Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-09-22
CHOLERA IN GOTHAM.
THE CITY HAS SIX DEATHS FROM
THE ASlATlC SCOURGE.

There Is No Cause for n Panic, Though
as the Health OficiaIs Say the Disease
Is Fully Under Control and Will BE
Stamped Out-A Case In New Jersey.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16-Six deaths from
Asiatic cholera among the inhabitants of
New York city have occurred within eight
days That is the sum and substance of the
announcement now made by the board of
health of the result of the diagnoses, au-
topsies and germ cultures which have been
going on since Charles McAvoy, man of
all work and most lately a butchers helper,
of S79 Tenth avenue who had had slight
cramps in his legs week ago Monday
evening, died of cholera Asiatica on the fol-
lowing evening
Each of the houses, 76S Eleventh avenue,
81S East Forty-seventh street, All East
Forty-sixth street and 1,764 Second avenue,
where the other five victims were stricken,
the fifth no later than last Tuesday, is gar
risoned by the physicians of the cholera
squad, and so far infection has not gone
forth from them.
None of the dead-there are at this writ
ing no more sick-are immigrants newly ar
of them all, had been in the country ten
years. None of the dead belongs to the ma
tionalities among whom the outbreak OF
the disease was feared. The surroundings
of none of them showed the elements OF
filth and squalor wherein the pest peculiar.
ly loves to breed
Like In 1866.
The pest has in short repeated its sar.
donic tactics of 1866 and crept in by some
portfolio or embrasure impossible to guard,
when the sanitary garrison of the town was
repelling it successfully at gateway and
sally port.
From that epidemic of 1866 there are hope
full signs for the outcome of the so far iso.
lated infection of today. The pest then was
held in check at first, and it has been for
the past nine days. Had frost then been as
near at hand as it now is there would have
been no epidemic of 1865 to record. An
other lesson of that time is that of the 300
and odd deaths due to the disease between
April and November less than 500 were in
the city proper. Blackwell's, Hart's and
Randall's islands contributed $50 of the
fatal cases.
There is yet another lesson of the epi.
demic of 1866 which should be learned as
much by rote as the succinct directions OF
the board of health. That is that among
the things which predispose to cholera the
two commonest causes after want" are
"intemperance" and fear"
The Health Doctors Not Alarmed.
Medical Commissioner of the Health
Board DR.. Bryant said, 81 do not think
that the disease will become epidemic"
This he says, is almost assured from the
fact that no suspicious cases have occurred
since yesterday. "There seems to be but
little danger" said he, $50 far, and the
public need not be alarmed. Every pre-
caution has been taken by the board OF
health to combat and crush the disease
wherever it may appear"
DR.. Edison, of the bureau of contagious
diseases, was also of the opinion that there
will be no cholera epidemic here. 81 think
that its spread will be less than the typhus
fever" he said. "As to where the cholera
came from, that is the question we are try,
ing to solve 1t is in the city and it must
have come from some outside source 1t
must have passed some quarantine. ]
think that before twenty-four hours we
will have run down the direction from
which the disease came. There may be
cases of sporadic cholera over the city, but
/ think the disease will be speedily over.
come"