SHALL WE BE SPARED?

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 4

SHALL WE BE SPARED?

' ; -'¥iua Question must be weighing terribly heavily Tipen_'thotu.a^ds ' A .of mhids this (Wfednesday) mennn^ i after .reading the a stomidihg intelligence , 'of^ararrivat of ; .tlie Penguin,' direct fi-cni ports. ';.^emthe,.Mdebiis fecourgo of. cholera made its' •:'' app^ranca'. exactly a. month ago, without any 7 _p.&bantioh. having beon taken by Government to 'passengers in quarantine. God grant insane neglecto£. r tho: authorities may not bo visited upon ./thdusaiid!. ef innocent victims. There is not the ' ';;yT.»y-faintest. shadow of au excuse for this terrible f^pnssianA:' i_tji' was declared' infected by Aus- • trah'k days ago, and yet the New Zealand '* -Odvernnient- snt with its 'hands folded, .knowing . peiSeeblyv well that a 'steamer was coming, into v Auckland,, on Tuesday, straight from the plague- . localities. Tho passengers of the Pendispersed right and left through the •■ jtcrvvn, and.it is enough if only one bears about in . Mr* clothing the deadly germs of the fell disease, /which, ifcii). oncC breaks out, wiii make this fair ". city x place ' of mourning, and desolation, and A -woel: Ona hcviiblo result of the sinful neglect .. ' i??i-that- we. shall be Eor weeks, aye, and for months, " ;ina-. state, of ■ awfnl uncertainty .as to when or VTwheratlie enemy may spring out upon us, for ifc 7 is avwelldiuowi. faci thot the seeds . of cholera ' ''inajf;lie:qnioscentiu. clothing, perhaps for years, ..certainty for days, and weeks, and months. We ;*;i;rnst.a_id believe that we may escape. Upon the •i'Boar<Lof. Health now rests , the responsibility of Iceeping- a strict look out on any suspicious cases ...^f, fever that, may crop, up iv anypart of the town. . Th«..Ay,orst,Qf.it is, that even- if wo escape the ' -visitation. Of cholera, the very rumor must and TwilLhaysabad effect upon many minds, partic'u--1 larly- female ones, which in its turn reacts upon. .the.hody. Doctors well known that an alarm: of' - almost as bad aa the fact.