Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-02
THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC.
Action by the President-WailS street
rmed-Hamburg's Reign
of Terror.

3 WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-The following
> circular has been issued by the direction
, OF the president:
Quarantine restrictions upon immi'
, grafton, to aid in the prevention Of the
introduction of cholera into the United
States. Treasury department, office OF
the supervising surgeon-general, United
States hospital service, Washington,
September l, 1892:
10 collectors of customs, medical officers
OF the marine hospital service, foreign
steamship companies, state and local
boards of health:
IL having been officially declared that
cholera is prevailing in various portions
OF Russia, Germany and France, and
at certain ports in Great Britain, as well
as in Asia, and it having been made to
appear that immigrants in large numbers
are coming into the United States from
the infected districts Aforesaid, and
are liable to introduce cholera in.
to the United States, and that vessels oc.
cupied by them are thereby direct mem
ace TO the public health, and it having been
! further shown that under the laws of
! the several states, quarantine deten-
/
asufIicient length OF time to insure against
the introduction of contagious disease,
you are hereby ordered that no vessels
from any foreign port carrying immi.
grants shall be admitted to en:er any
port of the United States until said vessels
have undergone quarantine detention OF
twenty days (unless such detention is
forbidden by the laws of the state, or the
regulations made thereunder) and of such
greater number OF days as may be fixed
in each special case, by the state authori-
ties. This circular to take immediate
effect, except in cases of vessels atoat
this date, which will be made the subject
of special consideration upon due applca-
ton to the department.
(Signed) WALTER WYMAN,
Supervising Surgeon General, United
States Marine Hospital Service.
CHARLES FOSTER,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BUSINESS FEELS IT.
New York.-The cholera scare was the
all.absorbing topic on Wall street, creating
uneasiness in nearly all circles and caus-
ing sharp declines in stocks, bonds and
all speculative futures. In the stock ex-
change the effect was most marked. The
exchange was full of selling orders at the
opening, and when the signal to trade
was given there was a regular stampede
among stockholders.
As prices declined, stop orders were
reached in many stocks and declines
ranging from l to 4 per cent we're made
in almost everything on the list. After
the first hour the market became queter
on the news that no new cholera patients
were found on the steamers which arrived
last night, but when President Harrison's
message announcing twenty days. quar-
antine was received, there was another
stampede and uneasiness increased. To
add to the general disturbance in values i
the banks RETAINED from offering money, {
and call loan rates advanced from &c !
per cent.
HAMBURG's FEARFUL STORY.
Hamburg.--A reign of terror prevails
and every one who can possibly do 30 is =
leeing from the city. An exception must :
De made, however, to this assertion. !, l
Those whose duty calls them to attend :
he sufferers, physicians, and those who {,
nave nobly volunteered their services are 9
loing work that requires extreme hero
SIN. Among the hospitals, everywhere
hey can help, they take their lives in their +
hands without hope of fame or reward, Is
md do their utmost to alleviate the awful II
of the plague strken victims. a
The hospitals in Hamburg and suburbs v
ire totally inadequate and in a filthy K
condition. The doors OF the wards t.
opening on the passages are left wide II
'pen and the sick can actually see the II
ver growing piles of the dead there 10
,iled up waiting burial. People have to
tep over the corpses and the piles OF in. 81
ected clothing. The over crowding in fc
he yards ia fearful. In one room fitted 81
Ip for thirty patients sixty are lying in d
uch close proximity that nursing them W
3 very difficult if not almost an impos- II
ibility. "
Many of the sufferers are without cov- &C
ring and lie on bare mattresses which tt
re absolutely filthy from use. There are hi
nly two attendants and one doctor for
rom forty to sixty patients. So wide
pread is the confusion that patients who
re not suffering from the epidemic are in
AIKEN into the cholera wards where they W
phere deaths from cholera occur are not
isnfected, only the portable articles in "
hem are taken to the public disinfecting ye
DOM where everybody is allowed to enter ie
nd many contract the infection there. The III
rdinary form of burial will soon have :,
D be abandoned and trenches filled with cil
uck lime will have to be resorted to. :.
n many parts Of the city, the shops OF ~ ~