Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
The Plague in Europe.


A cablegram from Hamburg, Germany,
says: There is no questioning the fact that
the present cholera epidemic is the worst
that has ever visited Hamburg, and every
hour the situation becomes worse. The
people are dying on every hand and the
plague is spreading. To-night's reports to
the Board of Health are: 713 fresh cases
and 276 deaths.
The writer has sem in the military drill
shed the bodies OF 400 victims awaiting
burial. Owing to red tape it is impossible
to bury all the dead under the usual regula-
tions.
Every person who can possibly do SO is
fleeing the city. Those whose duty, how
ever, calls them to attend the sufferers, ply
sicians, and those who have volunteered their
services, are doing a work that requires the
extreme Of herosm.
The ordinary form of burial will soon
have to be abandoned, and trenches filled
with quicklime will have to be resorted to.
The ambulance service is altogether too
small to attend to the demands made upon
it and sixty landaus have been hired as
auxiliary ambulances Into these vehicles
the patients are placed, each landau taking
four victims, and they are driven to the
hospitals.
At the Eppendorf Hospital there are 800
patients suffering from various maIadies.
The number of doctors is absolutely in
adequate to the demands made upon them.
When cholera patients are taken into the
hospital the ordinary patients are removed
into one room to make space for them. The
writer declares that he saw 200 dead bodies.
In the dirty, neglected passages a reporter
saw bundles of clothing lying on the floors
awaiting disintection Among the packages
lay number of bodies of those who had
died from cholera.
The doors of the wards opening on these
passages are left wide open and the sick can
see the ever growing number of the dead.
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step over the corpses and the piles OF infected
clothing.
The cholera in Teheran, Persia, has at pre-
sent apparently run its course and the cpl
demlc IS now decreasing. The daily deaths
from the disease amount to 200. This is a
high mortality, but it is a decrease of 600
compared with the deaths reported ten DAYS
ago.
The official returns show that during four
days fifty-one persons suffering from choler-
inc were taken to the hospitals in Paris.
France. The deaths during the same period
were twenty-one. The number of Datients
still under treatment was 1872
The official cholera returns show that
since the last report there have been 6144
new cases and 2741 deaths in Russia.
The number of new cases of cholera re-
ported at Gavre was sixty-five, The deaths
numbered thirty-three
There is no denying the fact that the peo-
pie OF England generally are beginning to be
nervously apprehensive that, despite the
quarantine regulations at the various ports
the country is doomed to undergo another
siege OF cholera plague. The disease
has now appeared at Dover, one
OF the chief ports of communica-
ton between England AMI the Conti-
nent. One of the two cholera sufferers in
the City road died in the morning. Great
Inauguration exists over the belief that the
nrst case OF cholera that arrived in England
was was mat OF sailor who came on German
tramp steamer loaded with bagging.