The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
From This Mor1,ine,s Extra Edition
Cholera SCARE.
The City Health Board
Thought Yesterday
the Plague Was
Here.
PROBABLY A
FALSE ALARM.
Preliminary Microscopic
Tests by DR.. Edison of
New York Excited
Grave Fears.
GROVES SUSPICIOUS
SYMPTOMS
Bouillon Cultures Give, So Far,
Reassuring Results.
TH0SE SEVEN STRANGE DEATRS.
New Case OF Suspicion Discovered
in West Bergen.
But an Expert Thinks Mrs. Blacks
Cholera Is Not of Asiatic Type.
EVERY PREcAUFION TAKEN.
Quarantine RigidIv Established
Wholesale Observation-Disclosures
Quarantine RfgidIv Established
Wholesale Observation-Disclosures
House All Ready.

All yesterday and last night, the
City Board of Health was oppressed
with the fear that Asiatic cholera had
broken out in Jersey City, and that
several fatal cases had taken place in
the West Bergen district. The report
of new case of choleraic sickness
Yesterday filled them with alarm and,
hastily, sll things were put in order
for the extensive treatment of the dis
ease and for the speedy suppression
OF the contagion, just as ii an epi-
demic had already pronounced itself.
AS this extra edition of THE JER-
sEY CITY News goes to press the
situation is vastly relieved. It is
almost certain that the new case of
sickness developed yesterday in West
Bergen is not Asiatic cholera. This
is one item of good news.
Here is another:-In the earlier part
of yesterday afternoon, DIR. Cyrus
Edison of New York reported TO Pres
ident Feeney of the Health Board
that the preliminary microscopic ex-
ANIMATION of the intestines of Martin
Grove, who died at the City Hospital,
excited the gravest fears that the
man suffered from the disease in it's
true type. Last night, DR.. Doty, an
assistant to DIR. Edison, visited this
city. He said to President Feeney
that the further scientific examina-
| tion-the culture of the germs in
bouillon-had, SO far as it had pro-
gressed, afforded much more cheering
results. Th ough negative as yet,
these indicated the absence of the
true type of the disease.
In this edition, THE NEWS laws be-
fore the public all the facts so far OBJ
| tainable, bearing upon the situation.
This is not done to create, but rather
to allay alarm. The very full details
given below, cannot fail to be reassur-
ing to the citizens, even should the
worst come to the worst
In the first place, the indications
seem to be that, though forming a
strange and disQuieting series of
events, the cases are not due to the
presence of the Asiatic plague.
Even if they are, the people must
know it sooner or later, and it will
tend to allay fears to have it generally
known that the City Health officials
are actively and intelligently at work,
tific knowledge and skill to their aid,
dAu budt dllSddJ CNOlS COuCSlNdDl0
step has been taken to stamp out the
germs of the plague.
THE NEWS believes, besides, that if
there is danger, it is best the people
should know it. 1t considers the best
precaution possible with an intelligent
American community is simply to
give it clear idea as to the sources
of peril and the means which all may
use to counteract it,
In this spirit of laying all the facts
calmly and conservatively before the
public, the following full and accu-
rate details. are printed.
The scare, of course, arises out of
the recent cases of choleraic sickness
in West Bergen, of which much has
been said and written. In the first
place, here is a list of them from first
to last
John Morse. colcred, nineteen year
old. of Monticello avenue, taken sick and
admitted to City Hospital Sunday, Aug
ust 90; died August 2l In great agony
cause given as cholera morbus. Morse