The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-18 00:00:00

THE CECOLERA EPIDEMIC IN SPAIN.

The epidemic of cholera continues to make sad
havoc in Spain. Last Friday there were 711 fresh
cases and 335 deaths; on Saturday the official bulletin
showed 1533 cases and 648 deaths.

(Reuter's Telegrams.)
MADRID, July 12, 8.15 p.m.
During the last 12 hours 80 cases of cholera and
39 deaths have occurred in the town of Valencia. In
Toledo (capital) there were three cases, and in the
province GO cases and 18 deaths; in the province of
Jaen, 42 cases and 18 deaths; and in Madrid, four
cases and two deaths.

At a. Cabinet Council held this afternoon, Senor
Romero y Robledo, Minister of the Interior, and
Admiral Anteguera, Minister of Marine, tendered
their resignations. Seiler Canovas del Castillo, the
Premier, subsequently proceeded to the Palace in
order to communicate the resignations to the King.
RONIE, July 11.
By order of the Minister of Public Instruction,
Professor Farm° left here to-day for Valencia, in
order to study, on the spot, Dr. Ferran's systr
inoculation against cholera.
In consequence of the cholera prevailing i 7
the Ministry of the Interior at St. PetersbL
decided on the adoption of the following sat,.
quarantine measures: 1. Vessels arriving at B)
Sea vorts from Spanish ports are subject to obF
Lion and purification during 14 days, according to ta
instructions confirmed on 12th Sept., 1884, by the
Minister of Interior. 2. If, after the sanitary exa-
mination of the crew and passengers, and inspection
of the vessel and her cargo made by the quarantine
department, the captain of the vessel with a clean
bill of health will declare his consent to begin the
systematic purification for his own account, then the
observation will continue only seven days. 3. Sub-
ject to the systematic purification are: Rags of every
description, clothing, under-clothing, bed clothing,
especially such as has been used and is dirty, old
cloth, portions of animals of every kind, different
kinds of rubbish, skins, hides, hair, bristles,
feathers, wools. felt, &c., and the forecastle, cabin,
and hold of vessels; also the crew and passengers.
4. -Vessels arriving at Baltic ports from Spanish
ports with clean bills of health are subject to strict
sanitary inspection. Vessels without clean bills of
health are altogether forbidder to enter the Baltic
norts.

MADRID, July 13.
The official cholera bulletin issued this morning
shows that 1197 cases and 588 deaths occurred in Spain
yesterday, being 336 cases and 60 deaths less than on
the preceding day.
Senor Villaverde has been appointed Minister of
the Interior, and Admiral Jezuela Minister of Marine.
The Ministry otherwise remains unchanged,
MADRID, July 13, 9.15 p.m.
rue returns of the cholera for the last 12 hours are
as follows: Valencia (capital), 69 cases, 33 deaths.
Albacete (province), 17 cases, six deaths. Toledo
(province), 31 cases, 13 deaths. Madrid, four cases,
two deaths.

Several cases are reported from the province of
Jaen, and some suspicious cases resembling cholera
from the provinces of Segovia and Burgos.
MADRID, July 14.
The official bulletin issued this mornin4 shows
that 1092 cases and 473 deaths occurred in Spain
yesterday.

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