The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-09-03
TT SPREADS FAST.
Deaths From Cholera in Several
Towns in England, Scot
land and Wales.
Fears Again Expressed That
the Disease Will Soon
i. Appear in London.

LONDON, Aug. 3o.-1f all the deaths that
are being reported from Asiatic cholera are
true, there is no doubt of Great Britain's
having q visitation of the dreadful scourge.
From Gravesend. Swansea, Glasgow and
Dundee. towns in England, Scotland and
Wales, reports come of death from the dis
ease, showing that the efforts of the health
officials to keep it out OF the country have
proved truitless. And now this afternoon
comes a report that a person has died from
Asiatic cholera at Bolton. the large manu-
featuring town, which lies twelve miles
northwest of Manchester. The place is one
of the principal seats OF the English cotton
manufacture, and thousands of mill opera
Hives live there. The permission given by
the health officials at Middlesborough for
the landing Of The crew Of the steamer'
Corona from Hamburg promises to
have most serious results. As an
nounced in these dispatches, the
vessel was placed in quarantine after
one of the crew was found to be
suffering with cholera. and was immedi-
ately removed to the cholera hospital. A
steamer belonging to the anne company
as the Portia has been in quarantine at
Cuxhaven on the Elbe, fifty-eigbt miles
northeast of Hamburg, for q week, owing
to two deaths from cholera having occurred
On board her. This steamer is expected to
arrive at Gravesend tonight with a large
number of poor emigrants. The inhab-
itants of Gravesend are awaiting her arrival
with much apprehension. 1t is feared that
should an outbreak Of the disease occur at
Gravesend
IT WOULD HAVE GRAVE RESULTS.
Gravesend is only twenty miles from
London and it is o. :avorite place for holt
day visitors. An immense number of ex-
cursions visit the place, and to theft trade
much Of Gravesend's property is due. The
establishment of cholera hospital near the
town and the constant arrival of immi-
grants from infected ports will tendto drive
this trade away. The effects of the report
of the death Of the steamer Commas pas
sengers from cholera wa discernable yes
terday in a great falling of in the
usual number OF Sunday excur-
%sionists. But the better class ef the inhabi-
tants of the town do not regard this as an
uu1Eltlk6lcu 4OS6. III lucy ASo Ao sA0S As
the disease breaks out in GraveseDd it will
be an almost impossible task to fight 1t.
The sanitary system Of the town is anti
quated and will prove an excellent factor
in spreading the disease. The local govern
ment board tonight issued regulations re-
quiring shipowners under heavy penalties
to retain aboard chip all foreign immigrants
who are unable to inform the port medical
officer of their destination and address to
enable the local authorities to watch them
until all danger OF cholera is passed.
CALI IT
What with the assertions and Genials
made regarding the presence OF cholera in
England, it will be hard to decide whether
or not the. cholerine cases that have oc-
Cured have been true Asiatic cholera or
not. In some quarters it is positively A.
serted that there is doubt that true cholera
has affected an entrance into the country,
while on the other baud it is just as posi-
lively asserted that the disease is nothing
but simple cholera, from which no danger
need be apprehended. DR.. Whitcomh.
the sanitary officer at Graveseud, who In
spected the steamer Comma, which arrived
there from Hamburg on Thursday last, and
three of whose passengers subsequently
died from what was said to be Asiatic
cho'cra, emphatically denies that the dis
ease was the dreaded Eastern scourge. He
attended all three of the victims in the hos
pital, and says that they died from choler-
inc. He further says that the emigrants on
the Comma were not of the poorest class,
but were greatly superior to the general
iun of foreign Jews who arrived here. In
some quarters it ia held that it is nonsense
for the quarantine officials to act on the
supposition that it is only the poorer classes
o. passengers who can convey the con-
tagion. 1t is said that even first-class pass
engers rom cholera-infected ports are just
as likely to convey the germs of the dis.
ease as those who travel in the steerage, and
that the disease is not generated on the
steamer, but in the cities from which the
passengers come. and there is no possible
way OF telling whether or moi some Of the
arst-class passengers may not have only re-
Gently let a house in which some person
las lallen a victim to the disease.