Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
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Why England Has Been So Lucky.
The fact is that England, who only in Q
to interfere with her trade with the conti-
nent has relied for protection solely on
her internal sanitary arrangements and the
safeguards adopted by other countries on
their frontiers The only reason why
cholera has not come to England from
Hamburg-it has come in about .
score of isolated cases-is because the pre-
cautions of France and Belgium andH olland
on their frontiers have proved efficient 1t
is true, probably, that boats coming directly
from Hamburg to English ports are
inspectors, but by any other door
the cholera is free to enter Eng
land and to distribute itself whittier 1t
will As for the internal preparations,
probably q great deal has been said; GER
tainly there has been plenty of talk about
1t, but right here in London the hospitals
for contagious diseases are so overcrowded
by scarlet fever patients-more than 5000
being cared for this week-tbat it has been
necessary to close their doors against
further admissions
1t is significant that the newspapers say
nothing about this lack of precaution and
preparation. The papers laud the author
tiles for their activity and efficiency, con-
gratulate the country upon its escape from
the invader, and criticise President Harri-
son and the Americans for their absurd
quarantine regulations
Easy Enough to Travel to London.
A DISPATCH reporter who left Hamburg
on Thursday night travelled right through
to Flushing and thence by boat to Queens
boro and on to London without the slight
est delay en- route. At Haltern,
where we changed for Boxtel, a
medical inspector entered our car
riage before we alighted from it and in
quired if we had been troubled with
vomiting or diarrhea, and, upon being in
formed that we were well, troubled us no
more. At Boxtel, on the Dutch frontier,
the customs officer seized soiled linen in the
baggage of Hamburg passengers took their
names and addresses and promised to send
their property on after disinfecting.
This was the only precaution taken. At
greensboro nobody seemed to care whether
we came from Hamburg or not, and we trav-
eled on to London without question being
asked.
A great deal is heard in these times about
new weapons for fighting the great enemy.
Pasteur insists that his newly discovered
cholera virus by incubation provides abso-
lutte protection for two months to those
who resort to it He has tried it
upon everything but human beings,
and two of them, Russian physicians,
have submitted to inoculation without un-
pleasant results SO far. NJ. Pasteur has
written to Prince Damrong, brother of the
King of Siam, who is interested in his ex-
periments, asking him to permit one of his
assistants to go to that country and try the
virus upon the inhabitants of Siamese
village where cholera is epidemic
Agitation in Favor of Cremation.
The agitation in favor of cremation in the
case of all cholera victims is increasing
Sir Spencer Wells, one of the greatest En-
glish experts in germ diseases, sends to the
Graphic this afternoon the results of
some experiments which have q
startling bearing upon this branch
of the subject. He says: Some
persons doubt whether poison can be car
RED through the earth for any considerable
mentally proved as to saline solutions A
salt of lithium was sown over o plot of land
more than $50 yards distant from a well, the
water of which contained no Iithium. Re-
peated examinations were made, but 1t was
only on the eighteenth day it was proved
that the solution had percolated through |
the soil INTO the well
Instances OF contamination of water by |
animal impurities have long been too well |
known, and now the specific germs of in
fective diseases are known to propagate in
The same way. Quite lately what is known
as to typhoid and cholera has been proved as
to consumption and the bacillus of phthisis.
In the Botanic Gardens of Lyons flower
pots were filled with earth on June 16, 1891,
and some earth worms were added in each |
pot with some of the sputum of tuberculous
patients and fragments of lung from their
dead bodies A month afterward it was
found that the earth worms contained |
tubercle bacilli in large numbers, and that
guinea pigs inoculated with them soon
d lied with general tuberculosis. Whatever
the bacilli may be, whether tubercular, ty-
phoid or choleraic in bodies buried in
she earth, it is incontestable that earth
worms, everywhere so numerous and
active, may preserve the bscilli in their
bodies during many months, still living and
osing none of their virulent properties and
power of rapid termination or reproduction.
These are the grounds on which we assert
hat bodies after death from cholera ought
% be cremated, not buried"