The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-02
The reporter as he left the house. that
Morton assuredlY died of cholera?'
"Prettv sure of II" said Mr.. Bodine.
land I'm very sorry. too. He was one OF
my best men,
FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.
Surgeon-Genersl Wyman's Consul
tatiou at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Last Night.

Surgeon-General Wyman arrived in
New York from Washington about eleven
o'clock and proceeded Immediately to the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was me there by
President Wilson OF the New York Health
Board. Health Commissioner AYR es
Edison, Dr.. Baillache and Or. Hunt Of
the New Jersey Board. These explained
to the Surgeon General The situation In
this city and what had been done in tn e
emergency, When the meeting was
over l saw General Wymau, who said;-
1t Is Impossible to give u detailed
programme of what will be done until l
see the Jersey City health authorities.
How the eases developed cauao yet
be explained. It is not unusual for
sporadic cases of cholera to break ont
with apparently no eanse. Iaelated cases
are found where there has been no con-
tact with the disease. You can say that
! expect ne epidemic. Am conaden t we
al handle the cases.
Surgeon Bailhache will rave charge In
Jersey City for the Government. shall
make a personal examination of the stu
alton tomorrow"
DIR. JENKINs REcTIcENT.
DR.. jenkins was exceedingly reticent
when / talked with him about the situa-
ton. He said, no wever, that there was
no cause TOR apprehension, as the su-
thorities bad the scourge well In ha nd II
there was a scourge here. He did not ap-
pear to feel a~tistied that ali the seven
perst M who died had cholera.
Their was M doubt about
Grove, but in the cases of the
e isols who were taken sick In Mrs.
Lewis ~boauhouse, he would neither adj
nit nIr uouy tnaG they had the dread
disease. lie based his skepticlsm upon
the rigid quarantine which he mad ell.
forced all summer. He said cholera hud
come up TO this port in YES
sells from Europe, bat he had
detected It and had stamped
it out before any of the passengers or
lowed to land. He had expressed great
faith in the arrangements which he had
made to Keep the scourge out. and also In
the measures which the City authoritie4
had taken now that it had gained
q slight foothold in the country
DR.. Jenkins woala not express any theory
as to how the disease got into Jersey
City. As to its comtug In By means of
foreign fruit, which it was said Morton,
to whom Groves case was trace
able, handled, it was doubtful
if it came from oranges and
lemons. as The bacilli would hardly be
liable to live on sucn fruit, the skins be-
ing full of acid which was known To be a
germacide. DR.. jenkins said that no
fruit liable to carry the germs was per-
nlitted 10 pass quarantine.
BE CAREFUL, \ HAVE NO FEAR.
DIR. Baflbaehe was Vt a loss TO deter
mine now The plague got Tito New York.
He said that If any faith was to be placed
in bacnerioiogical examinations the
cholera was here, but how it got here
w. a difficult matter to say. 1t might
possibly have gotten in last year and laid
dormant until now.
There was little TO be feared that an cpl
demic would ensue as tie authorities mad
taken every precaution to prevent It's
spread. Moreover cholera was an easy
disease to keep from getting. In fact it
was one of the best preyentabte diseases
there WAS, if only proper precautions
were taken, as Il person to take IL had to
come in contact with 1t. The g~overnnen {
had officers in most every place in Europe
where the disease was now raging. Th ey
were among the patients aud the pleag ne
stricken people day ana night and yet
they never caught the disease. Or course Ii
man is going TO handle a patient or auy
while cont minated with any of the
patients discharges, and place his fiuger
III lis mouth he was going to get the
choiera for a certainty, as the germ must
be taken into the stomach.