The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
IN SPREADS FAST.
Deaths From Cholera in Several
Towns in England, Scot
land and Wales.
Fears Again Expressed That
the Disease Will Soon
Appear in London.

LONDON, Aug. 30.-If all the deaths that
ARP being reported from Asiatic cholera are
trSe, there is no doubt of Great Britain's
hdving visitation of the dreadful scourge.
Fiom Gravesend, Swansea, Glasgow and
Dundee, towns in England, Scotland and
Walts reports come of death from the di.-
ease showing that the efforts of the health
officials to keep it out OF the country have
proved iruitlcss. And now this afternoon
CONES report that person has died from
Asiatic cholera at Bolton. the large manu-
1adnring town, which lies twelve miles
northwest of Manchester. The place is one
ofthe principal seats o. the English cotton
men acture, and thousauds OF mill opera.
tives live there. The permission given By
the health officials at Middlesburough for
the landing of the crew of the steamer
Gerona from Hamburg promises to
have most serious results. As ali
noanced in these dispatches the
vessel was placed in quarantine after
one of the crew was lound 10 be
suffering with cholera, and was immedi-
ately removed to the cholera hospitat. A
steamer belonging to the same company
as The Portia has been in quarantine at
Cuxhaven on the ~Elbe, fity-eight miles
northeast of Hamburg, for d week. owing
totwo 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 outb cak OF the disease occur at
Graycsend
-i 1T WOULD HAVE GRAVE RESULTS.
Gravesend is only twenty miles from
London and it is avorite place Tor holi-
day visitors An immense number OF eX-
cursions visit the place, and to their trade
much o Gravcscnd's pro> periiy is due. The
establishment of a cholera hoslita near the
town and the constant arrival OF immi-
grants from infected ports will tend to drive
this trade away. The effects OF the report
OF the death OF the steamer Genlma's pas
sengerS from cholera was 'discernable yes
terday in great falling off in the
usual number OF Sunday excur-
siorists. But the better class oil the inhabi-
tapts of the town do not regard this as an
unmitigated loss. What they fear is that ii
the.diSease breaks out in Grayesend il will
be an almost impossible task to fight it.
The sanitary system OF the town is ;nti-
quated AID will prove all excellent factor
i'll spreading the disease. The local govern
ment board tonight issued regulations re-
quiring shipowiers 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
e4fsabfe the local aptIioriticszto watch fheni
until ali danger o. cholera is passed.
CALL IT CHoLERINE.
What with the assel tions and denials
made regarding the presence o: 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 as
serted that there is doubt that true cholera
has affected All entrance into the country,
while on the other haud it is just as posi-
lively asserted that the disease is n0thing
but simple cholera, from which no danger
need be apprehended. DIR. Whitcomb,
the sanitary officer at Graveseud, who in
81 ected the steamer GemIna, which arrived
there from Hamburg on Thursday last, and
| three OF whose PASSENGERS subsequently
died from what was said TO be Asiatic
cholera, emphaiically 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 tmierahts on
| the Gemma were not of the poorest class,
but were greatly superior to the general
run OF foreign Jews who arrived here. In
some quarters it is held that it is nonsense
for the quarantine officials to act on the
| surposition that it is only thep poorer classes
o passengers who can convey the con-
| tagion. 1t is said that even iirst-class pass
| engers rom cholera-intected 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 OH the
| steamer, but i'll the cities rom which the
| passengers come. and there is no possible
way OF telling whether or not some of the
| tirst-class passengers may not have only re-
Gently let house in which some person
has allen victim 70 the disease.