The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-25
THE CHOLERA.
There Is No Fear of the Dread Diseases
Return Unusual Efforts to suppress the
4 Iguronn.

There IL No Fear of the Dread Diseases
Return--- Unusual Efforts to suppress the
Epidemic II Europe.
New YoRF. March 1S-Dr. Hans Vir-
chow, son of the eminent professor.
was interviewed by reporter Friday.
When cholera was mentioned he seemed
to recognize an old foe, and began to
talk freely.
'It is my opinion" said he, that you
Americans have less cause to fear that
the disease will be brought here again
from Germany this year than last We
are doing all we can to make it impos-
sible for it to break out at Hamburg
and other cities which it devastated
last year.
"At Hamburg we are building new
water works, and these will soon bo
completed. The city water will be
taken from a point much higher up the.
Elbe than it has BEEN Examination
has disclosed the fact that the water
there is pure and contains no germs of
disease. Care will be taken that it in
no way becomes infected, and after its
arrival in the city it will be subjected
to filtering process which will, we
hope, make it impossible to do injury.
II believe that the disease was
brought about by foul water taken
from the river Elbe and furnished to the
citizens of Hamburg to drink. l have no
criticism to pass upon Won Petten-
koffer. He is welcome to his own the
ory. The Elbe was made a sewer for
several cities along its banks, and by
the time the water was received in the
pipes at Hamburg it was absolutely
unfit to drink. That it contained the
germs of the disease that caused so
many deaths have not the slightest
doubt. l say that the water from which
Hamburg will derive it's new supply is
pure, because it has been tested The
city ofIalle has been supplied with it,
and the death rate there is very small
comparatively.
'0hc experience of last year has been
warning to us all, and you may de-
pend upon it that the utmost precau-
tions will be taken, not only to keep
cholera out of Germany, but to pre-
vent it's introduction elsewhere as the
result of our own negligence. We know
more about cholera now than we did
six months ago If men can learn any
thing by experience, certainly we ought.
"While here l shall try and ascertain
what the United States is doing to pre-
vent the return of the pest / hope to
meet several of your eminent ply
sicians, as well as your health officers,
and have no doubt l shall learn from
them how they succeeded in warding
off the scourge SO splendidly when it
was at your very doors
81 have not the time to go into an
extended discussion of all the means of
preventing and treating the disease
when it has seized patient, but / will
say in general terms that if the poison
can be kept out of the stomach, there
is very little, if any, danger of contract
ing the disease. Be careful what iyou
eat. See that it is properly cooked.
Heat is the annihilator of the germ,
you know"
Are France, Austria, and other
European countries improving their
quarantine?'
81 have been told so, but / have had
no chance to make personal eXamina-
tion of the details in these countries.
can speak for Germany, l think, when
1 say that it will be through no lack OF
vigilance on the part of her government
if cholera reaches you or becomes epi-
demic there"
While in this country it is the profess
sor's purpose to make study OF the
health regulations and methods OF in
instruction in the science in Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Chicago and other uni
versities He hopes to take back some
very valuable information.