Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-19
NO SIGNS OF CHOLERA
New York Officially Declared to Be Free from the
 Dread Disease.
NO DEATHS REPORTED FOR SIX DAYS

Not Even a Suspected Case, Now that the
 Nature of the Conerty Girls Ailment is
 Known-A Death From the Plague in
 New Jsrsey-NO Trouble Expected from
 Fire IsIanders-The American Consul
 and Customs Inspector at Colon Res
 buked-No Quarantine at Charleston.
 NEW YORK, Sep. 19.-The city Is free from cholera. No deaths resulting from that disease have occurred since Septem- Der IS, and there are no suspected cases in the metropolis at the present time.
 ''With no deaths for six says and no suspected cases reported, said Secretary Emmons Clark of the Health Board this morning, "we feel justified in stating that cholera has been stamped out of the city"
 The official report in the case of Peter Callahan disposes of the last deaths sup posed to have resulted from cholera. Callahan was attended by Dr. John R. Gillespie of No. 319 East 55th street, who gave the cause of the mans death as ''diarrhoea and exhaustion" The Board of Health having officially sustained this report, no room for doubt Is left in this case
 Several branches of business are suffer ing more or less on account of the disease. Fruit and vegetable merchants are not doing more than one third of the busi- ness usual at this season of the year. The retail dry goods stores and other branches of shopping are missing many of their out of town customers.
 The rumor that the Health Board doc tors had made a great mistake in diag- nosing the case of Mary Connerty, the Reception Hospital patient, and that the young woman was enciente and that Asiatic cholera had nothing to do with her case, created considerable amusement among the medical profession.
 The 25 new doctors added to Dr. Mor- ris's observation squad, bringing the number up to 75, are now at work.
 With the making of each infected house a special police patrol beat in the precinct in which it is located, 8 number of police men are relieved of this duty, and the ordi- nary work of tenement inspection and cleaning which they direct can go on.
 The Board of Health has instructed the sanitary superintendent to rigidly enforce the section of the Sanitary Code which provides that no bundles or baskets of soiled linen shall be carried on street cars.
 The report of vital statistics for the past week shows that there had been 75S deaths, death rate of 21.48 per 1000. Of the deaths four were from cholera and ninety eight from diarrhoeal diseases. The number of deaths during the previous week was 731, death rate of 2073 per 1000.
 The concensus of opinion from the Health authorities yesterday was that the health of the city was first class. While the danger of cholera is not yet over, they expect no epidemic. They do expect sporadic cases, but these can be readily attended to.
 Even the cholera cannot materially lessen thenumber of people who flock to these shores. During the past week there were landed in this port 4, 953 cabin and 8,621 steerage passengers. Usually the number of steerage passengers is four times in excess of the cabin passengers.
 Three weeks ago the Moravia, the first cholera ship, arrived in port, and although six other steamers have brought the dread disease as far as the lower bay, and nearly one hundred vessels have come in with passengers who have passed through countries in which the plague has gained a foothold, at no time since the first arrival has the outlook been so bright as at present.
 The experience of the past fortnight will undoubtedly go far to allay the general alarm that is felt at the approach of Asiatic cholera, and to show that science has at last triumphed over what has been the terror of nations for years. As all ships containing steerage from Hamburg are in port, and all steamship lines have agreed to bring no more steer age until the cholera ceases to be epidemic c in Europe, Dr. Jenkins declares that the worst is not only over, but that he does not look for any more cholera ships. Only one new case has been reported | during the past twelve hours. This was on the Bohemia
 The passengers now being detained at the different quarantine camps are be- coming restless to get away. They greatly annoy, and in many instances abuse, the Health Officers during their visits, pleading or demanding to know how much longer they are to be detained.