San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07
HAmsuRe's CRIME.

It is certain that the figures and
facts are not correctly given in chole-
"a cases over the water. In Hamburg
especially has 1t been charged that
facts have been suppressed and hg-
ures falsified in order to create false
Impressions concerning the virulence
and wide spread character of the
epidemic. How far this charge is
true may be questioned; the more
reasonable probability being that in
the panicky condition of the city
after the disease became so prevalent
aud the mortality so alarming, and in
| the carelessness of the authorities
during the early stages, there was
not much attention paid to fig
,s, ana that their falsity has
been more accidental than of set
purpose. That the figures are not
correctly csbled across the waters is
evident even in this mornings dis
patches there is difference Of over
twelve hundred in the number of cases
reported from Hamburg, the one dis
patch being from that city and the
other from London. The Hamburg
! dispatch states that all the cases
reported to date OF September fifth
since the breaking out of the epidemic
in August were sos and the deaths
294 The report sent out from London,
on the authority Of its Berlin CORES
pendent of the Times, states that the
official figures of the Hamburg
medical board show total OF
/ 1915 cases and 9lS deaths. From
this showing it is certain
! that the Associated press cor.
respondent at Hamburg has not con.
suited even the medical records of the
city to ascertain how many cases had
occurred or how great the mortality
before giving his report to the world
Taking the figures of the London
Times as approximately correct, and
they include all cases coming under
the notice of the health officers, 1t
shows In round numbers about 1000
cases and / 900 deaths; . mortality Of
fifty per cent. These officicial figures
show that to date of August 18th.
there had been 494 cases in the city
and pol deaths, and yet between Au-
gust 18th and August 22nd several
vessels were cleared from that port
with clean bills OF health to spread
pestilence over the commercial world.
Tnere is no condonlng crimie
of this character, for 1t affects all
commerce, all free intercourse be-
tween nations, destroys confidence in
the integrity of government and
ms kes all lands the prey of q univer.
sal suspicion. If governments and
commercial peoples and great ma
tional sesports cannot rely upon the
truthfuluess and honor of each Other
IN case like this in which the life o
two continents was at stake In wha'
en- they be depended upon? Ii
m alters little whether the clearing o
, these vessels was the result Of care
lessness or of cupidity, fear of th'
in evItable loss to the commerce
of Hamburg that would result
the fearful outcome is tht
: same. and all western Europ'
= and America are infected with thu
Q most dread scourge of modern times
Y The city of hamburg is to blame TO
this. Her crime is against CONNER
clal enterprise and national truthful
ness and honor, and the nations wit
which she stands commercially re
lated and which are suffering for he
cupldity or carelessness, either o
both, through their several govern
ments should call her to strict &C
count for her crime. The wiplpg GU
OF the city itself would not atone to
ic the wide spread destruction so liabl
10 to follow in the wake of her crimint
- laxity, or q commercial greed too de-
l. picable to be properly characterize
to In language.
IT actually seems that the per
10 dulum had reached the extreme