The morning call., 1892-09-05

NO REAsOS FOR ALARM:

No REASON F<k 4lsE1Ea1
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The news OF. the arrival at New. York Of.
More steamers with cholera on bpard:is dis
.-Iressing5 bat before Ee0pEe give way TO
.'I5anic tits we'll TO study the pestHenfe in
). laa light OF actual EguteS. Qa:boarG The.
. lhree infected xess5ls-tAe MnEayta, rhe:.
= Nerranni4 and the .fsugta.- there were in
: r01rd figures 2.0 peor34 who were c0dped
up for 1--WE or SIX daYs]E' company .ySlt} the
diEease. Yet ia these three vessels Only.
. .ujneteeD persons died=eigiIt On The NUr-
= naIll5si i've on the Ruaia and six on the
N 5cayi... This can hardly be scousfdered
: ,-aa a-afuliag niNEtality.s :g.:
Z IN Il :. 10 EaT0pe we: ind That the dis
= ease. .LaS~.been rQgag ejshteeh days: In
Il Tine four deaths have occuGTea' HI
: I'm Z afrd cut cf tiiEty eases; all Of. Which
d: ne, sahl to ifav6 been lin mDoFtef. Ihere-
: :I6Hfs lT0m FRANCE haFe been drawn 81 is
10 conceal the number Of cases and deaths.
: i'I{.es:latttE: do. not appear % hav6RXcGeded
: cre.fundred at Paris; at layre, Nhich.was
Tile chief center Of .theepidemic aud which
=: CONTAINS d population of about. 125. COO; 500
cases are reported, with. .9G5. deaf 0s;. at
~E5reH. rs bieh IS three hours. from Havfe
.-fy .Tajl and which contains 10000 pc Gple;
TIE deaths. are said 10 nambeT about thirty.
: ii: Germany liam burg has been. tfle: plague
center, It's population Is something ever
:: 80, ,QC0. and the cases reported are said to
: number 800, with a. mortality 81 abOdt
900. AT Berlin 0nly one death has been
p. Teborted, ard fn other German ciueS whieh
:haye been attacked the deaths n1mber
.:thIee.or four il each place: 1t is aRFY in
Russia: where sanitary precautions have
=.fJeen Reglected-and in many srctLCns the
: peopl lie: neTe.w akened by famine-that the
: mortality has been excessive. Tie death
:. Tell Is said, on questionable auth Dyity, to
=. fCot up $4,000 out OF a population ofioo,-
60e000.
- Throughout history the alarm created by
:: chOleTa: has been dispropoTtioBate to its
: TafTa Ees.- Reports Of extraordinary fnoTtal-
lily have come from Asiatic countries. One
- hundred and fifty THOUSAND people are said
to. Lave perlshed at Bombay in 1920, and
!: .1igures as large are. given in. the books as
: til c results Of visltatieDs of the epidemic at
other points in Tire Asiate continent, But
: it must be remembered that in that part Of
: the world there isno machinery for collect
ing accurate statistics; and furthermore,
that sani tation is unknown there. Accord
- i..g to- the imperfect returns which we
: Have OF the cholera epidemfes in
this. country in 1882, I849 and 1866,
- the largest number of cases. reported at
.. anyone time when the disease was most
!. yrulent did not exceed = per cent of the
= population, and not over 50 per cent Of the
cases proved fatal. In Paris in 1882 there
: were 8. 406 victims cut of total population
. Of 645Q00, or 23 per cent, but Paris was
then very badly drained The epidemic iH
Spain 10: 1885 was exceptional. Out OF a
population Of il. 355, 600. 10000 persons, say
i 5:per cent, were attacked, and %, 900, or
IS per cent Of the cases, terminated fatally.
But. the peasanlTY and inhabitants of the
small towns In Spain were almost asigno-
rant as tie dTelIeTs III tie Nolga Valley !;
=: they resisted streuuoHslY DIR. FeTfaa IS plan
:of incubation and all sanitary measures
: Eyentle Spanish mortality seems light in
= cQmparison to the raYages OF epidemlcs in
:the old days when sanitation was unknown
Tie great plague Of london nearly three
hundFed years ago carried eff 10000 people
CIT OF a:p0pulaiion2of 13D.0G0 and less than:
: century ago the yellow fever depopuiated
Philadelphia. :: {
There Rreason tghope that fhe cholera will.
not break through the lines Of defense which,
the quarantine physicians have erected,
especially if the Canadians carry cut their
purpose Of stopping Immigration by the ST.
Lawrence. Butlf itshould, no one should
lose his bead.".It viii not probably take
more lives than CONSUMPTION or ordiphtheria
: does every year People are terrified az its
approach: because 1t moves so swiftly and
is so: mysterious In its assault: upon life
Bat tits a much less formidable opponent
Of human life than tuberculosis. which is
always at our: doors, and about which
no panic ever reigns. People who are
:timorous.cann0t do better Than lay to their
hearts tie sound @dyiceof the 8isest. of all
living sayants, NJ. Pasteur. who says
with din8Ty precautions there isnO real
risk. If the cholera comes. keep the sbdo-
men warm; avoid, frait. bad water and
. chances Of contagien. =. -. :.