Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-09-28
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 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22-At meet ing of the board Of health today reso' lution was adopted placing strict ] quarantine on all vessels from infected ports and an order was made that all steam vessels from such ports should be sterllizad and fumigated with steam from the boilers.
 pr. Godfrey of the government guar antide station made statement regard ing cholera at the Hawaiian islands and | the dagger of contagion at this city. He stated that three deaths on the steamer BeIgic from the Orient had resulted from cholera and not from pneumonia as first stated. The three bodies of the Belgic victims were buried on the ehore at Honolulu in graves eighteen inches deep. The wash of the tides carried the remains out to sea where they were devoured by crabs. 4 woman ate q crab l caught near by and died from cholera in twenty-four hours. Subsequently the Belgic came here and landed one hun dred Chinese who had been in the steer age with the three men who died These steerage passengers are HOW at various points in the interior of the etate.
 DYING BY HUNDREDS.
 William k. Curtis, who is the Wash iugton correspondent of the Chicago Re- | cord, was passenger on the steamer | Gaelic, which arrived from the Orient yesterday. He went to Japan in May
 last to study the commercial and indus trial prospects accorded Americans in that country and lately has been in 1 China, which he described as the pest breeding center Of the universe.
 "The cholera has attained fearful pro- portions m China" said Mir. Curtis. "Chinsee are dying by the thousands l Shanghai and Tien Tsin and saw cholera victims dead aud dying on every hand. It is no uncommon sight to see the dead bodies of cholera victims lying oD the streets in one block and in ihe next E lot of Chinese gorglng themselves with raw cucumbers and melons. The | cholera is all attributable to the filthy habits of the Chinese and the weather | The summer was quite cool until Aug uet Then a spell of excessively hot weather came on and with it the cholera l "In Pekin they have plan of issuing permits for the removal Of bodies out side the city walls, as Is probably well known, no bodies are inferred within the walls. To secure permission for the re moval of the remains of deceased nor tsl outside the walls of the city cash is dropped ir to 6 box. X cash IS small brass coin worth one-twenthieth of a cent. At night the cash receptacle if full. It ontains from POGO to 5000 pieces of com, and when it is considered that nearly all of these deaths result from cholera, the enormous extent of the dis ease can readily be judged. The disease is as bad ct Shanghai and Tien Tsin. and is also moving down Chinese by the hundreds in other parts of the in fected country"
 Mr. Curtis said that the cholera is confined almost exclusively to the native Chinese. In PekIn, where very few for eigners reside, be had heard of nc deaths among the white population. In Tien Tain only one death among the | foreign population had been reported ur 1 to the hour be left China. In Shanghai l where the cholera is raging at an awful rate, the fatalities among the foreigners have been much greater. Mir. Curtis said he had been advlced of eighteen deaths.
 SAN FRANcIsCo, Sept. 22-The color test for defective vision and color blind ness among the employees of the South ern Pacific system is now in full opera tion in Oakland and squads of railroad men in all the departments of the train service daily go to the Pablo hos pital to submit to the test for color blindness under direction of pr. Thomas B. W. Leland.
 The test is simple to a person who has eyesight and good hearing but some long in the service fall hard when brought to the critical point. All day long red, blue, gre3n and white lfn- tern is burning and across the room 8 distance of twelve feet, man must be able to tell at a glance which light is flashed across his vision. He must also be able to pick out the tints of those colors from dangling bunch of rain bow hued strands of yarn. The signal flags of these same four colors are also being brought into play 6s test. For the hearing test the doctor has stop watch which a candidate is obliged to hear ct distance of four feet. Some times the ,e +4nahol thoS +ha a&ob and the railroad man will imagine he hears 1t. That is the trick in the test.
 pr. Leland says he has examined 391 trainmen so far and this covers nearly all in the service on this division. He is not through with the examinations yet but he has found c very small per centage of the men who will be rejected. The cases of defective vision will be greater than those of color blindness, while the men of defective hearing num- Der more than either of the other two. But all Tn all the cases of men who will be rejected are very few.
 NEW YORK, Sept 23-It is asserted that Mexico and other south American countries will socn accord Cuban bellig- erenty rights. At Anwerp there is vessel with 12,000 rifles and 100000 cartridges waiting to sail for Cuba.
 LONDON, Sept. 23-Mr. J. M. Soper, yacht designer. came to Lendon today and had conference with Charles Day Rose regarding the details of yacht he proposes to build to challenge for the American cup. It was agreed to com municats with the Secretary of the Royal Victoria Yacht club who vii cable the New York yacht club as fol- lows.
 My challenge will read in behalf of the Royal Victoria Yacht club end in the name of c. D. Rose, member. The will be to sail series match l