The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-19
FURNITUREFOR THEFORT
DAMP PERRY's EQUIPMENTS TO BE
USED AT PULASKI.

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The Surgeon General ASKED to De-
tail an Ofacsr to Take Charge Of the
Station-The Work of Sanitation in
the City-A Theory of the Carrying
OF Cholera Raciln by Flies.
Health Officer Drummer resolved tele-
gram yesterday from Surgeon General
Wymsn stating that no new cases OF
cholera have been discovered 10 New YORK
since Thursday night, and he is hopeful
that the health authorities there will be
able 10 keep the disease in subsection.
In regard to DR.. Brunner's request for
the equipments OF Camp Perry for Fort
| Pulaski and the appointment OF doctor to
take charge Of them at the fort Surgeon
General Wyman answered that he has no
objections to loaning the equipments, but
he does not think the emergency has yet
arisen for the appointment Of an officer to
take charge
DR.. Bruuner replied by letter TO the sur
geOn general that while Savannah lie hoping
for the best, at the same tame she Is prspar-
ing for the worst, aud is not waiting until
an emergency arises TO make her prepsra~
tons. He asked the surgeon general to let
him know as soon as possible whether he
can spare an officer for the handling OF the
camp equipments, because IL the govern
ment Is unable to act In the matter the city
will have to take hold. DR.. Brunner ex-
poets decisive reply from the surgeon gen
eral to-day or tomorrow.
PUSHING rHE SANITARY WORK.
The sanitary work throughout the city in
the way of cleaning up aud disinfecting eel
lars and disintecting premises will be pushed
with vlgor this week The sanitary inspect
ors have strict orders to pay special atten-
ton to cellars
In looking around for reasons for the
introduction OF the cholera into New York
attention is being called TO the danger of
flies carrying the plague. The New York
Medical Record has the following para
graph in its last issue: ''If, as appears to
have been proved by experiments, flies may
be the means OF disseminating anthrax
tuberculosis aud other infectious diseases,
they should be objects of especial suspicion
during an epidemic of cholera. They should
be excluded from ths house as far as posi-
BILE aud all articles of fool and drink SHOULD
be protected by screens from contamination
by them.n
Ii Is authoritatively established that Ash
attic cholera is never contracted except by
| the mouth aud stomach. A fly after visit
ing the excreta of a cholera patient may
| light on a piece of meat or other inviting
kind of food and there deposit bacillus
| which it has carried from the vicinity Of
the cholera patient. This bacillus, on being
swallowed, would multiply perhaps until
| fatal case of cholera would be produced.
MIGHT CARRY IT ACROSS THE OCEAN.
Flies from a stricken port accompanying
| ship on its voyage could thus give the
disease to its passengers, where they would
be especially attracted by uncleanliness in
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are in quarantine the flies could readily
make excursions, accompanying the visiting
tugs and other craft passing to and from
the cities.
1t was suggested at the police headquar-
ters Ia New York that the disease was
brought into the city by butchers who took
meat to the qusrantinsd vessels from Ham
burg. The men in the house where the
Levinger child died all work ct the butch
eripg establishment OF SohwarZchild g.
sulzberger William Wiegman, another
case, was butcher, and the husband of
Charlotte Beck, another victim, drove a
meat wagon TO a steamship pier. McAvoy
had been working at the wharves on East
river. All were Ill the liue OF exposure
from flies on the cholera vessels.
A SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERY.
The fact that cholera spreads most ran
idly In all places attractive to flies is signii-
cant and that certain fruits, meats and
vegetables which are ordinarily perfectly
healthy are very unhealthy IN cholera sea-
sons may be explained by the superstition
that they are made dangerous by the visits
of flies from cholera regions.
1t has been noticed also that flies gener-
ally abound in cholera seasons and that two
or three unusual varieties of flieJ appear.
On the last two visits OF the cholera to
| America it was accompanied by black fly
| about two thirds as large as the common
brown house fly (musoa domestica). 1t
seemed to be accompanied by a small
brilliant blue-grsen by, with black legs,
resembling the "musca cesar" of Europe
| which, like the musca vomitoris, lays its
eggs on meat and multiplies with amazing
rapidity.