Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-06
TIE PASSING OF CHOLERA.
II Nay Never Again amount to u Plague
In ANY Civilized InnI.

II Nay Never Again amount to 1. Plague
In Any civilized I.anI.
Dr. Klein, f. L, s., lecturer ON gem
eral ana somy and physiology at st.
Bartholorew's hospital, delivered
lecture ON cholera at the London insti-
tuition recently.
The lecturer said. according To the
London Times, that the prevention of
cholera was beset with less difficulty
than that of some of the cl.anunica-
Die Diseases which in towns " hal al
most Goa t3ntly among rs. IL quoted
an account by Ernest Hart 81 a. Great
religious festival of ku,abA fair at
Iarlwar, Il town on the Gaaros, at
which, in 1891, eight hundred taoasand
to one million pilgrims assembled. In
the opinion of many experience Off
clals the most complete sanitary. nr.
rangcment would be powerlesa q pre-
vent the spread of cholera ii tAe fair
was allowed to take place. The pill.
gritas coming from eholera-in. eeted
districts brought the infection with
them, and two people died of uadoubt.
ed cholera at llardwar during. the
most crowded period. Owing, how.
ever, to the excellent and stringent
sanitary precautions. the infection did
not spread. No more casea arose in
the town or camp. nor did The disease
develop on che track of tae dispensing
pilgrims. This was uaquchtionably
one of Che most remarkable and bril-.
liant achievements of sanitation in the
whole history of cholera.
\ L. IL.
rope, had it been demonstrated that
cholera was a preventable disease. In
1892 cholera broke cut ii Hamburg.
The insanitary conditions of its dock
and port population and the pol
luted supply of drinking water
brought for Hamburg the long
predicted day of reckoning. In
former years the establishment
of such a focus of cholera as Ham
bnrg, which had vast communica-
TONS and intercourse with the whole
of Germany, would have been followed
By inpumerablc foci Of cholera all over
Germany. Yet there was the remark
able fact that, with the exception of u
few cases in a limited number of towns,
Germany did not suffer from any fur.
thcr epidemic outbreaks.
And the same fact was illustrated in
1892 in perhaps more striking man
ner in England. Sir John Simon had
year3 back insisted on the Importance
OF considering cholera, and also ty-
phoiI fever, as n filth disease. 1t had
since become an axiom in sanitary
science To isolat the patient, to disin.
feet or destroy all articles soiied by
him, 10 prevent such filth from gain
ing access to drinking water and to
articles of food, and to insist that the
hands that had been in contact with
such soiled articles should be scrupu-
lousy cleaned in order to avoid self
infection; in short, to prevent and to
avoid the contag ion being swallowed.
by carrying out these precepts it had
become possible to pre- vent the spread
of cholera cpiaemically, and this had
been successfully accom- plished.
This success implied two things-Q)
the locality before the introduction of
y ease of cholera should be in proper
sanitary condition, and ~ on the ap
pearance of case OF cholera the
measures for isolation and disinfection
should at once be put in practice.
There should be no attempt at hiding
or ignoring, but the fact should be
openly and boldly recognized and &C
ton taken accordingly,