New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-27
TIE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.
nvO CASES ON A HAMBURG STEAMER AT
GRAVESEND

(THER PASSENGERS FROM IhE SAME 'i~''Eb
ALLOWED TO PROCEED TO LONDoN-AN IN
FEcrED STEAMER TURNED BACK
THE DEATH-L.sT AT HAMBURG AND
HAvRE-A CASE IN BERLIN
london, Aug. 26.-There Is now no doubt that
cholera has at last entered England. The disease
was brought here by the steamer Gemma' which
arrived at Gravesend yesterday from Hamburg
Il was reported that the steamer was infected but
the authorities, after examining the passengers
allowed them to land. few hours after
rard. two aliens. who had arrived on the Gemma
were taken ILL., They were at once removed TO
the hospital at Gravesend, where the doctors pro-
nounced their malady cholera They died shortly
after they were admitted. This fact has caused
considerable anxiety. but there is no panicKS
feeling The authorities at Gravesend have issued
nosters advising the residents of the town TO
take precautions to guard against the disease.
The officials of the Local Government Board
charged to watch the progress Of cholera are To-
night less confident than they have been OF the
metropolis escaping visitation OF the disease.
The Gravesend cases undoubtedly cases oil
As,atic cholera The medical officers who in
snected the steamer Gemma, from which the
choera-stricken passengers were iandcd' per
mited several other passengers to proceed TO Lon
don. under rne cNcuSF uiat uicy hn" NV 'NN-
contact with that part of the vessel where the
Infection showed itself. To allay alarm, the
authorities allege that precautions were taken to
disnfect the passengers but this statement when
has been made only since the character OF ,Ie
disease declared itself, Is discredited Dr'
Thorne. chief of the London Medical Depart
ment, has no doubt that the Gravesend cases are
Asiatic cholera. "
The mort of London is not properly watched
The Sanitary Committee has applied for vast IN
crease Of staff, without which it cannot under
take the surveillance Of ships entering the Thames
from infected Continental ports. The port stan
f. daily being reinforced, as the officers are over
worked inspecting, disinfecting and burning cloth
inc bedding etc. But no Thames Gordon Will
suffice to shut out the danger of infection. A
stream of arrivals from the Continent comes py
way of Harwich Southampton and other ports oy
train without inspection. Railways and steam
sbip companies, excepting the transatlantic hnes'
show no intention of suspcndlng their ordinary
arrangements. In spite OF the setting up oi
quarantine in foreign ports, traflc Will con'inuc'
making supervision on the Thames almost vaue-
less. The authorities expect an outbreak, ana
are preparing to meet it.
Never were the "slum" districts SO pesfered
nv 3missaries of the Sanitary Boards. In the
Fast End. where the last epidemic that of 1866,
surply has been tested and found 10 be OF doubt
fni oualitv. and changes have been ordered in
the tlterng apparatus. The people of South
Iondon have been warned that their water Is
source NJ danger A feature OF the crisis Is the
energy with which the local authorities in every
district are working to face the danger Wlthal
there is not the elightest panic apparent Inc
chances of visitation will diminish as inc
weather cools, and public confidence in the sahi-
tary arrangements and vigilance OF the au'noif
ties is absolute.
me report of che death of two PafA"n'e OF
Gravesend was telegraphed throughout the coun-
try. and caused the health authorities at the va
rious ports to be on the alert fn arrivals from
n,aces known 10 be infected with cholera To-day
the steamer Laura, plying between Hamburg ana
Ivnn-Reris. an English port on the Great Cuse,
nine miles from the North Sea, arrived at Lynn.
She was boarded by the health officials, who iouhd
two cholera suspects on board. The Vessei was
at once ordered TO put back to sea. Inc Objects
and passengers protested against Snch summary
treranent. but the health officers were oodura'e,
and positiyely refused to let single person Iaho
from the steamer.
Sixty passengers on board the llamburg-Ameri-
ran line steamer Columbia, from New-> ork, which
arrived at Southampton yester lay, changed 'ncir
minds about proceeding to Hamburg when they
the Columbia when they found that the company
had ordered that she proceed no further, and took
passage for Flushing in the Netherlands Two
hundred Messengers remained on board the Co.
lnmbia not having made up their minds what
routes they would take to reach the Continent
Lambeth woman was admitted 10 ST. Ihomas
Uospital to-day supposed to be suffering from
Asiatic cholera. The patient was Isolated ana all
her clothes were burned. Late tonight 1t was
announced that the woman was recovering ana
that the disease was believed TO be Englsh
cholera.
Prince Esterhazy. attache of the Austrian En-
bassv here has been suffering from an attack oil
chocrine, but is now recovering.
Liverpool. Aug. &c The Liverpool steamship
comnopies have instructed their agents on the
Continent TO cease booking enlsrah's lron, c"oi-
era-infected districts. All the boarding-houses
here are subjected daily to rigorous inspection
10 see that they are kept clean ana that all '''e
sanitary regulations are compiled WIN.
Rotterdam. Aug 26.-The steamer Jason, from
HAMBURG, which to-day arrived at Maassluls, ten
miles west of this city, had several cases OF Asiatc
cholera aboard, and was put into quarantine.
Six of the crew were i'll with the disease. anu
two were dead. .,
Hamburg. Aug. 26.-The police have Issued
orders forbidding the inhabitants OF this Guy u
drink water from the Elbe unless IL hae Dee"
boiled The bathing places along the river have
been closed The police will make house-'o
house inspection TO insure the houses being clean
and TO enforce sanitary measures wherever o'es
Gre required. slecial corps has been organized
10 disinfect houses in which are cholera CASES.
The official statistics show that on "Wednesday
there were lss new cases OF the disease reported.
while the deaths numbered thrty-two Up 10
noon on Thursday there were ninety new cases
and forty-one deaths. There were eight deaths
from the disease at Altoona yesterday. Most oil
the deaths have occurred among the laborcrs
EMPLOYED about the docks. boatmcn. etc. The