The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-24

period would find the plague virtually ex-
tinct for the fall and winter.
The number OF fresh cases to-day was
$50. or eighty four less than yesterday; the
mum ber OF deaths. IA. or fifteen less than
yesterday. The interments numbered 81,
or thirty less than yesterday. The hospitals
terday. The majority of the pat tents in
the hospitals are con valescent. By next
Monday. when the sudden diminution of
fresh cases will begin TO be apparent. the
mum Der OF patients probably will have
charged AS cured within the next two days.
The Board o! Health has been authorized
TO destroy many houses In the suburbe
which have suffered most from the plague.
The houses named for destruction are
which have no. sanitary con-
ycTlencrs and no adequate ventilation.
All of them have been occupied by laborers'
families. whose members have died of like
sheep during the plague. Seven houses In
Barn beck and three in Horn have lost
two thirds of their occupants through
Cholera In the last three weeks. and they
are so thoroughly saturated with the
disease that no disinfection. the health
board says. could render them safe. After
the disappearance OF the disease many
other tenements will be examined with q
view to tearing them down. These meas
ures are deemed necessary to ENSURE the city
immunity from a return of the epidemic
next year. Two professors arrived to-day
to examine the Elbe water. Twenty-Five
persons registered at the hotels to-day. the
largest number in any one day for the past
two weeks.
Cigarettes So Deadly They kim Cholera Germs
VIENNA, Sept. 23.-At Cracow, where cholera
is raging. infected houses are not closed,and peo-
pie are free to enter and leave them st will.
Most of those who have thus far fallen victims
TO the disease have been women and children.
The meu regard cigarette smoking as a sufficient
safeguard against their contracting cholera, and
this contention Is supported in a measure by the
fact that only five men in the effected districts
have been attacked by the scourge. In the vii
lage OF PodgorrossO. across the Vistula river,
ana kasimierz, the Jewish quarter of Cracow,
there Is no drainage system, and filth OF all
kinds is thrown into the streets. there to putrefy
and poison the atmosphere. Not the slightest
means to Keep the city clean.
Berlin's Extraordinary Precautions.
LONDON. Sept. 23.-The Posts Berlin corre-
s~pondent says: 1.-THE precautions taken by the
authorities are SO universally obtrusive to the
sight and smell that they are calculated TO throw
a new arrival into a state of hypochondriac
alarm. The medical examination of trains is re-
peated four times between Cologne and Berlin.
The Inspection is of a thorough character, but
doubtless Is due to the emergency. The customs
officials handle baggage as IL they do not desire
TO come in contact with the bacilli. The whole
city. especially the public offices, is redolent of
the odor OF a dissecting room. A violation OF
the sanitary regulations is punishable by a fine
and imprisonment"
Heroism of An American Woman.
LONDON, Sept. 23.-Mr. ZOrlinda, a London
merchant, writing from Persia to the Chronicle
in regard to the cholera epidemic, says: 1.-The
conduct of Miss Bradford, the American woman
who came to Tauris for the American missions.
stands forth IN such striking relief rs TO he
worthy OF note. In the face of the general panic,
when everybody was DESERVING the cholera
stricken town. she worked with calm. unremit-
ing attentiDg under great difficulties. nursing
cholera patients and encouraging others under
the awful circumstances TO battle with the cpl
deinic. Hundreds or Persians owe their lives to
the courage and devotion of this heroic woman. "