The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-31
Over 500 New Cases of Cholera and 319
Deaths at Hamburg Yesterday.
Nineteen Persons Suffering with the Disease
Found q, Berlin and Isolated Cases Discov-
cred in Leipsic and Other Cities.
Four r ussians Stricken with the Plague
While Abont to Sail for America.
London Uneasy Over a Prospective Outbreak
Strict Quarantine at New fork-0fficials
Denounced by Cabin Passengers

BERLIN. Aug. So-The air is damp and
teen fresh cases of cholera have been die
covered here. The patients have been
taken to the cholera hospital in Moabit
The course of the disease is watched with
the most minute care by the authorities,
and by the official physicians who have
been engaged by the score and placed on
duty at the police stations, the railway
stations and public institutions. All per.
sons arriving from suspected places of in
fe ction are carefully examined and their
baggage fumigated. So far the progress
of the plague has been too slow TO affect
many citizens IN their daily life. At the
street corners small groups have gathered
all day. This morning laborer in group
near billboard close TO the foot of the
Friedrich strasse. was taken suddenly i'll.
and he fell groaning with pain to the ground.
AT the police station. three blocks of, the
physicians pronounced the laborer's case
to be one of genuine Asiatic cbolers. and
he was removed TO the cholera hospital
The sultriness of the atmosphere at Ham,
burg last evening caused much uneasinessI
Tonight $40 new cases and $40 deaths ara
reported at Hamburg for the day. The
number OF interments yesterday was 2l6-
three times the average In healthy times.
Most bodies are unaocompanied by friends
or reiatiyes Persons of the poorer GLASS
dying in hospitals are buried without any
attempt at ceremony aud without having
been even seen by friends or family. The
long -cx pected panic seems to have come.
The exodus of families OF property-owDers
continues, and is increasing. There Is diff
ficu.ty in finding porters enough to trans
port the baggage. Business is dead. Most
of the shops not dealing In the daily neces-
sItiee are closed. Those that remain open
do hardly tenth of their usual trade. The
cafes are deserted and the restaurants are
without patrons except at meal-tmes. The
celebration OF Sedan day, the anniversary
of the surrender of Napoleon Ill. has been
forbidden.
The official returns of the Imperial Board
of Health of Berlin which give yesterdays
total number of new GASES of cholera and
deaths from the disease in Ham burg as 447
and 173, respectively, differ from the returns
of the health office at Hamburg. the
form er returns include the new cases and
dec this which occurred in. the suburbs.
where the epidemic Is as severe as in the
city itself. Many cases of the disease were
reported to-day in Barmbrek. q viflage
three miles northeast of Hamburg. This
place contains number OF distilleriea an
asy yIum for the insane and hospital for
the poor. q work house and other chsri.
table institutions. The firemen have been
employed TO burn bedding and linen sup
posed TO be infected with fhe cholera germs
and seven wagon-loaGs of clothing have
been dlslnfected.
There is a slight abatement in the sever
lty Of the epidemic at Altoona. From Sun
day to midnight Monday the reco I'd there
shows twenty new cases and eigh deaths.
At " andsbr for the same period the rec
ord shows sey enteen new cases and nine
deaths. 1t is officially announced that
cholera is prevalent in sixteen places In
Schleswig and in three places iE the dis
trict of Luenberg. At Leipsic one case Of
the disease has occurred and one death at
Neustadt MeckIenberg. The patients at
Leipsic and Neustadt both came from Ham
burg.
Three children. who were travelling az
passen gers and the conductor of q sleep
ing-car attached TO Hamburg train were
seized with cholera during their journey
Ludwigslust. q. town of Mecklenburs
Schwerin. The conductors wife had died
from the disease on Sunday. A traveller
from Hamburg was stricken with the Asia
tic cholera at Darmstadt to-day. aud the
authorities at once ordered that the town
be covered with placards containing spe-
cial sanitary regulations
The congress of master builders. which
has been In session at kiel, was dissolved
by the police to-day as a precaution against
the possible spread of cholera
The price of disinfectants. especially OF
carbolic acid. has risen 100 per cent. In Ber-
lin since the appearance here of cholera.
she abnormal increase thus placing the
purchase OF disinfecting articles beyond
the roach Of the poor. The newspapers ad-
yocate the gratis distribution OF disin-
fectants.
The North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany announced to-day that each of the
steamers of their line will carry two doc
tors during the prevalence of the epidemic.
All their vessels will be disinfected twice
daily, and ali baggage will be disinfected
in q special shed before il is allowed TO be
put on board the steamers. During the
voyage only water that has been boiled. OIL
with which muriatic acid has been mixed,
will be supplied the crow and passe gera