New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-08
CHOLERA STILL SPREADING
MARINE HOSPITAL OFFICIALS ALARMED
BY ITS INCREASE IN EUROPE.

NEED OF STRINGENT PRECAUTIONS TO KEEP
! THE DISEASE FROM ENTERING THIS couN-
TKY-sTATIsTICs FROM DIR. IRWIN
WASHINGTON. Sept 7-Ohicials OF the Marine Hos
pltal Service display undisguised anxiety as 70 the
continued spread OF cholera In Europe, ana rear
that the United States may not be able to escape
the disease unless the most strenuous precan-
tonary measures are taken at every point
The latest reports In regard TO Walther. the ia
varl,n who died in Cumberland Nd. are regarded
as not conclusive satisfactory by any means
The ten-days' report OF Surgeon Fairfax lrwin OF
the Marine Hospital Service. dated at Glasgow
Scotland August o. which has just been printed
saws that the period covered by the report has been
characterized by a marked spread OF the dlsease
especially In Austria Hungary, Germany ana Ho-
land. 1t may be said that cholera has SHOWN
power Of recrulecence in Russia Galic'a North
east Germany and Holland which Is greater IMAM
could have been expected. and In excess OF tnat
which obtained last year. 1t Is extremely dithcut
10 obtain reliable Information from France or Bel
GUM In the former, for example. Marsellles has
for some time been under suspicion, although tae
existence Of cholera there is positively denied oy
the authorities. Late last week fatal case oc-
cured NJ Bordeaux Of a person VINO had come
from Marseil.es within the previous forty-eiga'
hours Marseilles must be regarded as pace
where true cholera is existing especially as most
Of the ports Of the Mediterranean have now quar-
antlnel against IT,
Up to the end OF June cholera was practically
confined 10 Russia and Austria Hungary. In tie
former country about twenty-five Governments ~
the southwestern part were infected. and In the
latter five districts OF Eastern Galicla and BuKo-
wilma There were other infected centres A rev
had occurred in Germany on the N.s'u E anu
G n h peparmene of morbIhan and Fnserre
Belgium in the provinces Of legr ana No LpDbs
ing districts the disease exists Since July there
has been great extension OF me diseaSs IN
most OF them in Western ana Nor.n"F aha,',
Russia. There have been alarming reports anou,
the epidemic In Cronstadt and St Petersburg ana
as cholera decreased in these cities Its outbreak
at Riga is heard Of .
In Austria Hungary the spread Of the disease IN
along TS ct the River zbrucz and in Bakowna In Ger
many cholera has spread along the tistuia. I'm
tres OF infection have been estaoshed near oad
ut Berlin. Bremen and cologne. IL = IutI'o,
now as 70 whether tho Rhine Is infected II -
one Of an engineer at Cologne. another tnat OF a
passenger boat coming from Mannheim 10
Rotterdam . ~
towns on the Meuse and Sambre. and In Holland
there has been small epidemic al Mhsricnt' IN
the Province Of I.mbourg. while many cases arr
reported in various towns both In Northern and
Southern Holland
In Frame tho disease in termed cholcrne; but
this has been reported at Paris. Marse!les. Boi-
doanx Sassy Mlncel-sur-Sci.le. Aygnon. Rheims
and Reu.
Amsterdam Sept There were three fresh
cases OF cholera here today but no deaths. one
death was reported In Zaandair. one In Maastricht
and anotl or In kralingen.
St Petersburg Sept. Persons coming from
the Mini Novgorod Fair report that cholera IL
spreading rapidly In the town and province. In
Russian Poland the weekly average OF fresh cases
IL $3.50 The mortality ~ about % per cent