The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-22
THE CHOLERA IN CHINA.
No Attempt Made to Check the Prog
r.sS- of the Plague.

San Francisco. Sept. y William l.. cur
It's. who : the Washington city corre-
snondcnt Of tho Chicago Record. was
passenger on the steamer Gaelic which
arrived from the orient yesterday. He
went 10 Ispan in May. last 10 study the in-
cFustrial and commercial prospects afforded
Americans IN that country. and lately has
been in China. which ne Describes as the
pest-hreedinE center Of tho universe.
''The cholera has attained fearful pro-
portions in china" said Mr. Currls. "'rhe
Chinese are dying by tho thousands.
pa sssd through the streets OF peking.
Shanghai and Tcntsin and saw cholera
victims dead and dying on every hand. IL
- nn uncommon sight 20 sec the dead
bodies Of cholera victims living on the
streets IN one block. aud I'm the next lot
of children gorgiBg themselves With raw
s-tlclin1hers and melons The cholera IL all
attributable 10 tho filthy habits Of tha
Chinese and the weather. The summer
was quite cool until August. Then spell
of excessively hot weather came on, and
with Il the eholers. IN Pekng they have
A plan Of issuing permits for the removal
~ bodies outside OF the city
walls As IS probably well known.
no bodies are inferred within the walls. To
seCure permission for the removal OF tho
remains of deceased mortal outside the
walls Of the city cash Is dropped IN
box A rash IS 2 small brass coin worth
cash receptacle f. fun. II contains from
1000 70 3.po0 pieces or coin. and when u is
considered that nearly al these deaths re-
suit from cholera the enormous extent OF
the disease can readily be Judged The
disease is as bad a. Shanghai and Iient-
sin and Is also moving down Chinese hv
the hundred IN other parts Of the infected
country"
Nr Curtis said that the cholera is con
dned almost exclusively u the naive Chi
nesc In PekinG. where very few foreign
ers reside. he had heard ~ no deaths
among the white population in Ttents'n
one death among the foreign population
had been reported NJ 70 the hour he LEFT
china. ia Shanghai. where the cholera -
raging ~ an awful rate, the fatalities
among the foreigners have been much
greater Mr. curtis said he had heen ad-
vfse6 Of eighteen deaths
Al meeting OF the board Of health to
day q resolution was adopted placing a
strict quarantine on all vessels from in
fected ports and an order was made tha'
all steam vessels from such ports should
he hterilized and fumgated with steam
from the boilers nr. Godfrey. II tho
gcvsrnmont quarantine station made
statPment regarding tho cholera iu tho
Hawaiian islands and the danger ~ con
tagion a. this city EFe stated that three
deaths on the steamer ReIgic from the
Orient had resulted from cholera and not
from pueumoni1. as nrst sisted. The
three bodies Of the BelGic victims were
buried on the shore 1T Honolulu in graves
eighteen inches deer The wash ~ ihe
tide carried the remains ont 10 sea. where
they were deVoured by crahs 4 woman
ate crab caught near hy. and died from
cholera N = hours Subsequently, the
Bclgic came here and landed no chinese
who had been IN the steerage with tho
three men who died. These steersge pass-
engers we're now ~ various points m the
interior of he state