The Cholera

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 1 September 1892, Page 2

The Cholera

FEARFUL MORTALITY IN RUSSIA. LPtB UNITED PBKSB ASSOCIATION..! London, August 30. M. H. H. Fowler, president of the 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 sanitary officials. August 31. A fatat case is reported from Fetter Lane, London, and another case from Grimsby. Disinfectants in Germany have advanced in price 200 per cent. Business in Hamburg is at a complete standstill, and the loss to trade is estimated at several million marks. The daily burials in Hamburg extend far into the night, and the number is steadily increasing. In St Petersburg numerous soldiers are dying from cholera, and the total number of deaths in Russia since the outbreak of the disease is 150,000. Three refugees from Hamburg who took up their residence in the City road were all attacked by cholera and one is dead. Bbbmn, 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 being watered because the baccili thrive in moisture. The residents of Hamburg, who are fleeing from the city, ars refused admittance at the watering places. Wellington, This Day. The Central Board of health met today, and decided to warn Local Boards to inforce cleanliness in the respective districts, but to postpone further action till it is seen whether the cholera spreads in England. Should it increase other precautions will be taken. The Union Company will, it necessary, be requested to carry doctors in the intercolonial steamers. A ship expected in Auckland shortly from Calcutta, will be inspected.