New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03
CHOLERA ON CONTINENT.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Il Steady Increase and High Mortal
ity in Germany.

Berlin. Sept 2-The record tonight stands at
ffty-one cholera cases and nineteen deaths.
steady increase and high percentage of NOR
tality. The most uneasy news for America is
that a second case exists at Hamburg. 1t
officially reported late this afternoon that la
borer IN st. Georges Hospital. where the Rus
sian emigrant died. has cholera but it is added
that the seizure is of a nlder form thaa the pre-
vious one Two of the other fresh cases in
East Prussia indicating that the infected
has Widened
The Institute Of Infectious Diseases. usually
a Ieisu1e ely place will be open ali night
ining secretions taken from the digestive tubes
Of persons who have died und ar circums .ance;
suggesting cholera. From; time to time couriers
arrive from, some par. of Germany witt portions
of bodies done UP hermetically.
The Ministry of the Interior has issued an
der, covering all Prussia, requiring physicians
Immediately after the death of any suspected
patient to send messenger with sections of the
alin1entary canals to the Institute of Infectious
Diseases for verdict. This is the practice In
cholera districts The interval between death
and the medical decision is less than twelve
hours.
The Imperial Health Office is confident that it
has the disease in hand The most recently re-
ported victims are among the Russian rivermen
in quarantine. Germany's two great hacter-
ologists. Professors Robert Koch and E. Won
Leyden are out of the country. in Africa
and the other in the TyroI Professor Adolph
Kafka also an eminent man. is Professor kochs
successor as head of the Institute Of Infectious
Diseases. and he has gone to the infected dis
trict to direct the measures to confine the dis
ease.
The German Imperial Health Office to-day
made the following statement concerning the
proba bility cholera reaching the United States
from Germany
The danger of the migration Of cholera 10
America from Germany is remote. since the
exneriences of 1929 arrangements have been
perfected to combat the disease, even II It's I'm,
pcrtation cannot be prevented 1anlputs an. ~
Bren1en are the most dangerous spots ana 20
them the mos: has been devoted Inc
water system of Hamburg, which used 10 De 1eo
drinking water is taken from the EIoe Inat
was the cause of the epidemic of 1S5z so Tar
only sporadic cases have occurred WITHIN IeliIali
territory derived from Russian raftsrnen' anu
the single emigrant who died at Hamburg
Five days is the period for the deVelopnlenI
If the r,alady. therefore in the future no Rus
sian er,igrant will be allowed to leave Ham
burg or Bremen for America without passing
through six days quarantine. 1t is Impossible
many but the health department believes IL
will he BILE to prevent the spread OF choiera IN
Germany The disease came by %ay OF tne
Caucasus and the Caspian Sea The Russian
authorities appear not to have enforced strict
control and so cholera penetrated INTO Southern
Russia until 1t reached the Weichsel district but
even In Russia the disease must be sporaulc OF
else we would have heard more OF IT.
The Ministry Of the Interior has issued a
notice assuring the public that there Is no rea-
son for anxiety on account OF the appearance
of cholera In German territory. The govern
n,ent has long rockcned on the present situa-
ton A circular dispatch was sent by the I'm
nerial Department of the Interior to the Con-
federated States in January calling attention to
the possibility of cholera and requesting them
not to be unprepared to deal with an infection
1t says:
Resisting the spread of cholera has become
much easier under the Imperial Epidemic Law
of June 80 1900 giving the Health Police proper
powers These powers have been fully exer-
cised in sequestering persons that have cholera
or have been exposed TO II, or who have doubt
full symptoms and in watching over persons
and property employed In traffic on the Rivers
Weichsel, Brahe and Netzc and on the Brom-
berg Canal