The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-17
HAMBURG'S FILTHINESS
The Tenement Districts in g
Terrible Condition.
EVERY SANITARY LAW DEFIED

People Living Oh Refuse NIeat-CIothes oi
Cannot be Disinfocted-Tho Mortality
Especially Heavy in These Districts
2,4Oo Orphans Left Charge on the
Community-The Plaques Ravagss Else.
where.
HAMBURG, Sep 17-The thermometer
here varies between ~ and 75 degrees
Fahrenheit. The air is humid and op.
pressive, and the city is suffering under
dead calm.
There have been 6s7 fresh cases to-day,
or II less than yesterday; s13 deaths, OF
ten more than yesterday; 345 burials,
or IS more than yesterday. In the chol.
era hospitals and barracks the number
of patients is B. 09S.
Some $500 of the patients now under
treatment are of the dregs Of the city's
population. They live in abject misery
in the filthiest quarters, and are of the
class which has suffered most severely
from every epidemic of the last fifty
years.
The other 300 patients, with hardly
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fairly prosperous artisans. OF the per
sons who have died of the cholera in the
last three weeks, 3,040, or about 40 per
cent, were children.
In 1000 families both parents have
been taken, and thus 2, 400 orphans have
been left a charge on the community.
The Board of Health have just finished
an investigation of the tenement districts
of Hamm, Horn, BarmbecG and Hammer
brok. An appalling condition Of affairs
was revealed.
A member of the investigation com
mission says that even since the outbreak
Of the plague the people have defed every
law of sanitation. Hardly a tenement
house was found in the four suburbs
where any sanitary convenience whatever
had been provided by the landlord. Cess
pools behind most OF the tenements have
been filled with deCaying garbage, while
in the houses, hardly thirty feet off, per-
sons were sleeping seven or eight in a
room.
Since the scarcity of employment has
been felt, the commissioners said, the
people in these houses have only had veg
etaUles and refuse meat to eat After
deaths from cholera they have neglected to
use any of the disinfecting materials de-
livered to them, and have put on dead
mems clothes before sanitary officials
were notified of the deaths.
The people from these localities have
constituted, consequently, two-thirds of
the victims of the plague and are still
filling the hospitals with their sick. In
Wandeback, where the cholera was sup
posed to have been stamped out, there
were some 30 new cases and IL deaths to-
day.
The outbreak is said to be due to the
impossibility of collecting all the clothes
in the death rooms for disinfection. AS
soon as the people apprehend that officers
are coming they smuggle away garme nts
which they think might be injured by
disinfection.
The expected rush homeward, prophe =
sled for the last part of this week has not
come, and probably will not come until
the sick list and death list shall have
been considerably shortened.
LIVERPOOL, Sep. ia cargo Of fruit ar
| rived yesterday from Hamburg, con-
signed to dealers in London. As the
fruit was sound, the health officers con-
cluded they had no right to confiscate
it, and most of it went to jam factories.
CADIz, Sep. 17.-All vessels arriving
from New York are under an order just
issued, to be subjected to quarantine at
Spanish ports. The passengers will thus
be protected from catching a variety OF
diseases prevalent in Spain.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sep. 1.-THE cholera
epidemic is subsiding throughout Russia.
To-day in St. Petersburg there were eight
deaths from cholera, and fifty-nine per
sons were seized with the disease.
PARIS, Sep. II. - There were -four
deaths from cholera, yesterday, in this
city, according to the official report, and
fifteen new cases.
GRAvEsEND, Sep. 17.-Schooner Titanic
from Antwerp, is detained in quarantine
Mt Gravesend with one case of choler'
on board.
STETTIN, Sep. 17.-There we're sever
deaths from cholera, to-day, in thi
tity