St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-02
Cooler Air in Hamburg Causes
a Slight Abatement in the
Plague.
An Increase Of the Plague
Looked for With Higher
Temperature.
Persons Fleeing From the
City Have Spread Infec-
ton Far and Wide.
Many Suburbs Of the City
Without Nurses or Doc
tors.

HAMBURG, Sept. 1.-The thermom-
eter mas fallen to 20 deg Fahrenheit to-
day, and there have been several light
showers. The air is cooler tonight than
1t has been in the last ten days. Never
theless'the abatement of the plague has
not been so considerable as to bring
much comfort to the stricken city.
The most trustworthy reports give the
number of fresh cases today as 6S1 and
OF deaths as 247. The decrease in the
number of fresh cases since yesterday
is AZ and the number of deaths %.
These figures do not agree, however,
with the reports of the Hamburg Off
clals, who have reduced the number of
deaths to As. The city government has
thus again declared for the fatuous
policy of suppressing the facts, and its
reports are received with ridicule. The
number of deaths has fallen from 395
to 313.
Reports of an abatement of the panic
In consequence of the lower death rate
today are untrustworthy. They eme-
nate from official sources, and are part
OF the general plan for conceaIing the
situation. The people are too thor
oughly frightened to be treasured by a
slight change, which is likely to be sue
ceeded tomorrow, with return of the
high temperature, by all
Increase of the Plague.
3The flight of persons who constitute
the city's business and society world
continue. About 10000 persons left on
the railways to-day. Many postmen are
among the victims to-day and the deIiy-
cry Of the mails have been much re-
tarded. The physicians who have been
among the stricken from the first are
worn out by OverwOrk and there was
few at hand to take their places. Almost
third of the deaths to-day are said
to have taken place before any med
zeal aid could De secured. In the har-
Dor district only about four patients
among seven are able to secure ply
sicians to treat them. The most urgent
appeals for help come this afternoon
from the suburbs of Horn and Hammer
brock, where the people have died by
doctors and health officers are said to
have left these suburbs almost unnO-
ticed, and whole families have been
wiped out without having had word
of advice or prescription.
The harm done to the rest of North
Germany by official incompeteney is
enormous. Persons fleeing from the
city in the last five days have carried
the infection to twenty-three other
North German towns. In Lubbock,
Liegnitz, Ruda, Bergedorf and Neu-
kirch. in upper Selesia, Delmenhorst,
Magdeburg and more than a dozen vii
lagos the breaking out of the plague
was due directly to the arrivals from
this port.
Prof. Northnagel aud Prof. Kahler
have been giving cholera patients
enams of warm salt water. 1t is claimed
by those who have followed this course
Of treatment that fully SO per cent of
those treated in this way have recov-
cred.
The official report of the total number
of cases of cholera and deaths in this
city since the first of the outbreak of
the scourge here shows that 3,SSS per-
sons have been attacked by the disease
and that death has resulted in 1,7SS
cases.