Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-09-06
BATTLE With CHOLERA
tl.ty-one Cases and Nineteen
Deaths Is Record in Ger
many,
AU THORITIES ARE HOPEFUL.
Feel Confident That They Will Prevent
Epidemic-Disease Spreading
Rapidly.

Berlin, Sept. 2.-7:4O p. m.-The chol-
era record tonight stands at fifty-one
cases and nineteen deaths, steady in
crease and high percentage of NOR
tallty. The most uneasy news for Amer
lea is that a second case exists at Ham
burg.
1t was officially reported late today
that laborer in st. Georges hospital,
Hamburg, where the Russian emigrant
dled, has cholera, but it is added that the
seizure is of milder form than the pre-
ylOuS one
Two of the other fresh cases are in
East Prussia, indicating that the infect
ed area has widened.
Has Epidemic in Hand.
Ihe Imperial health office, as SHOWN
by the statement made today to the AS
soclated Press, is confident that it has
the disease in hand
Ihe most recently reported victims are
among the Russian rivermen in quaran-
tine.
Germany's two greatest psychologists,
Profs. Robert Koch and e. Won Leyden,
are out of the country, one in Africa
and the other in the Tyrol. Prof. Adolph
katka, also an eminent man, is Prof.
kOchs successor as head of the institute
OF infectious diseases and he has gone
to the infected district to direct the
measures to confine the disease.
Berlin, Cept. 1.-The ReichS AnZelger
announces this afternoon that forty-three
cases of cholera and seventeen deaths
had occurred in Germany up to noon to-
day.
No Reason for Alarm.
The ministry of the interior has issued
notice assuring the public that there is
no reason for anxiety on account of the
appearance of cholera in German terri
cory. A circular dispatch was sent by
the imperial department OF the interior
to the cOnfederated states in January
calling attention to the possibility of
cholera and requesting them not to be
unprepared.
Resisting the spread of cholera" the
official declaration says, has become
much easier under the imperial epidemic
law of June 30. 1900, giving the health.
police proper powers. These powers have
been fully exercised in sequestering per-
sons that have cholera or have been ex-
posed to it or who have doubtful symp-
toms.
In Russian Poland.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, Sept .
The reports from West Prussia and the
announcement of three deaths yester-
day no longer leaves any doubt that the
Vistula district is infected with the dis
ease for the present. 1t is known that
four deaths from cholera occurred in
Russian Poland and several suspected
cases are announced from Ciechocinek,
watering place not far from the
Russian frontier. The government of
Kieloe is still free from the epidemic.
Warsaw itself is also exempt and the
report of a case of cholera at LODI is
denied. Doctors have been sent to va
rious points along the Vistula for the
purpose of observation and a special
committee is ready to act in case of an
increase of the disease. The RATS atioat
have been placed in quarantine.
Russian Officials Deny 1t.
ST. Petersburg, Sept. 2.-The health
department reiterated today its assur-
ance that there is no cholera in the EN-.
pre including the Vistula district. The
Minsk district has just reported again
that no cases of cholera have been dis
covered there A special investigation
is being conducted in the Warsaw dis
trict. The authorities are again tracing
the course down the Vistula of the raft
on which two cases of cholera occurred
in April last.
Bremen, Sept. 2-The United States
board of immigration has ordered that
all Storage passengers for the United
States shall be at the port of embarka-
ton six days prior to sailing.
Restricts Traffic of EmlgrantS.
Hamburg, Sept. 2.-On account of the
appearance of cholera the police authori-
ties have forbidden the transportation
through Hamburg of Russian emigrants
until further notice.
The Hamburg American Steamship
company has issued instructions to all
its Russian agencies to refuse steerage
tickets to Russian emigrants.
Examine Steerage Passengers.
Cuxhaven, Prussia, Sept. 2.-The
Hamburg American Line steamer Mott
Ike, bound for New York, waited until
Thursday, while all steerage passengers
were examined in quarantine No sus'
plclons of cholera were found.
Cholera in Manila.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 2.-The adju-
tant general, division of the Philippines,
reported today by cablegram from Ma
Mia two deaths among the troops from
cholera Thomas NJ. Osborne, Eighth
cavalry, and William L. Meyer, Fifth
Field Battery, are the dead.
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