Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-15

CHOLERA on THE CONTINENT.
Recent Reports Show the Danger
Point Has Been Passed

Official reports to the Marine Hospital
| service serve to show that the danger point
of the cholera in Europe seems to be PASSED
Surgeon Fairfax Irwin, who is on duty i'm
Europe for the purpose of watching the
progress of the disease, writes thus from
Glasgow under date of August Is:
There has been an extension of cholera in
Germany and in Austria Hungary since Ia 81
report extensive in Galicia but in Germany
not alarming. The disease appears TO he a I
standstll in Holland and Relrium and
mas not increased greatly in Russia ON the
| whole. II may be said that the spread of
SioIeIa Is not so alarming as at this time
d. 1,. MTek, ,, ana at the danger point the
| frusso-l o-ltussian frontier. ii APPEARS to lie
wen under C ntrol. As far as danger To tho
Cilted states is concerned, it NAV bt said
tilat very Few emigrants are going forward
az 'hls tune. and at the ports of Great
britain tan Inspection of which | have inst
Completed all precautions as TO detenfion
ana dlsinfection are being taken Indeed
nedLS all the Greater steamship lines are
uecililhlS 10 take emigrants from infected
that effect. ee-''" ~
Isolated Cases in Prussia.
isolated cases of cholera still continpa
- occur IN the province of east Prussia
chiefiy In the district of Landsbere but
the only spot where IT has assumed The
character of an epidemic on this side of
the RUSSIAN frontier is the village of Mod
Zwedzen in the district of Johannishurg
Mhere up to Sunday last, there had been
% cases ana Il deaths. All precautt,ns
however have been taken, and there is no,
considered to be any cause for increased
anxiety.
owing to the danger of the importation
OF cholera from Russia the PruSsian an
thoritles have ordered that the frontier
between Upper Silesia and Russia shall
be blocked. Until further notice travellers
VIII not be allowed to cross the borders,
except at certain specified points and after
careful medical examination The Koi-
nlsches Zetung of August "a states that
the day before the following cases oc-
CURED in Germany: At Trohi near Dan
zig, 3; at Little Plehnendorf .: at WEIGH
selmunde, i, and Oldschlosen, L.
Prof. Koch ON the Subject.
Prof. Koch arrived at Konigsberg August
26 and expressed his approval of the pre-
cautions there taken against cholera. At
the last meeting of the imperial cholera
committee in Berlin he emphatically contra
dicted the opinion prevalent In many GUAR
ters that this years cholera is not SO dan
gerous as formerly and that, therefore. less
caution Is necessary. In support Of his
opinion he pointed to the epidemic at Niedz-
wedZen. In east Prussia. AT the same time
he said there was no reason for fear, as all
necessary precautions had everywhere been
taken, but that, nevertheless, there was
need of the greatest caution, not only on
the part of the authorities, but also and es-
Pecially of the people. Five deaths and four
new cases are reported from suburb of
Thorn and three cases from other places on
the Vistula. The Vossische complains that
the Argentine government subjects all ships
flom German ports after the 9th instant to
eight days quarantine, though 1t IL known
that cholera has appeared only in cast
Prussia, not to mention the fact that scien-
tific research long ago demonstrated the
| uselessness of such measures, which merely
subject passengers to great Inconvenience
and severely hamper commerce.
THE public bathing establishments in
the city of Posen have been closed by the
police, owing to the danger of cholera
1t is stated that most Of the cases occur
ring in Holland have been tracel to either
drinking bathing in the injected water
of canals.