The record-union., 1892-09-21
IN EUROPE.
Poor Immigrants Did Not Take the
Disease Into Hamburg.

Poor Immigrants Did Not Take the
Disease Into Hamburg.
LONDON, Sept. 20.-A Berlin CORE
spondent says: Two fresh cases of mild
Asiatic cholera were discovered in this
the complete uselessness of short quaran-
tine, was that OF a woman who nursed
cholera patients in Hamburg. She ar
rived her September 18th, but was not
taken i'll till yesterday. The other case
was that of the leader of the Hamburg
orchestra, who arrived here on the 18th.
The Potsdam authorities declare the
Havel, Spree and Oder Rivers infected
with cholera bacilli, and have prohibited
all shipping traffic between the hours of s
p. NJ. and A. NJ.
Reports from Hamburg are not favora-
bic. The decrease in the mum Der of cases
is scarcely noticeable. The character of
the attacks is very virulent.
The Times special from Hamburg saws
with reference to the progress Of the
plague: IF the disease was imported into
Hamburg it was not by poor immigrants,
but by the better class of Germans re-
treating from Russia. The most likely
explanation, however, is, the cholera
germs were not imported at all, but left
in the soil from previous epidemics, as is
where; and their activity was due to pc
culiar influences during the present
cholera season. Furthermore, during the
early and middle summer Hamburg I'M
derwent an extraordinary process of dis
emboweling. The streets were torn up
in every direction for the purpose of lay
ing gas pipes, etc. The navvies working
in the soil got the cholera germs on their
hands and swallowed them with their
food. The connection of the drainage
with the water supply did the rest"
The correspondent defends the authori-
ties against the charge of hiding the
truth in regard to the ravages of the dis
ease. He declares the first time case
proved to be cholera was on August 22d:
that the various Consuls in the city were
notified of the fact August 23d. Cases oc-
Cured earlier, but they had not been
proved to be of the Asiatic type 1t
would have been most improper, the
correspondent adds, for the Burgomaster
to declare the town infected before he was
quite positive such was the case. In re-
gard to the responsibility of taking the
cholera to America, the correspondent
says the steamer Moravia sailed before the
fact of the outbreak had been made known
and that the steamer Normannia sailed
August Goth, when the American Govern
ment was in full possession of the facts,
Every effort was made by means OF
double medical inspection to insure the
exclusion of illness on the steamers be-
fore they sailed, and nothing more could
be done.
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2O.-A CORE
spondent explains the apparent decrease
in the number of cases of cholera and
deaths in the towns and the rapid in
crease and virulence in the rural districts
by the fact, as he says, that we are only
just beginning to learn the real state of
affairs in the vast isolated regions distant
many miles from the principal towns
Generally the mortality in these places
amounted to about one-third the number
Of cases. The notable exceptions, how
ever were Voronezh, which has record
for twentyfour hours of 591 new cases
and 279 deaths; Stavropol, ass new cases
and 2i3 deaths, and Erthvan, 1856 new
cases and 176 deaths. The other prov
inces where the epidemic continues viru-
lent are Viatka, Kasan, Tensa, Saratoff,
Samara, Tambof, Ufa, Tiflis, Kuban.
Ural, Taganrog and the Don country
The cholera mortality is increasing in
the Kief district. Barracks have been
hastily erected in many of the principal
towns and the railway stations in the
southwestern part of the district.
In AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
VIENNA, Sept. 20.-The report is Off
cially confirmed that cholera has an
peared in PodogorZe, and that ten deaths
have already occurred. 1t is reported
that cholera has broken out at Gill. in
Syria, south of Gratz.
NEW CASES AND DEATHS AT HAvRE.
HAvRE, Sept. 20.-There were six