Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1893-07-27
CHOLERA AT CHESTER.
The Dreaded Disease Nearer
Than the Breakwater.
SOUTH CHESTER Is GUARANTEED

Pennsy lvania's State Board of Health
Comes to the Rescue To-day with
Funds and Physicians and Now the
Infected District is shut on From the
Outside world-The Houses Under
Police Control.
Special to the Evening Journal.
CHESTER, July 27.-What is sincerely
believed to be cholera has made its ap-
pearance in South Chester, and the citi-
zens are in thorough state of alarm.
Lewis street, of which the Councils and
health authorities have been warned,
has turned out a case which to the doc
tors seems genuine one
DIR. Crothers has had several ex
tremely bad cases of cholera morbus
and sent word to Council that he was
afraid to visit the place. Yesterday
morning DR.. A. L. Boahner, Of Third
and Hayes streets, was sent for to see
Wazek Bosch, sick Austrian, who has
been in this country only a short time
1t was about 10 o'clock when the
doctor called, and at 30 the man was
dead
The language of the doctor tol the
health authorities is: II found the man
with all the symptoms of cholera and
made most careful examination. He
was purging and vomiting He had
severe cramps in the legs and arms, and
generally all over the body. The sur
face of the body was cold, the breath
was cold, and there was yellow and
green cast to the body"
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After death, DR.. Lehman, a member of
the Board of Health, was called in and
he also said the man had died from
cholera, and he had no doubt Of it The
Board of Health was at once called in
special session. They visited the neigh
borhood and found filth and dirt beyond
description. They have ordered very
stringent measures TO be taken.
The street is to be quarantined,
and a sufficient number of police will be
put on guard to make the quarantine
effective Men will be set at work to
construct a sewer so that the place can
be drained. Inhabitants of the locality
will be employed on the work. A car
load of lime has been ordered and will be
used freely. Houses will have to bs
cleaned aud whitewashed, and all food
will be inspected before it goes into th'
street.
State Board of Health in Charge.
The Chester Times Of to day will say
"Dr. Atkinson, of the Pennsylvania
State Board of Health arrived toda,
and is making house to house inspec-
tion He finds that the condition of tn,
houses is not at all exaggerated.
He expressed great surprise tha
John NJ Broomal the owner. had toler
ated this for so long, and said tina
the houses must have been in this filthy
condition all summer.
Eight additional policemen have beei
employed and these have emphatic in
structions to let nobody nor nothing
come out of the infected district.
Outside the City Limits
The row of houses in which the diseas
has appeared is outside the city limi
hut the Chester and South Cheste
Boards of Health have detailed tn
policemen for duty there.
The men who live there and are pre-
vented from working by the quarantin
were to day assigned to work on the sewe
which is inside the quarantine. TIL
phl sicians also put people to work dis
injecting the surroundings.
Several other cases of acute choler
morbus are reported to-day in tn
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