The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-04
THE CHOLERA PROSPECT IN 1898.
1t Is Coming Toward New York, But Ca
lie Kept Out With Proper Care.

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1t Is Coming Toward New York, But Can
he Kept Out With Proper care.
Writing of the CHOLERA prospect, the
President of the New York Academy OF
Medicine, DR.. D. B. St. John Roosa. says
In the Engineering Magazine:
srhe most recent advices are that chol-
era is still raging in Russie, and that it
exists in a slight degree in Hamburg and
in some parts of France. The pro babili-
ties are. unless travel and immigration
from Russia are Immediately aud strenu
ouslv iuterdicied, and unless the water
supply of Hamburg is made absolutely
pure, that cholera Will reappear in an
epidemic form IN Germany aud
France this spring aud summer.
But these two contingencies are with
In human control. Travellers and immi-
grants NAV be prevented from entering
Germany and purity OF the waterof Ham
burg may be secured. White cholera has
not been epidemic in any EuroDean
port during the past winter, sporadic"
or isolated cases have occurred constantly
in some of them. There are some per-
sous-I will not say authorities, who
assert that true Asiatic cholera exists in
Paris during the entire year. Certainly
it was there las5 summer. Assuming
these statements to be facts, we have
2OUu IodSOH W LCdt nav th1b bLAs NlO0hoO
will reappear in New York harbor during
the summer of 1893. Bat it is quite pos
sible for the city of New York and the
other parts of This country to bs SO pro-
tected. and for those coming here with
the disease to be 80 Isolated, as to prevent
an epidemic in the Uuited States.
LAS to TO the prevention OF cholera,
much has beeu SAID for and against
strenuous maritime quarantine. The
more Ignorant the ration, the more Ia
tense and annoying tue quarantine.
whether maritime or on the lnnd frontier.
During the epidemic of 1885 in Italy
anu the south of France, the
Italians ouidid themselves il
ridiculous and inefficient and
obnoxious rules, to prevent perfectly We'll
people from going frota one country TO
the other. perhaps, lays less
stress Upon maritime quarantine than any
other nation. but Eigland is not q depot
for immigration, aud filthy Immigrants
from all parts OF t4e world do not come
to her shores. as they do to those of the
of the United States. Those who
visit England come only as actual
travellers or Immigrants IN trGnsttn. Ii
the Russian immigrants VINO, having
passed q few DAYS in Halnourx, without
auy cleansing aud other sanitary means,
were put upon ships whicn uheY Infected,
had been Flowed free access TO New York
City last summer and autumn, they Ger
tainly would in a few days have so pol
luted water sources that cholera would
have become epidemic.
1--WE must, therefore. have quarantine
regulations in this country. But, if a
ship comes to New YORK haroor. even
during the visitation of cholera, from a
non-lnfected p,rt, aud has passed seven
days Without the occurrences of any case,
it would BIZ folly to retain the passengers
on the ship. They should be allowed to
land as soou as the facts about their cor
ditiou are ascertained. If cholera has
actually broken out upon q ship, the
healthy passenger should not be retained
upon it, wnen the por5 is reached. They
should be put on SHORE III comfortable
quarters, aud after a very short quaran-
tine, if the disease does not break out
among them. they should be released.
If quarantine must be Dracticed. it must
be a civilized aud humane quarantine.
instead OF Initiating the Turks and
Italians.
"It the quarantine regulations are
honestly maiutained, with skill and
scientific Knowledge, thera need be no
extension OF the disease from our harbor.
Perhaps it will not even be brought there.
The effect upon the Chicago Exposition
/, by the appearance of tue cholera in New
York, would, in The nature of things, be
extremely bad. Europeans, having read
much of the scenes in our harbor last
year, would be afraid Of their REPETITION,
even if they did not fear the disease itself.
The precautions taken by the general
Government, are, however, so careful and
| faithful, in the placing of medical Of
fcers of our own at every port OF de-
parture, that it is hardly to be feared that
| any SUCH numbers of infected ships eau
possibly arrive in New York as came
from Hamburg last year"