The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-14
SEWERS, FILTH, ETC.

Wherever there We're open sewers,
masses of filth, and other such sources
| of infection, the cholera reaped har-
vest of death, and was comparative light
! in elevated, clean, and well-aired locali-
| ties. At one end of the artillery parade
ground on the verge of Pera, the NUM-
cipality have caused to be deposit
ed all the accumulated filth of
this quarter of the city. Thither
the scavenger carts. daily carry their con-
tents. An immense mass has thus been
gathered together, which, from its posi-
ton i'm the midst of thickly-inhabited
localities, is always dangerous TO the
pls bile health. On the 18th August, the
frs rain during the cholera period fell.
1t was of "a few hours duration, but it
poured in torrents. On the following
day it was followed by sullen, fiery
almost ,here, and wind which, crossing
the field of garbage, bore directly on the
Greek q ,uarter of Hatalva, lying on the
slope of a hill on the opposite side of an
intervening ravine. This wind came
up in the m orning while the population
were all at ch urch celebrating religious
fste. After RET urning to their dwellings,
quarter of an hour had hardly elapsed
before the inhal 'itants of the. streets of
IatalVa, Oh Jue siuS Vi euc WAN ID
blowing, were all attacked by violent
COLES, followed by vomiting, diaarhoPa,
and the most painful cramps, In. an
instant crowds might be seen running
to the druggists, some half dressed,
Others bareheaded, anti all in state of
the greatest CONSERVATION. Two hours
later the harvest of death began, and, III
the evening of this day, 70 died. One OF
the very first houses attacked was that
of very rich Greek architect, Malte-
states, in the street Akurdja. Whilst he
himself was dragging away bis dead son
/ by the feet, to conceal his death from
his sister, they We're suddenly attacked,
and in "a hours the whole family of six
persons, including the father, were in
their graves. Is aasE
FEARFUL MORTALITY. ##
Such was the corruption of the atmOs-
phere that the poultry were all struck
| dead. and phosphorus matches decom-
| nosed and would not light. By the third
day. of the l 400 inhabitants of Tatavia,
| of 51O persons attacked by the cholera,
495 died: nearly one-third of the whole
nonulation. With but few exceptions,
every case proved mortal in two or three
hours after the attack. This great NOR
tality is to be attributed to the fact that
the rain set in fermentation the foul
mass of filth in the opposite side of the
rayine. the effiuvia of which, combin-
ing with cholera-infected atmosphere,
was horne by the wind directly against
TataIva and for the first time inflicted
upon il the scourge of cholera; for, M
| to- this date, it had not suffered from the
epidemic. When the wind changed the
cholera disappeared. l mention thi'
| fact to admonish you of the necessity o
;soiatino fine CITY scraverage from the
vicinity of populated centres, aswell a
other deposits of filth, as they are fruit
| full sources of filth in time of cholera.
THE STARTING POINT or THE CHOLERA,
| This year ha. been the pilgrim gather
| il 1g lat Mecca. 'Thisyear has Deen .ney Sa
on .ce in thirty-three years, and whic
ga, theirs pilgrims from all parts Of th
Ea 1t. Upwards of 400, GOO pilgrims TIN
yea. visited Mecca, and at least one-ha