New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-01
THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE.
MANY DEATHS SAID TO OCCUR DAILY IN
MARSEILLES.
FhcTs-sURGEON IRWIN REPORTS CoNDI-
TONS on TIE CONTINENT Up TO July IS
THE EPIDEMIC ~ ST. PETERSBURG.

TONS OF THE CONTINENT Up TO July IS
THE EPIDEMIC ~ ST. PETERSBURG.
! Madrid. july ai.-The Spanish Consul at Mar
se.es having te,egraphed that cholera Is eplemic
there. that the number of deaths daily is large
/ and that the authorities concealing the actual
/ situation. the Government has ordered stringent
precautions to be taken at al Spanish ports and
/ on the frontiers. A medica! commission vii be
sen, 10 Marsciles with instructions 20 report the
! facts.
| Paris July Sl-rhe Mayor OF Marseil,es officially
! denies that cholera is epidemic in that city lie
SAYS that the death rate IS higher now than has
been for two and that quarantine against the
/ city IS unjusiinable
Amsterdam July 3l-Thirteen cases OF cholera and
six deaths were reported in Maastrcht up July 30.
Warsaw, july 3-The Governor has forbidden
/ the usual pilgrimage to Czenstochau account Of
| the prevalence OF cholera
/ Vienna, July 3l.-Ffty-cght new cases OF cholera
and twenty-nlne deaths from the disease re-
ported in Galicia on July 2s and %.
Washington. July 3l.-A report received at
! the Marine Hospital Bureau to-day from Surgeon
! Irwin, at Berlin. the pr gress OF cho.era in
| Europe for the week ending Ju.y IS. The disease.
he writes. made material progress since his last
report. especially in 50. Petersburg. where Il has
assumed alarming proportions 1t continues at
Cronstadt ana IS reported to be present in Fin
| land. whore 1t WAS never before seen. In Galic.a
| there many more than in the previous
week. and new cases have appeared in Germany
and the Netherlands. In Belgium cholera still. con-
;inues. especially In towns along the Meusc which
river is undoubtedly infected. On the whole. he
says. the outlook .s rather alarming: far more 50.
indeed than at this time last year.
AS reported from Liege. there in the last
ten days in that neghborhood forty cases ana ten
deaths from cholera. None OF these cases were
brought into Belgium. and there is no doubt that
the disease has been epidemic there for the last
| tha
10Th Of July 1Aege has been the principal OF
Infection IN Belgium. cholera being found In the
towns along the heuse. On this river between the
1st Of June and The ith OF July. ifty-nine deaths
occurred
From Poland cholera appears 20 have spread with
the advance OF warn. weather 10 the northwestern
part OF Russia. AMI a serious epidemic IL now In
progress in St Petersburg and Cronstadt. Stimuli
taneOusy with ;he OF the appearance OF
cholera In Germany, report has come 10 hand
which warrants the belief that the outbreak In St
Petersburg Is much more serious than the official
announcements indicate. The disease has taken hold
OF all the districts OF the city. with the single ex-
ception Of that known as the Admiralty Quarter
and II has also spread 20 the suburbs \ telegram
dated July il states that IN the city OF ST Peters
DlTK and the suburbs several hundred cases OF
cholera occur daily There have been fifty at
the military camp at Krasno Ieeloe. From the Sth
TO the l4th Of July there were IN the city So cases
and 20 deaths. Another telegram dated July Is
says that cholera In that city shows further In
crease. The total number Of cases reported the day
previous 2ls and the deaths numbered sixty
nine. The Project ordered all wincshops In the
city to be closed Sundays and holidays during
the prevalence OF the eplenic Not only the au-
thOriics and the public generally but even members
OK the medical faculty. beginning 10 be seriously
alarmed at the rapid spread OF tie disease. The St
Petersburg Board q Health hos caused public
notices be posted up In the strrets giving dircc
Ia. 4lrt In u IA
OF disease. several public buildings are 10 BE- ui-
tied a. temporary hospitals Minister WHITE. unl.r
date - July =. telegraph"l from - Petersburg
that there were 2' cascs on me nm ana y df1,h,
serious. there being more than l'-p cases Ia the
city since July
The 'Vossische Zeitung." under date OF July H..
';The precautions taken In -, Petersburg to ward
consist Irinc!paiiy In tie posting o. piacars
ing people not to drink unboiled water To- refrain
coon a. symptoms Of Illness are felt. This appears
10 b. OF !tte uae, nasinuch as the people are nor
provided with boiled water, nor are the addresses
OF physicians given Vessels filed with boiled wa
certain iocaii,ic~. but they are few and faf be
tween. Even the policemen DO not seem 20 know
lack OF wisdom 81 the municipal authorities begins
to remind one Of HAMBURG The sanitary condition
much worse than II was two years ago. Large ana
sm4 p1 G@n" lsd " ~ Course nfsc,ed donas The
Kancno Pro-pekt the conditions present an as
receives tht wasteppe from the Hospital Of Pc
ter and Paul. where are the cholera barracks ~
stagnant and emts the fOulest doors. Fifteen
wards away another Vast~Tdp" hangs over IN"
canal by the windows OF the patients In the prin-
ciral streets rsiOOis exist. ana are cleaned IN
| the old way with buckets. and the eHcrrta caIt"i
away I'm open barrels. the contents being IRE
quci,tlv spilled along the route. II seems ~ II
some evil genius lowered over the city and prompt
eI the authorities 10 allow another epidemic Ike
that OF Hamburg to occur. and IN" people thcnl-
selves by their habits. invite IL. for never before
have so many drunken men been seen here. The
Russian Government has come 20 an und"rst1nd-
Ing with the Persian Government for the establish
rnenf OF sanitary inspection OF caravans arriving
I'm Persin from Eastern Asia. in order that the
plague may be kept out Of Persia. whence II might
| a,silv extend q Inc Trans Caspian prOVuceS"