The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11

not the heart 70 tell the weeping child the
truth, and when l left the hospital she
was still waiting with the letter in her hand
and great tears dripping down upon her
calico gown.
There was no difficulty in getting into the
old hospital under DR.. STEAMERS auspices
He sent in his card, and DR.. Yolasse at
once came into the corridor and announced
his willingness to show us tine entire iusti-
tuition. He said that he had refused per-
mission to enter to newspaper correspond
ents because one from Vienna newspaper
had published a report Co the effect that
cholera patients were dying so fast that
their bodies we're stacked up like cord wood
IN the halls OF the hospital. DR. Yolasse
explained that since the cholera epi-
denic had broken out all the
other patients had been removed
from the institution except about
five or ten who were too iii to bear trans
portation. The hospital was, however,
soon full and IL became necessary 20 pre-
pare new accommodations, and as a result
SIX barracks capable OF accommodating
from twenty to thirty patients each were
erected in the hospital yards. These wore
all filled, there being nearly l 200 cholera
patients under treatment in that one place.
No new cases were being brought in that
day, all further patients being carried to
the Neues Krankenhaus In Eppendorf.
DR.. Yolasse has forty-three physicians
under him on his medical staff and ass
nurses and attendants.
As we passed into the hospital yard two
hearses drove in, and | noticed a great pile
Of ooffins behind the barracks. Yes said
DR.. Yolasse, there are few being buried
from here, but only twenty or thirty day.
1t was pitiful sight that met our eyes as
we entered the first barrack. On a double
row OF beds on either side Of the room Law
n al M
The occupant Of the bed nearest the door
had drawn her feet up so that they had
touched the small of her back. Her face
was almost black, aud her eyes were turned
80 that only the whites could be seen.
She is not suffering" said DR.. Yolasse.
'She is past it. she is dying-all but dead.
Next to the dying woman's couch was
that OF a rather pretty young girl, with
black eyes and hair, who watched her
neighbours death struggles with apathy and
took no notice OF the presence Of strangers.
Further down the room a sister Of charity
bent over the bed of q dying woman, and
at the farthest end two stout nurses were
lifting corpse from bed to a stretoher,
and they presently passed US, carrying 1t
out.
Each bed contained a patient, some of
them writhing and moaning, others tossing
restlessly. and still others seeming to rest
quietly. We looked In at the doors of the
other barracks, where the scene was much
the same-dead and dying men and women
and busy nurses and doctors.
Just come down to the end of the
garden" said Dr.. Yolasse cheerfully, land
| will show you the dissecting room. You
see we make post norton examination of
each body to see IL ID Ia real cholera that
they die OF.
We passed a number of ooffins on the way
TO the end Of the garden, some with num-
bered lids screwed down, others with the
lids half off revealing naked bodies. With
In, four or i've hearses were waiting under
the shadow of the trees, and q number of
men and women were attempting to identify
friends and relatives ia the oorpses shat
were being continually brought from the
hospital.
The dlssscting room remains an unpIeAs-
ant memory in my mind. Two or three
physicians we're at work there. DIR. Yolasss
told me that out OF his staff Of physicians,
nurses and attendants who were continually
at work among the cholera patients only
two had caught the disease, and only one Of
those had died, while none of the non-chol-
eraic patients who we're obliged to remain
in the hospital after the cholera patients
were brought there had been attacked by
the malady.
From the old hospital DIR. Sthamer next
took me to the new hospital In the beautiful
suburb of Eppendorf. This ia said TO be the
finest hospital in Germany. IL contains
separate buildings, capable of
accommodating from thirty-six 10 forty
patients each. Enough of these buildings
we're in use TO contain 100 cholera patientF
the whole institution being IN charge OF
Prof. Rumpf. Here new patients were oon-
stantiy arriving in the police ambnlances,
at least twenty being brought In during the
two hours that we remained In the place.
Prof. Rumpf showed us everything with
the utmost readiness. The hospital, like
the old Krankenhaus we had just left, was
clean aud run on a perfect
system. We looked into several Of the
cholera wards. In one there were several
small children, one being convalescent and
a great favor1te of the ph, sicians- Prof
Rumpf works with the assistance of forty
doctors and $40 nurses and at
tendants. He believes that the
epidemic is abatinR. / asked
both Prof. Rumpf and the doctor we had
just left what their treatment for cholera
was. Both seemed disinclined to discuss
the question generally, but each had the
same method OF Peviving patients brought
In In a comatose condition. This was TO
open veins 10 the PATIENTS forearm and in
ject a solution of salt and water, a half of
] per cent. of salt.
Prof. Rumpf said that Of all his staff OF
physicians and nurses not one had been
seized with cholera. In the Ohlsdorf GENE
terry, where 260 men are digging and filing
the graves Of cholera patients day and night,
only one has succumbed to the disease, and
OF the hundreds of men who are employed
taking cholera patients to the hospitals in
and removing infected cloth
ing and bedding from the houses, not one
has, 30 far as reported acquired the mall
adv.
After our visit to the new hospital we
drove to Sandthor Quai and took the police
boat across the Elbe TO Amerika Quai,
where the barracks Of the HamburR-Ameri-
can Packet Company are situated. Here
900 Russian emigrants are awaiting tn Q re-
moval of the quarantine restrictions to go
on to America, and in much more com
Portable quarters probably than the aristo-
cratic prisoners OF the Normannia In New
York bay. There are here COM
modious houses with a large yard,
fine bath tubs and water closets, ana under
the constant inspection Of the police. It'll
from these barracks, however, that Prof,
Koch decides that the cholera epidemic
started he thinks that, as all water the
smigrauts there used, together with their
sxcreta, were poured into the Elbe at CHS
point without being disinfeotad, the cholera
originated with them. DIR. Sthamer and
Acting Consul Burke think that the disease
was brought into Hamburg from Havre.
However that may be, there are no cases of
dckness among the 800 Russians on the
America Quat.