Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1909 — CHOLERA ALARMS THE HAGUE [ARTICLE]

CHOLERA ALARMS THE HAGUE

Stringent Precautions Are Adopted to Prevent Spread of Disease. The Hague, Aug. 27.—The outbreak of cholera at Rotterdam has caused the most serious alarm here as well as at other places in Holland, and stringent precautions have been adopted everywhere to prevent the spread of the disease. The proposed visit of the queen dowager and the Princesses of Bentheim to Rotterdam has been canceled. Rotterdam an infected Port. London, Aug. 27.—The English sanitary authorities have declared Rotter darn an infected i>ort. and regulations will he enforced at all British port < for the examination of ail vessels arriving from Holland in order to prevent the cholera being introduced into England.