Smyrna times., 1892-09-07
A SAD PICTURE.

A well known physician of Vion,o
who IS visiting HAMBURG has ,yrit,n't' i''lo'
~ me Ne"e Freie Press, regarding the
SITUATION III that city. He saws that
OHG sanitary machinery Of the munici-
panty Is IN the greatest disorder No
preparations for possible visit of tbe
scourge to the city had been made ond
no" that the scOurge is sweeDinp tba
City everything has TO be imnroViead
Inc ambulance service is alto0etber
100 small for the demands made nnon
T. ana sixty landeaus have been hired
| hlred as auxiliary ambulances mt
'He9e VenlcIes the patients are placed
e"cn Iandau taking four patients. and
are driven to the hospital Often
When the patients are placed in those
lmProVlsed ambulances, they are in n
dying condition.
There are a total of $50 ambulance
attendants, who will wear ordinory
clothing instead of oil cloth. which is
advocated by the specialists as a pro-
.ecIloh against propagating the infec-
oo5 At the Eppendorf Hospital there are
ooO patients suffering from varioua
maladies. The number of doctors 10
absolutely inadequate to the demands
made upon them. When cboIara
patients are taken to the hospital tbe
ordinary patients are removed intoon
room to make space for them Tbe
writer declares that he saw 2O0 of
them dead. Nv Vi
Another doctor reports that the or
binary means of disposing of the daed
nave Deen found inadequate. Furni-
Vure vans nave been pressed into ser.
vice TO carry the bodies to the nIeces
OF lnterment. His description Of the
hospital arrangements almost nassag
belief, but there is no reason to donbt
that every word he writes reoardino
the situation at Hamburg, is absolutely
true. lie says the whole system is
confused, and everything goes along
IN hap-hazard way. So great has
grown tie demand for hospital service
that 1t is proposed to fit up the schools
ana gymnasiums as hospitals.
Describing his visit to the old Ham
Durg Hospital, he says he found affairs
there in a more horrible condition
than at the Eppendorf Hospital. In
the dirty, neglected passages he saw
bundles of clothing lying a long the
hoor awaiting disinfection. Amono
these passages lay a large number of
the bodies of those who died from the
cholera. The bodies showed the care
lessness with which they were han.
died, Tor they lay in every conceivable
way just as they had been dropDed bv
the hospital attendants.
Even tO fbOco in,,,o1 ..
scenes, the sight of these bodies. men
women and little children thrown pro,
nlscuously y together, is revolving. The
loors OF the wards opening upon the
passages, are left wide open. so that
ne SICK can actually see the growing
number of the dead.
10 get into the wards the neonla
nave to step over the corpses ard tbe
pies OF injected clothing. The over
OF the wards is fearful Tn
'he room, fitted for thirty persons
lXty are lying in such close proximitv
nat nursing them becomes difficult #
lot almost an impossibility. Mapv of
ne sufferers are without COVERINGS
ma lie on bare mattresses, filthy from
lse. ''oin
For from 40 to 60 patients there are
,,nly, two attendants and one doctor
90 absolute and widespread is the con-
uslon, that patients who are not sufI-
ring from the epidemic are taken into
ne cholera wards where they contract
he disease.
Private dwellings where deaths from
holera occur, are not disinfected.
'nly the portable articles in them are
aken to the public disinfecting rooms,
'heTe anybody is allowed to freely
nter, and many contract the disease
here. '''0
The Hamburg Senate has voted
OO,OOO marks to enable the authorities
cope with the epidemic. Had this
ote been passed two weeks ago il
'ould have saved much misery.