Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-31
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIG NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Cholera in New York.

deaths on board during the passage,
which the ships doctor says were from
cholerine. Twenty were of children
and two Of adults. Thirteen were ma
tives of Poland five of Prussia; one
of Austria, and three of Hesse. All
were buried at sea. The first death
took place August 10 and the last on
the 10Th. The Moravia has been or
dcred down the lower bay.
The health officers who made the in
spection of the Moravia's passengers
pronounce the cause of death in the
stricken cases as true Asiatic cholera.
All the emigrants on the steamer are
being transferred to Hoffman's island
this afternoon. The vessel and cargo
will be thoroughly disinfected while "
ing in the harbor.
The Storage passengers ofthe Mora
via were carefully inspected and all
found to be in good health except that
three children are i'll with measles.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 31.-The physi-
clans who have been watching the cases
of ;he four Russian emigrants who welo
attacked yesterday with suspicious
sickness while waiting to go on board a
steamer for the United States have Of
fcially declared that the disease from
which they are suffering is true Asiatic
cholera The announcement has caused
considerable excitement i'll Liverpool.
The authorities are doing everything
possible TO stop The spread ofthe disease.
Gen. Pratt, the American consul at
Queenstown, has notified the agents OF
the transatlantic lines that passengers
whose effects are not thoroughly puri-
fled with sulphur will not be allowed
to land in the United States.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-The people of
England generally are beginning to be
nervously apprehensive that the coun-
try is doomed to undergo another
siege of cholera plague. A large pro-
portion of the people believe that the
approaching autumn, with its cool
weather and frosts, will check, if not
eradicate, the disease should it become
epidemic, but Prof. J. O. Aff!ick, NJ. D.,
medical examiner at the University of
Edinburgh has declared that in gene
raj high temperature fayors the dcvel-
opmcnt of the disease, and that some of
the most severe epidemics known have
ragged with the greatest fury in winter.
The disease has appeared at Dover, one
of the hiefports of communication be-
tween England and the continent, and
three persons have been attacked there.
HAMBURG, Aug. 31.-Thcrc is no
questioning the fact that the present
cholera epidemic is the worst that has
ever visited this city, and every hour
the situation becomes worse. The peo-
pie are dying off like sheep and the
plague is spreading. There were 425
fresh cases and 2l9 death yesterday.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 31.-The Scheldtc
board of health announced few days
ago that the disease prevailing in Ant
werp was not cholera, and that only a
few cases imported from Hamburg
were known in the city. Prof. Ermin-
gen, who was directed to examine the
cases of persons suffering with the dis
ease in Antwerp, states that there is
no doubt that the disease is the gen
uine Asiatic cholera.
TEHERAN, Aug. 31.-The cholera in
this city has at present apparently run
its course and the epidemic is now de-
creasing. The deaths from the dis
ease yesterday amounted to 500, a de-
crease of 600 compared with the deaths
reported ten days ago.
PARIS, Aug. 31.-During the past
four days 81 persons suffering from
cholerine have been taken to the hos
pital. The deaths during the same
period were 81.
LONDON, Aug 31.-Thcre is deep in
dignation felt Mt the health authorities
for permitting the passengers to land
Monday last from the steamer Pere-
CRIME, from Hamburg These passen-
gers were carefully examined and as
no symptoms of cholera were shown
they were allowed to 60 ashore, with
the result that they have introduced
the disease into one Of the most dense
ly populated quarters Of London.
These dispatches announced yester-
day two cases of the disease appeared
yesterday in the City Road, the sufferers
being passengers from the Peregrine.
This morning one of the patients, a
German, died, and now his wife and
child have been seized with the dis
ease. 1t is believed that it will require
every aid known to science to prevent
the disease spreading.
VIENNA, Aug. 31.-A well-known
physician of this city who is visiting
Hamburg has written to the Neue Freie
Press regarding the situation in that
city. He says that the sanitary ma