The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-26
THE PASSING OF CHOLERA. .
It May Never Again Amount to . Plague
In Any Civilized Land.


DIR. Klein, +. r. S., lecturer on gen.
eral anatomy and physiology at St.
bartholomew hospital, delivered a
lecture on cholera at the London insti.
tuition recently.
The lecturer said, according To the
London Times, that the prevention OF
cholera was oesct with less difficulty
than that of some of the communica-
bio diseases which in towns we had al
most constantly among us. lie quoted
an account by Ernest Eart of the great
religious festival of Kumbh fair at
Hardwar, a town on the Gangcs, at
which, IN 1891, eight hundred Thousand
to one million pilgrims assembled In
the opinion of many experienced OH
Gals the most complete sanitary ar
rangement would be powerless to pre-
vent the spread of cholera if the fair
was allowed TO take place. The pill
grins coming from cholcra-iufectcd
districts brought the infection with
them, and two people died of undoubt-
ed cholera at Hardwar during the
most crowded period. Owing, how
ever, to the excellent and stringent
sanitary precautions the infection did
not spread. no more cases arose in
the town or camp, nor did the disease
develop on the track of the dispensing
pilgrims. This was nnquestiocably
ore of the most remarkable and bril-
liant achievements of sanitation IN the
whole history Of cholera.
Not only in India, bu. also in Eu-
rope. had it been demonstrated that
cholera was a prcvcn.s BILE disease. In
1872 ch1lora broke cut in Hamburg.
The inzanitary conditions OF its dock
and port population and the pol
luted supply Of drinking wafer
brought for Hamburg the long
predicted day of reckoning. In
former years the establishments
of such o focus Of cholera as Ham,
burg, which had wat oonsmunica-
tions and intercourse with the whole
OF Germany. would have been followed
By innur.ersbic foci CT cholera AL over
Germany. Yet there was the remark
able fact that. with the exception Of a
few cases in irsitcd nurnbcrof towns.
Germany did no. suA.r from any fur
thor epidemic eattreaiea-
And the same Ixet ysAs illustrated IN
1892 IN perhaps more striking man
ner II England Sir John SiIoop had
yeszs back insxsssl on tnc i-nport2acs
Of considering cholera, and also ty-
pllcid fever, as 9Th disease. u had
since become az .xioza In sanitary
science 10 isolste the patent. 20 disin-
fac: or destroy al articles soiled By
h.ra, to proven; saca filth from EaiY-
ing access TO drinking water enc 70
articles Of food. arc 20 mas; tsLst Tic
hands that had been IN contact with
.zca soile1 articles sbould bs Ecrupr
Iolsiy cleaned Ia eT-.er 70 avoid seif /
injection; IL sko-t, - prevent ard 20 /
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there should be 70 at-1EsP. :. ssesng
or ignoring. bat The fac. ss-o2sd Ia
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too sAs<e1 ac>sruzzgiy.