The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-07
MISERY IN HAMBURG.

CHOLERA PNTGENTs DYING WITHOUT PROPER
ATTENTION IN FILTHY HOSPITALS.
4 leading physician writing from Vienna
says that at the Eppendorf hospital there
are 800 patients suffering from various NAL
adies. The number of doctors is totally in.
adequate TO attend to the demands made
upon them. When cholera patients are
taken into the hospital the ordinary patients
are removed into one room to make space
for them. The writer declares that he saw
200 dead.
Another doctor reports that the ordinary
means of dispOsing of the dead have been
found inadequate. Furniture vans have
been pressed into service to carry the bodies
10 the place of interment He says the
whole system is confused and everything
goes along in n haphazard fashion. So great
has grown the demand for hospital service
that it is proposed 10 fit up the schools and
gymnasiums as hospitals. Describing his
visit TO Old Hamburg hospital, he says he
found affairs there in a far more horrible
condition than at the Eppcndorf hospital.
In the dirty, neglected passages he saw
bundles of clothing lying on the floor await.
ing disinfectlon. Among these packages
lay large number Of the bodies Of those
who had died from cholera. These bodies
showed the careessness with which they
were handled, for they lay in every con
ceivable way, just as they had been dropped
by the hospital attendants Even to those
Injured to hospital scenes the sight of these
bodies of men, women and little children
being thrown promiscuousy together was
revolving.
The doors Of the wards opening on thege
passages are left wide open and the sick
can actually see the eyer-growing number
of the dead. To get into the wards the
people have to step over the corpses and the
piles of infected clothing. The over-crowcl-
ing in the wards is fearful.
For from forty to sixty patients there are
only two attendants and one doctor. SO alb
solute and widespread is the confusion that
patients who are not suffering from the
epidemic are taken into the cholera wards
where they contract the disease.
NINE CASES IL MALINEs.
Nine cases Of cholera have been reported
at Maines. a city fourteen miles from q Mt
wcrp. Malncs is the central station for
railways which traverse Belgium in ell d.
rections.
CHOLERA IN WALES.
Two seamcn belonging to the steamship
Harrington were removed to the hospital at
Swansea, suffering from what is suspected
to be an attack of cholera.
THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.
There are three cases of cholera at Dover,
the chief port of communication with Eng.
land.
20 DAYS QUARANTINE PROCLAIMED.
President Harrison on Friday took de,
cisive step toward preventing the dread
cholera scourge from getting a foothold in
the United States. He had consultation
with Attorney General Miller. Secretary
Charles Foster, Assistant Secretary Spauld.
ing Postmaster General Wanamaker and
DR.. Wyman, Supervising Surgeon General
OF the United States Marine Service As
result of this conference, the following
quarantine circular was issued Asigned by
Secretary Foster and approved by the Presi-
dent
TO Collectors Of Customs, Medical Officers Of
Me Mdriae Hospital Service, Foreign
Steamship CODlpdnies, State and Local
Board Of Hedhh:
II having been officially declared that cholera IA
prevailing In various portions OF Russia. Germany
wen as In Asia and 1t having been made to 40.
pear tha Immigrants IN large numbers are coming
Aforesaid, and that they and their personal effects
are liable To Introduce cholera Into the United
states, aud that vessels conveying them are there
By adirect menace 10 the public health and Il hay.
Ing been further shown that under the laws OF the
posed upon these vessels a sufficient length OF time
To- insure against the INTRODUCTION OF contagious
any foreign port CARRYING migrants, shall be ad,
iii said vessel seth has Undergone qnarantne deten.
ton of % days, unless such detention l. forbidden
hereunder aud Of such greater number OF days as
may be liked IN each special case by the state au-
This circular to take Immediate effect except in
cases Of YES els afoat at this date. which viii he
made the subject Of special consideration upon due
applca ion % the Department
The arrivals of the steamers from Europe
particularly those from infected ports that
are now ut sea. is anxiously awaited by the
quarantine officials. They include the fol-
lowing;
VESSELS STOPPED.
Steamer Island from Copenhagen, sailed
August 10, due now.
Steamer City of Berlin from Liverpool
sailed August -, due now.
Steamer Europe from London, sailed Au'
gust q, due now.
Steamer Normannia from Hamburg,
sailed August %, due Septem ber 3.
Steamer umbria from Liverpool, sailed
August "a, due September3.
Steamer City Of Rome from Glasgow,
sailed August -, due September g.
Steamer Rugia from Havre, sailed Au'
Su.t y, due September 3.
Steamer Stubbenhuk from Hamburg,
sailed August %, due September 3.
Steamer Elysia from Mediterranean ports,
sailed August u, due September 4.
Steamer La Borgogne from Havre, sailed
August 27, due September 1.