New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-08
CHOLERA IN BERLIN BARRAC KS
FORTY CASES AND SEVENTEEN DEATHS
AMONG THE SOLDIERS ON WEDNESDAY.
TwENTY-FoUR GASES IN HAMBURG. WITH ONLY
FOUR DEATHS" THE LONDON TIME5'S'

Berlin. october Ton October there were reported
among The soldiers In barracks here forty cases OF
cholera seventeen deaths occurred on that day among
the troops attacked. ON october 4 and eleven new
cases and two deaths reported In private honses
In the city 1t Is officially stated that OF those hitherto
reported attacked with cholera twenty nave
been proved not to have suffered with that disease
The dispatch sent out yesterday afternoon about
cholera In housolof correction, was Incorrectly dated
London. 1t should have been dated Berlin
Hamburg, Oct Tho official figures place tho
number OF new OF cholera IN this city yesterday
at twenty-fou Increase Of three compared with
Wednesdays figures. The deaths numbered four
against eight on Wednesday.
Paris. Oct There were reported in this Oily and
Its suburbs yesterday eighteen new cases Of cholera
and eleven deaths.
st. Peter sbure, oct. There twenty three
new Of cholera in this city yesterday against
twenty one on Wednesday. The deaths yesterday num-
bercd eight
London oct. 1.-THE Times,o whose carefully pre-
pared letters on the cholera epidemic are attracting
great attention in Europe and praise from the hghes
English and Continental physicians, publishes an article
today the prospects for this and next year. II
says In part:
marches steadily westward despite elaborate precaI,.
lion and supposed sanitary perfection. Probably
the general public does not gather. a clear IDEA
announcing the occurrence of n few new cases IN
GrodnO and Odessa. These do not sound more I'M
portant than the dispatches announcing the same con
di1on Of affairs In saratoh and Baku. All are some
where in Russia where choeiz, Is an Old story sim
ilary the death Of few ightcrmen ut spandau, IN
Germany, seems comparative tifne while udings
Holland and Belgium only 20 be expected. Even
the invasion OF Budapesth, .ho capital OF hungary
will not attract much attention while Its effects arc
confined to their present moderate dimensions. All
the foregoing will make little impression beside thc
from Hamburg, Paris, st. Petersburg and Cenra
and southern Russia that the disease Is subsiulhe
daily; vet they are Of OUInous import.
II Is a most mischicvous dcluson that after sep
ember nothing more Is 10 be feared for indlVldual
towns and districts which have borne the brunt OF
epidemic. The recent cholera news means tnat
seed Icing sOvn over vast urea In central Europe
ready for the death harvest In 1903. Inc news nom
tiiOdno means that Western Russia right up 10 the
p1ssinn border and beyond, Is Infected; the news
.,a Ii toral and the Danublan provinces; the news
IRON padapcsh means that the isolation OF tIalcia
was an uttr failure and that Austria ard Hungary
are involved, while the news ffom Spandsu means
tnat the waterways from Perrin 10 the RIVER Odcr
are infected Scattered OF the disease In the
Netherlands tell the same tale. II precedent is OF
any value all those districts and also Poland ana
France will break out into n blaze In 1so3 CholeH
will knock at many doors, and woe betde II heie is
a crack anywhere. ,, -.
Berlin has very dubious water. and can hardly hope
10 escape serious trouble Cholera Is almost cer,alh
to he brought TO England again this autumn. ana Is
nuitc certain to be brought here in 1898 We may
he able 10 exclude the disease. have done since
1865. London in particular, has escaped more
through good luck than good management.