The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-09-08
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.Cnosero VICTIMS Dying ON Like Hh0ep-s
Number Of New Cases Developing Up in
the Hundreds.
HAMBURG, Sept G-sunday was .
cool, autumnnl day. The sky was cloud
less and the sun he's tempered the air
agreeably. Ordinarily on such day
the streets are filed with promenaders
and the harbor Is dotted with small
pleasure boats and excursion steamers
The stiffness of the streets, however,
has been, as during the last Ave days,
almost urbroken, and In the harboP
hardly dozen boats were TO be seen
moving at o'clock
The fresh cases Of cholera discovered
Sunday number $50, the deaths NOM
ber a77. Compared with Saturday, the
decrease Of the number Of cases Is "a
OF the number OF deaths 80. There D
much loose official talk 10 tho effect
that the worst Is over, that the plague
is abating. and that the people are re.
covering from their panic This talk
Is echoed by the newspaper II would
be difficult to name any specific sign
of returning confidence among the
people, and the mortality from
the plague IN TIE last two DAYS
certainly gives little bes!s for II. TtA
sudden rise Of the mortality from 9Oi
on Friday to BIB Saturday showed how
vo4n were the hopes aroused by the
slight abatement Of tho plague ond the
fact that the average OF fresh cases for
Saturday and Sunday Is larger than al
any previous time shows conolusfvefy
that the disease isat least not losing II
hNl ~
moreover, the authorities have been
busy providing increased facilities fos
treating cholera patients, and 90
orphanaga reft.od as hospital, apd |
eight choAora barracks have been |
opened
Physicians have been placed ON duty
at all railway stations and orders to-
moro dead wagons have been sent out
by the health officials The number OF
interments Sunday have been S7a or
thirty-six more than Saturday. This
increase Is duo partly to the sudden
lengthening OF the death list Saturday
and partly 10 the extraordinary efforts
OF the authorities to get under ground
tho bodies which heve boen collecting
steadily at the hospitals About 800
bodies were still unburied at o'clock
Sunday evening With the new dead
wagons, however, these bodies oan be
Inferred, together with those of fresh
victims, within the next twenty-four
hours, unless tho plague should spread
more rapidly than now seems probable
The procession Of dead wagons and
hearses through the streets has become
appalling From any corner dozen
nay DO seen In Ave minutes. and on the
roads TO the cemeteries they pass IN al
most continuous linca Places In which
me would look for signs OF returning
confidence show none. Cafes, restea-
ants and hotels remain empty. Streets
re bare, shops are closed. The
ao stands arc deserted Most OF the
houses look ns If they had been shot
or the fall
Prof Koch is expected to return TO
he city on Tuesday 70 proceed further
With his iDves.iga tion Of the course Of
no plague, and to consult with the
nunicipal sanitary officials 1t is un-
crstood that he will make an exhaust
We report TO the emperor on the CON
ition of the city and the measures Of
he authorities to combat tho disease.
The ineficiency Of the authorities
ere is known to have produced o pain
nj impression In Berlin. and they are
onsidered at the capital to be czdmin-
lily responsible for the spread OF the +
ontagion 10 many north German
'wns 1t is reported that Emperos
'illiam has addressed to them q
escript In which he reviews briefly the
purse of the plague IN this city, and IN
nequivocal terms lays the blame nus l
le city's suffering at their doom