Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09
Disease Booked tor America.

xy16e010 HOOkeU tOr AMERICA
London advices say: II all the deaths
that are being reported from Asiatic
cholera are true there is no doubt Of
Great Britain's having a visitation Of
the dreadful scourge. From Gravesend.
Swansea, Glas .ow and Dundee, towns
in England, Scotland and Wales, reports
come of deaths from the disease show
ing that the efforts of the health officials
to keep it out of the country have proven
fruitless. And now comes the report
that a person has died from Asiatic
cholera ut Bolton, the large manufac-
turing town which lies twelve miles
northwest Of Manchester. The place lie
one of the principal seats of the English
cotton manufacture and thousands Of
mill operatives live there.
The permission given by the health
officials at Mid%dlesborough for the land
ing of the crew of the steamer Corona
from Hamburg promises to have most
serious results. The vessel was placed
in quarantine after one of the crew had
been attacked by cholera, but in the
meantime a number of the ships COM
pany had departed for their homes. Six
Of them went to Dundee, where they re-
side, while another of the crew went to
Aberdeen. Among those who went to
Dundee was Mr.. Walker, the engineer
of the Corona. Shortly after his arrival
there he was taken sick and died in q
few hours. The physician who attended
him says there is no doubt that mis- death
was due to cholera.
When it became known that Mr..
Walker was dead the greatest excite
ment prevailed in Dundee and also in
Aberdeen, where the seventh member
of the crew ashore had gone. Steps
were at once taken by the health. Off
GERS to isolate the remaining members
Aberdeen until all danger Of their
spreading the c%ontagion is past. The
residents of both places. however, be-
licve that The men have been allowed to
go about the towns long enough to
spread the disease, if they carried the
infection, and there is widespread anx-
iety prevailing in every quarter of the
towns. An extraordinary watch will be
kept in both places for the first appear
ance of choleraic disorders.
A sailor arrived ut Swansea from
Cork. He was found to lie suffering
with cholera, and was Immediately re-
moved to the cholera hospital. The APP
pearance of the disease in Swansea
awakened the port authorities to the
responsibilities Of their position, and q
llCCllllS was SuIluIOucu W ucCiuc uUOu
measures for the prevention of any fur
herinvasion.
The London local government board
has issued regulations requiring ship
owners, under heavy penalties, to re-
tain aboard ship all foreign immigrants
who are unable to inform the port med
ical officer OF their destination and adj
dress to enable the local authorities to
watch them until all danger of cholera
is passed. No immigrant in a dirty
condition will be allowed to land until
ali the sanitary regulations regarding
bathing, etc.. are complied with. The
order will be rigidly executed. 1t will
be the cause of considerable expense
and annoyance to ship-owners, and will
probably result in the cessation of the
immigration of destitute aliens, at whom
the order is evidently aimed. 1t will
not interfere with immigrants in transit
across England en- route for America.
The schooner Helene, said to be des-
tined for America, and which had been
detained at Dover, is now being lowed
to Gravesend with a yellow flag flying
from her mast.
The correspondent at Odessa says:
"The cholera mortality begins to show
marked fluctuations, contrasting with
the previous steady increase. The Of
fetal returns ignore Therson, Nicolaieff,
kishneff and many other places where
the outbreak is not widespread. There
fore. the mortality is much above the
official figures.
Federal Authorities Crippled.
The Federal authorities at Washing
ton are doing all that can be done,
SO far as they have authority, to
prevent the Introduction of cholera into
this country. The United States Gov
ernment, however, has not unlimited
ports, for this is largely q matter de-
pending upon the action of the State
and other local authorities. Efforts
made from time to time in Congress to
extend the Federal jurisdiction in this
direction have encountered the oppose
ton of those statesmen who are stick.
lers for State rights, and measures for
the prevention and suppression Of epi-
demic diseases have been defeated by
such opposition. There is an appropri-
alton made annually for the use of the
marine hospital service for expenditure
for sanitary purposes, but II the United
States authorities had jurisdiction the
ounce of prevention would be more eff
c%actous than a tom of cure.
1t avails nothing II the authorities Of
New York and other large seapOrts en-
force a strict quarantine II the disease
is permitted to gain an entrance through
the remissness of the local authorities
at New Orleans, Galveston or some
other port of entry. The only way by
which a general and stringent cuaran-
tine can be established and successfully
maintained, authorities say, is by an
act of Congress and through the agency
Of the federal authority. General at
tention having been aroused by the
prevalence of the cholera in Europe, it
Is believed that a public sentiment will
be created that will induce Congress,
at the coming session, to pass a meas
ure that will place the question OF estab-
fishing quarantine In charge Of the
federal authorities.
EXPERIMENTS made by a Hungarian
! physician on animals seem to show that
\ permanganate Of potash acts as an
efficient antidote in acute phosphorus