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

THE OHOLERA IN EGYPT.

TER/111LE 15431NC5.

Canto, Sunday.—Things seem rapidly going from
bad to wore. here, and at the native officials show
themselvee utterly incapable of grappling with the
present virdtation • firm hand ia requir3d to prevent
the mat terrible consequenoes.—ln my last telegram
I .poke of Mr. Promoted remountrana &giblet the
proposed occupation by the police of thef, new barracks
until the building had first been ditinfected. The
Prefect of Police refused to listen tc Mr. Prescott,
and on Friday peremptorily ordered so of the police
into their quarters. Since then cholera has broken
out, anti three of the men have died. The same day
the Mirtister of the Interior and the Prefect of Police
be I a consultation, and decided to show their energy
by taking vigorous step. on their owa account to rout
out the epidemic. Instructions were privately given
to the police agents, and, on Friday night, • descent
wait made on Boolnk, and a wholeeale eviction of the
inhabitants of toe district in which cholera was raging
with the greatest fury was commenced. The people
were driven out iniliaci iminately and huddled in board
banger, which were thee towel towards Sarah, •
point that is close to Helena, where a number of
Suglirh troops are encamped, whilst at Tourah itself
there is an Egyptian camp. All this was done
without informing or c insulting Sir Edward lidelet
or any English official, and no British officer, either
of the constabulary or military, knew what had taken
place until the following day.
These evictions were renewed on Saturday, and eon-
! tinned until 1.1. in the night. No precautions were
t iken to prevent fugitive. from the infected quarter
cr ...lug the Canal and entering Cairo. Hundreds did
the, r d ponetra.ed to the very heart of the capital,
wi.h them all their filthy rags and bedding,
IN well as their sheep and goats, last night I went
! lute the B alak quarter, and for some two bore wars
' a spectator of the engine try process of eviction a:Lipton:l
by the Prefect. The scene was of the most heart-
rending &seri, tie. S :ores of sick and dying people,
and women with child, were amongst the crowd whom
I UV "aural on board the barges. The wretched
creatures were endeavouring to wive some portion of
their blots:luxe, drivieg before them a few sheep and
goat., an I carrying on tidir heads boxes and bundles,
whilet the y ring children clung to their filthy gar-
ments. The fugitives b ire their lot with Oriental
resigrati en, an I the Silence of the night was only
broken by the Wailing of the w 'men, the bleating of
get., and tits cries of aralar inairache (" go along, never
mind ''), uttered from time to time by the ',oarsmen.
The first bath of anent 000 were sent up the river,
and snare Is I in I raliog near fourah, but the rest
were efornrcil by traneral IFood'e forces and compelled
tO return and land at B.,erage,
General Steph. us a did tort hear of what was going
on mail about uni.fisight on Saturday, when he imme-
diately went and informed Sir Edward Malet. Ifs
afterward, saw General Baker, and it wart arranged
that the latter should, without consulting the Prefect,
take step" t r prevent the reftueee front Boolak enter-
in., the city. General Baker.aesisted by the mounted
military police, nerd 1' Captain Freaman, of the 35th,
assembled what native police he could and succeeded
during the night in c tuipelling malt r 4 the refugees
t. return to 800 l tie, bather taking effective steps to
payout a reoetiti at of the previous night's precool..
lugs. Accordind to the official statements the number
of deaths fr.on cholera in the 24 hours ending eight
mr.m. was :111, and in the 12 succeeding hours 2:15.
Private info tuition, however, puts the number of
desthe between cieht a.m. an I six p.m. at 411, 2,11 of
which occurred in the Boolak quarter, and about 70
at Abdie. There is als fearful mortality amongst the
E4ypti it. artillery at Abaasiyeh, where the greatest
c owes dice is shown by the native officials Ni one
being wiltin: to approach the bridle', Major Piggott
an I Major If %gear.' leave themselves to disinfect and
bury the dead.
An s xtradrilinary Ministerial Conn.-Al was halt this
evening, mid was attended by Generals Stephenson,
W.ol, all I B tker, and all the Lyptian Ministers ex-
coating Chcrif Pacha, who still remains in Alexaudria.
The tnree Enalieh otfi.ars urged rrn the Ministry the
nece-sity of booted's:el, putting in force the decisions
of the board of health, with the view of stamping out
the terrible epidemic which is now ravaging the
country. They pointed out the want of proper arranges
menu for the herb.' of the rlead and the cleansing of
infected bonen,. Strong complaints were also lodged
regardiog the conduct .4 the Prefect, who is not only
useless, but is an obstinate ob-tale to every sanitary
tueasur• proposed by the English officials It wee
hoped that these representations would have had the
effect of procuring the Prefeat's dismissal, but he has
strong influence at 0 ,nrt, awl it is fertrei that he will
Inf supported by the ?di ristry. It is underst ad that
the rat offi ore ace resolved to exact guarantees
that the Prefect will ituplieily obey the orders of the
13T
The chilere ii very severe at Fareekour, where
leprosy las also broken out, and is spreading widely,
no doctors and no medicine being at hand.
In pursuance of ••rders from Began' leave has been
stopped tor all officers in the Army of Occupation.
thenetei Wood reports a fatal case of cholera among
Walt oßikaa•Ps SI
T is ue
spreading everywhere, and the mor•
! tat, increase hourly.
•

