The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-01
THE CHOLERA HERE.
Brought from Hamburg By the
Steamship Moravia.
IMMIGRATION MAY BE STOPPED,

burg = The Physicians Have No
Doubt That 1t Is Asiatic Cholera.
Onicials Discussing the Situation.
New York, Sept. 1.-The steamships
Friesland, Circassia and Veendam were
still detained at Quarantine yesterday,
The Moravia, with 1858 immigrants from
Hamburg, and the Anchor liner, Italia,
with 2S7 from Genoa, arrived at Quar-
antine. The Moravia had twenty-five
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 Aug, 10 and the last on Aug. 30.
The first and second cabin passengers
of the Circsssia were taken off and
brought to the city. The steerage pass
.engers were taken to Hoffman Island
and given bath, after which they were
placed on the steamer.
The Nj iia Is under quarantine, an
chored in ~,rsvesend bay, where she is
out of the usual track of vessels. The
baggage of the passengers has been un-
der disinfection by steam all day. There
are no new developments on board the
vessel.
The saloon passengers of the Teutonic
left the steamer at $50 yesterday after
noon after each one had made declara-
tion of his route while abroad. The
baggage and mails have been disin-
fected. The steerage passengers will
nndnrrn a fhnrnnOh oil nS1Y
No Communication with Hamburg.
At the Office of the Cunard company
cable dispatches were received from
Liverpool stating that all eommunica-
tion with Hamburg had been stopped by
the Liverpool authorities.
james A. Wright, of the Interna-
tional Navigation company, said that he
had received cablegram from their
agents at Liverpool saying that United
States Consul Sherman is cabling to
Washington that there is no cholera in
Liverpool and that the steamships City
of New York, for New York, and the
Ohio, of the American line, for Phila-
delphia, have departed with consular
certificates of good health.
MIR. Goddard ,sthe city editor of The
World, and four OF his staff of report
ers on the tow boat J. w. Hustled, at
tempted to visit the steamer Moravia in
the lower bay yesterday afternoon. They
were placed under arrest by DIR. Tai
madge and brought before Health Off
Ger jenkins. AS they did not succeed
IN boarding the steamer the Aealth Off
Ger discharged them with reprimaud.
HAMBURG, Sept. 1.-The air is cooler
and the sky has been overcast since 0
o'clock yesterday morning. Reports to
the board OF health show the develop
ment of 7l3 cases and 216 deaths This
Is decrease since yesterday of 81 in the
number of cases developed and of AZ in
the mum ber of deaths. In most of the
less frequented streets O person may
walk half a mile without meeting half
dozen persons, and in several streets
where all traffic has been forbidden, the
silence and baroness are broken only by
the passing physicians and health Off
GERS. AT almost every turn hearses or
dead wagons are met, yet the burials do
not keep pace with the deaths. 1t is
said that III the whole city at fewest $50
bodies, which have been inferred, still
await burial. An extraordinary effort
was made yesterday to remedy the per-
ilous condition of affairs and 1916 burials
have have been made against 300 the
day before, hnt tine increase of mortal
ity, as the result of bad weather, mas
counterbalanced the exertions of the
authorities.
The direction of the Lohnmueiler
Street hospital at Altoona was stricken
with the cholera late yesterday after
noon, und an hour later two physicians
OF his staff suecumbed to the disease.
Many postmen were reported last eve
ming to be i'll of cholera. The report of
the day for Altoona shows that there
have been tfty-one fresh cases and
twenty-five deaths. In Lubbock forty
one fresh cases were discovered yester-
day. News has been received from
Kiel that the smallpox has broken out
there, and, that fifteen patients are al
really in the hospital.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-The Queenstown
agents of the transatlantic steamship
companies have erected disinfecting
chambers at the docks and are busy
fnmigating the baggage of passengers.
Even the smallest vessel is fumignted
for six hours The materials used in
the process of disinfection are a sulphur
ous acid gas and solution of carbolic
acid. GeneralA John j. Platt the United
States consul at Cork. announces that
all passengers who do not arrive in
time for the full process of disinfection
will not be allowed to sail.
RoUEN, Sept. Three cholera pa
tients have been admitted to the city
hospital since yesterday. 0,.e OF them
died
BRUSSELS, Sept. 1.-While the condi-
tions as TO cholera are said to be improv-
ing in Antwerp the disease is evidently
spreading in Brussels. There have been
two fatal cases in the suburbs of this
city.
Immigration May be stopped.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The actual
arrival of Asiatic cholera at the port of
New York has brought to the front the
question of suspending immigration to
The country altogether during the prev
nlence Of cholera in the eastern hem
isphere. 1t is admitted that such
measure would be justified only by the
pressing danger, but the danger in the
opinion of some high officials, is at
hand. Government officials are ram
sacking records and reading up on for
mer sconrges.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding, who
has immediate control OF the matter, =.
was found deeply immersed in a his
tory OF the smallpox epidemic of 1885,
"All the machinery of the govern
ment is at work on this cholera busi-,
ness, he said, land all the precautions
taken in 1885 have already been taken
by u.s." Continuing. Mr.. Spaulding
said that under the existing quarantine
laws restrictions could be imposed that
would practically suspend immigration,
but he would not say that such action
was Immediately contemplated.
An eminent law officer of the govern
ment. who has given the subject much
thought, said yesterday that in his opln-
ion the president had the power to sus-
TRnf al tf i,,h 10 4
he dsemed it necessary for the public
welfare while the scourRe lasted. This
opinion is entertained BY others.
The question of postponing the
Worlds fair is now being discussed 1t
is pointed out by the treasury officials
that most of the exhibits will necessarily
come from cholera infected countries,