Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-27
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East-the scOurge mt Mecca--Pan-
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ic i'm England.
From the exchanges received by the latest
foreign mails we copy the following:
TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN CASES IN ONE
DAY AT ALEXANDRIA.
TBIEsTE, June 90,
The Trieste papers publish advices from
Alexandria, stating that there were two hun
dred and fourteen cases of cholera the day
before yesterday, and at Cairo seventy cases.
The epidemic was considered to be assum-
ing less alarming character. The Austrian
Lloyds steamer arriving at Smyrna was sub
iected to a quarantine Of five DAYS on account
of one of the passengers suffering from the
cholera.
HORRIBLE STORY OF THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF ALExANDRIA-sEvEN HUNDRED CARCAs-
sEs OF CATTLE IN THE NILE CANAL
From the Friester Zeitung, Julie 90
The Italian steamer Principe Tommasso
and the Austrian steamer Marca Polo are
now in the Therasa Lazarettc. Their passen-
gers (l52 in number) are lodged in the Laza-
rette quarters as well as circumstances per-
nit All are perfectly healthy, and notwith-
standing the great ovcrcrowding in both YES
sels--the Italian steamer having brought one
hundred and seventy-three passengers to An
coma, while the Marco Polo was, crammed
with one hundred and five--hot single case
of serious illness occurred during the voyage.
All contrary reports are stupid or malicious
inventions. Several travellers, however, con-
cur in admitting that cholera prevails at
Alexandria to a great degree, and that the
majority of the cases have fatal issue; but
the causes of this are purely local, and main
ly attributable to the wretched sanitary condi-
ton of the town. About seven hundred car
cases of cattle are said to be lying in the
Nile Canal alone, and the water from this
source supplies the inhabitants. A letter
from Alexandria on the 18th inst says: "The
measures taken by the government have
proved entirely useless to meet the extent of
the evil, the first case of which was observed
here on the 10th or llth ult The disease
prevailed first in the northwest suburbs, near
the railway station which are inhabited by
some twenty thousand Arabs, Greeks and
Maltese oil belonging to the lowest class. 1t
is remarkable that the epidemic has hitherto
only attacked the port Of Alexandria, while
hot and populous Cairo, together with the in
ternal portion of the country, has remained
entirely free During the first few days from
4 to 8 persons died daily, then the deaths
rose from 30 to 80, and on the l7th 81 cases
were reported.
An official telegram from Alexandria, dated
today (26th,) estimates the number of deaths
hitherto, l,034, the great majority Of which
belong to the native population. On the 25th
33 persons died out of total population of
100000. Large numbers of inhabitants were
leaving the town.
Arrangements have been made here that
persons coming from Alexandria are to be
subjected to weeks quarantine reckoncd
from the day of arrival.
Ships are to be ventilated and fumigated ;
clothes, furniture and bedding thoroughly
clcansed; and goods and letters exposed to
the treatment customary in Italian ports
THE scoUEGE At MECCA
[From the Trestcr Zcitung, June 2l.]
The Mussulman festivities of the Kurban-
Bairam took place during the first twenty
days of May when 100000 to 100000 pill
grims annually assembled in Mecca and upon
Mount Ararat to celebrate their pilgrimage
with the usual religious ceremonies. The
mode of life utterly opposed to all rules of
dietetlc prudence, pursued by these crowded
masses for ten to fifteen days at the holy
places yearly entails number of diseases, to
which many are sacrificed This year the
cholera or, as the Government prefers to call
it, cholerina, was added to the customary
pests, and is said to have carried off twenty
thousand people at Mecca, and upon Gabel
Ararat within the short space of two months.
Private accounts place the loss of pilgrim life
at one hundred thousand-an estimate OBJ
viously exaggerated, and these do not include
the deaths by cholera. We in Alexandria
have no more exact details as to this terrible
drama, which made no extraordinary impress
sion upon the pilgrims themselves, who, in
| their religious fanaticism believe every one
certain of Paradise who dies during the pill
grimage. The country being at all times in
accessible TO European medical men, the
meager reports we have are derived from a
few Egyptian military surgeons ordered by
the government to accompany the pilgrims
from Egypt.
WARNING TO ENGLAND.
The London Telegraph referring to this
matter, says: ..
The cholera is on its travels--that fierce
and pitiless plague, which has its residence
in the East but sales forth at periodical in
tervals to decimate West, North and South
From time to time we hear of the visitation
in distant places-deaths by Wholesale in
Central Asia, deaths in Southern Russia, reg
iments disbanded by death on Indian mar
ches, and rivers choked with corpses in the
Islands of the Eastern ocean. The last Red
Sea news brought word that Mecca and Me-
dina. are this years vast lazar-houses of chol-
era-smtten victims, the pilgrims perishing all
along the road to the shrines from Jeddah
and the southern ports, and Sheikhs who had
come to kiss the kaaba turning back in hor-
ror, with their trains to succomb in tents and
houses where they had shut themselves up
Already Egypt has been reached, and the fel-
lahs there are perishing by thousands so
much so that the Italian and French harbors
are shut against vessels from Alexandria.
Marseilles has kept all the mail boats in quar-
antine ever since two morbund passengers
were landed in the toilette, and at last we
ourselves have been obliged to confront per-
il that cannot be disregard.
The newspapers and letters which went
out of the General Post Office on Tuesday
last were sent in boxes instead of bags, TO
prevent infections being carried ont of Egypt
by the mail passing through the country,
Most assuredly we do not write these truths
to alarm the public mind Precisely the op-
posite is our intention; we want the people
to look calmly at the peril while there is plen-
ty of time, because, if we know anyfhng
about the pestlence, it is prevention is bet