Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-07

lha representations OF medical men tbat ~
vas generated in Arabia and Egypt, and would
probably not pass beyond those countries, have
rot proved correct IL Originated in neither
country, but came hither. as at former periods,
from India for 60 many centuries ia home and
first starting place We have the following state
nsnt, showing its presence there. from the Times
Of India:
"ChoIers has broken out a, Alden and Lahsj,
and q requsition has been made TO the Bombay
Government for three more assistant surgeons.
famine prevails in the provinces Of Lshei,
Mocha, and Hodeda. in Arabia; and the British
authorities az Alden have requested The BOMBAY
Government to send promptly a ship load of
wheat 10 Alden 20 meet the requirements Of the
people Of that place.
TKARryL MORTALITY IN KGIrT.
Accompanying the caravans Of pilgrims to
= Mecca, the pestilencs was not long in making its
Appearance in Egypt II prevailed in both coun
tries with its usual severity. To be sure the
French physicians al Alexandria attempted TO
lull the apprehension by declaring that the type
Of the disease was mild. and that IL partook
largely Of the nature OF endemic. The deadly
character Of the visitation, as attsstsd by Mr..
Hale, our Consul General at Alexsndris, dis
proved their assertions. An English gentleman
who had visited Cairo, Alexandria and COnstan-
tinople, in letter to the London Times, made
the following declaration, which is sufficient to
determine the whole question:
Prom a conversation had in Cairo with an
army doctor Of great experience among the ma
tives, as also among the European community,
| End that the cholera then so severely raging
was Asiatic cholera in its worst form. The gen
tleman in question has been resident many years
10 Egypt, and seen cholera at various times and
places, and he believes the present epidemic TO
be the worst he has ever known.
The great per cent.ge of cases and deaths,
- = ~. l.
native population, and generally Of the lower
glasses. the bad eases taking them of in an ill
ness Of four or six hours, and others in ten,
twelve or fourteen, the symptoms being vomiting
and diarrhes, followed by cramp. From my
personal observation, believe that cholera first
attacks those who live in close. confined quarters
where there Is no drainage, where all sorts of
filth and refuse is allowed to accumulate, low
diet and general bad living. and from the ex-
rsmely bad condition Of the Nile water, and
beyond this, believe those that are constantly
brooding over a probability Of an attack are very
likely subjects to be ultimately taken off, and
that habitual free livers run a great danger; but
among European or other population. whose
residences are not overcrowded where the streets
are kept clean, good drainage, good water, plain
living and ordinary cleanliness, | consider the
danger would be reduced to a minimum even in
badly infected place"
ALDiIEEkkASEAA COUNTRIES VISITED.
In July the pesiilence bad visited European
and Asiatic Turkey. In the villages of the Bos-
phorus IL ragged with extraordinary violence and
mortality. IL also made its fearful way westward
20 Malta, Sicily and Italy A letter from Va
letta TO London dated the 3lst of july, gives
the following statements in relation to its pro-
gress:
"While accounts received from Alexandris
indicate a constant decrease of cholera in that
rfs- tbr a.
what increased in Malta during the past week
1.-The following is a summarized
stateme~k Of the course Of the malady within the
last eight nine days: On the 221 instant at
ter oppressvely hot day aud night, seventeen
attacks were reported throughout the island, in
addition to the military, Of whom seven are said
to have been inferred the 23i. On tha, and
on the following day there were fourteen new
cases among the civil population. and seven
deaths, and nearly many among the troops
On the 21ih and 26ih some twenty six fresh
cases we're reported, of which about half termi
mated fatally. On the 9th there were twenty
two attacks, seven of which occurred in Y aletta
Among the military there only
On the 2Sth the number of attacks reported was
Is. and the deaths - on the 18th, 81 attacks and
Is deaths: and on the 10th. % attacks and -
deaths. Several OF the distant villages have re-
turned few cases each: and two cases are re
ported to have occurred in the neghboring sland
of Gozo
Letters from Sicily state
that. notwithstanding the absurdly rigorous en-
actments OF the Sicilan Beard Of Health some
cases of cholera have manifested themselves in
Catania well as at Palermo 4"
During the month Of August Spain and France
in their turn have been reached. We have news
of cholera at Port Mahon and Marssiles; and
even sporadic cases at Paris, aud Birmingham in
England.
Tux cHoLERIc "coSsrIrurroN
1t Is noticeable that when an epidemic prevails
there "a always pred;spostion to diseases of the
type or character to which il belongs Dr. F.rr
observed that in England, from 1895 till 1855,
there was great tendency to malignant disease
OF dysenteric nature. The London Times re
marks a similar tendency now IL SAYS:
"Our time. of course, may come. The cholera
10 said to be advancing westward slowly. but
surely The last report was from Marseilles
In London We have had good deal of thatsort
OF illness which ID supposed to turn TO cholera
under certain conditions. We feel sure. how
ever. that If the cholera comes this way no quar-
sntine, no detsntions, no fumigstion. no lines of
demareation will keep il out. The disease will
appear in many different places at once. many
miles from one another, and all far away from
the traditional sailor landed At Rotherhithe We
veil remember tide sporadic appearance of the
disease all over England in 1892, in villages in
situations high aud dry, selected for health, In
parsonages where contagion and infection were
impossibilfties
PROBABLE ARRIVAL N ENGLAND
The London Telegraph, speaking of the al
vance of cholera. remarks that dangers are like
wild beasts-look them steadily in The face. and
half their power TO daunt and inure is gone fear
them, Nv from them, and, like the same wild
beasts. they advance upon YOU, and take YOU at
disadvantage. Solace and counsel are 10 be
drawn from that old truth, when admitting that
agganuc danger is nos threatening Europe and
England. The cholera j. its trSvels-that
fierce and PluleSs plague, which has is residence
in the East, but sallies forth at periodical inter
walls TO decimate West. Worth and South From
time 10 time We hear Of the visitation 10 distant
plsces-deaths by Wholesale in Central Asia
deaths in Southern Russia regiments disoanded
by death on India marches, and rivers clicked
with corpses in the islands Of the Eastern Ocean
The last Red Sea news brought word that Mecca
and Medina are this year vast lAzSr house. of
cholera-smiGsen victims. the pilgrims perishng
all along the roads 10 the shrines from Jedda and
the Southern ports and Sheikhs who had come
10 kiss the kaaba turning back in horror with
their trains, 10 .uecum5 IN tents and houses
where they bad shut themselves up. Already
Egypt has been reached, and the fellahs there
are perishing by thousands; 50 much so. that the
Italian and Sseach harboTs are shu; against YES
sells from Alexandria