Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-23
THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE.
Latest Accounts from England and
the Continent.

Southampton, England, on the 2Sth ultt
the victim being an old man named West
colt, who died on the goth. A letter from
Southampton to the Times says:
"During the last few days there has
been an outbreak of cholera at Sholing-
common and at Bitterne, situated relative
" about four and two miles from South
ampton, both healthy districts, situate on
a g~raveily soil, abundantly supplied with
good water, and on former visitations of
this epidemic totally free from any at
tacks. They are situate on the southeast
ern side of the river Itchen. The two
cases at Sholing-common have proved ia
tai; of seven cases at Bitterne two have
proved fatal; and the other patients are,
it is hoped, improving. The four deaths
have been certified by DIR. Osborne, who
attended all the cases of cholera There
is also a marked prevalence of diarrh@a
all over the district of Bitterne.
"This sad visitation has, as might be
expected, excited much alarm in the neigh
borhood, and this afternoon a public meet
inc has been held at Bitterne, presided
over by the rector, the Rev. Mr.. Usburne,
to devise remedial measures. The meet
ing was attended by nearly a hundred of
the resident gentry, landowners and other
inhabitants
IN FRANCE.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times writes as follows, under date of Oc-
tober l:
"The cholera returns from Toulon are
%huctuating. On September &c there were
ffty-three deaths from the disease, and it
was hoped it was diminishing; but a let
ter of the 2Sth reports sixty-one up to four
o'clock only, The TouLoHnGis complains
Of want of proper provision for the decent
burial of the dead, and also of the rapac-
ity of certain sections and beadles, who,
while corpses are in the church portals,
c~oarsely and with threats demand their
fees beforehand The maritime powers
seem to think plenty of meat and wine a
preservativa- Orders have been given to
serve out rations Of meat to sailors seven
times n week instead of five, and wine
with every meal. The punishment of
stopping wine is to be discontinued except
in cases of men addicted to drunkenness.
Officers are authorized in certain cases to
double the rations.
"At Sollies Point the cholera broke out
very suddenly. On Monday evening the
sanitary state of the town was as good as
possible, and on Tuesday sixty cholera
cases occurred, of which fifty-fve proved
fatal in thirty-six hours. The inhabitants
fed from the infection in such numbers
that according to last accounts scarcely
anybody was left in the place but the au-
thOrities.' Three surgeons had been sent
by the Project from ToulOn, and ten con-
victs to bury the dead. Although the pres
ent cholera visitation in France is slight
compared to what has been seen on former
occasions, the panic in the south is unpar-
allied. Aries is ~depopulated, and so is La
Seyne. The people fly without knowing,
in many instances, where they are going
to. Several bankers in the north of France
Save given notice that they cannot under
take to get bills paid or protested in Mar
settles or Toulon. At MaPseilles the dim
mutton of the number of cases appears to
be more persistent than at Toulon on
Thursday there were but nineteen fatal
cases against thirty-three the day before.
In the fires which the inhabitants have
been for some time lighting in the streets,
it is now recommended, as a further pre-
sentative, to throw a dozen quarts of Ii
guild lime when the flames are at their
height"
In another letter this correspondent
says:
with reference to a statement which
lately appeared in the Temps relating to
cases of cholera in the Lariboisiere Hospi-
tai, DR.. Vacher has addressed a letter to
that paper confirming the existence of the
malady, but with certain notifications.
The truth Is, he says that from the 22d
to the Both of September, seventeen ehol-
era patients were admitted into shat es-
adjustment, six of whom died. 1t is to
be observed, however, that in the fatal
cases the disease had not that violent and
rapid character (eette naarche foHdroyante)
unfortunately to be observed in the cpl
demie at TOulOn that it came on grad
ually, following upon acts of imprudence
or as a consequence of misery, and that it
found the ground prepared for its seeds.
Upon the whole, the sanitary state of the
population of Paris, both in and out of the
hospitals, is, at least for the moment, suff-
GENTLY satisfactory"
1.-THE doctor, by an easy transition.
glides into q question connected with the
cholera, and Of the very highest import
ance in a sanitary point of view-that,
namely, of the water now being drunk in
Paris. He says; ~ here affirm, and l |
offer to prove to the chief engineer that the
waters Of the basins are peopled with
myriads of infusoria and of mother and
that the development of those organic
matters, especially under the influence
of the elevated temperature that has pre-
vailed for a month past, is the cause of the
diarrhea Observed in cert n quarters of
Paris
There has beeu a very extensive emigra-
from Toulon and Marseilles on account of
the cholera, and apprehensions are felt in
many quarters lest the malady, encour-
aged by the unnatural temperature, should
spread to other parts of France.
IN SPAIN.
A letter from Gibraltar, dated Septem-
Der 25th, says: Cholera has been busy
here during the last fortnight, has ascend
ed a step or two of the social ladder. car
rying off a few victims, and descended
again to attack with greater virulence
than ever the lower classes, chiefly the
cOnvicts. They have lost upward Of for
ty. AltogetheE the deaths amount to
three hundred and eighty.