The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-04

| an eight year-0ld boy. All the dead were
buried at sea- Ali convalescent cases are
serious and further patients have been
isolated il the ship hospitals. All three
ships will be held indednitelTv
| DR.. Jenkens issued the strictest kind of
orders, and under no circumstances will he
allow any one to approach the vessels
/ quarau tined.
| Further cases are anticipated on the
Moravia also, although the convalescents
are reported as doing well this morning.
The patients ON board of the Normanie,
Rugis and Moravia would, it was said,
probably be transferred to Swinburne
island today.
Although the diagnosis in each case IS
cholerine, DR.. Jenkine did not doubt that it
was the
scoURGE OF CHOLERA.
He says he continues hopeful of keeping
the disease in the lower bay.
An even worse state of affairs 10 antic-
ipated on two additional vessels expected
from Hamburg within the next week,
which left later than todny's arrivals and
when the disease had made greater raw
ages in Hamburg.
Almost all of the dead and sick on the
Rugia and Normania hail from Hamburg
or near by ports. A few are residents of
this country. Quarantine officers are in q
STATE OF NERVOUS EXCITEMENT
It must not be understood that they are
frightened, but they are hoping for the
best, and the Normania is expected to get
by safely. When the saloon passengers
on the vessel will get off is question
Dr. Jenkins has not Yet decided.
DIR. Jenkins early this morning tele-
orr nh I'D nr
consulting pathologist of the health de-
partment, and Professor William Wells.
professor of bacteriology of the Johns
Hopkins university. They arrived shortly
after noon, and without waiting for lunch
DR.. Jenkins took them down to the steam
boat wharf.
"What will you do with those stricken
with the disease on the Rugis, NormRnia
and Maravia, doctorr' u reporter asked.
1--WE will, +" he replied, remove them to
Swinbnrne island just as fast as we pos
sibly can."
DR.. Jenkins proceeded to Swinburne
island and then to the infected vessels in
lower quarantine. Preparations were be-
gun for the transfer of patients.
At s p. N. the Normania's mail, having
been thoroughly fumiEated, was placed on
board the steamboat John e. Moore and
taken to New York. The steamer Cmbria
left quarantine for the pier at $50 this
afternoon.
All first and second class passengers
were transferred from the City of Rome
about o'clock and the steamer left for the
pier at $3.50 p. m.
Tomorrow DR.. Jenkins proposes to es-
tablish quarantine patrol In lower bay
AND keep passing vessels and newspaper
mania.
ROUGH ON FIsBERMEN
A fisherman attempted to land on the
south beach this morning but the police
would not let him. He come to DR.. Jenkins
for permission to land his boat. DR.. Jen-
kins told him that ne and all craft would
have TO stop working and fishing in the bay
hereafter and will issue an order to that
effect.
There was great excitement at the Ham
burg-American Packet company's Office
when the news got out that the Rugia
and NormHnia had arrived with cholera on
board. Hundreds of persons called in
search of Information about friends or
relatives and passengers on the ships.
Every clerk in the cOmpany's Office was
kept busy for hours answering questions.
Many letters were written to persons
known to be on board and left at the COM
pany's Office for delivery through Quaran-
tine officers who go on board. Other let
ters were addressed to the captains Of the
two ships, asking for information about
persons who were supposed to be on board.
DETAINED AT QUARANTINE.
When asked how long the cabin passen-
gcrs would be detained at quarantine the
clerks in the company's office promptly an
swered that they would not be detained
more than five days, and probably not so
long. They did not say on what informa
tion they based their statement They
even intimated that the vessels might not
be detained as long as five days.
Captain Berdenheuser OF the Hamburg
American Packet Steamship company
went down to quarantine today. He re-
ported that he went alongside of the steam
ship Stubbenhurk. The captain of the
steamship told him that ali of the passen-
gers were well.
NONE HAD DIED OF CHOLERA
or anything resembling it during the voy-
age. DR., Dan Born also told him all were
well on board the ship.
The Brooklyn Eagle today says great ex-
element wss occasioned at the health office
ported that he had suspicious case in a
tenement house at 235 Johnson avenue. He
said that Lucy Cordtes, q married woman,
81 years old, was dying from aaisase that
had many of the symptoms of the cholera.
The health inspector sent to make an i'm
mediate examination. The result of his visit
was a report that the patient was suffering
from cholera morbus Mr.. Cordtes, died L
4 o'clock this morning and again there
was a hutter OF excitement when DR..
Grettor sent in q certificate to the effect
that cholerine was the cause of the death.
Later he appeared at the health Office and
explained that he used "cholerine,n Ger
man word, by mistake for cholera NOR
bus. The woman really died from cholera
raorbus. he said.
DR.. Gibier, of the Pasteur institute, has
been experimenting for sometime to de-
termine if cholera germs possessed the
necessary vitality to live in salt water or
in ordinary sea water. He conclusively
that the germs can exist in
salt water for several days, at least, and
possibly for week or two. He moreov er
Is authority for the statement that chole re-
germs propagate in salt water.
Three Deaths on the Steamers
QUARANTINE. Sept. 3.-Dr. jenkins went
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