THE CHOLERA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8985, 16 September 1892, Page 5

THE CHOLERA.

DEATHS AT HAMBURG. ; 1 THREE THOUSAND PATIENTS IN .THE HOSPITALS. ■ PRECAUTIONS IN HUNGARY. THE RIOTING AT FIRE ISLAND. Press Association Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, September 14. A steamer has arrived at Hull from Cronstadt, and reports that during the voyage two deaths occurred from cholera. Berlin, September 14. Two hundred and twenty-seven deaths were recorded at Hamburg yesterday. There are three thousand patients in the hospitals, three-fourths of whom are women and children. Business is still suspended. Buda-Pesth", September 14. The Hungarian Government has ordered all soft goods and provisions imported from infected countries to be burned. New York, September 14. Before the rioters yielded, the steamer appealed to them to receive 200 exhausted women and children on Fire Island. They replied, stating that they had to consider their own families, and would drown or shoot any who landed. Five hundred troops, accompanied by Gatling guns, were then sent to the scene. Up to date there have been 27 deaths at the quarantine station, besides 63 on steamers during the voyage across the Atlantic. Boatmen offer the quarantined passengers on Fire Island to land them in New York for fifty dollars each. PRECAUTIONS IN AUCKLAND. After the correspondence had been dealt with at the City Council, last night, and before the ordinary business was commenced, Mr. Hewson said there was an important matter which he wished to bring before the Council. It was in reference to that fearful epidemic, cholera, which was now scourging the old countries, and they should see, that the city was kept clean and in a healthy state, in order to prevent it from getting into Auckland. It had now spread to America, which was in constant communication with Auckland, and strict orders should be given to the Inspector of Nuisances to enforce perfect cleanliness. The Mayor said that had been done a fortnight ago, instructions having been given to the ward foremen to exercise the closest supervision, and as a result three summonses had been issed and fines inflicted. Mr. Hew-'ON said there was another thing. Some of the cesspits were leaky, and would not hold water, and that was a source of danger, and he hoped instructions would be given to the Inspector to report every such case to the Engineer. , The Mayor said that was a matter on which he should have to call the Engineer. It was a serious statement to make that the cesspits were leaky. Mr. Farrell said that there were 1200 children daily on the edge of a gully which drains the whole of Newton through Howestreet. He had himself seen the red matter in the gully, and it was a source of great danger. Mr. Farrell was proceeding, but Hist Worship said he must stop this. They must follow this question through their Engineer, otherwise there would be no end to it if they entered into this question of an unmade drain. By direction of His Worship the Engineer was called. His Worship informed him that it had been reported that some of the cesspits were leaky, and would not hold water. Were they so to his knowledge. Mr. Anderson replied. "No, air." The matter then dropped.