The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-18

IL stationary in Horn. Barnbeck. Hamm
and Hammerhrock Io-dsy's returns
show another increase. despite q falling
t~hernonleter ami a heavy rain. There
were 1Jo fresii cases to-day. or sixteen more
than yssf.ra az. The dentn numbered 224.
or eleven raore than yesterday. an
the cholera hospitals and bar
racks iherc are .3.i29 patients. or
thirty-one more than yesterday. The in
crease is believed 10 be due 10 the closeness
OF the atmosphere. throughout the city
Many OF the wells are bored by
engineers IN the en pioy men. of the city.
although ahoIt tifty have been pnt IN by
private enterprise. In all abort $50 are IN
Use. and hrforo October there will be- proh-
ably enough 20 snpply the majority of the
citizensof the city.
Precautions Worse tllan the Epidemic.
LONDON. Sept. 17.-The Times to-day
publishes one of = series of letters on chol-
era. written by weIl-krown physicians who
are studying the Gisrase ia knssIa and Ger
many. To-uay's letter describes the in
sDection and disiDfection craze in Ger
many. The writer says that Inspection
and fisinfcctiun have become epidemic,
aud. while heing ineffective To prevent the
disease. Is nearly "a harmful in it's effects
as chulera itsrlf. Every frontier town. viii
lage and hamlet Lristlea with im uossible
regulations. which the local officials in
teTprst according to their own views. Mat
ters are carried TO such - pitch that in
MANY cafes the Imperial health officer
has been obliged Ia interfere. and issne
fairly rcRsonalie regulations TO check the
misdirrcted zeal OF the locrl authorities.
The whDie movement. The writer adds. is
the work of t,- ,i-rman press. which rushed
into a frenzy OF excitement over the cpl
de,nic IN Hamburg.
Notes az III, Epidemic.
In Paris. YESTERDAY. thirty-nine new
eases OF cholera AMI nineteen deaths were
reported.
a cargo of fruit. from Hamburg. was al
lowed TO enter London. and be carted 10 q
jam factory.
Portugal, Norway and Sweden have
GnsrantIned against New York and other
ports on the Atlantic coast.
Cholera broke ont in Naples several days
age. snd eight or ten deaths have occurred
daily, according to Paris reports.
" Ia reported at ST. Petersburg that
cholera has broken ont among the Rus
sian troops stationed along the RIVER Pruth.
Only three now cnscs of cholera were re-
ported In Havrs friday, against Fifteen for
tie day before. The deaths on Friday
numbered live, two more than occurred on
Thursday
There were reported IN st. Petersburg
Friday fOrty-ri1ht new cases of cholera
and fftseu deaths. This 10 eieven less
cases and seven. moro deaths than were
reported Thursday.
A ra9-dealer at Meerssen, Holland. has
the cholera. He mas been isolated in an at
tempt to keep tho disease from spreading.
He is supposed TO have contracted the die
ease from the merchandise he handled.
Three fresh cases of cholera and one
death from the disease occurred in Rotter-
dam yesterday. Kralingen and Meerssen
each report % death. Suspected cases of
IN" disease are reported IN other towns of
holland.
DIR. Hodges. health officer at Queens
town, has ordered outside the harbor all
ships arriving from New York, and, in case
sickness il found on board. to give the cap
tain choice betw cen quarantine here or at
Liverpool.
The London Pail Mall Gazette, after an
investigation. concludes that the Hamburg
authorities issued clean bills of health to
vessrls after the outbreak of cholera, thus
directly assisting in the spread of the dis
ease to other Countries.