The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
Hope In Hamburg.

The last report from the epidemic at Ham
burg was more encouraging than at any
time in the previous two weeks On this day
there had been 7s7 fresh cases Ill less than
the day before, and 1873 less than two days
before; 208 deaths, or eighty.three less than
on the day before.
The burials on this day numbered 345.
There were that evening 30SS patients in
cholera hospitals and barracks, against S239
on the previous day.
The city shows many signs of recovering
from its stupor. Several large billiard
rooms and cafes were opened for business.
The restaurants on and near the Jungfern-
stieg that afternoon had five customers
where they had one week before.
Persons who had never met before dis
cussed familiarly the sufferings which they
and their families hai undergone since the
plague set in.
running, were started to make half the
number OF trips made before the epidemic
began. They have been practically empty.
The hotels received thirty-fve strangers
from other cities.
No effort has been made to revive the
shipping business in the harbor. The fishing
vessels are tied up to their docks and will
remain so until October, as the demand for
fish has been completely extinguished. Only
about five per cent. Of the usual number of
vessels are now loading at the port OF Ham,
burg.
The water front was filled all day with un.
employed men, making inquiries as to when
work would be resumed at the docks. Many
of them cried when they were told that for
two or three weeks at least they could not
expect employment. Six children and two
women in the harbor district are reported
as having died of lack of nourishment.
The official report Of the municipality was
published few days ago. The total mum.
ber Of cases Is given as IA, 100; the number
of deaths almost exactly 5000. The highest
death rate is said to have been on August
30, when 4s4 fatal cases were reported.
The City Council recommends that artes-
ian wells, to replace the infected water.
works, be drilled in all parts Of the city.
The total exodus Of citizsns to escape in
fection is estimated to have smountsd to
$4,000 persons. Only incomplete returns
from railway officials are the basis of the
estimate. fhe number of fusitives has
been probably nearer As, 000 or $4,000.
The through passenger service on railways
entering the city has been reduced, as the
accommodations now are far beyond the re-
quirements Of the few travellers to and from
the city.
The Prefecs Of Police in Berlin has been
appointed Imperial deattn Commissioners
for the Elbe District. Bremen has been Of
6cially declared free from cholera.
Thirty Thousand Died in Persia.
Advices from Teheran, Persia, are to the
effect that the cholera epidemic has ceased
and the bazars are open again. The
mortality in the city from cholera is esti.
mated at $4,000. Six new cemeteries have
been peopled with the dead.
In all Persia there have been about 30, 900
deaths from the epidemic. The American
Presbyterian Mission has treated in its hos.
pitfalls eighty patients. OF whom a third
recovered. Two thousand patients outside
Of the hospitals were treated by the mission.