The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-24
TO RAE PEST HOUSES
Hamburg's Plan to Prevent An
other Cholera Epidemic.
ABATEMENT STEADILY CONTINUES.

Believed That in Two Weeks the Plague
win be Virtually Extinct-Colombia aud
the Quarantine Against American
Ports-Situation in New York Bay.
HAMBURG, Sep. "a. - The weather re-
mains cool and damp. There is no dust,
and the air is kept clear by strong winds.
Should such favorable conditions continue
for two weeks more, physicians say, the
end of the period would find the plague
virtually extinct for the fall and winter
months.
The number Of fresh cases to-day has
been 339, or 80. fewer than yesterday; the
number of deaths 144, or 10 fewer than
yesterday. The interments have num-
bered 24l, or 80 less than yesterday. The
hospitals contain 2, 593 patients, or 1874
less than yesterday. The majority of the
patients in the hospitals are now GONZALES
cent
By next Monday, when the sudden dim
mutton of fresh cases will begin to be
apparent, the number of patients prob
ably will have sunk to 1000 or 1000, as
hundreds will be discharged as cured
within the next two days.
The Board of Health has been author
lied to destroy many houses in the sub
urbs which have suffered most from the
plague The houses named for destruo-
tion are tenements which have no ade-
quate means of ventilation and have no
sanitary conveniences. All of them have
been occupied by laborers' families,
whose members have died off like sheep
during the plague.
Seven houses in Barmbeck and three
in Horn have lost two thirds of their oc-
cupants through cholera in the last three
weeks, and they are so thoroughly satu-
rated with the disease that no disinfec
tion, the Health Board say, could render
] them safe.
! After the disappearance of the disease
many other tenement houses will be eX-
amined with a view to tearing them
down. These measures are deemed neces-
sary to insure the city immunity from
a return of the epidemic next year.
The precautions taken by the authorities
are so obtrusive to sight and smell as to
throw a stranger into a hypochondriacal
state. Violations of the sanitary regula-
tions are punished by a fine if the offender
is poor, and by imprisonment if rich.
The cholera will prove boon to Ham
burg and other large cities if it leads to
I bue DcIbeE uOuSluB Oh Jle poor Although
they cannot be compared with Hamburg,
the older parts of Berlin are deplorably
overcrowded. One case in point is a sin
gle building which is occupied by 25C
tenants, mostly families
Thirty-six smaller dwellings open of
onto one passage. The windows in these
wretched structures are often stuffed
with rags and papers instead of being
supplied with glass The average size OF
the room is l6 feet by TO- Some fami
lies, in which there are five children, have
only one bed. The condition OF thest
dwellings battles description. They ar,
full of dirt and vermiu, and veritable no
beds of disease.
In the country districts the state of af
fairs is often worse. Cases are on recort
of four families, consisting Of % persons
occupying a single small room, divide
! off into sections for the use of the differ
. ent families by chalk lines. All marie,
servants on an estate are housed in on
room.
The figures in Antwerp up to date ar
169 cases and 63 deaths.