Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-01
TALK ON CHOLERA.

1t Is the leading Topic in England. Both
Among the People and In the Press
The Lancet's Prediction Verifed-The
Oaty of the Hour to Prepare for Inva-
sion-The Immediate Training of Special
Nurses Recommended.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-Everybodyi is talk
ing about the cholera and the chances
of the scourge invading Great Britain.
The newspapers are beginning to pub
lish so-called remedies. every fad being
given full publicity. These, with the
dispatches contained in the papers,
have tendency to create public alarm
and neutralize any effect which might
have otherwise been produced by the
calm tone of the editorials of the lead
ing journals, in which the avoidance
of worry and apprehension is urged,
while the taking of all reasonable pre-
caution is also advised.
The Lancet takes pessimistic view
of the situation. 1t is regarded by
many as significant fact, as the Ian
Get IS recognized as very weighty au-
thority on all matters of this kind. It
must be admitted. too that the Lancet
has constantly predicted just what was
occurred III connection with the present
march of cholera It uttered it's first
warning when the epidemic had hardly
reached sufficient proportions in the
east to attract general attention. These
warnings have been reiterated at every
step Of the disease westward. The
true nature of the disease from which
Paris suffered for time was also
exposed by the Lancet, and it was
largely due to this exposure that the
French government awoke to action
and succeeded in stamping ont the
plague before it had reached formid-
able stage in the French capital The
paper now takes the ground that there
is every reason to expect the advent of
the cholera in England. The duty of
the hour is to prepare for the invasion
as if its coming was assured. For this
reason the Lancet advises the imme.
date opening of training schools for
cholera nurses. Unless this training is
begun at once, it says, we are likely to
find ourselves in the grasp of the epi
demic without staff OF nurses capa-
BILE of attending the sick. The paper
declares that the ordinary nurses can
not deal properly with cholera patients.
A special training is required.
In giving its reasons FOR predicting
the entrance of the disease into En-
gland, the Lancet argues that the
rapidity with which the infection has
travelled by the aid of German rail.
ways carrying Russian emigrants tc
the North sea, has brought US face to
face with Il type of the disease having
all the virulence of the Asiatic form.
In former years the situation was
different. The present STATE of things
is far more serious than if the disease
had reached point as pear England
as Hamburg after a longer period
of travel and OVER longer
route. In the latter circum-
stance the Inalady would lose some of
its violent characteristics en- route.
Now we are apt to find persons leaving
Hambmg apparently well and arriving
well in England, insuring their passage
of quarantine, and yet falling i'll i'm
mediately afterward.
The health officers at Gravesend are
boarding every vessel arriving from
continental ports and every precaution
that can be devised is in opera ton: but
as yet no suspicious case has been dis
covered among passengers or crews.
The president of the Berlin police
has made it known through the press
that doctors and heads of families are
bound instantly to report all cases OF
illness suspected to be cholera SO long
as the epidemic shall continue.