Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-29
CHOLERA MARCHING ON.
Sailors of a Stricken Ship at
Large in England.
HAMBURG INVITES DISEASE

AiNhg Nonuitlon OF hamburg Ntieetss
steamships Refusing Passage of Imi-
grants to America.
by Telegraph to the Evening Journal.l
BERLIN, Aug 29-The Berlin Post
publishes letter from Hamburg ply
sician here who makes the gravest
charges Of neglect against the authori-
ties.
"Not even the excreta of cholera pa
tionts, he says, "are rendered innocu
Ous A sailor attacked with cholera was |
left for two hours lying on a pontoon |
near the baumwall before he was re- /
moved The cholera hospital is crowded |
and is in an unsanitary condition The |
streets are swarming with the poorest !
and dirtiest people The Elbe, with its
partly dried banks is a receptacle for
much rotten refuse. 1t Is the duty of
the empire to remedy the existing evils
and at once.
The National Zeitung also comments
strongly upon the attitude of the Ham
burg senate in ignoring the precautions
ordered by Prussia in July, and expresses
the hope that the present state of affairs
will lead to a bill that will enable the
labOrs of the imperial sanitary Office to
benefit the whole nation. These COM
ments voice the popular feeling that the
time has arrived to abolish the special
privileges guaranteed TO single states,
and to extend the central power of the
empire
In accordance with theannounced pol
icy of the Kaiser to let the public know
all about the progress and extent of the
cholera visitation placards have been
posted throughout this city announcing
that Asiatic cholera exists here, and con
tanning exhaustive advice to the public
on the subject of sanitary arrangements.
The authorities are everywhere enioin-
ing the strictest attention and obedience
20 sanitary regulations, and streets are
being cleaned with more than usual thor
oughness.
Careless Health Officers in England.
LONDON, Aug 29.-Alarm and indig-
nation have been caused by the announce
ment that the crew of the steamer
Corona which arrived at Middlesborough
Yorkshire yesterday from Hamburg
were unwisely allowed to scatter to their
homes
The Corona is the steamer whose crew
appeared to be all right when they
landed, but one Of whose seamen was
seized with cholera soon after and died
last night
The population of Mddlesborough is
unfortunately in altogether too favora
ble condition for the spread of cholera,
owing to the destitutiOn and want and
consequent physical debility caused
among thousands of the inhabi' ants by
the recent strikes in the coal regions,
which supplied the iron and other indus.
tries of Middlesborough
The local sanitary authorities are now
doing what they can to prevent any
serious result from their carelessness by
tracing up and ascertaining the condi
tion of every member of the Corona S
crew.
The Gerona's Engineer Dies of Cholera.
Chief Engineer Walker. Of the steamer
Corona, died of cholera today at Dundee
The news has created a tremendous SEN
sation, not only in Dundee, but every
where else where the members of the
Gerona's crew have gone The national
sanitary authorities are inquiring as to
the remainder of the crew.
DIR. WhitcOmb Says IL Is ChoIerine.
In an interview today Dr. Whitcomb,
who inspected the steamer Gemma, EN-.
phatically denies that the disease on the
ship was the dreaded Eastern scourge.
He attended all three of the victims in
the hospital and says that they died from
cholerine.
1t is now declared that the sickness on
the steamer Laura was due to acute
diarrh@a and not to cholera
The residents of Gravesend were
thrown into a state of excitement today
by the arrival there of two emigrant
steamers one of which was from Hamburg
while the other, as was subsequently
learned, was bound for Hamburg.
The steamer from Hamburg was the
Portia. She was subjected to most
rigid examination, but, as the Portia and
her forty passengers were found to be
free of infection all the immigrants were
allowed TO land at Tilbury. opposite
Gravesend. They all belonged to tn,
poorer class of emigrants.
A London firm has received an order
from the authorities of Hamburg for 80,
coo gallons Of disinfecting duid and 81
tons of disinfccting powder.
The Evening News has re- opened th,
agitation against the entry of paupe
aliens. Il demands that the government
issue an order to prevent the entry o.
imports or immigrants from cholera in
fected ports. Il adds that several of tn
immigrants from the steamer Portia hav
now gone to the east end of London
where they will probably develop tn
cholera in the next few days and becom
centers from which death will sprea,
throughout the city.
Steamships Checking Immigration.
The steamship companies at Glasgow
have telegraphed to their Europeai
agents to suspend for the present the &C
ceptance Of any immigrants by the Glas
gov lines for American and other desti
nations abroad. Considerable apprehen