Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-08
CHOLERA NEXT YEAR.
The Prospects Described by the London
"Times."

The London Times, whose carefully prepared
letters on the cholera epidemic are attracting
great attention in Europe and praises from the
highest English and continental physicians,
publishes an article on the prospects Of cholers
for this and next year. II says: 1--WE are already
in October and still the epidemic marches
steadily westward despite elaborate procaution
and superb sanitary perfection Probably the
general public does not gather clear idea Of
what is happening from glance ut the tele-
grams announcing the occurrence OF few cases
in Grodno and Odessa. These do not sound
more important than the dispatches announcing
the same condition Of affairs in saratof and
Baku. All are somewhere in Russia where
cholera is an old story. Similarly the death Of
a few lighter men at Spandau, In Germany,
seems comparative trife, while tidings Of
cholera in a small way from a dozen places In
Holland and Belgium were only to be expected
Even the invasion Of Budapest, thu capital Of
Hungary, will not attract much attention
while its effects are confined TO their present
moderate dimensions. All the foregoing viii
make little impression beside the news from
Hamburg, Paris, St. Petersburg and central
and southern Russia that the disease is sub
siding daily, yet they are Of ominous import
They mean that cholera is doing fast Just what
IL has always done formerly creeping Quietly
onward and sowing the sutumnal seeds IN new
ground over n wide area, which win burst forth
luxuriant with the advent OF summer. II iss
most mischievous delusion that after Septem-
Der nothing more is to be feared for individual
towns and districts which have borne the brupt
of Q severe epidemic Winter generally means
delivery, but for the neighboring countries n
means only the beginning of trouble. The
recent cholera news from abroad means
that seed Is being sown over q ysst
area in central Europe ready for the death
harvest in 1898. The news from Grodpo
means that western Russia right M 70 he
Prussian border and beyond il infected,
the news from Odessa means that the seed -
sown in the Black sea httoral and the D..
nubian provinces; the news from Budapest
means that the isolation Of Galicia was an utter
failure and that Austria and Hungary are In
VOWED, while the news from SpAndau means
Oder are infected. Scattered cases of the die
ease in the Netherlands tell the same tale. n
precedent IL Of any value, all those distrtctu
and Poland and France viii break out into a
blaze in 1893 Cholera viii knock as mauv
doors and woe betde IL there In q crack ANY,
where"
Continuing, the Times says: berlin has vsrv
dubious water and can hardly hope 20 eecsps
serious trouble. Cholera Ia almost certain 10 s.
brought to England again this autumn and 4
quite certain 20 be brought here In 1898, prob
ably both from the east and west (meanine ths
Baltic and Mediterranean.
I'VE may be able 10 exclude the disease. M No
have done since 1855. That ID our best chance
for once II obtains footing We viii not ind
ourselves in q much better position than cur
neighbors. London, In particular. has escnr.ed
more through good luck than good nancaD-
ment"