St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-29
The Authorities at Hamburg
Arraigned for the City's
Fearful Condition.
Uneasiness in the City In
creasing and It's Inhab-
itants Fleeing.
Berlin Officials Assert That
That City Is Free From
the Plague.
London's East End the Great
Source of Danger in Eng
lands Metropolis.

BERLIN, Aug. 2S.-The Post publishes
letter from Hamburg physician,
making the grayest charges of neglect
against the authorities. "Not even the
eXcreta of cholera PATIENTS" he says,
''are rendered innocuous. A sailor at
tackled with cholera was left for
two hours lying on poutoon
near the Baum Wall before he was
removed. The cholera hospital is
crowded. and is in an unsanitary condi-
tion. The streets are swarming with
the poorest and dirtiest people. The
Elbe, with its partly dried banks, is a
receptacle for much rotting refuse. 1t
IS the duty of the empire to remedy the
existing evils, and at once"
The National Zeitung also comments
strongly upon the attitude of the Ham
burg senate in ignoring the precautions
ordered by Russia in July, and expresses
the hope that the present state of affairs
will lead to bill that will enable the
labors of the imperial sanitary Office to
benefit the whole nation. These COM
mentS voice the popular feeling that
the time has arrived to abolish the
special privileges guaranteed to single
states, and to extend the central power
of the empire.
At a conference of the ministry of the
interior yesterday 1t was decided to
publish daily the number of cases of
cholera reported throughout Germany.
This fact became known this evening,
and will be made public officially to-
morrow. The ministry of the in
terror took this action at
the suggestion of the emperor,
who believes that the plague can be
fought more advantageously if the peo-
pie understand the exact nature of the
Berlin especially such a course is re-
garded as advisable. because panic
can be averted by the publica-
sion of all the facts. The city
was never cleaner or healthier, and
with proper preventive measures it
probably can be kept comparatively free
from the infection. For the last thirty
six hours no fresh cases have been dis
covered. a general order will be given
out to replace all general orders to rail-
way officials in the matter Of dlslnfec-
ton.
Reports from Hamburg show that the
DneaSinesS in that city is increasing.
There has been no panic as yet, and up
to this afternoon comparatively few
patients have been left with their fam
tlieS. This evening. however, it was
reported that an express train has
arrived with 400 persons from Ham
burg. The former policy of the
Hamburg authorities in suppressing
news concerning the disease is to a
large extent responsible for this exodus.
The people place little confidence in the
reports now given ont, believing that
the number of victims is purposely mis-
represented, and that the mortality is
increasing rapidly.
In the absence of record which the
people trust. exaggerated reports have
been circulated since last evening, and
many who had resolved to stay at home
have suddenly moved out with their
families. The persons arriving this
evening say there is also general
suspicion that the sanitary au-
thorities are inefficient, although
such an authority as Prof. Koch, who
was in Hamburg several days, approved
of the measures taken by them to stay
the progress of the disease. From other
parts of Germany reports of isolated
cases of cholera or choierine have been
no Indication OF a general spreading OF
the disease.
\ regiment at Metz is suffering from
cholerine. The principal cause of ap-
prehension now is that panic may de-
velop in Hamburg and the partial scat
tering OF the city:s population to other
parts of Germany may produce intec-
tion in districts hitherto untouched.
Concerned About the Troops.
Emperor William has had presented
to him exhaustive reports on the prog
ress of cholera and the measures taken
TO combat it. He devotes several hours
daily to studying the epidemic. BE has
ordered thatyigor0uS measures be taken
to insure the safety of troops.
The sanitary officials tonight reiterate
their assertion that there is no Asatlc
cholera IN this city. However, a suspi
cious case was reported yesterday of a
woman who had just arrived from Ham,
burg, and who was seized with choleriac
symptoms. The woman and her hus-
band were Immediately sent to the
Moabit hospital, where they are still
detained.
Frequent cases of choIerine are re-
ported. Prof. Koch declares that there
is no reason for the exaggerated alarm
that prevails in Berlin, as the sanitary
condition of the city is better than thai
OF Hamburg.
Great surprise is expressed at the
action of the Hamburg authorities il
giving the cholera figures up to Thurs
day as 593 cases and 194 deaths, where
as the Reichsanzeiger gives the figures
up to Friday as 1,O2S cases and 35
deaths.
1t is reported that the steamer Sylvia
from Hamburg to New York. ha
landed aCux haven two of her crew suf
fering from cholera.
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