CHOLERA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2398, 13 September 1892, Page 1

CHOLERA.

London, Sept. 8. Mr H. Fowler, President of the Local Government Board, has empowered the health officer to prevent passengers from infected ports lauding at the ports ixx the

United Kingdom unless they can produce a definite address. The steamer Wandrahm has arrived from Hamburg with several passengers suffsringf rom cholera.

Sept. 10. The crew and officers, except the captain, of a ship bound to Hamburg, refused to sail in her owing to the prevalence of cholera. The Falmouth Bench upheld the refusal. The owners will appeal against the decision. Paris, Sept. 8. M. Pasteur claims that his anti-choleraic vaccine has been an absolute success in the case of animals, and that he hopes experiment will prove that the treatment is suitable for human beings.

Sept. 10. The cholera epidemic continues in the city, and 62 deaths have been reported. The admission of Russian, Turkish, or Roumanian Jews into Paris has been prohibited. M. Hoffkino, assistant of M. Pasteur, declares that inoculation by the latter’s anti-choleraic vaccine can bo practised on the Whan being with perfect security and immunity within a week of taking the disease. Berlin, Sept. 9. The number of deaths in Hamburg yesterday from cholera was 300. Nineteen thousand coffins have been imported into the plague-stricken districts. Sept, 10. In Hamburg yesterday 240 deaths from cholera were recorded. St. Petersburg, Sept. 10. T3»O courage of the Czar and Czarina in visiting the cholera patients has provoked an outburst of enthusiasm and pratriotig eulogy. < Teheran. Sept. 8. ClvJom is practically stamped out in I qrsia. During +ne plague 30,000 deaths wore recorded. Out of that number two thirds look place in Teheran. New York, Sept. 9. Thirty-five vessels from Europe are quarantined in New York harbour. Five hundred of the cabin passengers still remain on board the s.s. Normania.

Ten further cases of cholera are reported on board the steamers Normania and Birgir.

Sept. 10. At the quarantine station there are 45 cases of cholera, and up to date there have been 14 deaths. The steamer Scaudia has arrived here from Hamburg, and has reported that 42 deaths from cholera occurred on the voy-

Presidonfc Harrison has intimated that if the shipping companies persist in bringing immigrants from infected places it will result in the vessels being denied entrance to all American ports.