The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-31 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL, DEATHS AMON° THE BRITISH
TROOPS.

Lieut. Croft, of the Royal Field Artillery, ham succumbed
to the disease. The following fetal cases among the
British troops were announced at Cairo on Friday morn-
ing :—At Heiman, 1; Ismailia, 1: Allessiek, 1; Cairo
citadel hospital, 3: sod at Kase-el-Nil, 2.
The following telegram has been received by the Secre-
tary of State for War from the general officer command.
ins in Rapt, dated Cairo, July 26tb (received July 23tIo):
—" Died of cholera on the 22nd.—Private J. Mundle,
Black Watch. On Med.—Private E Shoesinith, Block
Weak fin th —Privates Michael Carrlitan, J. Smith,
T. Dodds, and J. Cameron. of Csmeron Highlendere ; es
well as PI-twat. J. Freser, R. Matthew., Black Watch
also Corporal W. Stevens and Privet. T. Smith, Army
Hoepital Caro.; also Lieutoutnts L. Q 0•11119, Royal
Artillery on Zth, Corporal Cooper and Private Anderson,
Ki".. Riles ; also Corporal Gardner, I Buttery, 2nd
Brigade, Royal Artillery: on Nth, Private D. May Yid
Print@ T. Phillips, Bleak Watch.

Alizenteue, Thtreder•
The natives conticut to offer the atrongest opposition
to the mnitery prempiti ma recanamonded. perticuisrly to
the burying of the de id in linpa, which destroys the long
lock of hair by which the kin r.nt **lean believe they
will be reigel t heeirm. The Khedive sod tip, Vicsreine
ham returned here from Caro, the former suffsr‘ns from
• .light eoreness of the throst. Tee visit of him Hlghness
to the bo.p,tak woompsided br Sr Evelyn Wood, PIIMID,
to bare preluced ma extra gdinery seed upsn thy native
sot hers. One man. who found himself ootter shortly
afterweris. attributed miraculous powers to the prance
of the Kositive.7-Tian
. _ . .

All the —EA-Gab ir-Topo- are now in their new quart-re.
The water suppl v for thaw° out pod on the Itokattoru heights
I. provided for by • camel cores All the Rushee officers,
both In the British and Eeeldiian srmim, we working with
hearty good-will to check the epidemic sort prevent its
spreading. SurgeontGenend Hunter and six other doctors
arrived at Cairo on Thursday. Four army do, tors have
also returned from leave. On Thursday the C Aro corres-
pondent of the Standard visited the cemeteriei, of which
there are six in the neighbourhood. Funerals were
arriving at avery moment, and the proceedings Wlfift of
the most unceremoniouo character. The friends who
brought the corpse chose the position of the grave, which
was then quickly dug to the depth of abo it • c iuple of
feet. The body wee thrown in, wrappsd in csreebths
only, and perfunctorily covered up with earth and stoner,.
Shawls and other garments which have been in immediate
contact with the body were brought back by the mourners,
together with the coffin, which in such case. io • mere
box without • lid. lu erne instomes the be cars drove
bark to Cairo mated on the empty cofhn.
Or. Gilbert Kirker, surgeon of 11. it S. Iris, at Port Said,
who bee made a meteorological table for June, think.
that, independently of the notorious unsanitary c in.
ditions prevailing at Damietta and eleewhdre, meteor.
*logical conditions hove probably been an important
factor in rite development of the rholets in Egypt
The British Medias! ststv• that the sviaiva
doctor, selected by the Foreigneolfisa, who left Charing.
erase station on Friday evening for Egypt, sill n arrival
report titemselve• to Surged:l-General Mimi M. I).. and
place themselve• under his orders They will lie paid at
the rate of ClOO pdr in nth. with travelling mop nee..
Her Majesty's steamship Wye arrived at the pier. Wool-
wich, on Friday evening, forth, purpose of Meiling with
medicines for the use of person, suffering iron. choiers in
Egypt. The Wye will also take out alai.. di aft id Army
Hospital men foe service in Egypt Inc inflection with the
outbreak. The medie.nes e .usist chiefly of chloto ly no and
quinine, some thoueenil id boxes of which have horn
pecked at the Herbsit lioepitei. Woolwich. for despatch
in the Wye. The A-y liotprial men are being selected
from Woolwich and who, rastions, and will be under the
command of Dr. Barry. The 24 ermy doctors, of whom
the last left for Egypt, are to be followel by a further
coutingest of army pure one, mid the Government have
determined to do erierything possible to mitigate the
sufferings of floret attacked by the disease.