The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-07
CHOLERA'S HARVEST.
The Dread Disease Appears in
European Ports. &
Precautions Against Its Entrance
Into This Country.

Asiatic cholera is now adm ittedly present
in three Of the great Northern European
ports-Hamburg, Antwerp, and Havre--
ard considerable alarm exists in all the
leading cities. A Hamburg dispatch says:
'Cholera has broken out in all parts Of
the city and its suburbs, although the out
break is worse in rhs harbor quarter. To-
day $40 persons were attacked, and 100
cases proved fatal. Several Of the worst
infected streets have been closed by the
police. Professor Koch declares that he has
found several eruo cases OF Asiatic cholera.
fwenty-sevsn cases were reported in Altoona
to-day. The thermometer registered ninety
ing there have been 210 undisputed
cases of Asiatic cholera in this city;
seventy Of them have been fatal There have
been, moreover about 200 cases which are
said to have been cholerine, but are be.
lieved to have been Of the genuine
Asiatic type. About sixty-ive Of thess
have been fatal. The hospitals and
morzues in the city are filled, as most OF
the cholera cases are among the poor, who
are unable to give the patients the proper
treatment The ambulances are in constant
use. On account Of the extreme heat and
drought the Elbe is exceptionally low, and
Lu0 "dlcE uhS Dtcu pOnuC6u Uy
sewers to an unu 'ual extent"
An Antwerp (Belgiuml dispatch says:
"Since noon'yesteriay ,6vepsrsons who were
suffering from cholera and were admitted
to the hospital dlel in few hours after
their admission. The Sanitary Board
has ordered a most rigorous inspec..
ton Of all vessels arriving from Ham-
burg, the Rhine ports and from
France. The doctors were loath to admit
that the disease was Asiatic cholera, but
they were finally compelled to acknowledge
that the scourge OF the East had appeared
here. The announcement that the fatal
scourge has appeared here has caused a feel
ing Of apprehension, and many OF the!
Weather residents are making preparations
to leave the city"
On the same day that the aboYe dispatches
were received cablegram from Paris stated
there had been recorded during the day
forty-six cases Of cholera and thirteen deaths
in Ravre.
An official report fcom st. Petersburg on
the subject of cholera says that the mortality.
exceeds 25Oo daily. Nearly every garrison
in Russia has been attacked by the pestil.
ence. .tss% u
The cholera scourge RACES with unchecked
virulence throughout Persia, and countless
corpses lie everywhere unburied. Notwith.
standing the urgent orders Of the Govern
ment the Mollahs or clergy, refuse to per.
the dead as preliminary to burial
The rites include the washing OF the bodies,
and this the Mollahs positively decline to
perform when death has been caused by
cholera. The drivers OF the donkeys that
carry the mail have deserted the service,
and communication Is everywhere suspend
ed, except where the telegraph reaches. 81
Precautions in This Country,
The United States Treasury Department.
has issued circular requiring all rags i'm,
ported from abroad to be disinfected. The
circular calls attention to the cholera epi-9
demic prevailing in Persia, India and Russia
and to Its having reached Germany, France
and Austria, and dwells upon the
danger which arises through the Imports
ton of rags from cholora-infected districts
and OF the difficulty, through their reshir.
ment at various ports, OF ectualy
determining the localities in which rags
on and after Septe m Der 90, 1892, entry be
refused to rags from foreign ports ui-
less they are accompanied by certificate
from the consular officer at the port Of ship;
ment to the effect that they have bean dis
infected. It is also ordered that entry be
absolutely denied to rags gathered In or
shipped from any port or place where.
cholera Is known to prevail In epidemic form
on and after the date Of the circular, except
such as were then afoat, which must be dis
injected on arrival
Secretary Foster, Of the Treasury De-
partment, has telegre phed the agents OF the
North German Lloyd and Hamburg. .Amsrt.
can Steamship Companies to have all their
vessels from Hamburg and Bremen, bound
for Baltimore, stop at Cape Charles Station,
Va, Tor inspection. y
The Quarantine Commissioners at New
York are also taking every precaution to
prevent the introduction Of the disease into
i',is country. ALI ships coming from infected
ports will be. detained at Quarantine, In
New York harbor. and a thorough eIamina-
ton will be made by the Health Omcers be-
fore they will be allowed to proceed to the
city, II there should be the least symp-
tom OF the disease among the passengers,
the suspects will be removet to Hoffman
Island, where they will be kept under sur
veillance.
DR.. Jenkins, the Health Officer Of the Port
Of New York, believes that the disease can:
not get foothold in that port. He said
that besides the preventive measures adopt
ed at New York the steamship companies
officers in the infected ports would exercist