The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-25
EXCITED OVER CHOLERA.
LONDON TAXING PRECAUTIONS
The City Sanitary Force Increased-Count-
less UnburIed Corpses in Persia.
sooarge Increasing in virulence.

LONDON. August a4.-The people Of Lon-
| don are becoming excited on the subject Of
! the cholera now that it is known 10 have
! foothold in place so closely connected by
passenger and commercial traffic with Great
Britain as Hamburg. II is loudly CON-
planned that the regulations for exami-
nation Of foreigners arriving in this
country from the infected districts
are inadequate. These foreigners are
chiefly dumped in the East End. where they
settle down with the habits and customs of
living as nearly as possible in their new stu
alton that they have practlced at home. The
local government board, under the impulse
OF public alarm and criticism. IS preparing
TO strengthen its sanitary force aud endow
sanitary officers with additional powers
The newspapers complain Of the sale Of rot
ten fruit IN tho streets as tending to pro-
mote an epidemic Of cholera should the dis
ease find its way here. This fruit is chiefly
the refuse Of foreign imports.
DISEASE SPREADING II HAMBURG.
A dispatch from Hamburg to the Stand
ard says Cholera has broken out in all
parts OF the city and its suburbs, although
the outbreak is worse in the harbor quarter.
To-day $40 persons were attacked, and $50
cases proved fatal. Several of the worse
infected streets have been closed by the
police.
Professor Koch declares that he has found
several true cases of Asiatic cholera
Twenty-seYen cases were reported in AL
toona to-day. The thermometer registered
81 IN the shade.
A dispatch to the Times from Berlin says:
The ministry at Darmstadt has ordered a
thorough inspection of travellers from
France as precautlon against the lntroduc-
ton Of cholera at the stations at Mainse,
Bingen Worms and Alsley."
THE sooURGE or RUSSIA.
ST. PRTERsBURG, August 24-The Official
report on the subject Of cholera states =,
that the mortality exceeds 2,500 daily.
Nearly every garrison in Russia has been
attacked 10y the pestilence.
COUNTLESS UNBURIED CoRPsEs.
TBHERAE. August 2f.-The cholera scourge
RACES with unchecked yirulence throughout
Persia, and countless corpses lie every
where unburied. Notwithstanding the
urgent orders of the Government the mol
lahs or clergy refuse 10 perform the last
rites required IN the case of the dead as pre-
limnary 10 burial. These rites include the
washing of the bodies, and this the ollahs
positively decline to perform when death
has been caused by cholera. The drivers OF
lus hOlhels butL ChiIy lub LIail udNo uo-
sorted the service and communication IS
everywhere suspended. except where the
telegraph reaches.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT PRBcAUTIOE.
WASHINGTON. August 2i.-The Treasury
Department TO-DAY issued a circular requir-
ing all rags imported from abroad to be dis
infected. The circular calls attention 70 the
cholera epidemic prevailing in Persia. India
and Russia and its having reached Ger
many. France and Austria. and dwells upon
the danger which arises through tho i'm
portatiOn OF rags from chOleIa-infected
districts and of the difficulty through their
reshipment az various ports Of accurately
determining the localities in which rags are
gathered. Furthermore. Of the prevalence
from time to time In various foreign coun-
tries OF small pox, scarlet fever, diphtherle
and other contagious diseases liable 10 be
conveyed by rags and orders that on and
after September 10th, 1892. rags from any
foreign port will be refused entry INTO the
United States unless they are accompanied
by a certificate from the consular officer at
that port Of shipment % the effect that they
have been disinfected IN accordance with
the methods herein described. IL is also
ordered that rags gathered in or shipped
from any port or place where cholera is
known TO preyal in epidemic form be de-
MED entry into the United States absolutely
on and after the date Of the circular except
such as were then ahoat, which must be dis
infected on arrival.
Tho quarantine ship Charles Foster, near
the Cape Charles quarantine station. is now
IN position with quarantine officers on board
at the mouth OF tho Chesapeake bay. and
all vessels from infected ports are required
70 stop there Tor inspection. The steamers
Of the North German Lloyd and Bremen
lines. en- route 20 Baltimore. are 20 be looked
after especially with view TO protection
against any cases of cholera that might be
found on board.
AssUBrS0 NEWS PROM HAyRE.
The Department of State is to-day in re-
ceipt OF moro resssuring news from Havre.
France, relative 70 the reported epidemic Of
cholera. Consul Williams telegrgphed that
the Paris and HaYre medical experts have
had a conference and after full eXamna-
tiOn admit the presence of local cholera. They
deny however, that 1t IS Asiatic cholera.
The disease IS not spreading. and the alarm !
is now subsiding. Great precautions have |
been taken IN the matter.
cablegram was also received from Ham, |
burg stating that cholera had been pro-
nounoed an epidemic there, and that yes !
sells from that port were being subjected 20 |
the closest inspection and were being re- |
fused clean bills of health.
DEATHS AT ANTWERP.
ANTWERP, August 24.-There were four
deaths from cholera here to-day. Officials \
deny that IL Is AsiatlC cholera