The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-01

fight the scourge grows In strength. The
people feel that thew are helpless in the face
Of the terrible visitataion that has come
upon them, and many OF them have given
up hope of escaping the disease. This in
itself Is a calamity, for courage is one OF the
essential factors in fighting the epidemic.
The representative of the Associated Press
here has seen in q military drill shed the
bodies Of 400 victims awaiting burial.
THE BURIAL LAW.
Owing to the red tape il is impossible to
bury the dead under the usual regulations,
for the law requires the production Of pa
perG of Identification before a body Is con-
veyed TO the grave. Now when whole fami-
lies have been carried off by the scourge
the greatest difficulty is experienced in get
ting papers. Unless the frighttul mortality
abates IL will be necessary to shortly set
aside the law and bury the victims as
hastily as possible 1t is believed that the
infection has been spread by the dead. Bit
ter imprecaNons are heaped upon the au.
tborites for their pighsadedness in letting
victims lie unburied to scatter contagion
among the living while they hunted papers
to show the age, occupation, etc, OF the
dead persons.
A reign OF terror prevails. and every per-
son who can possibly do so Is fleeing from
the city. Exception must be made, how
ever, 10 this assertion. Those whose duty
calls them to attend the sufferers-physi-
clans aud those who have nobly volunteered
their services, are doing work that requires
the extreme of heroism. Among the hos
pitfalls they take their lives In their hands
without hope of fame or reward and do
their utmost to alleviate the awful suffer-
ing OF the plague-stricken victims. The
ordinary form OF burial will soon have to
be abandoned and trenches filled with quick
lime will have TO be resorted to.
In Darte of the GikV tina ahODH of
grocers, bankers aud butchers have been
closed by the police, the owners and their
saIesmen having been stricken down while
attending to business.
BERLIN, Aug. Sl.-Emperor William has
abandoned his intention OF Waiting
Sweden. He telegrsphed King Oscar to-
day that he did not wish to be absent from
home during the cholera epidemic.
THREE DEATHS AT DOVER.
LONDON, Aug 3l.-Cholera has appeared
at Dover, one Of the chief ports Of commu-
nication between England and the oonti-
nent and which has continental
intercourse by steamboats, with Calais
and Boulogne, France. Tires per-
sons were attacked by the disease and died
In a short time. ORe man came from Ham
burg and his death caused considerable
anxiety.
ENGLAND FEARS THE WORST.
4 AbEd AH lO OCAFluA bur A&Sb khab buo
people Of England generally are beginning
to be nervously apprehenstve that despite
the quarantine regulations at the various
ports the country is doomed to undergo an
other siege Of the cholera plague. That the
quarantine regulations az at present en-
forced do not prevent the Introduction Of
cholera has been abunaantly proved, and
many persons claim that the only efRectual
method TO keep the disease at bay is TO
absolutely prohibit all intercourse with in-
fected ports abroad. or course, this would
entail immense money loss and considerable
suffering. A large proportion OF the people,
not only in Eagland, but else where, believe
weather and frosts. will check, IL not
eradicate the disease should 1t become
epidemic, but O high authority has
| pointed out that this belief
is erroneous. Prof. Affieck, medioe! ex-
aminer at the University Of Edinburgh, In
an article on cholera, says that in general
| high temperature favors the development
Of the disease, but that some Of the most
severe epidemics known have ragged with
the greatest fury in winter.
| Deep indignation is felt at the health
Office authorities for permitting passengers
to land on Monday last from the steamer
Peregrine from Hamburg. These passen-
gers were carefully examined, and as no
| symptoms of cholera were shown thsy were
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they have introduced the disease into one OF
the most densely populated quarters OF
| London. Two cases Of the disease appeared
yesterday in City roa6, densely populated
part OF the city, the sufferers being passeu-
gers from the PeFegfino. This morning
aud now his wife and child have
been seized with the disease. Il Is believed
that it will require every aid known 10
| science to prevent the disease from spread
| ing. The people of the DISTRICT are loud in
| denuneiation Of what they term the happy
| go-lucky methods Of the health uthorities,
| and declare that IL the ouly precautionary
measure that would avail anything, abso-
Lutte prohibition Of immigration, had been
enforced, the disease would not have ap-
peared in London.
THREE CASES AT FALMOUTH.
Three persons suffer ing with cholera have
been landed at Falm outh from the British
steamer Clement, from Hamburg. They
| we're at once removed to hospital. Two
of the crew OF the Clement were taken Ill
at Hamburg and were left there,
The Infection continues to spread slowly
but 1t is feared surely. Two deaths from
Asiatic cholera are reported to-day at IsIiug.
ton, a northern suburb OF London. The
clothing OF the victims and taeir bedding
have been burned.
AT St. Pancras, In the northsrn part OF
the metropolis, a furnace has been erected
for burning the clothing Of cholera victims
| and a station has been established for disin-
fecting household effects.
SAVED BY SALT WATER.
VIENNA, Aug. 31.-The Neue Erie Presse
contains an important announcements that
the mortality among cholera patients al
Hamburg has been reduced fully so per
cent by the treatment prescribed by Profs
Northnagel and Kahler, namely injection
Of warm salt water. The effect is imme.
diate and marvellous, and many patients
whose pulse is so feeble as TO be almost In
discernible, often recover after this simple
treatment. In many cases, however, the
effect is so short that q relapse follows.
NINE CASES AT MALINEs.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 31.-Nine cases ol
cholera have been reported in Malines, @
railroad center fourteen miles from Ant
werp.
A woman has died of the cholera al
| Laeken.
At Bruges two cases are officially re
corded. They occurred aboard the vesse
Antwerper, aud one proved fatal For to-