The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-21
ANOTHER PLAGUE SHIP
Arrives at New York with Ter
rible Record.
The Hamburg Steamer Bohemia Reaches
Our shores with Fresh Importa-
tion Of cholsra-Appalling Con-
dition OF Anhirs In tho
Tenement Districts Of
Hamburg.

and who are supposed TO have intro
duced tho cholera into this city, have
been sent 70 tho Willard Parker hos
pital, where they will be detained until
the disease is stamped out.
The health board bulletin posted at
10:So yesterday morning announced an
other suspected case Of cholera In the
city. The bulletin reads as follows:
1.-THE only suspected case Of cholera IN
this city since last bulletin Is Edward
Hoppe, of 1926 Madison avenue, who
died Thursday. 1t is under inv estiga-
tion."
Another plague ship in the port and
another story Of disease and death on
the voyage. Eleven more victims added
to the long list Of those who have died
of cholera between Hamburg and New
York This Is the story Of the steam
ship Bohemia, which reached New York
Thursday night and anchored in the
loYer quarantine.
Her coming had been dreaded as
much as the coming of her sister ship
and sister death house-the Scandia.
She left Hamburg at the time when the
pest was ut its worst and her 6S1 steer
age passengers, gathered from the In
fected regions Of Germany and Russia.
were confidently expected to bring the
cholera with them
The Bohemia Is of the unlucly Ham,
burg-American line. She has been
many years In the service and since the
appearance Of the fast express steamers
she has been devoted almost entirely
20 the immigrant business She brings
no cabin passengers.
QUARANTINE, Sept 1.-THE records
of the steamer Bohemia's surgeon show
that on the voyage fifty-two In all were
sick. OF this number eleven died, thirty
seven recovered and four were trans
ferred to the hospital yesterday morn.
ing.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IT. - Secretary
Foster received yesterday the agreement
signed by the steamship companies in
which they say they will not ship any
moro immigrants at present to the
United States.
HAMBURG, Sept 17.-The thermome-
ter yesterday varied between seventy
and seventy-fve degrees The air was
humid and oppressive and the city sut-
fered under dead calm. The fresh
cases Friday numbered 6s7, or II fewer
than the day before. The deaths mum.
bered 21S, or 10 more than Thursday.
The hospitals and cholera barracks are
treating S,O9s patients Outside OF the
hospitals and barracks there are practi-
cally no patients. Two thousand and
eight hundred OF the patients now
under treatment are Of the dregs Of the
city's population
OF the persons who have died OF the
cholera in the last three weeks, 5000 OF
about 40 per cent were children. In
1000 families both parents have been
taken and thus 2, 400 orpnans have been
left a charge on the community.
The board Of health have just finished
an investigation Of the tenement dis
triots Of hsmm, Horn, Barnbeck and
Hammerbrook. An appalling condition
Of affairs was revealed A member OF
tile investigating commission says that
ever since the outbreak Of the plague
the people In these districts have defied
every law OF sanitation. Hardly tone
nent house was found In the four sub
urbs where any sanitary oenyeaisnost
whatever had been provided By The
landlords Cesspools behind most Of
the tenemsnts have been filed with Do
decaying garbage, while In houses
hardly thirty feet or persons were
sleeping, seven or eight IN q room
Since the scarcity Of employment haI
been felt the people In those houses
have only had vegetables and refuse
meat TO eat After deaths from chol-
era they have neglected TO use any OF
the disinfecting materials delivered Va
them and have put on dead mems clothes
before sanitary officials were notified OF
the deaths. The people from these To-
calities are still filing the hospital.
with their sick In Wandsbeck, whers
the cholera was supposed TO have been
stamped out there were some thirty.
five cases and thirteen deaths yester.
day. The outbreak is said TO be due tc
the impossibility Of collecting all the
clothes In death rooms for disinfeotion.
As soon as the people appr0hend that
the officials are coming they smuggle
away all garments which they think
might be injured by disinfection.