Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-09

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to the rule. In spite of all these entreaties
the relentless hand of the law detains them
and the police boats patroll the waters of the
harbor with vigilance that precludes all
communication with the shore, save such as
is permitted by the officials. So far the
guarantee is costing the steamships pretty
penny, and it is estimated that the Hamburg
Company's loss is about IS, 900 day.
In our own State quarantine has been es-
tablished at Clifton Forge by the West Vir-.
ginia authorities, also at Harper's Ferry. At
these places all trains bearing emigrants will
be subjected to rigid inspection. The daily
bulletins from Europe while they show an
appalling death roll, are nevertheless more
reassuring. Many of the cities where the
plague has gained footing, have succeeded
in combining it to certain districts. In Ham
burg, however, there is an increase of new
cases-S33 deaths and 7O2 new cases. St. Pc
tersbug for the wholeempire reports 4,679 new
cases and 2,O73 deaths; for Paris and Havre
l16 new cases and "a deaths.
The following interesting summary of the
cholera epidemic in its destructive course
through Europe to this country is given in the
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pondent of the 3rd inst.
Not until this week has Europe realized the
full measure of the awful calamity which has
befallen the Old World in the cholera cpl
demic. Even now England is not much
alarmed, although the pestilence is at her
very gates and has actually crossed the in
is far too early, with the turning point of the
evil, 1t Is hoped, just passed. to make up the
fatal record. Already it is the story of one
Of the great catastrophes OF the age, More
than l5o. 900 human beings in Europe have
already persisted of the pestilence
More than nlne-tenthS of the victims of the
scourge have been Russians, and about the
details OF Its terrific work in that country we
know almost nothing. The terrible story be-
hind the grim daily bulletins from st, Peters
burg announcing from $500 to 1000 deaths is
not to be told.
THE TRACK OF THE DISEASE.
Gradually the facts are transpiring about
the introduction and spread of the disease in
Western Europe. Its track has been pretty
clearly defined now, and it is interesting to
trace 1T. 1t has been said that Russian emf
grants, most OF them bound to America, have
introduced the disease az wherever it has APP
peared west of the Cars dominions. This is
for the most part true, but the emigrants have
come from district where the Russian au-
thorities have declared there is little or no
cholera, namely, Poland. The Russian Jews
Poland, so did the emgrants who have fallen
ill with it at dozen places in Austria Two
or three from the same unhappy and benight-
ed country have been stricken down with the
plague in England this week. but from Po-
land itself we hear nothing. It is more diff
cult to get news from there than from Green.
land OF Central Africa. By and by there
will come frightful story Of pestilence and
death among destitute and starving people
HAMBURGs CRIMINAL MISTAKE.
In nearly all places where the disease has
been introduced except Hamburg it has been
promptly and effectually combatted Ham
burg made criminal mistake which has al
ready cost many hundred lives. Her author
tiles met the crises with inadequate measures
and sought to conceal the presence of the
arch-enemy.
THE WATER SUPPLY CONTAMINATED
1t was in the harbor section that the cholera
first appeared, and there it probably would
have been confined but for the great disaster
OF the contamination OF the city's water sup
ply. The Polanders who succumbed to the
plague were taken to barracks on branch
or the Elbe above the city. The appalling
folly was there committed of allowing the
water, etc.. which they used to enter the
stream without being disinfected.
THE PERIOD OF INCUBATION.
A point which is arousing greater popular
apprehension than anything else in England
is statement in public address by Dr.
Ernest Hart yesterday. He holds that its
period OF incubation is one to fifteen days.
The average is two to five days. The
English public has assumed that the dis
ease always breaks out within tWenty-four
hours after infection The Government health
| authorities seem to hold the latter belief, for
all their quarantine regulations are based on
who has not Travelled on an infected ship is
allowed to land. The past week about so
| cases OF cholera have occurred in different
parts OF the Kingdom, the victims being per-
sons who landed from an infected district in
apparent good health one or more DAYS before
they were attacked.
NO AMERICAN VICTIMS.
1t is gratifying to be able to say that not an
American has fallen victim to the pesti-
lence. Very few now remain upon the Con
tinent. London is filled with them and all
are clamoring anxiOnsly to get home The
Presidents proclamation was read with dis
may. 1t was interpreted at first to mean that
IL passenger ships would be placed in quar-
| antne for 20 days. Everybody took it as
sentence to three weeks Imprisonment within
sight of home. There was great relief when
several of the steamship companies announced
to-day that they would carry no more immi-
grants and that the quarantine restriction
would thus be avoided.
CREMATION FOR CHOLERA VICTIMS.
Liz oOl AuoA ACNlCd1 pdpOlo dIC UtSlHuluS
to agitate strongly in favor of compulsory Gre
nation where cholera has been the cause of
death. What more simple and effective means
of destroying germs can there be than to COM
nit the eeorpses to the purifying action of
same strain says that if Dr.. Koch recommends
the burning of bed linen and clothes belong
ing to cholera patients, how much more i'm
por:tant must it be to annihilate by fire the
bodies of those whom cholera has already made
its prey. 1t is believed that the frequent
recurrence Of the epidemic in the following
year, after it has apparently died out during
the winter, is mainly due to the source Of in
lection constituted by the accumulation of
cholera corpses after being inadequately bur
led in the graveyards of large cities.
INBOUND STEAMERS EMBARK IMMIGRANTS.
Nearly all the seamers bound for America
have taken on emigrants at Queenstown, and
are now bound for America
The baggage of the immigrants was disin-
fected at Queenstown, but the baggage of the
first and econa-class passengers was subjected
to no treatment to kill cholera germs.