The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-02
ALL WELL TODAY.
Emergency and City Hospitals
and the Injected District
Visited.

This morning I visited the Emergency
Hospital which has been set ap art for the
exclusive accommodation of eho lera
patients. 1 found the hospital to be a
three story brick building in good repair
well ventilated and recently trea ted to u
liberal quantity of white wash In the
Interior. It is a three story brick building
on TOBelle avenue 200 yards north Of the
Erie railway tunnel and a block from
any other building except one which
adioins il, and this the CITY has an option
on should an epidemic break out aud its
use be required. The b ailding now occu-
pied by contains twe CT ty.two rooms and
should the unfortunate necess ity arise
it and the adjoining building would ac-
commodate $50 patients. The police
department have men engaged in build
ing q new stable along side OF the hos
pitat for the accom- mediation of an
ambalanee and hors 0. The dispeusary is
well filled with drugs, and the entire hos.
pitRl has been placed In the custody of
George Keller. q medical student, who
De 8 ed through several cholera plaques
in isfazii. where he saw The death rate
from The plague reach as high as 400 a
da y. He Las a matron, who -is also ex-
perieneed. TO assist him and when the
emerxency arises may have as much
other help as is needed.
AhLAND
/ asked Ar. Keller about the condition
of Assert ParIaud who was taken there
from the City Hospital at eleven O'Clock
yesterday. as suspect. Mr.. Keller laughed
and replied:-
81 discharged him as cured at eight
o'clock this morning. He did not have
cholera or even cholera morbus. He
simply had too much been and tomatoes.
He had beer drinking heavily aud yes
terday he ate a quantity Of tomatoes aud
the result was an attack of cramps. l
treated him for This aud he Is now all
right He has returned TO his home at
No. 223 Slater street, Paterson. He had
formerly been employed on the Erie
Railroad, but after loosing his position
through drink he came to this city Ia
search of work.
THE CITY HOSPITAL TODAY.
Warden Osborne looked Less anxious
today when / visited the City Hospital
than he has for several days. He said
that he believed the cholera had been
killed in its y infancy. He apprehended
no further trouble from hat source.
The hospital 10 still quarantined and no
one but employees are permitted TO enter
or ave the buildings. The hospital has
greatest precaution has been taken to
prevent the spreading of the e~0ntagicn.
The Warden assured me that there was
moi the slightest indication in the hos
pital that a germ Of the disease existed
there or that any of the inmates IN con-
traessd the disease.
There are seventy patients and
twenty-five doctors. purses and servants
In the City Hospital" sale the Warden,
"and today there is not a single diarr-
hoeal case Ia the institution, and there
are no symptoms OK any. This il a very
gratifying condition of affairs. can tell
you, though, that for several days ! have
been very much worried over these cases.
"The cholera ambulance fs here and IL
there is q cali it win be used and not re-
turned. u 10 the ambulance thai Presi-
dent of the Health Board Feensy had
built 81 the time OF the cholera scare last
year. It il lined with zinc and when q
patient is put into 10 IL Is tightly closed.
1t has never been used yet for contagious
cases. used It last winter for two pri-
yats cases 70 shield them from the cold.