The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-08

took action" said Mr.. Foster, and Mr..
| Corb1n agreed to erect a camp and bar
| racks on Sandy Hook within ten days.
II made other arran gements, but now
they are all upset.
81 am surprised at DIR. Jenkins's letter
to me asking me to secure Fire Island for
| the passengers.
| "The Government owns Sandy Hook,
but it has no control over Fire Island.
| "Dr. Jenkins might as well suggest the
| Fifth Avenue Hotel as a place of refuge
for the Rugia's and Normannia's pas
| sengers."
Secretary Foster went to Quarantine to
consult with DIR. jenkins.
| Tenants of the house No. S57 Tenth
avenue are In state of great excitement
| today over the reported discovery
] that one of the inmates of the
| house, named Charles McElroy, plas-
terer, had died there Tuesday from Ash
| attic cholera. The cause of McElroy's
death was assigned by DIR. Robert Deshon,
of No. 354 West Flfty-sixth street. the
physician in attendance who caused
something like an electric shock among
| the Health Department officials yesterday
afternoon by sending in McElroy's
death certificate with the speci-
fication that death was due to Asiatic
cholera. He was backed up in his con-
clusion by DR.. H. Robinson Of No. 4O2
West Fifty-eight street, who was called
| in for consultation
There were present, they agreed. the
| well-known and Distinguishing charac-
| terlstlcs OF the disease during the mans
| illness.
DANGEROUS SYMPTOMS.
Upon inquiry the Health officials found
that McElroy was single man and had
boarded with Mrs. Mccarthy at the
above address He came home from his
work about II O'Clock Tuesday morning
| and complained of cramps in his legs,
stomach and abdomen.
he suffered from violent diarrhea
| and When the ordinary home remedies
furnished By his landlady failed to give
| relief Dr. Deshon was summoned.
The physician prescribed for McElroy,
| and when he made q second visit found
the man sinking rapidly. DR.. Robinson
was called in by DR.. Deshon, but they
were unable to prescribe anything which
ei sed the patient. McElroy died at half
past ten O'Clock the same evening.
The fact that McElroy had died from a
mysterious disease, reported to be cholera,
soon spread through the house and the
neighborhood, and a scare bordering on a
panic prevailed.
To set at rest any doubt on the subject
OF the mans death. and to allay the fears
OF the people living in the vicinity of the
house at which McElroy died, the Health
Board instructed DIR. Herman Biggs,
pathologist to the Board. to make an au-
topsY.
NOT AsIATIC CHOLERA.
The performance of the autopsy on Nc
Elroy's body was intrusted to DR.. Dun
ham of the Health Department by DR..
Biggs. The result of the autospy was
not made known until 2:45 O'Clock this
morning. when President Wilson an
nounced that McElroy did not die from
Asiatic cholera.
When President Wilson reached Police
Headquarters at nine o'clock he repeated
this announcement that McElroy did not
die from Asiatic cholera
Dr. Cyrus Edison, the Sanitary Superin-
tendent, was present during the autopsy
on McElroy's body. He said that report
OF the autopsy would be made public dur
ing the day.
"One thing is absolutely CERTAIN" said
DIR. Edison, "and that is that McElroy
did not die from Asiatic cholera. can't
say Just now what was the cause of
the great congestion of the in
testineS, which is the ipfalli-
BILE post mortem evidence of Asiatic chol-
era. The man must have been hard
dAinker, although the kidneys were in
good condition, and think he contracted
severe form of diarrhea, which caused
his DEATH"
Nothing Done By the County Board.
At the office of the County Board of
Health today it was said that
nothing tangible was being done
TO prevent an epidemic of
cholera in this county. Inspector Allen
yesterday was sent to Brooklyn to obtain
a copy of the health regulations of that
city, and that is all that has been done
since the meeting Tuesday. Possibly in a
few days the Board will issue set of
rules and regulations governing cases Of
cholera and the selection of barge for a
floating hospital may be made.