The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-19
INTERNATIONAL SANITATION.
Uncle SAINTS Proposition for the Cleans
ing of the Plague Spots of the World.

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ing of the Plague Spots of the World.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.
LONDON, August 10, 1889. The Govern
ment is in receipt of an official communi-
cation from the State Department at
Washington, inviting the cooperation of
England in taking measures to prevent
the spread of infectious diseases. The
same communication, it is understood,
has been sent to the other European pow
,ers, and contains q proposal that we'll
known plague centers, liable from their
commercial relations with the world to
ditfuse the germs of cholera, yellow fever
and similar pests, shall be declared OBJ
noxious to humanity, and the govern
ments in whose territory they are situated
shall be called upon TO cleanse them to
the satisfaction of an international COM
mission appointed to regularly inspect
them.
Though the object sought to be accom-
plished is conceded here to be a praise
worthy one, it is thought the United
States authorities have underestimated.
the difficulties in the way of carrying out
such a reform. In addition to many
Asian ports, the cities on the southern
N eastern Mediterranean l~ittOraI, sew
eral West Indian and South American
ports must be included in the list of OBJ
~jectionable places. Prejudice, Ignorance
and national pride, generally strongest
among the filthiest nations, will have to
be i~nhexibly combatted.
Lord Salisbury says that England will
do anything in her power for the further
ance of such an object, in which she is
especially interested, but the spirit in
which applications for cooperation will
be received by the semi-ciyilized powers
may be easily anticipated. To suggest to
Turkey and Egypt to cleanse and remodel
Constantinople, Alexandria, Smyrna and
other cities, would undoubtedly be re-
garded as an insult and a covert menace
to Moslem traditions and religion.
Havana, too, may be, as stated, a standard
source of danger to the United States, but
to order the nuisance abated, would be
considered in Spain as equivalent to order
ing every Hidalgo to wash his face.
Prince Sulkowski, who recently es-
capped from the celebrated aristocratic
lpnatic asylum at Doebling, near Vienna,
and who has been judged by German
physicians to be of sound mind, is in
danger of being surrendered to the
Austrian authorities, who have made q
demand for his body. He has been max
ing some revelations not at all palatable
to the Austrian Court, among which is
his very positive assertion that an
Austrian nobleman of high rank is still
confined in Doebling simply because he
happened to know the circumstances
attending the death of the Crown Prince
Rudolph.
The alleged correspondence between
Prince Rudolph and the unfortunate OBJ
,lect of his love, Marie Vetsera, is having
~ extensive sale. but the authenticity of
tn letters is distinctly denied by the
Co trt circle. Prince S~ulkowski's friends
have rallied to his support, and it is
doubtful il the German government will
dare to give him up to Austria, although
it may insist upon his keeping to himself
such facts a $ it might be disagreeable to
the Austrian Court to have revealed.