The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-11

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Especial Correspondence of the Washington Chronicle.
The cholera has greatly increased in
violence since my last, ana for the two
past weeks it has been carrying on about
800 persons daily, exclusive OF the army
and navy, from which we nave no accu-
rate reports. 1t is impossible to obtain
a full list of the deaths, and think 1t
is safer to assume that the average num-
Der of deaths for the above period has
been 400 daily. Some 5000 person nave
nrobably died of the disease since 1t first
broke out here. 1t still continues It's
rayapes, the official reports for the last
few DAYS being about $50 deaths daily.
II has returned to the Christian quar-
ter of Pera. where it had ceased for
time. in consequence of the greater
number of interments inthe Mussulman
cemeteries, and which are made but
about q foot below the surface of the
earth. Strange to say most OF these m
terments were made directly parallel
with one of the most frequented prone
nades in the heart of Pera. Being in
| sufficiently covered with lime, the ex-
| halations from them are spreading
residential atmosphere through the
most populous section of the city, and
where the foreign embassies are located
Unless proper sanitary measures are
soon adopted to correct this source OF
disease, we shall have the Oriental
plague again upon US in its worst form.
The oyercrowded cemeteries, and the
careless manner in which the dead have
been buried, fear will, at all. events, be
the cause Of great deal of typhus and
similar complaintsinthec coming autumn
and winter.
The cholera seems to be more malig-
nant in fine, pure, dry weather than IN
any other. Such weather has prevailed
here during almost the whole period OF
its existence. During this kind Of
!, weather there is an insufficient proper
ton of ozone in the atmosphere, as has
been found by repeated tests, and 1t il
only when this element of the atmos
r. phere is restored by storms and rain tina
d we may look for the cessation OF the cpl
% demic. Elevated sites having more Q
.. it. it is for this reason that the summit
ar of hills and mountain ranges are tn
a. safest places of refuge during choler
q | seasons. Indeed, great heights may 81
Il said to be almost out of reach OF TIT
: cholera. The population of the Capita
r and neighboring villages have fled in al
o directions, and the mountains are GOV
Il cred with encampments Of fugitive fam
lilies.
|. The Turkish Government, in order tt
4 diminish the number of victims, pro
al vided steamers for the transport OF tn
H. laboring classes to their homes on tn
al coasts Of the Empire, and nearly 800
d have thus been carried away from tn
av city free of charge. Constantinople he
nv lost one-third of its population in tn
10 | way and by flight. In the village
nd Bayahdere, where I have been passin
nj the summer, at least two-thirds of I'll
"a. people, panic-struck at the fearful mo
nd tality around them, have fled into tt
/ open country.
of The mortality has been increased b
,is the vegetable diet to which the gre
IL majority of the population is condemne
of by their extreme poverty. Meat is Il
nv staple article of food i'm cholera season
he and those who live chiefly on IL, al
I staining generally from vegetables, al
,s the most exempt from the diseas
'as Meat being dear here, it is out of reac
Of of the poorer classes. To provide the
,al with this necessary article of food, sui
,ss scriptions have been started, and larl
i'm. sums of money have been raised, but
Inv course they are inadequate to supply q
~ demand. Since the Crimean war, Co
II staptinople has, in truth, become
nv enormously dear place, and it Is no e
he aeperation to say that it is now the DEF
he est Capital in the world.
.tv The distress existing here in cons
,es uuence of the devastation in families
on the cholera, is heart-rending. Many
tn left without any means or sustenanc
7 and they wander about the streets
ire helpless, despairing misery. The sigh
or as witnessed in Constantinople no
h with the unattended tumbrils load
by with collins passing on continuously
ne the cemeteries, day and night, are ht
rible in the extreme, and can never
he eftaced from the memory.