr chocr; infected ports on the continent
and sent a cable - The Tiibgne yesterday
10 tile effect that Americas only safety Hes in the
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