The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-21
HAMBURG'S SC0URGE.
Authorities Charged with Sup
pressing Cholera News.
NEARLY sIxTHoUsAND NEW GASES

Business Suspended Except for Drug
Stores and SalooDs-Dr. Jenkins
Says the Disease Is Spreading
Abroad, but That There Is Nc
Reason for Fear Here.
HAMBURG, Sept. 21.-The Hamburger
Nachrichten attacks the city government
for its persistent suppression of the facts
as to the cholera epidemic. The official
reports of deaths and fresh cases are 80
untrustworthy, the editor says, that he
has made arrangements to secure from
other sources the daily record of sicnhess
and death. There were 577 fresh cases
in the city yesterday, Al fewer than Mon
day; 1S9 deaths, or more, and 281
burials, or 81 fewer. The number of pa
tients in hospitals and barracks has fallen
from 1888 to 1857.
Although residents of the city who
fed to the seaside three weeks ago con-
tinue to return, few strangers come to
town. At all the hotels yesterday but
thirteen persons registered, and seven of
them are physicians who wish to make
archaeological studies of the disease.
Since Sunday the theatres have done
IN indifferent business. The drug stores
are doing tremendous business, but
otherwise no money is being made in
trade. The shops which have been
opened, although employing hardly half
of their usual number of clerks, are
losing money. The beer gardens and
whisky saloons are prospering beyond
all precedent More drunkenness is ap-
parent in Hamburg than has been seen
before in years.
Thd eating sheds Of the relief COM
mittee are feeding between 1900 and
5000 persons daily, and cannot accom-
modate third of the persons applying
for free meats.
The Cholera Spread in Europe.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.- Information
has been received by DR.. Jenkins from
private sources that while cholera is de-
creasfng in the northwest of Europe it is
gradually creeping down to Naples and
other cities on the Mediterranean, and
he is afraid that the tramp steamers sail.
ing from Italian ports will need all his
watchfulness to prevent their bringing
cholera here. DR.. Jenkins maintains
that the newspaper reports Of the spread
of the plague in Europe do not show the
situation as serious as it is His inform
anu, WHO Is special cnOlera cO1nmlS-
sioner from the United States, reports
that cholera is. quite as prevalent in the
southpf Europe as in Germany or Rus
sia. therefore DR.. jenkins will hold
every steamer arriving here with steer
age passengers from ports in the south
of Europe for the full twenty days.
DR.. Jenkins still expresses confidence
that there will be no spread of the disease
in this country, and denounces the many
alarming reports published as calculated
to inspire terror
DIR, Walser's evening report from the
ships in the lower bay was encouraging,
except in the case of the Bohemia, which
was as follows: Removed four of the
Boheniia's steerage suspected cholera
cases to Swinburne Island. There were
three new cases of measles aboard, max
ing twenty in all, of which fourteen are
convalescent." DIR. Walser was asked
by United Press reporter in regard to
reported outbreak Of cholera at Camp
Low. He said he examined nearly all
the passengers before they were trans
ferred from Hoffman Island to Camp
Low, and found no traces of cholera
among them. He thinks they are suffer-
ing from over feeding.