orTBREAK AMONG THE BRITISH TROOPS.

Toe f Uowio.t telegram, dated Cairo, July 341, from
the General (An r C minandiog in Egypt, has ben
received at the War Office :
" Tne second case rep •rted in Black Watch at Suez
died on Tu-sday night. Two cues Army If epitsl
Corps attacked in Abbsasiyeh Hospital ,• one fatal.
Four cum in citadel, of which Lieutenant Li Qneene,
Artillery, and one man Cameron Highlanders, were
attacks I in hospital. One proved fatal. One case
Black Watch in Kaarml•Nil doing well. In all we
have had four deaths—two is Bleak Watch, one
Hospital Corps, one Cameron Highlanders. Troops
are now scattered as follows :—Sir companies Royal
Highluiders encamped and in Indian hospital near
u.s ; one company Port Said, one lielousii. Of
Rifles. seven companies encamped near Suez, one now.
any in Cairo. Gordon Highlanders, one compaey
Helonan, seven companies in citadeL Camerona
encamped above citadel on hlonkhaltam heights.
Sussex moved from Abbusiyeh on Wednesday to
Ismailia on Canal. Humus and two batteries
artillery and mounted infantry move to-morrow
to Ashmin Germ to camp in desert on west bank,
Rosetta branch of Nile, thirty miles north-west of
Cairo,"
The outbreak of cholera among the British troops
bee caused great excitement. People are afraid that
the troo,e will be withdrawn to Malta or Cyprus.
The Arabs, as a are very excited at Ramadan.
and now, in consequence of ttu cholera, are disposed
to be disorderly.
. Cent°, Tuuday ?fight.
In the Royal Highlanders at Suez there have been
two deaths. In the Army Hospital Corps at Abassieh
three men were attacked. An officer and a private in
the Carneronians ars dead. The company at Abeleieb
in
of f f onh
have
vo:T: moved tr.am Sussex*Hr
oa left tte.
T 11l lyhVeafr doer nl
;en st'roal'n
ihi a
ne north
e T iet
remaining company the Royal Highlanders and
in the alternoonfor the Mokattam Hills
.._ . •

The cholera is still raging in Cal;:t.„—i.usd spreading
right and left. General Stephenson, Sir Evelyn
Wood, and Baker Penh* were obliged to attend the
Council of Ministers in order to insist on the measures
ordered by the Sanitary Batted being carried out.
Nearly 500 deaths have occurred in Cairo during the
24 bourn ending this morning. There are several cases
among the Egyptian artillery at Abassieh, and one
death among the men of the Black Wakth encamped
at Suez.