The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-05
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1t Is Coming Toward New York, but Can
be Kept Out With Proper Care.
Writing OF tho cholera prospect, the
president OF the New York Academy OF
Medicine, DR., D. B. st. John ROosa,
says in the Engine ring Aaga=ins;
The most recent adyices are that chol.
era is still raging in Russia, and that it
exists in n slight degree in Hamburg
and in some parts OF France. Tho
probabilities are. unless travel and inn
migration from Russia are Immediately
and strenuously interdicted, and unless
the water supply of Hamburg is made
absolutely pure, that cholera will reap
pear in an epidemic form in Germany
and France this spring and summer,
But these two contingencies are within
human control. Travellers and immi-
grants may DO prevented from entering
Germany and purity OF the water OF
Hamburg may be secured. While
cholera has not been epidemic in any
European port during the past winter,
sporadic" or isolated cases have occur
red constantly in some Of them. There
are some p%ersons-I will not say author
ities-who assert that true Asiatic
cholera exists in Paris during the on
tire year. Certainly it was there Inst
summer. Assuming these statements
to be facts, we have good reason to fear
that this disease will reNppear in New
York harbor during tho summer OF
1893. But it is quite possible that the
city OF New York and the other parts Of
this country to be so protected, and Tor
those coming here with the disease to
DO so isolated as to prevent an epidemic
in the United states.
AS to tho prevention OF cholera, much
has been said for and against strenuous
maritime quarantine. The more ignor-
ant the nation, the moro intense and
annoying tho quarantine, whether
maritime or on tho land frontier, Dur
ing the epidemic OF 1885 in Italy and
the south OF France, the Italians out
did themselves in ridiculous and in
efficient and obnoxious rules toprevent
perfectly well people from going from
ono country to another. England, per-
haps, LAYS less stress upon maritime
quarantine than any other nation, but
England is not n depot for immigration.
and filthy emigrants from all parts OF
the world do not come to her shores as
they do to those OF tho United States.
Those who visit England come only Us
actual travellers or immigrants in trans.
itu. Ii the Russian immigrants who,
having passed a few days in Hamburg,
without any cleansing and other Eani-
tary means, were put upon ships which
they infected, had been allowed free
access to New York City last summer
and autumn, they certainly would in a
few days have such polluted water
sources that cholera would have become
epidemic,
We must, therefore, have quarantine
regulations in this country. But, ii u
ship comes to New York harbor, even
during tho visitation OF cholera, from n
noh-infected port, and has passed seven
days without the occurrence Of any case,
II would be folly to retain tho passen-
gers on the ship. They should be al
lowed to land us soon us the facts about
their condition is ascertained. II
cholera has actually broken out upon u
SUPP IllU IlCultlJ pussoLlBSIs bIoulu SGl-
tainly not be retained upon it when the
port ia reached, They should be put
on shore in comfortable quarters, and
after n very short quarantine. il tho dis.
ease does not break out among them,
they should DO released. II quarantine
must DO practiced, it must DO a civilized
and humane quarantine, instead Of i'm
itating the Turks and Italians.
II the quarantine regulations are
honestly maintained, with skill and
scientific knowledge, there need DO no
extension OF tho disease from our har-
Dor. Perhaps it will not ever DO
brought there. The effect upon the
Worlds Columbian Exposition by the
appearance OF cholera in Now York,
would, in tho nature OF things, be OK.
tremely bad. Europeans, having read
much OF tho scenes in our harbor last
year, would DO afraid Of their repeti.
ton, even II they did not fear the dis
ease itself. The precautions taken by
the general government, arc, however,
so faithful and careful, in the placing OF
medical officers OF our own at every
port OF departure, that it is hardly tobe
feared that any such numbers Of infect
cd ships can possibly arrive in Now
York rs came from Hamburg last year.