Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-31
CHOLERA'S SL|MY COILS,
No Let Up in the Ravages
of the Scourge.
An Increase in Cases and
Deaths at Hamburg.
The Loss to the City Amounts to
Millions of Marks.
Many Towns in Germany Infected by
tho Disease - Scattered Cases
Throughout Europe-Alarm
ia England.


By the Associated Pressl
LONDON, Aug. 30.-The Hamburg cor
respondent Of the Standard telegraphs;
Since last night there has been an enor-
NOUS increase in the number Of persons
attacked by cholera, and who died BIO
new cases and 319 deaths having oc-
Cured during the day. The interments
yesterday lasted far into the night, the
total for the day being 29I. A feeling OF
deep gloom has settled over the city.
The loss to the commercial community
is reckoned at several million marks
daily. The exodus from the city ia IN.
abated, ard the number of foreigners
arriving has fallen to the lowest on rec.
ord. There were only twenty-rine ar
rivals at the hotels in the city ON Mon.
day. The weather is damp and sultry
the temperature 81 in the shade, con-
dition favorable to the progress OF the
epidemic. IN
HAMBURG, Aug. 30.-Many cases OF
cholera were reported today in Barn
beck, three miles northeast of Hamburg.
A renewal of warm weather threatens
an increase. OF the ravages OF the epi-
demic in the city.
On Sunday there were 457 new cases,
while yesterday there were only 139.
This seems to confirm the prediction OF
DR., Koch that the cholera in this city
would disappear as rapidly IS it came.
All the theaters have been closed for
two weeks on account of cholera.
BERLIN, Aug. 30.--It is officially an
nounced that cbolerais prevalent in six
teen places in Schleswig, and in three
places in the district Of Luenenburg.
AT Leipsic one case of the disease has
occurred, and one case is reported at
Neustadt. The patients at Leipsic and
Neuetadt both came from Hamburg,
The National Zeitung states that there
are three distinct cases of Asiatic
cholera at Moabite hospital in Berlin.
Two patients, it says, came from Ham
burg, while the third is q Berlin whasf
laborer. During the past twenty -four
hours. seventeen new suspects have
been taken to the hospital.
There was a slight abatement of the
cholera epidemic at Altoona from Sunday
to midnight Monday. The record there
shows twenty new cases, and eight
deaths.
At Wandsbeck, for the same period,
the record shows seventeen new cases,
and nine deaths.
Three children and the conductor of a
sleeping car attached to Hamburg
train were seized with cholera during
the journey today, and removed to the
hospital at LudwigsJust. The conduct
or's wife died from the disease on Sun
day.
A traveller from Hamburg was stricken
with Asiatic cholera at Darmstadt today,
and the authorities at once ordered the
town to be covered with placards con-
tanning special sanitary regulations.
The price of disinfectants, especially car
bolic acid, has risen 100 per cent in the
city since the appearance Of cholera /;
the abnormal increase in price is placing
disinfeCting articles beyond the reach
of the poor. The newspapers advocate
the gratis distribution Of disinfectants.
4 In Weissitse, a suburb of this city,
serious riot occurred last night. Among
the members of travelling show was
woman whose son yesterday arrived
from Hamburg. Fearing he would i'm
port cholera contaglon, the police ordered
the son and mother to return to Ham
burg. They refused, and after frantic
resistance were removed to the lazaretto.
In the meantime, the police ordered the
show to be closed. The showmen re-
fused, and showed fight. A crowd which
had gathered sided with the showmep,
and free fight ensued. The police
were getting the worst of it, when gems
d'armes were summoned.