The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-04-08
REGARDING CHOLERA.
what Surgeon General Hamilton Says.

Special to the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, April The Sentinel cores
pondent dropped into the Office of Surgeon
General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital
service, this afternoon, and asked him as to
the probabilities ofthe appearance of cholera
this summer. In reply he said:
81 see no reason to believe that cholera will In.
fest our cities this season. have repeatedly askei
inform on what their opinion was based,
to the appearance of cholera, and have oaly re-
ceived in reply statement that as cholera has
always come here the year subsequent to its ap
appearance in Europe we must necessarily haze
il. The argument does not seem to me well
founded. With the single exception of Paris.
cholera did not spread in Europe beyond the
OF France certein Italian cities, and certain
places in Spain, bordering on the Mediterranean.
Therefore, l am inelned-to think that the
present. paric is unvarrsnted by any
slate OF facts at present existing. Further
more, should cholera come it is fact that
The country is better prepared TO NEE. it than it
las ever been before Local health organizations
are found in every city and village, and there
have been great efforts made toward keeping
places clean. AS the presence OF filth furnishes
propae eating bed for cholera, it is very satisfac-
tory TO see that municipal edoits throughout the
country are being directed toward the insuring OF
cleanliness. As said in my annual report, while
there is every reason for extreme vigilance there
is no occasion for alarm.
certainly no occasion for paHic, III the cholera
should appear, and the present outlook is de-
cidedly against its appearing at all.
what is the Government doing to prevent its
appearance? The National guarantees being
maintained on the seaboerd, and will soon be in
working order. viz, 81 Delaware Breakwater. Cape
Charles, sapeio Sound. and If the Treasury De-
partment viii, as usual control the Ma
tonal Quarantine Service, and, wher-
ever necessary, direct the revenue cutters, (our
coast gusro). 10 act in conjupction with the Ma
Iine Hospital Service In preventing The entrance
Of cholera infected ships The State Department
has been requested TO re-appoint the Sanitary In
spectors abroad, for the purpose OF watching emf
grants bound to our shores, and give timely nou-
hcation of the outbreak OF cholera in any
of the European ports. The Treasury orders
in regard to rags, and the baggage of percsoRs
from injected districts will continue to be in
force during the present year. So fer as cholera
is concerned, Ii is well known that il is never
tirely absent from Calcutta and Bombay, and. by
season OF the opening of the Suez Canal. there is
rlwsys danger OF its appearance in Europe; and SO
long as public International sentiment is not
created against those countries maintaining
plague spots in their center. from which cOnta-
gious diseases are propagated and distributed, we
are always liable to have cholera brought from
thence. ought TO tell you that the recent report
of respp aIsnce of cholera abroad, : pom inyestl.
CATION turn out to be incorrect IN every instance.