The Cholera Epidemic

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 10 September 1892, Page 2

The Cholera Epidemic

PER PBESS ASSOCIATION). Berlin, September 8. Three hundred and two deaths occurred at Hamburg yesterday. Seven hundred corpses lie unbuned The president of the Hamburg Board of Health has been dismissed for incom« petence. September 9. The number of deaths in Hamburg yesterday from cholera was 300. Nineteen thousand coffins hare been imported into the plagucstricken district. The Socialists declare that ten thou* sand workmen are slowly starring in H.amburg. Ottawa, Sept. 8. Tho steamer Wandrahm has arrived at Montreal from Hamburg with several passengers suffering from cholera. The Vessel has been quarantined. London, September 8. The cases at Whalleybridge and London Hospital, at first supposed to be cholera, have uot been verified as beine such. Paris, .September 8. Sixty-five deaths from cholera are re» portrd up to the present. M. Pasteur claims that his anti»choleraic vaccine has been an absolute success in the case of animals, and he hopes experiment will prove that the treatment j is suitable for human beings. New York, September 8. Thirty vessels from Europe arc quarantined in New York harbour. Five hun^ dred of the cabin passengers still remain on board the s.s. Normania. Teheran, September 8. Cholera has been practically stamped out in Persia. During the plague 30, 000 deaths were recorded, and of that number two-thirds took place in Teheran Dunkdin, September 8. The mails by the Aorangi, which ar« rived to-day, were thoroughly fumigated before being landed,