The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-07
STEADY INCREASE
OF THE PLAGUE
The Situation in Stricken Ham
burg Is Most Dis
couraging.
REPORTS OF THE AUTHORITIES UT
TERLY UNRELIABLE.

Lnboring People Disregard the Direc-
tions of the Health Ohioers-The Infec-
ted City a Veritable Charnel- House
Hamburg Am erican Steamers Not Pro-
visioned at Hamburg Concern in Italy
at Our Rastrictions-F French Soldiers
Stricken.
HAMBURG, Sep. THE number of new
cholera cases to-day has been 93S; of
deaths, 3l7 This is decrease of 81 in
the number of new cases, and of 80 in the
number of deaths. As compared with
the figures of one week ago, when the
plague was supposed to be at its worst,
however, the lists of to-day's cases and
deaths are. not encouraging. The in
crease of fresh cases over those of a week
ago to-day is 231; the increase of deaths
H.
In the hospitals the mortality has
been especially large among inebriates.
The deaths of 80 heavy drinkers, 12 of
these women, have been reported and
among the fresh cases a corresponding
increase in the number of incorporate
persons has been noticed. The news
papers have printed innumerable warn
ings against the excessive use of beer dur
ing the plague, bu they have passed un-
needed in the low districts, where the
epidemic has done its worst.
The authorities begin gradually to
realize that the whole burden of stopping
the progress of the plague rests upon
them The directions of the health au-
thorities have been steadily disregarded
by the laboriug people, who are either
too poor or TO ignorant too observe them.
The continued use Of the Elbe water
without boiling it, is considered to be
one of the principal causes Of the spread
of the cholera, yet no warning has been
loud enough to induce the workmen to
! take this simple precaution.
Boiled water hereafter will be supplied,
therefore, by the city from the centers OF
| the various stricken districts. Eight To-
| comotives have been set to work by the
authorities preparing water for these dis
tributing stations, and more will be hired
within the next three days. Should the
people neglect to avail themselves Of this
| provision, water carts will be sent out to
distribute boiled water, free of charge,
| from house to house.
Dr. Veuz, tue celebrated specialist
! gives a graphic description of the
sad condition of the city. The old town,
he says is collection Of dirty, sitting,
! crowded. charnel houses. There are few
tram cars, and they are almost empty.
The whole city is in dreary and dis
heartening contrast to what it was.
The tree-lined Spielbubenplatz is nm.
frequented and an oppressive stiffness
hangs over it. The cafes are empty. One
head waiter who serves at a restaurant
where formerly two thousand persons ate
daily told the physician yesterday that
eighteen customers had been there up tC
& pm.
In passing the strasse he saw n crowd
and six policemen holding it in check,
while six women ran screaming down the
road after ambulances which were bear
ing their husbands away to the cholera
hospital.
Occupants of houses, he says, often run
out in the street and beseech passing
policemen to send ambulances to remove
patients, but the police can seldom ac-
cede to their appeals as the ambulanc;
service is quite inadequate to the de-
mands upon it,
At night, DIR. Vuez says, the streets are
completely deserted by pedestrians, al
though ambulances, dead wagons and
| hearses can be heard passing almost con
stantly. The statistics published by the
authorities, DR.. Veuz says, are utterly
worthless. On one day the number oi
deaths announced by the health officials
was but one-haf the number registered
/ AT tina OfIipa