The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-19
NO SIGNS OF CHOLERA
New York Officially Declared
to Be Free from the
Dread Disease.
NO DEATHS RsPoRTgDFoa SIX DAYS

Nature of the Conerty Girls Ailment is
Known-A Death From the Plague in
New Jerssy-No Traubls Expected from
Fire Islapders-The American Consul
and Customs Inspector at Colon Re-
buked-No Quarantin at Charleston.
NEW YoRK, Sep. 19.-The city is free
from cholera. No deaths resulting from
that disease have occurred since Septem-
ber 10, and there are no suspected cases
in the metropolis at the present time.
''With no deaths for six says and no
suspected cases reported, said Secretary
Emmons Clark of the Health Board this
morning, 1--WE feel justified in stating
that cholera has been stamped out of the
city"
The official report in the case Of Peter
Callahan disposes of the last deaths sup
posed to have resulted from cholera.
Callahan was attended by DR.. John r.
Gillespie of No $40 East 55th street, who
gave the cause Of the mans death as
"diarrhoea and exhaustion" The Board
of Health having officially sustained this
report, no room for doubt is left in this
case
Several branches of business are suffer-
ing more or less on account of the disease.
Fruit and vegetable merchants are not
doing more than one third Of the bust
ness usual at this season of the year. The
retail dry goods stores and other branches
of shopping are missing many Of their
out of town customers.
The rumor that the Health Board doc
tors had made a great mistake in dag
nosing the case of Mary Connerty, the
Reception Hospital patient, and that the
young woman was enciente and that
Asiatic cholera had nothing to do with
her case, created considerable amusement
among the medical profession.
The % new doctors added to DR.. Nor
ris's observation squad, bringing the
number up to IS, are now at work.
With the making of each infected house
a special police patrol beat i'll the precinct
in which it is located, number of police
men are relieved of this duty and the ordi-
| nary work of tenement inspection and
cleaning which they direct can go on.
The Board of Health has instructed the
| sanitary superintendent to rigidly enforce
the section of the Sanitary Code which
provides that no bundles or baskets of
| soiled linen shall be carried on street
| cars
The report of vital statistics for the
| past week shows that there had been 75S
deaths, death rate of 21.4S per 1000.
! OF the deaths four were from cholera and
ninety-eight from diarrhoeal diseases.
| The number of deaths during the previous
week was 73l, death rate of 2O.73 pei
| 1000
The concensus of opinion from the
! Health authorities yesterday was that the
health of the city was first class. While
the danger of cholera is not yet over, they
expect no epidemic. They do expect
sporadic cases, but these can be readily
attended to.
Even the cholera cannot materially
lessen the number of people who flock t.
these shores. During the past week there
were landed in this port 4, ,953 cabin and
1891 steerage passengers Usually the
number of steerage passengers is foul
times in excess of the cabin passengers
Three weeks ago the Moravia, the first
cholera ship, arrived in port, and
although six other steamers have brought
the dread disease as far as the lower bay
and nearly one hundred vessels have
come in with passengers who have passed
through countries in which tho plague
has gained foothold, at no time since
the first arrival has the outlook been sc
bright as at present.
The experience of the past fortnight
will undoubtedly go far to allay the genera
alarm that is felt at the approach o
Asiatic cholera, and to show that science
mas at last triumphed over what has been
the terror Of nations for years.
AS all ships containing steerage from
Hamburg are in port, and all steamship
lines have agreed to bring no more steer
age until the cholera ceases to be epidemi,
in Europe, DR.. Jenkins declares that tn,
worst is not only over, but that he doe
not look for any more cholera ships.
Only one new case has been reported
during the past twelve hours. This wa
on the Bohemia.
The passengers now being detained a
the different quarantine camps are be
coming restless to get away. The,
greatly annoy, and in many instance
abuse, the Health Officers during theil
visits, pleading or demanding to know
| how fu1ph 1ouopr fhav ara In ba def ainad