Show AS AS TO CHOLERA I The New York Times notes that present indications the thc municipal authorities of have bave for some days daj's be been n concealing the ex- ex ji t nce of cholera in that cit city And says People pf San Francisco among others in this country tell tell- the thc same thing with respect to bubonic having been there within years ears very vry err reThen re re- r Sept pt Then it proceeds to sa say that it is generally rc that the cit city that hides sickness for a tJ single day puts itself on the same moral and mental level as that occupied by bj the thc ignorant Neapolitans who are re desperately resi resisting ting the et efforts orts of their wiser fellow townsmen to remove remo cholera patients from th the tenements to the hospitals where they scan can can I be isolated and cared for Tor v We do not think that any pers person that wore clean i lp hing and lived in clean premises caught the thc thoin pl gt e in San Francisco That is very different 2 froni cholera because cholera is no respecter of r However Howe there is this to sa say it about chol cholera ra there t there cre is s an element involved in in cholera which is s sas V riot not as a rule computed at at its real seriousness 1 That h t is the clement element of fear When hen a cholera epi- epi d dui sweeps a countr a great many people get gett t the e cholera and die simply through fear That was indre n re the case formerly than now because the terror created was very verJ much greater than it is now To understand a danger takes away half its potency f People now know that cholera comes like many other diseases from filth We e sa say many people die die ie from rom fear of cholera That was proven b by bythe bythe the ilio fact that man many were seized and died within an hour They The would woul not have died so soon und under r the regular course of the disease They were seized b by the illness their souls were full of fear they hey said saul L to o th themselves that no ono over got well that was wasas wasis as is sick as they and simply quit The Times thinks New Nos' York is reasonably safe because there is the tho thelong long ong stretch of tho the Mediterranean and then the long voyage cross across the Atlantic before it can reach our shores That is true and still there are other elements ele ole ments which even physicians do not understand nd They are arc just as mysterious in disease as is the them m mystery of the wireless telegraph they travel in inthe n tho the air Wo We had full warning five or six years ago that influenza was as raging in Russia Russin but in due time it appeared in New Kew York We Ve do not think it was brought b by any passenger it simply came camp and came caDle on the air We Ye may escape this epidemic of cholera which is devastating Russia and is spreading into eastern Europe but we never have escaped heretofore e and the notice it serves on everyone ev ov ov- ov cr rone is to see sec to it that the premises where you JOll live are spick span clean that the clothing and persons of every one around you JOU are clean thou then live t temperate lives and if the cholera comes conies then it will not have much to feed upon and and may be subdued without running its full course |