Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-08
IS CONFESSED
Caracas Takes Measures to
Suppress Epidemic.
GERMAN MINISTER ACTS
Baron de Seckendorff Forces Official
Acknowledgment.
HOSPITAL IS TO BE BUILT
Merchants Subscribe to Fund.
Market and Many Residences and
Stores Closed Up.
rrespondcnce of the Associated Press.

Cores pondcnce Of the Associated Press.
CARACAS. Saturday, June o. 1905.
At last Caracas officially has the plague.
Credit for having finally brought this
sad confession from the government IS
due to the initiative shown by the Ger
man minister, Baron de Seckendorn. who
presented a note to Minister for Foreign
Affairs Paul asking for official informa-
ton for his government as to the pres
ence of the bubonic plague in this capt.
tall
1t was little over a week ago that the
diplomatic corps met at Baron de seek
endorff's house to consider joint action on
the plague situation. No decision could
be arrived at and nothing was done.
Was Up to United States.
1t is natural to believe 1t was the United
States which should have been most in
terested in the plague situation here. be-
cause Of the proximity Of its shores and
Of the Washington sanitary convention
which bound Venezuela to give notice Of
the presence Of plague and Of the meas
ureS taken to combat 1t.
Undoubtedly it was due to the
strained diplomatic relations. which have
now resulted in a complete rupture, that
the American legation had not done long
ago what the German minister has done
now.
Today the merchants met and sub
scribed the amount necessary to build a
plague hospital, the necessity for which
was pointed out months. ago by the
Academy Of Medicine. AS many cases
have broken out in and around the mar
tirely and moved to another part of the
city.
Vaccination Is Ordered.
All troops and even the government
employees must be vaccinated with Half
kine's prophylactic as fast as this can
be procured in sufficient quantities.
Residences and stores where plague
cases have occurred have now been closed
up tight. In one block Of a busy street
five adjoining stores have been closed by
the authorities.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Paul, in his
answer to Baron de Seckendorff. dated
cases in Caracas. but that seven days
have now passed without any new cases.
He said:
From the date on which the sanitary
commission was formed. April %, there
have been twelve cases Of plague in
this capital authenticated by clinical ex-
animation and some of them bacteriolog
ically.
"Of these cases three have been cured.
two are still under treatment and seven
the cases being discovered in an advanced
stage. The last case in Caracas was on
June 49,
Preventive Measures Directed.
II should also advise your excellency
that the government has dictated all the
preventive measures which the threaten
ing epidemic demands. Anti-pest prophy-
Tactics and serums as we'll as disinfect-
ants have been ordered in sufficient
quantities to check the disease in its
incipiency.
mo new case of the plague has been
reported at La Guaira for seven days"
The shield has been removed from the
American legation. that luxurious house
of Gen. Matos, which has served as Min
lister Russells residence for several years.
This building will be continued to be
rented by the government as the home of
the legation archives, which will be Under
the guardianship Of John Brewer. con-
sular agent.