The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1865-11-02
The Advance of the Cholera.

break is found in papers of July 8. where
| appeared n paragraph dated Florence.
June II, to the effect "that in consequence
| Of information received by the ministry
that cholera is prevailing in Egypt, pre-
cautionary measures have been ordered in
regard to all vessels arriving from Egypt
ian ports" This was mere general pre-
caution, but In u week more we read shat
the disease continued its ravages at Alex.
andria. 'The deaths, up to June 20,
number one thousand and thir,y-four, and
twenty thousand inhabitants are said to
have left the city" Later advices up to
June 2S reported continued ravages both
at Alexandria and Cairo, bat the epidemic
was thought to be assuming less alarm
ing type.
Ga the 9th it was reported that the
number of deaths at Alexandria on the
18th was fity and at Cairo on the
18th fory-thr,e, but that the disease was
sensibly abating in that vicinity. Four
days later the United States consul at
Palermo, Sicily, reported that the direc-
tor general had ordered the exclusion Of
all vessels arriving from Alexandria anil
! Malta, and that there was considerable
panic in Palermo, but as yet no case of
disease, except in one instance-a man
/ who was landed from Alexandria sick,
had died.
| The I'd of August brought news that
the cholera had almost disappeared from
Alexandria and that it was then de-
creasing in Constantinople. A week later
! the abatement at Alexandria was confirm
ed, but the disease continued to spread in
! ConstantInope. the deaths averaging fifty
per day. On the l4th thirty cases had
been reported at Valcntia, on the eastern
coast of Spain, and it had also appeared
at camp Gibraltar. The next advices,
printed day later, reported the disease
in Italy. 1t was at Ancona, a town on
the Gulf of Venice, in about the same
| latitude as Florence. The deaths on the
| 4th of August there were thirty-fcur
and about this time the State Department
was advised by the consul at Port Nahon,
| Island Of Minorca, that lie had received
official notification of the appearance OF
cholera oa the Spanish coast.
A London correspondent reported Aug
18th: "The cholera is carrying off eight
! hundred to 2ue thousand per day at Con-
stantinop!e. 1t is at Malta and Ancona,
and is said to be spreading in IlaIy.-
There is a report of its appearance at
! Marseiles." The same mails which bro't
this letter brought Information of contin-
ued fearful ravages at Ancona, fif5ytwo
deaths having occurred there on the 9th
of August, and seven hundred and eighty
one In all up to the 18th. The London
Times of August 10Th, in an editorial
commenting at some length upon reports
thus far received. and upon meeting re-
Gently held in London TO consider the
matter, said: "Thcre exists unquestion-
| ably a. the present moment nearly all the
symptoms by which cholera has generally
been preceded. The disease is travelling
in the same sort of epidemic waves as has
formerly marked its approach. From
Alexandria 1t las moved forward to Con-
stantinopIe, Malta, Ancona, Falentia and
! Marseilles, and quarantine regulations
are proving as Intellectual as usual. The
time of year Ia which it threatens agrees
with former experience. The great out
break Of 1880 began by a slight attack
in the autumn of the former year the
disease subsidized during the winter, and
reappeared in its utmost violence in the
following spring and summer"
OD the J-tu VI august JuS OHkteI
States consul at Port Mahon wrote =
Should the advance of the disease CON
tinue for the next twenty days it must be
looked for in England. Gu the 30h of
August twenty nine deaths were reported
in Marseillcs ; on the following dag, thirty
eight September 9th. the disease in
Marseilles was reported on the increase
! The latest a&vices are from the consul at
Port Mahon, vino tells us that the prov
.ce 0! Palermo, Sicily-a province OF
which little has been said in this counec-
tiou-cortqincd fifty thousand inhabi
tants. but this number bad, by disease
and flight. eoIced to fifteen Thousand
while rpon this re mnant the cholera was
doing its work at the rate OF one hundred
and fifty per day September 26th, fifty
three cholera deaths occurred at Touion
aud the latest report - that one deatl
and several eases occurred at Southamp
ton on the 2Sth. If this l. so the dis
ease has already crossed the British
Channel; and thus the ghas:ly reccr(
ends for the present.
Let the peculiar manner in which ch6
era has been travelling during the sum
: mer be noted From Egypt to Constan
tinople, from Constantinople tn Malta
Palermo, Valentia, and Ancona, raging
/, with greatest fury at the last named place
thence leaping the Mediterranean to Mar
e seIles and Tou!on and now Gas is re
] ported) appearing on the coast Of Eng
land dying out at one place and reap
pearing at another further westward
pursuing persisten:ly its slow and re,istles