The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-19
SPORADIC INFECTION.
New Brunswick Physicians
Sure of the Type in
Captain Carr's
Case.
HIS FAMILY QUARANTINED.
Precautions in Jersey City's Schools
Yellow Flags Down
the Bay.
HIS FAMILY QUARANTINED.
sn,ciol to the Jersev city Me,c,.

NEW BRUNSWICK. Sept. 49, 1892. Mem
mers of the medical profession and the
local health authorities of this city are
unanimous in the opinion that the dis
ease to which Captain James Carr has
fallen a victim is agenuine case OF ASH
attic cholera.
At the same time iksis beiieved that
there is not the slightest dan ger of fur
ther spread of the infection here, and that
the precautions which have already been
taken win effectually stamp out the dis
ease.
The house where Ca& died has been
strictly quarantned and no one is al
lowed to leave or enterthe building. A
guard of armed policemen has been sta
toned near it by order of the Common
Council, and they will remain on duty as
long as there is any danger from that
source.
A SPORADIC CASE.
The doctors say that the case is one of
a sporadic character, the exact origin of
which II is always very difficult to trace.
In the present instance, however, the
fact that Carr was brought into contact
with the pest feet at Lower Quarantine
affords a sufficient explanation of the
manner in which he might have become
infected.
Carr was captain of the scow Harry
Cahill. wnich lay at the Sixteenth street
dump during the latter part of August
and early in the present month. During
this time Carr was employed in taking
coal down TO the pest ships in the lower
harbor.
Carr's wife and child were with him
on the boat most of the time. A few
days ago this child was taken sick
with diarrheal complaint, and
the entireR family went down to New
Brunswick to the home of Carr's brother
in-law, John Connolly. Carr was taken
sick after his return to the house Satur-
day night. He had been on spree for
several days. No physician was called in
till yesterday morning, when DR.. A. v.
N. Baldwin, who happened to be passing.
was asked by Connolly to come in and
look at his brother-in-law.
IN COLLAPSE.
The doctor found Carr in state of COL
lapse, his body being cold, his face blue
and his hands shrivelled. He had been
vomiting aud purging violently. ALI of
these are characteristic symptoms of true
Aslatic cholera, and the doctor at once
diagnosed the case as such and reported
it Immediately to the health authorities.
Carr died at half past seven Z. M, and
as soon as the news spread about the
town the inhabitants, especially those in
the locality where Connolly lived, became
very much excited .& S5n4
The authorities wanted to quarantine
Carr's relatives 10 the old smallpox hospi-
tai, in Commercial avenue. but the peo-
pie have strongly protested against this
and have threatened to burn the struc-
ture. 1t is situate in thickly populated
portion of the town.
Tho authorities have taken possession
of the building. and 1t is said that 5he
members Of Carr's family will be re-
moved there today. Carr's body was
buried late last night. II was wrapped
in blanket soaked with some powerful
antiseptic. The police refuse to tell
where it was buried.
DR.. Walzer, the Health Officer of Staten
Island, has been here and has procured
some specimens of the excreta from
Carr's body for microscopical examine
ton. He came here at the request of
Sanitary Superintendent Edison of New
York.
The people here are reassured by the
active precautions which have been taken
by the local health authorities in the
matter, and their fears are now practi-
cally allayed None of the other mem
bers of Carr's family except the baby has
shown any symptoms of the disease. The
child ia now imnroVinU