The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-21
THE CHOLERA In EUROPE.


Five New Cases at Antwerp. ~ 1T Paris
and at Berlin.
ANTWERP Sept 2o-Five new cases OF chol.
era occurred in the city today, aud death.
PARIS, Sept. 20.-There were reported In Paris
aud suburbs today ~ new cases OF cholera and
IL deaths.
BERLIN, Sept. 2o-Seven patients, suspected
OF suffering with cholera, were taken to the
Moabite hospital today. Tho total number ofsus-
pected cases now In the hospital 10 iorty-four.
Emperor William has issued an ordcr that tho
annual muster Of recruits be postponed for u
month in all the cholera infected districts
of Germany. One OF today's cholera cases
which proves the complete usslessncss
OF any measures short OF quarantine
was that of a woman who nursed cholera
patients in Hamburg. She arrived here on
September IL. but was not taken ill till yester-
day Another case was that OF a Hamburg
musician who arrived on September Is Tho
Pottsdam authorities declare that the Havei,
Spree and oder rivers ars infected with cholera
bacilli, and have stopped all shipping traffic be-
tween tho hours Of p m and A. m
HAMBURG, Sept 20-There we're 1fi new cases
of cholera and 81 deaths reported To-Day, % cases
and Is deaths less than were reported Sunday.
In Altoona IL new cases and deaths occurred
yesterday.
ST. PErER.BUR1, Sept. 2o.-Elcven new cases
OF cholera are reported. The deaths were ia,
decrease of case and an increase Of IL deaths.
and deaths in the towns and tho
rapid increase and viruleuce in tho
rural districts Ia ex xplaned by the fact that we
are only just beginning to learn OF the real state
OF affairs in the vast isolated regions distant
many miles from the principal towns. Gener-
ally the mortality in these places amounts to
about one-third of the number OF cases, Notable
exceptions, however, are Voronezh, which has
n record for twenty.fo -four hours of 59l new cases
and 379 deaths; Stavnopol. with 453 new
cases and 243 deaths, and Ertvan, with s5
new cases and I76 deaths. Other provinces
where the epidemic continues virnient arc
Vistka, Zazan, Renzl, Saratoff. samara. Tam
bofi, Ufa, Tifs, Kuban, Orel. Orenboorg and
the Don country
HAyHE, sept 0-There were 8 new cases OF
cholera and deaths in the city yesterday, . de-
crease Of cases and an increase OF 2 deaths.
LosDoy, Sept 2O-A Times special from Ham
burg in reference to the progress Of the plague
saws: .'If the disease was imported into Ham
burg il was not by poor immigrants. but by the
better class Of Germans rctreating from Russia
The most likely explanation, however,
Is that the cholera germs were not
imported at all. but bad been left
in the soil from previous epidcmics, ~ -
known 10 be the case in India and elsewhere.
and their activity is due to the peculiar In
fuences during the present cholera invasion.
| Furthermore, during the early and middle sum.
mer Hamburg underwent an extraordinary
| process OF disemboweling. Streets were torn mp
in every direction for the purpose Of laying gas
| pipes, etc The men working In this soil got
J cholera germs on their hands, swallowed them
| with their food and the connection OF drainage
with the water supply did tho rest The corre-
| spondent defends the authorities against tho
| charge of hiding the truth regarding the raw
| ages Of the disease. He declares that the first
| case which was proved to be cholera occurred
| on August -, and that the various consuis In
| the city were notified on August 2a Cases had
/ occurred earlier but they had not been proven
! 10 be of the Asiafie type IL would have been
| rnost improper, the correspondent adds, for
| the burgomaster 10 declare the town
| infected before he quite positive that such
| was the case. With regard TO the responsibility
| Of taxing the cholera to America, the eorfe-
| spoudent says the steamer Moravia sailed %
| fore the fact of the outbreak had been made
| known aud that the steamer Sofmannla sailed
ON August 26, when the American governments
| was in full possession OF the facts Every euort
| was made by means OF double medicsi fnspse~
| ton 10 secure the exclusion OF cases on fhs
| s,eainers before they sailed. and nothing more
could bs done.
yrEssA, Sept 21--It 10 reported that cholera
has broken out in Cilii. In styrin, south os
| crntz Ia Podgerzs there have been ten deaths.
ourss. sept M-choicrs mortality IL In
crea.iny in the Kief district Barracks have
| h.,en hastily erected In many OF the principal
towns ana railway stations IN the southwestern
, part Of the district