The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-30
Cholera Spreading Rapidly
Over Northern Europe.
VERY vIRULENT IN RUSSIA.
London Doomed to Receive a Vista
tion Of the Terrible Scourge.
ALI Sesseis From Infected Ports to Be
0usrantincd at New York-Hamburx.
ers Stunned Like Lepers Cold
Weather Fails to Kill the Germ..

BERLIN, Aug. o9.-Special dispatches saw
that the report that a woman who had
Just arrived here from Hamburg had died
from Asiatic cholera proves to be incor-
rect. 1t seems she is now recovering from
her illness, whatever it was.
LONDON, Aug. %. The Times corre-
spondent at st. Petersburg says: The aver
age daily cholera record here is 100 new
cases and twenty deaths. 1t is the great
est mistake to say the epidemic is
mild one, for the best authori-
ties affirm the contrary. The
bodies of victims frequently exhibit 2
strong muscular movement an hour after
death, thus proving the severity of the
attack. The proportion of deaths is not
very high, but the disease is of extreme
virulence.
The schooner Helena, said to be des-
tined for America, and which has been
detained at Dover, is now being towed to
Iravesend with yellow Tag flying from
her mast.
BERLIN, Aug. 29.-Professor Koch has
ISSUED warning against overmuch water
ing OF the streets, humidity, he claims,
favoring spread of baccili, and rapid con-
sumption Of water preventing effective
hltration at the water-works. The most
conflicting reports as to the extent of the
epidemic in Hamburg have been pub
llshed. Hamburgers are treated like lepers
elsewhere in Germany. Hotel doors are
shut in their faces, and it is
impossible for them to obtain lodgings.
Many of them have been known to aiight
from trains few stations before reaching
Berlin, and to come into the city by local
trains In order to avoid inspection. Sus-
pected cases of cholera are reported at
Halle and Leipsic, but the presence of the
disease in these places has not been of
ficially confirmed.
Fifteen cases of cholera were reported
tonight, but none of them were of the
AsiafIc type. In the districts of. the city
inhabited by working people energetic
measures are being taken to keep them
cleansed and disinfected. Great COM
plants are being made as 10 the laxity of
the supervision exercised over travellers
arriving here from Hamburg. Harris Gra-
nam, an American physician, who has had
wide experience with cholera in Syria, is
organizing the American medical students
mere INTO body to act as assistant nurses
in the event of cholera becoming epidemic
here. The authorities announce this
morning that woman who had just ar
rived from Hamburg died here of Asiatic
cholera. Cases of cholera are reported in
Ferver. near Madgeburg, and Striegert, in
Mecklenburg. In these cases the disease
was imported from Hamburg. A dispatch
from Halle, in Prussian Saxony, states
that two cases Of cholera have occurred in
that city. One patient went to Halle from
Hamburg.
PARIS. Aug. 29.-The weather appears to
have had no effect on the epidemic yes
terday. There was a marked change in
the weather at Havre. it being cold and
windy, yet both cases of cholera and
deaths from the disease were more numer-
Gus than ever. Twenty persons suffering
from choleraic disorders were admitted TO
the hospitals here yesterday.
New YORK, Aug. pa meeting between
Health Officer Jenkins and representatives
of the foreign steamship lines was held
this afternoon. Health Officer jenkins
read orders from the board of health pro-
viding that all vessels arriving from ports
infected with cholera and those carrying
passengers from infected districts shall be
put in quarantine from two to five days
before being allowed to proceed
to dock, and before leaving quarantine
shall receive thorough fumigation
The companies agreed to the
orders without dissent, and will do all in
their power to assist the board Several
steamships arrived here this morning and
were detained at quarantine for close IN
spection and fumigation of baggage. They
all had steerage passengers. All the pas
sengers were submitted to searching in
vestigation. and the vessels baggage and
mail disinfected. No evidence of cholera
was found among the passengers. The
report that cholera had broken out in
Havana decided the quarantine officials to
be careful about steamships coming from
that port. The report. however. is not
true. Postmaster Van Cott today sent
communication to the health department
stating that in view of the prevalence of
cholera at ports from which mail is re-
ceived such mails should be disinfected.
The postofiice authorities have no appli-
ances or men to do the work and the post
master requires the health department to
assign men TO make the necessary disin-
fection. Commissioner Gilroy, of the de-
series of instructions TO heads of depart
ments under him today concerning pre-
cautions to be taken to prevent the spread
Of cholera in case it passes quarantine.
Notwithstanding that dispatches from
Bremen report several cases OF cholera.
some of them of the Asatic type, the
agents of the North German Lloyd:steam-
ship line say they have dispatch saying
that the authorities of Bremen deny that
there is q single case Of Asiatic cholera
there.
Anton Potzel, an Austrian, recently
from Hamburg. who was yesterday taken
to Bellevue hospital suffering from indi-
cations of cholera, is all right today. His
case was only one of cholera morbus.
HAMBURG, Aug 29-Offieial cholera
statistics place the number of cases of the
disease reported on Saturday at 433 and
the number of deaths at 1f5. On Sunday
and up TO noon today 143 new cases and
seventy-two deaths were reported The
disease appears to be abating in several
quarters of the city. There is much less
demand for ambulances during the night.
The city yesterday was strikingly quiet
So small has become the traffic on tram
ways that the companies are restricting
the service. At Altoona seventy seven new
cases of cholera and thirty-three
deaths from the disease were reported from
noon Saturday up to noon today. Owing
to the outbreak Of the disease in prison.
minor offenders to the number Of IJo were
released The decrease in Hamburg and
Altoona has been most noticeable since
midnight las. night. Isolated cases are