The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-14
THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE.

THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE.
The. sanitary condition of Paris has
greatly improved within. the last few
weeks. The number of the cholera eases
has diminishedinall the arrondissements,
except the two northern ones III when
it made its first appearance, to one-half
Consequently, there seems reasonto hope
that in few days we may hear thatthe
epidemic has entirely disappeared. In
Madrid it continues to excite the great
est alarm and the stampede continues
without interruption. 3it
In Paris, the Empress devotes much
of her time to visiting sufferers from
cholera. In spite of a violent cold, from
from which she has been suffering, her
majesty, forgetting her own fatigue in
order to occupy herself with the suffer-
ing and affection of others, visited sue
cessively the Hospital Beaujon, the Hos
pital Riboisiere, and, lastly, The Hospital
st. Antoine. She went to the wards
occupied by the cholera patients, APP
preached the bedside of all the sick,
questioned them, and exhOrted them
with them with the solicitude and devo-
ton of a sister of charity. Her majesty
ascertained with delight that the num-
Der of the cured showed Il sensible anne
Iteration in the course of the epidemic,
and she deigned to express several times
her satisfaction at the care bestowed on
the sick and the cOnvalescent, in which
all those who surround them vie with
each other. On her departure from each
of the three hospitals numerous crowd
cheered the Empress, and expressed by
the warmest manifestations the emotion
with which her majesty's devotion in
spired them. The Empress was accom-
panied by the Viscountess Aguado, one
of the ladies of the court; Mdlle. Bouvet,
her majesty's reader, scarcely recovered
from her serious accident at Neufchatel;-
the Marquis Lagrange, her equerry, and
nj. Duperre, orderly officer of the Empe-
ror.
The following is the circular address
ed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to the repre-
sentatives of France abroad, q sum-
mary of which has been received by
telegraph and published in the Post:
"lNonsieur: The recent Eruption Of
the cholera into Egypt, whence that
malady has successfully spread intosev-
eral other provinces of the Ottoman EN-
pire. as well as into some portions of
Europe, has awakened the sOlicitude of
the different governments as to the dam
gers to the public health Offered by the
present insufliciency OF the barriers OPP
posed to the development of the scourge.
All these governments, as well those or
states which have been attacked asthOse
whose territories up to the present time
preserved, may be subsequently threat
ened, understand that ii is their duty to
guard the populations against calam-
ity doubly formidable by the evils item
tails and the disturbance it creates in
international relations. Each power
has thus adopted, either spontaneously
or to satisfy the, pressing desire OF pub
lie opinion, such arrangements as have
seemed to it most efficacious to defend
its territory against the invasion of the
malady; but experience has shown that
these preventive measures, taken sepa-
rately and differing according to local
ity, are difficult to reconcile with the
customs and wants of our. age, impa-
tient of every shackle which letters
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Struck with the inconvenience of this
situation, the government of the Empe-
ror has asked itself whether, at the
same time that means are adopted to ar
| rest the evil i'm its course, il would not
be possible to direct attention, first of
all, to attacking it at the fountain head,
by combating it energetically in the
very places where it arises by system
of measures concerted with the terrific
rial authorities. To effect this object the
Emf eror's government has considered
it was urgent to establish preliminary
agreement among the interested powers,
and for this purpose to bring about the
meeting of a conference, in which, be-
|sides delegates from the different states,
men of science thought the best fitted to
assist its deliberations by their especial
knowledge might take their seats. The
object of this conference would be to in
vestigate the primary causes of cholera,
to determine its principal points of de-
parture, to study Its characteristics and
its march lastly, it would have to pro-
Epose practical means for combining the
disease and sitting it at its origin. 1t is
not our desire to attempt to mark out
in advance the programme of its
lahors; we wish to leave that care
to the distinguished members who
will +. he called upon to partici-
pate in il, and who will certainly re-
ceive sufficiently ample instructions to
enable their studies to embrace all the
questions requisite to be examined and
resolved. 1t is, however, already at
present perfectly understood that the
conference, while preserving the utmost
liberty in its views, will not have to in
terfere in any act of internal admins
| tration, nor to take the initiative in any
proposition calculated to obstruct the
| free exercise of territorial sovereignty.
The measures whose adoption it might
advise would be unable to he put in
practice upon the territory of any state
otherwise than by the independent
authority of that state itself. Owing to
their geographical position, the countries
of the Levant are first attacked by the
scourge. The oriental government,
therefore, are particularly Interested in
the ameliorations 1t is desired to intro
duce for the general welfare In the or
ganization of the sanitary service, and
we may reckon with confidence upon
their co operation in the measures
of which their subjects will be the
first to experience the beneficial effects.
1t must not be forgotten that it
is owing to the persevering assist
ance of the Porte, to the successive inn
provements it has introduced into the
administration of the public health,
that the problem of the suppression of