The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-16
MORE CASES IN NEW YORK.

One in harlem and One On BlackwelPs
Island-Mary Connerty Very Bad.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. 1S92.--The ten
o'clock bulletin of the Board of Health
appeared at half-past ten today after some
protracted consultation of the Commits
sioners behind closed doors.
1t announced probable new case in
the following terms:-
''HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
\ SEPT. 1910 A. M
''The only suspected case of cholera in the city
since the last bulletin, Edward Hoppe of /. G25
Madison avenue, who died yesterday, is under
inveftigation.
'By order of the Board.
''EMMoNs CLARK.
CHARLES G. WILSON, President
The delay was not caused, apparently,
by any doubt about Hopes case, but by
news received during the session from
the Reception Hospital, where Mary Con-
nerty lies ill with cholera.
DR.. Bryant. the Medical Commissioner,
had come in at fifteen minutes to ten A
M, with the message straight from the
hospital that she was apparently getting
better. He had just been there, and said
that she was resting more easily, still
suffering from cramps. but to all appear
ancee In the way of recovery.
President Martin OF the Police Board,
when he heard of this. said that he
thought from the first that there wasn't a
thing the matter with her.
But DR.. Bryant was of a different opin-
ion. When he was asked by a reporter If
she had cholera he said. 81 don't suppose
there is any doubt about that" DR..
Bryant very rarely speaks out so plainly.
MARY CoNNERTY WORSE.
He had not been in session with his
colleagues half an hour when the tele-
phone bell rang and message came to
H,dSOn from RaonntinO {tol
saying that Mary Connerty had taken
sudden turn for the worse.
The Commissioners had been rather
elated over the good news that their first
live patient might pull through, The
message made them feel more glum than
they had since the first report came from
DIR. Biggs of the outbreak in the city.
Though, really, there was no occasion
for it,
All the other cases were dead when re-
ported to the Board. This was the first
one they had chance to try to cure.
THE HOPPE CASE
AS to the case OF Hoppe, nothing more
was to be learned at that hour than that
he was q carpenter and died yesterday
after brief illness in his Madison avenue
home.
The attending doctor reported cholera
as having caused his death, and since last
night a physician mas been on duty in the
hOuSOs <AAObuCA UOCtOI Icl1GV0Q ulU CQlS
morning.
The body of the dead man was removed
tc the reception hospital in the evening
and an autopsy has been made there.
There is no doubt about the nature of the
disease that killed him.
The bedding he slept on has been taken
away and everything in his room burned
or disinfected. A policeman is on guard
at the house.
The Commissioners have been in some
doubt as to what to do with the cholera
dead in the event of an epidemic. Thay
held conference Yesterday with Presi-
dent Porter of the Board of Charities and
Correction, and it was agreed to bury
them on Hart's Island, in special lot to
be set aside for them in the Potter's
Field.
The Board of Health does not think it
has the right to enforce cremation or to
use the crematory on Swinburne Island.
Besides it would be inadequate in an
emergency.
The Health Board reported at noon that
the psychological examination in the
case Of Mrs. Carlotta Beck had disclosed
that the cause of her death was true
Aslatic cholera
A CASE ON BLACKWELLS ISLAND
DR.. Edison confirms the report that
case of cholera has been discovered
among the convicts in the Penitentiary
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