The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-21
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
Five Deaths From the Dreaded
Pestilence Oficially Reported
BY tho City Health Authorities in Denssly
Populated Districts OF tho Metropolis
Stringent Measures Taken to
Combat and Crush Out
the Disease.

New YORK, Sept 15.-The board o1
health officials announces five deaths
from Asiatic cholera, as follows:
Charles McEvoy, who died September
0; Mrs Sophia Wigman, died September
10; William Wigman, husband Of So
phia, died on the following day; Minnie
Levinger, child, died on September II;
Carlotta Beck, aged 80, died Tuesday.
All of these cases were originally re-
ported to the health department as sus-
pected cholera and have been under the
investigation Of the physicians con-
nected with the department. Prot
Herman Biggs, who is in charge of the
the division of pathology and bacteriol-
ogy Of the health department, has been
at work making archaeological exami-
nation of the intestinal fluids taken
from the bodies of these suspected cases.
Prof Biggs reported to the health de-
partment yesterday afternoon the re-
suit Of the examination and announced
unhesitatingly that the cases were Ash
attic cholera beyond any doubt
Medical Commissioner of Health DR..
Bryant said: II do not think that the
disease will become epidemic" This he
says is almost assured from the fact
that no suspicious cases have occurred
since Tuesday
'There seems to be but little danger" !"
said DR.. Bryant $50 far and the public
need not be alarmed. Every precau-
ton has been taken by the board Of
health to combat and crush down the
disease wherever It may appear"
DR.. Edison, of the bureau,of contagious
diseases, was also of the opinion that
there will be no cholera epidemic here
81 think its spread will be less than the
typhus fever" said he. "As to where
the cholera came from that is the ques-
tion we are trying to solve. 1t is in the
city and 1t must have come from some
outside source. II must have passed
some quarantine. / think that before
twenty-four hours we will have run
down the direction from which the dis
ease came. There may be cases of spo-
radio cholera over the city, but think
the disease will be speedily overcome.
QUARANTINE, Sept 15.-on being in
formed yesterday afternoon that there
was cholera In New York City, DR..
Jenkins expressed great surprise. He
says that 1t has certainly been taken in
through quarantine.
Asked If he placed credence in the re-
port from the city, DR.. Jenkins said he
was sure the health beard would not
have admitted the deaths were of chol-
era until meteorological examination
reveals the disease that of the Asiatic
type. When 1t was suggested that,
perhaps the germs might have gained
entrance to the city in baggage or in
effects Of passengers entering before
the present rigid quarantine had been
established, the health officer said he
was confident 1t had not.
The reason for his statement is that
ever since he has been health officer all
baggage and effects OF Russian immi-
grants and oflike suspected persons has
been disinfected and this has been par
ticularly thorough since the typhus
cases in the spring.
Questioned as to the effect the exis-
tence Of the disease in the city would
have on the severity Of quarantine reg
ulations, DR.. Jenkins said there would
be absolutely no change In the present
restrictions