Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-02
I'd EDITION.
ANOTHERCASE FOUND
Stamping Out Cholera at Jersey
City.
SURGEON GENERAL WYMAN At WORK.
Conference With the State Au-
thorities.
SURGEON GENERAL WYMAN At WORK.
VIEWS OF DIR. II Ia NJ EFT

VIEWS OF DR.. HAMMETT.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2-Dr. H. H. Biggs,
bacteriologist to the New York health
board WILL 1t is said. hand in today The re-
suit of his examination of the material
taken from Mrs. Rhoda Black, one Of the
Jersey City cholera suspects. Mrs. Black Is
recovering. Her illness is thought to be
connected with the death of four persons
who died after eating crabs in Mrs. Lewis
house on the bank of the Morris canal.
Should her case prove to be Asiatic chol-
era President Wilson of the New York
health board thinks that the bodies of the
four persons who died after eating crabs
will be exhumed to establish the contaSion
Mr.. Wilson said that he had a conference
last night with Surgeon General Wyman
and some of the Jersey City health officials
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel The surgeon
general has decided to make his headqaar-
tiers in Jersey City during the present
scare.
DIR. Bond of the New York bureau of dis
Infection has been allowed by President
Wilson a leave of absence that he might
aid the Jersey City officials in combating
the disease should ii spread
AS far as New York is con Germ ed President
Wilson is resting easily. He says that so
far there is no danger, and even SHOULD
meet it. The new reception hospital at the
foot OF East 18th street is not yet complet-
ed. but orders went out this morning tfat
the work of construction should be hurried
along. This is done merely as matter or
precaution.
All the experts are far at sea as TO the
origin of cholera in Jersey City. President
Wilson said that q man from his depart
ment has been at work tracing the disease
for several days, and he will continue his
search until he arrives at some definite
result.
DR.. Edison of the health department. when
asked his views on the matter, said with
positiveness: There will be no epidemic or
cholera in jersey City. There may be q; a
few cases of cholera there. but there Will
be no epidemic"
Dr. Edson who is a careful and deep
thinking man, laughed at the idea that It
would be necessary to quarantine Jersey
City.
Another Suspected Case.
Another suspected cholera case was found
here today. The authorities do not think
the patient has cholera. but the patient
was sent to the Emergency Hospital until
the case develops sufficiently to allow. the
physicians to decide. The patient fs John
Lynch. His s,n home Is in BaIslmo pre- anS
came here this morning. He was found
sick in the street.
Gen. Wynian at Jersey City.
| hospital bureau left Washington at
o'clock yesterday afternoon upon receiving
a telegram from the authorities of Jersey
City stating that cholera had developed
in that city. Dr. Wyman went to Jersey
City to consult the local health ofncers
and to see that the proper precautions are
taken to prevent the spread OF the d1sease
The telegram stated that there had been
death from Asiatic cholera in Jersey City
on the night of August q. Several sus-
Il xrs.t hare md ha n
oeical examinations are being made to as
certain whether they are Asiatic cholera or
| not.
Real Cholera.
The marine hospital bureau here has little
| information in addition to that already
published touching the fatal case in Jersey
| City There seems to be no doubt that
| Martin Grove died from genuine Asiatic
| cholera, for Surgeon General Wyman has
telegraphed Surgeon Austin here that the
case was such. In addition, State inspector
Hunt telegraphed that examination showed
| the presence of the cholera spirillun1, ana
| in this he is confirmed by Surgeon kinyoun
/ The SUSPICIOUS case of Black has not yet
| been diagnosed Every effort Is being made
| to trace the origin of the disease with a
| view to the adoption of measures to pre-
| vent the occurrence of any further cases
DIR. Hammett Not Alarmed.
Speaking to day with a Star reporter DIR.
| Hammett the District health officer, stated
| that all he knew Of the cholera in Jersey
| City was what he had seen in the news
papers and that until he had been officially
| informed that cholera was actuaiiy there he
| voul1 take no action beyond that AIKEN by
| him daily to put the District in as coed a
I sanitary condition as 1t was possible he
| ferring to the proposition to establish a
| Quarantine against Jersey City DIR. Ham,
| NETT said that he seriously doubted the au-
| thority of the District authorities TO es-
| tablish such an order of things. Should 1t
| be deemed wise or necessary 70 establsn
Quarantine against that city he thought thai
| il would have 10 be done Dy The United
States authorities through the revenue mar
inc service, under the direction of surgeon
General Wyman. DIR. Hammett stated the,
| the District was in splendid sanitary con-
dition and explained that there would be
no occasion for alarm here even If II should
| transpire that cholera was really IN jersey
City.
| The Suspect Boat.
The police boat Blackburn returned to the
city this morning without having discover
ed the yellow fever suspect schooner Booth.
and Dr. Hammett stated that Surgeon
General Wyman had notified him this
morning that nothing had been heard OF
her by any of his officers. The belief ex-
pressed by the authorities two or three
days ago as reported in The Star, that the
schooner had encountered the fearful storm
of Monday last, and had either been lost
or driven out of her course or INTO some
| harbor for safety, Is now more firmly ex'
pressed than ever before. The vessel was
reported to have sailed from Brunswick
! Ga, a week ago today, ana IL Is explained
that she should ordinarily have reached
here long before this. If she has passed in
through the capes she escaped being OBJ
served but even ir that event II is ex
plained that she would have been discover
| ed in the bay before this time. Hence it 1:
| believed thar she is still somewhere outside
| or has gone to the bottom. The Gloss
search for her by the revenue marine serv
ice during the day will. however. not be re
Taxed in the slightest, nor will the effort:
| of the District authorities during the night
| with the assistance Of the police boa
Blackburn.
SUPERVISOR DAVENPORT EVICTED