SPREAD OF CHOLERA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2010, 1 September 1892, Page 19

SPREAD OF CHOLERA.

(Pee jP^ESS Association.) London, August 25. The cholera epidemic has spread to Rouen, in France, and Altiua, near Hamburg. Great precautions are being taken in Great Britain and on the Continent'to prevent its extension. Energetic safeguards are being taken at Hull, Grimsby, and other ports to prevent the cholera reaching England. . Similar precautions are being taken in Now York. - _ * August 26. Cholera has appeared at Berlin, and three ' cases have occurred at Gravesend among Jewish immigrants who arrived in a steamer from Hamburg. • French and German vessels are being quarantined at Antwerp. A floating hospital is being prepared •at Grimsby. £he United States Government are also alarmed at the spread of cholera, and will quarantine/immigrants. Examination proves that the sickness reported at Gravesend is not cholera, as was at first supposed. - ' August 27. A third pauper immigrant from Hamburg has died at Gravesend from cholera, and another has been placed in quarantine. Cholera has made, its appearance at ( Kiel (in Prussia) and Rotterdam (in the Netherlands). Prince Esterhazy, military attache to the Austrian Legation, is ill, it is believed from cholera. August 28. It is reported that the epidemic has broken out in Aberdeen and Glasgow. Cholera has made its appearance in the

metropolis. The cases discovered havo been isolated, while pauper alions are being provented from coming to tho country. Two Russian ' immigrants at Glasgow havo been seized with cholera. Extraordinary precautions are boiug takon in London. ' • ■ August 20. Two sailors at Grimsby and ouo at Middlesborough, who had arrived in a vossol from Hamburg, wero attacked by cholora, and tho lastmentioned died. Princo Esterhazy has recovered from tho attack of cholera. Three cases of cholera reported in Pat to arc believed to bo of tho truo Asiatic typo, though the authorities dcclaro thorn to bo only nostril. Tho rumour that tho epidemic had broken out in Berlin is confirmod, and tho disease has also reached Amsterdam. In Canada 13 bases nro reported. In throe men jme (sic) has proved fatal. The physician to the Czar of Russia has died from cholera. Cholera is decreasing iv Russia, Hamburg, and Altona,- but has appeared at Hallo, Fervor, Striegert, Leipsig, Bolton, and North Shields, A Polish emigrant and an English girl aro in the Loncfon Hospital suffering from cholera. The Glasgow patients aro recovering. Dr Koch, in his report on tho outbreak iv Hamburg, severely condemns tho unsanitary condition of tho city." ' Tho unofficial estimate of deaths in Hamburg sirico tho first appearance of cholera is 2400. Tho shipping companies are refusing to take emigrants from infected ports. - Mr H. H. Fowler, president of tho Local Government Board, has issued an order preventing filthy and unwholesome immigrants landing in the United Kingdom unless they can pass a satisfactory examination by the sapitary officials. Berlin, August 23. Dr Koch has been ordered to Hamburg to report on the outbreak of cholera there, which has every indication of being of the virulent Asiatic type. August 24. Of 340 persons attacked by cholera in Hamburg, 300 died yesterday. Dr Koch, who was ordered to report on the outbreak, pronounced it to be of an Asiatic type. Many of the streets in Hamburg are closed to traffic, August 26. Sixty deaths from cholera have occurred at Hamburg. Dr Koch points out that the number is small compared with tho population, and the panic is abating. Eight hundred cases of cholera and 300 deaths have been reported in Hamburg since the outbreak. The baths, markets, and theatres havo been closed, and meetings and dances have been prohibited. Germany has stopped traffic along the Russian frontier. August 29. Cholera has broken out in Bremen, and is increasing to an alarming extent in Hamburg, where 200 deaths were reported on Saturday. It is also spreading to towns and districts in the vicinity of Hamburg. A number of wealthy people are leaving the place, and prayers are offered in the churches for the check of -the epidemic. August* 30. Black pox has appeared in Hamburg. Two hundred deaths from cholera were reported in Hamburg on Monday and eight in Bremen. Dr Koch objects to the streets boiug Watered because the bacilli thrive in moisture. The residents of Hamburg who are fleeing from tho city are refused admittance at watering places. Paius, August 26. Cholera has appeared at Bordeaux. August 29. Twenty-five deaths from cholera are reported at Havre. St. Petersburg, August 27. The death rate in Russia from cholera continues to be about 300 daily. Sydney, August 29. The Board of Health propose to apply special regulations in the case of vessels arriving from cholera-infected ports. Melbourne, August 29. The Board of Health do not consider that special steps are required to prevent the spread of cholera to this colony.

August 30 k Great precautions are beiug taken againsb tho introduction of cholera.