New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-07
PLAGUE AND FAMINE.
INTERNATIONAL QUARANTINE PRO-
PosALs NOT FAVORED BY ENGLAND.

GREATER. ATTENTION TO CLEANLINESS THOUGHT
TO BE ONLY PROBATION NEEDED-MIsAP-
PRoPRIATIoN OF THE FAMINE FUND
London. Feb. 6-The sanitary conference on me
bubonic plague. which opens In Venice next TIT
day. will not find the British Government IN agree
ment with a ma jorty Of the delegates as 10 the
necessity OF international precautions TO prevent
the extension OF the plague The British Govern
ment has done nothing yet TO checK It's possio'o
appearance In Great Britain beyond ordering 'na'
all ports having traffc with India he visited ny
special sanitary inspectors. NO measures VI q"h'
antine have been taken. and rags and goods gen
orally can be exported from Bombay and kurra-
chez without hindrance or inspection he'Sihs
on the climatic conditions OF England which dio
supposed to be unfavorable TO plague epldemc'
and on sanitation. which Is now general th'ousn-
out the country, the British authorizes 40 not III
the share in the European scare II 'he a'.i
,ude to be taken by the English delegates 10 'he
conference can be forecast from certain omc'"'
utteranccs here. II will be summed up III co"'e'"
ing that the measures TO check the spread Oh Tue
epidemic in India perfect. ard that the oes'
protection against the epidemic af1icthg Euiopo
will be greater attention TO cleanliness at INC po"
and among the peoples Of Europe
Tho English delegates will say in erect: your
quarantine proposals useless. Get cream anu
pla que will not attack you The notorious'y ui
sanitary state of Italian towns the dirty hapi'S vi
the people the flthincSS or ftussiaiiH' an" NV "
fects of sanitation In Austrian and German anu
even French centres, compared with the Ene-
lish will give point 10 the English contention
The connection OF the bubonc pestierce win art
and bad feeding has been proved In all the medica
reports now appearing in the press. Traced i'o'"
its appearance In 1891 among the crowded Viieness
of Canton where il claimed Go.Coo victims IN re"
weeks TO Hong Kong and Macao In 1879. ana 10
BOMBAY in 1885, the soil on which II mas hour
ished has been personal unCleanlines5 ana u'isii-
tary environments. 49, . --o..o ,ho roso-
luticns of the International Sanitary 'ohsIcSs9
held in Paris in 1894 TO which the British authori-
ties have never paid any attention ana Wnlcn a,'
not been effectively carried out on the oht,.e,;
Spasmodc sanitary efforts were maze al tIe ,"e "a
the last cholera visitation in Germany Itay an n
other Continental countries. but since uhch III, w.
international regulations have generally peeh
ignored ,,....;, Eoaera-
The Council of the Socialist Democratic federa-
tion are krrangng a popular dem0nstratlon o'tI
the INDIAN Famine Funds scandals as disclosed III
the United Associated Presses dispatches Oh Ia>t
silence on the part Of the leading London papers re-
gardinC the misrepresentation of the vast sum- est.,
mated al III 900 600 raised by addltlona taNatioh "
India To provide for The inevitably recurring ram,
circular issued by the SoclaIlst ,oui IN
points out that this famine fund was started on the
hypothesis that fi5COO0OJ would be required tVeIE
ten years 10 relieve famine; that the popu.aJo M
India has increased in the last ten years ID! o,pS,
600; that the huge sum of HnucM rupees y nJM
paid annually TO English officials military ana CIVIL
Of silver with the stoppage OF the coming OF Siver
AZ the minis have involved the population III com-
mon ruin and that English greed and misruie are
the cause of the famine