The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-09-07

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Five Hundred Special officers Sworn
in to Inspect New York City With
a View of Having the City Thor
oughly Cleaned and Be on the
Alert for Suspicious Gases.
New York, Sept. 5.-Three steamers
| arrived on Saturday from Hamburg and
| two out of the three vessels had cases of
cholera or cholerine on board The yes
sells infected are the Normannia and the
Rugia. The other vessel, the Stubben-
| hulk, reported all well. -Four deaths have
occurred during the voyage on the Rugia
and five on the Normannia. The four
! who died on the Rugia were all Storage
Passengers. OF the five who died on the
| NOrInannia one was a first class passen-
ger, one was a second class and three
| were steerage passengers. The Rugia
also brought five sick people, and the
Normannia four.
| QUARANTINE, $. l., Sept 5.-The fol-
lowing persons died or were taken sick
during yesterday on the plague ships
down the bay: On the Normannia--
Emma Storms, years old, steerage pas
| senger; Heinrich Lammars, AZ years old
Storage steward, died while in transit to
hospital. On the Rugia- Christiana
aged 8, taken sick; Antonio Hark, aged
| II years, died at 8 a. m. yesterday. The
| children taken sick were steeraQe passen-
| gers and became i'll early yesterday
morning. On the Moravia--Abraham
Schneidermann, aged s, died yesterday
| morning. All Of the dead were taken to
| Hwinburne island and cremated.
QUARANTINE, s. l., Sept. 6.-Three
new cases of cholera have appeared ON
the Rugia, with one death, and three
new cases and one death on the Nor
MAMMA. The three cases ON the Nor
MAMMA were among the crew of that
vessel.
On Hoffman Island 5-months-old
child was taken down and transferred
to Swinburne Island, where death fol
| lowed.
The police commissioners met to con-
slider the request of DR.. Jenkins for Of
| ficers to protect the quarantine station.
| Superintendent Byrnes was authorized
| to appoint a sergeant, a roundsman and
many men as necessary to protect the
station and prevent the people from
either boarding or leaving the quaran-
tined vessels.
|
spect the city with view of having it
| thoroughly cleaned and watching for
cholera cases or any suspicious cases
were sworn in yesterday. For the first
| time in many year Labor Day was a
working day among the health depart
ment officials. All the officers and EN-
| ployes were at their posts.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Eek Council
man John A. Clark, who was prema-
turely released from the British Princess
while still in quarantine, was returned
to that vessel, now lying at Washington
avenue wharf.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-The following
circular has been issued by the direc-
ton of the president:
| at having been officially declared
that cholera is prevailing in various por-
| tions of Russia, Germany and France,
and at certain ports in Great Britain, as
we'll as in Asia, and it having been
made to appear that immigrants in large
numbers are coming into the United
States from the infected districts afore-
said, and that they and their personal
| effects are liable to introduce cholera
| into the United States, and that vessels
conveying them are thereby direct
menace to the public health, it is hereby
ordered that no vessel from any foreign
port carrying immigrants shall be adj
mitted to enter any port of the United
States until said vessel shall have under
gone quarantine detention of twenty
days.
HNvRE, Sept. 2-ysThere were fifty
nine new cases ofAchoiera yesterday In
this city. There were nineteen deaths
from the disease in the same time. The
epidemic has thus far been confined to
the quarters of the city occupied by the
workingmen.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Sept. 8.-The official
returns for the empire Aug. 30 are as
follows: New cases, 6,273; deaths, area.
Compared with the figures of Aug.
and 1893 deaths. These figures, though
official, are known to be incomplete,
for rs has been before stated, many of
the smaller villages in which the dis
ease In known to exist are not heard
from, IL heard from at all, until too late
to incorporate their returns in thu
Official total.
! HAMBURG, Sept. 5.--Yesterday was a
cool autumnal day. The fresh cases of
cholera discovered number $50; the
deaths number Ell. Compared with
| yesterday the decrease of the number of
cases is seventy eight of the number of
deaths, thirty-six. The number of in
tsrments yesterday were 1913, OF thirty
six more than Saturday This increase
Is due partly TO the sudden lengthening
Of the death list yesterday and partly to
the extraordinary efforts OF the authori-
ties to get under ground the bodies
which have been collecting steadily at
the hospitals About 200 bodies were
still unburied at 3 o'clock last evening.
BERLIN, Sept. 5.--In Posen today there
have been forty-one fresh cases of chol-
era and twenty-four deaths. Bishop
Stablewsh has ordered a day of prayer in
Breslau for the abatement Of the disease.
LONDON, Sept. 6.-The steamer Elbe,
from Hamburg, arrived in the Tyne with
one Of her officers down with cholera.
He was removed to the floating hospital
that has been provided for cholera pa
sients, where he died. The steamer has
been placed in quarantine.
The Hamburg relief committee has
provided an asylum for 400 orphans, and
200 children are already waiting for adj
mission. Eight more barrack hospitals
for cholera patients have been opened in