New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-21
NO NEW CASES in THE CITY.
CHOLERA SEEMS TO BE DYING OUT.

THE HEALTH BOARD GREATLY ENCOURAGED
INVESTIGATING SUSPECTED CASES.
Although the Health Boards bulletin yester-
1ay mentioned two suspicious cases they repeated
the statement that no cases OF cholera han ap-
pesred in the city Physicians of the Health De-
partment said they confident that the city
wac free from the cholera at present and they did
not expect the disease to appear in the city again
this wear The bulletin posted at 10 a. m. said :
"No coses of cholera have appeared in this
city since the last bulletin suspected case,
Louis Weinhagen, of No. Ia First-st, has been re-
moved TO the hospital"
II was said later in the day that Weinhagen was
at the Reception Hospital in East Sixteenth-st.
and was In a critical condition. but might re-
cover AS he had been sick with diarrhoea for
several days before he was sent to the hospital,
the physicians said there was reason to doubt
that he had the cholera, but biological eXamna-
ton would decide the case. Mrs. Gunther's board
ing house at No. a First-st was disinfected and
kept in quarantine yesterday. As told in The
Tribune yesterday. Weinhagen came to the city a
little more than a week ago with the horses and
carriages Of his employer William Schlemmer,
and went to live in Mrs. Gunther's house. where
he previously had been a boarder. He had not
been associated with immigrants Forty other
boarders ate at the same table with the coach
man before he Was taken ill, and they were all
we'll yesterday.
At 4p m the Health Board posted the
following
"No cases Of cholera in this city since last
bulletin suspected case, Upe Joe Wah, OF
No. IA Mott-st., died to-day, and the body has
been removed to East Sixteenth-st. for ex-
animation"
Upe Joe Wah was Chinaman of middle age
whose home was in the opium Joint" on the
first floor of the house No. IA Mott-et. DR.. Will
son, the druggist at No. 90 Parx-st, was called
TO the house at noon yesterday. and found the
Chinaman dying. The other Cinnamon in the
place said that Upe Joe Wah had been very
sick for two days. Dr. Wilson was told that
the sick man had not been attacked by vomit-
ing bull had suffered from diarrhoea. The
room in which he lay WIS filthy and smelled
strongly of opium. The case was so suspicious
that Dr. Wilson hastened to send information to
the Bureau of Contagious Diseases An inspector
from the Bureau went to the house in Mott-st
early in the afternoon and had Upe Joe wan
body removed to the disinfectng station in East
Sixteenth-st. The room in which the body was
found was disinfected. and two Cinnamon, who
were in charge Of the place, were kept there in
quarantine policeman from the Elizaoeth-S'
station and two medical inspectors from the Blu
reau of Contagious Diseases were on guard al 'he
door Lest evening. One of the inspectors sa1d nc
thought the Chinaman had been confirmed OPIUM
smoker and had died from the opium poisoning
In the cases Of John Knox, the stoker on 'ne
steamship State of Nevada, and Of James .ar,'
the captain of the canalboat Harry Cahiil oo'h
of whom died on Sunday, the biological examna-
TORS were not completed yesterday. Mary Ban
non Of No 235 East Fifty-ninth-st. and Eli Ter
wilhQer a truck driver Of No III East seventy
fourth-st, were reported to be sunerlne from choi
era morbus. - - ~. NJ.
Three children in one family, living in the cot
tage at No. 1880 Third-avc.. were founG-Io oe
sick with smallpox yesterday and were sent 70
North Brother Island. They were Bertha Clara
and Christina Buchler.