The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-08-21
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


Minnesota Doctors Look up Cholera, Cat
tie DISEASE, Chambers ana Other Matters
Of Vital Interest-A Report from DE-.
Hand Of the Chicago visit.
Drs. Hand and Hewitt of the state board of
health, have returned from Chicago where they
have been prosecuting an investigation OF sew
eral matters which are of vital interest and i'm
portance to the people of the Northwest
Prominent among them were cholera and the
cattle disease, which have been agitating the
country and the world of late. A reporter
called on DR.. Hand and obtained from him a
statement of the results of the trip which were
substantially as follows: The primary object
of our visit to Chicago was to look up the mat
ter of cholera and make some provisions for
an emergency. So far as we can learn, the
general feeling and expectation is that the dis
ease will not reach this country this season In
time to do any serious damage; but that the
probabilities are that we will catch 1t another
season The danger this season is considered
so far past that the conference I expected to
attend at Washington was postponed sine die,
but subject to call Nevertheless, we thought
best to confer with the health officer of Chica-
go and the state authorities there, and mako
some arrangement for meeting the emergency
if it should unexpectedly arise. We find Chi
cago thoroughly reused over the matter, and
believe that any amount of money could be
raised to carry through the scheme that we
agreed upon. This was to have inspectors ap-
pointed, whose duty it should be to go through
every incoming and outgoing train, in the event
of a first case being reported in New York,
and spot every case where there was
even the least supcion. Our authori-
ties here are to be kept constantly in
formed of suspicious cases, and we hope that
we will be able to keep cholera out of Mime
sota if it should strike the country. AS said,
however, the danger is considered practically
over for for this season. Chicago is being
cleaned up pretty generally, and the river GER
tainly is in better condition than it has been
for years.
THE CATTLE DISEASE.
We also made thorough investigation of
the precise facts of the recent scare in Chicago
over the cattle disease, and the possibility OF
it's affecting Minnesota. The cases of the dis
ease-Texas fever-were confined to one herd
of 500 cattle, shipped from Kansas City.
Twenty-three were found dead on their arri-
val in Chicago; fifty more were found dead the
next morning, and 800 were shot by order OF
the health authorities. The rest were slaugh-
tered under careful surveillance, and
thirty six more found to be diseased.
We found that there had been no dis
eased cattle among those in transit nor
in yards with those in transit; SO that
we think there is no danger of the disease
reaching Minnesota. The fever is contagious,
and frost kills it. No Texas cattle are driven
into Minnesota; so that there seems to be no
cause for alarm. Another matter we investi-
gated was CHAMBERS. We found the health de-
partment wide awake on this subject Every
horse known to be diseased is instantly shot
and every one suspected is isolated 1t is a
diff c,1It matter f0 detect the disease One
main thing was anxious to do was to learn to
diagnose it, but I don't know as have fully
done so yet We are trying to pursue the same
course here There have been no new cases
reported for ten days By the way, while in
in Kane county, where there is woman who
has CHAMBERS, having caught the disease from a
horse.