Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-10-13
The Cholera at Constantinople.

A letter to the London Times gives
extracts from the journal of a writer al
Coustantinople, who made notes during
the prevalence Of the cholera. The filthy
region he describes has since been pu-
riiied by confagration:
august 5.-Here is an opinion of an
undertaken about cholera. My opinion
is that the poison of the cholera is 10 ev-
cry mans blood; if anything is eaten
which has an affinity with the poison the
disease is produced.
"August 6.-I am unable to say how
many died yesterday. The number is
stated variously from 1000 to $780,
The newspapers still continue to lie.
august For the first time / be-
gin to feel alarmed. The weather con-
tinues intensely hot. l am almost pros
trate with debility, billiousness and indi-
gestion. A stink from the imperfectly
buried corpses in the adjoining cemetery
blows through every room in the house.
There is a rumor that the plague has
broken out in Egypt. Dead and dying
men pass every half hour. Nothing but
songs o f death; nothing but funerals,
priests, sisters of charity, professions, and
news of fresh losses among our English
community.
august 81 have learned more de-
tails about last Friday. BY the testimo-
ny of every one it must have been an
awful day. A doctor who practices on
the other side of Stamboul says that from
1900 to 1000 died at STEAMBOAT on that
day. For days past, indeed, Stamboul
has presented frightful appearance
The streets stink with decaying bodies.
Whole families ara carried off at once and
many are abandoned by the selfish tel
ror of their relatives, W en- little
timely assistance might have saved them.
A sort of an attempt, it is true, has been
made for the relief of the sufferers. A
hospital has been rudely constructed at
Stamboul of raised boards, on which the
poor patients are hastily thrown and left
to die, without doctors, without medicine,
without even friendly hand to assist
them. The houses of some of these poor
wretches are even worse than might have
been expected. Dens more foul could
scarcely have been found in St. Giles,
Is years ago. Imagine a room half the
size of one in an ordinary cottage, lighted
by door only, and ventilated by a
crack which let's in air poisoned by an
open sewer, running without exit in front
of the house. Imagine from Ave TO if
teen persons huddled together i n this
room, the walls of which are decaying
with damp, and their cracks stopped up
with mouldy rags, and then fancy that
the same linen and the same bed which
two months ago supported patient at
fected with typhus is now used for pa
tient who has the cholera. Add TO this,
too, the stencil which proceeds from peo-
pie not over clearly at the best of times,
and whose dirty habits are aggravated by
disease and exhaustion, and you will
have a picture of the inside of Turkish
house of the poorer class. Can you won.
der at the disease having spread SO RAP.
idly?
august 9.-Gurracino, the vice.con-
sui, has been visiting the sick at Thera>
pia. He found fifty of the houses de-
serted, with dead bodies inside. There
is little doubt that the malady is aggra.
waited to frightfuI extent by ignorance
and imprudence. will give you an ex-
ample which occurred under my own
eyes. The day before yesterday con
sular canass had longing for some raw
tomatoes. Remonstranoes were ineffec-
tual. Nonsense, said he, if the soul
longs for anything it is not a sin TO graft.
~ He ate them and was attacked with
cholera. Prompt attendance cured him
and think, also, it will have cured him
for the future of his religious scruples.-
A gentleman who had been hunting upl
the sick at Stamboul told me that he went
to khan and asked the porter if there
we're any sick inside. NO you are
not telling the truth LEI me in to see.
He went in and the first thing be saw
was man 10 the last extremity, who bad
not received the least attention. He
went to another house where the master
him that bis son had just died.
What did you do 2 asked the gentleman.
WE'LL said the father, she only had
slight diarrhea at first. He was only
seized with twenty attacks in the day, so
gave him a glass of cold water after
each time An Armenian, in English
had an attack of cholera,
rom which he recovered. The next day
he hnuoht txn nnnnds and a half of nm