The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-14
The Plague in Europe.

A cablegram from Hamburg, Germany,
-sovs. Tnere is 10 questioning the fact that
tIe nresent cholera 1itlemic is the worst
fiat has ever v;siUel Hamburg, AMI every
honr the situit:on becomes worse. The
neople are dying on every hand AMI the
plague is spreading. To.uights reports to
rhe Board of Health are: 7l5 fresh cases
and 276 deaths. IL,
The writer nas seen in the military drul-
shed the bodies OF 4oo victlms a~altius
buriaI. Owing to red tape it IS Impossible
TO hurry all the dead un Ter the usual re5ula-
tions.
Every person who eau possibly do so Is
fleeinp the CITY. Those whose duty, now
ever. calls them to attend the sufferers, pn!'
, aiciens and those wno have volunteered their
services, are doug work that requires the
extreme Of heroism.
The ordinary form OF burial VIII soon
have to be abandoned, and trenches nllea
with quicklime will have to be resorte1 70.
The ambulance service is altogether too
small to attend to the demands made upon
r. and sixty iandaus have bean hired as
..u.;l;ary ambulances Into these vehlces
the patients are placed, eacn Ian iau taking
four victims, and they are driven 70 tne
hospitals. eoo
At the Eppendorf Hospital there are 300
.patieuts suffering from various ma!adles
trhe number OF doctors is absolutely IN
ADEQUATE to the demands made upo1 tnem.
When cholera patients are taken into the
hospital the ordinary patients are remoTeo
info one room to make space for them. The
writer declares that he saw 200 dead bodies.
In the dirty, neglected passages reporter
saw bundles of clothing lying on the floors
awaiting disin -ection. Among the packages
sav n1moer Of bodies Of those wno had
died from cholera.
The doors of the wards opening on these
passages are left wide open and the sick can
see the ever growing number OF the dead.
To get into the wards the people nave 10
step over the corpses and the piles OF infected
clothing.
The cholera in Teheran. Persia, has at pre-
sent apparently run its course AMI the cpl
.demic is now decreasing. The daily deaths
from the disease amount to 200. This is a
high mortality, but it IS a decrease Of 600
compared with the deaths reported ten days
ago.
days fifty.one persons suffering from cholcr-
inc were taken TO the hospitals in Paris,
France. The deaths during the same period
were Jwenty-one. The number or patients
still under treatment was l22.
The official cholera returns show that
since the last report there have been 6l44
new cases and Pal deaths in Russia.
The number of new cases Of cholera re-
porred at Havre was sixty-fve. The deaths
numbered thirty three
There is no deny ing the fact that the peo-
ple of England generally are beginning to be
nervously apprehensive that, cesoite the
quarantine regulations at the various ports
the country is doomed to undergo another
siege Of cholera plague. The disease
has now appeared at Dover. one
of the chief ports of communica-
tton between England anil the Conti-
nent One OF the two cholera sufferers in
the ilv road died in the morning. Great
indignation exists over she belief that the
first case OF cholera that arrived in England
was that Of a sailor who came on a German
tramp steamer loaded with baggiug.