Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-17
HAMBURG'S FIL7HINESS
The Tenement Districts in a
 Terrible Condition.
EVERY SANITARY LAW DEFlED.

People Living on Refuse BIeat-Clothes of
 Cannot be Disinfected-The Mortality
 Especially Heavy in These Districts-
 2,4Oo orpbans Left Charge on the
 Communtty-The PIaEue's Ravagss Else-
 where.
 HAMBURG, Sep. 17.-The thermometer here varies between 7O and 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The air is humid and op- pressive, and the city is suffering under a dead calm.
 There have been 687 fresh cases to day, or il less than yesterday; 213 deaths, or ten more than yesterday; 345 burials, or 16 more than yesterday. In the chol- era hospitals and barracks the number of patients is 3,098.
 Some $500 of the patients now under treatment are of the dregs of the city's population. They live in abject misery in the filthiest quarters, and are of the class which has suffered most severely from every epidemic of the last fifty years.
 The other 300 patients, with hardly dozen exceptions, belong to the families of fairly prosperous artisans. Of the per- sons who have died of the cholera in the last three weeks, 3.040, or about 40 per cent, were children.
 In 1000 families both parents have been taken, and thus 2, 400 orphans have been left charge on the community.
 The Board of Health have just finished an investigation of the tenement districts of Hamm, Horn, Barmbeck and Hammer brok.~ An appalling condition of affairs was revealed.
 A member of the investigation com mission says that even since the utbreak of the plague the people have deA every law of sanitation. Hardly a tehement house was found in the four suburbs where any sanitary convenience whatever had been provided by the landlord. Cess pools behind most of the tenements have been filled with decayfng garbage, while in the houses; hardly thirty feet off, per- sons were sleeping seven or eight in 8 room.
 Since the scarcity of employment has been felt, the commissioners said, the people in these houses have only had veg etables and refuse meat to eat. After deaths from che lera they have neglected to use any of the disinfecting materials de- livered to them, and have put on dead mems clothes before sanitary officials were notified of the deaths. The people from these localities have constituted, consequently, two thirds of the victims of the plague, and are still filling the hospitals with their sick. In Wandeback, where the cholera was sup posed to have been stamped out, there were some 35 new cases and 13 deaths to- day.
 The outbreak is said to be due to the impossibility of collecting all the clothes in the death rooms for disinfection. As soon as the people apprehend that officers are coming they smuggle away garments which they think might be injured by disinfection.
 The expected rush homeward, prophe . sled for the last part of this week has not | come, and probably will not come until the sick list and death list shall have been considerably shortened. LIVERPOOL, Sep. 17.-A cargo of fruit ar rived yesterday from Hamburg, con signed to dealers in London. As the fruit was sound, the health officers con- | cluded they had no right to confiscate it, and most of it went to jam factories. CAD1z, Sep. 17.-An vessels arriving from New York are under an order just | issued, to be subjected to quarantine at | Spanish ports. The passengers will thus | be protected from catching a variety of | diseases prevalent in Spain. ST. PETERSBURG, Sep. 17.-The cholera l epidemic is subsiding throughout Russia. | To- day in St. Petersburg there were eight | deaths from cholera, and fifty-nine per sons were seized with the disease. PARIS, Sep. IF. - There were four deaths from cholera, yesterday, in this city, according to the official report, and fifteen new cases.
 GRAvEsEND, Sep. 17.-Schooner Titanic, from Antwerp, is detained in quarantine at Gravesend, with one case of cholera I on board.
 STETTIN, Sep. 17.-There were seven deaths from cholera, to-day, in this city.