Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-22
Danger Of It's Appearance in
America Is Lessening.
a VERY VALUABLE INTERVIEW
win Dr. Hans vlrehow Of Germany. One Of
the Most Eminent Cholera Experts "A
Cheerful View q the Case AND Coed
Reasons Given Tor Sane.

New York, March 81 -nr Hans vir
vhow, son ~ Prof Rudolph Nirchow
the distinguished professor 81 ANATOMY
0t the University Of Berlin. and him
self one ot the best 81 Gcrmnhy's chOl
era exports arrived here yesterday on
horW the lNhn The professor roc
90 Chicago whore he Is 90 represent m.
government as "a commissioner ot pub
Ute education ot The Worlds fair The
professor rccciycd q reporter very cor
uWiN When cholera was mentioned
De seemed 90 recognize an old Zoe aut
hcrnu GO talk freely
1T is my. opinion said he, "that yot
Americans have
LESS CAUSE FOR FEAR
that The discnsc viii be brought here
again FROM Germany thls your than Inst
We are doing an we can TO make Il im.
possible Tor it 90 break ont nc unmhurp
nnd other ytics which 81 devastated lnsl
autumn AZ HAMBURG we are budding
new Waicrworka nnd thusc win snou
hC completed. Tho city watcr viii he
TAKEN from a point much higher up she
lslhV than 10 has hccu Examination has
disclosed The fact That the water there
is llurc aud contains mo- germs of disnasO
Care viii hr taken that u ln M way be-.
comes Infected aud after ila arrival ln
The city " VIII he subject tn n Offering
impossible 90 do injury
., lhvn You DO not agrco with DR. Won
FCttcnkuner that the cholera was due.
not to- bud water but to other niu.
pncug'
81 believe that the disease was BROUGHT
nhout hy foul water taken from The
River lslhe mud furnished tn tho ritigpnp
of Hamburg Co drink have mo- crif,
elsm 10 pNss npun Won pottuuknacr.
llo is welcome t0 his own theory
THE ELBE WAS MADE A SEWER
for several cities nlone is banks and
uN the lime The water WIS received iu
the pipes goo Hamburg 10 WIS HhgnlutGv
uuhl 90 drink. Tint it continued thc
Evrms ut tho disease that caused 10
many deaths have not the strhtogt
doubt ! say timt tho water from which
Hamburg win derive its now supply b.
pure. brcuusc VI has been trstsd mo
city of Halle has boon supplicd win IN
and the denth rate there is very small
comparatively
"ls thc Gymnn government taking
measures TO maintain % strict Quuinn.
tiucF
"Ncs, The experience Of last year hns
hcrn q warning to us all and you NAV
depend upon it That tlic utmost uroran.
Ton WIZ hc taken, moi only 90 keep ch0l
era uui OF Nrrmnny bui to prevent ia
introduction elsewhere co. result ~
our negligence We know more about
cholera nuW Than We dii riX Or EIGHT
months ago. II men can learn ANYTHING
hN experience certainly we ought While
here ! shall try and ascertain what the
United states ia dnus Go prevent the
return of the post ! hope 10 meet SOY.
cra OF your eminent phyHclnna, ns well
ns your health officers. aud | have NO
doubt ! shall lonrn FROM them how they
succeeded 100 wnrdluW on the ncuurrp
80 splenjidH when Il was az your ycry
doors
~ have not the time 10 go into an ON.
tended discussion of nll the means Of
pevonNnr aud treating che disunsc when
u Inns seized n patient but ! win SAY
Ia general terms Tint VI the poison can
be- Kept out of the stomnah there rs very
little " amy danger of contracting tho
disease. Bc careful what you cat SEQ
that y Va properly cooked. ilrnt "a the
annlhuutor Of ne germ. you known"
Are France. AuHtrln and oihnr Euro
pom countries Improving their quarun.
timer
~ have been told NO. hut ! hive bnJ
no rhnntp 10 mako personal p2nminn.
ton of the details in thcsn countries
eau speak Tor Germany I think when
] say that 10 Will he through n0 lnpl
OF ylgimnee ON the puti OF her govern.
mcnt y cholera reaches you on becomes
epidemic there"
While No this country "a b. the profos.
HorH puuO4r tn make study of tho
health regulations aud methods of in
riruciinn in the science in Harvard.
Yale Princeton, Chicago aud other uni
yorsliics. lie hopos 10 Toxic back sonic
very valuable Information