The New York herald., 1866-05-20
THE CHOLERA.

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OUR coNsTANrINorLE CORRESPONDENCE.
CossrASTIsorrE, April "a, 1865.
The international Sanitary Commission continues its
stngs in this capital the subject OF the proper means
OF preventing the OF the Asiac cholera during the
coming summer The winter has here been extremely
mild there has been but little and almost FROST
the usual rains Of the have been but scanty
summer has come without any spring, and apparently
the former Will be very
II is worthy of remark that while the commission Is
engaged in concocting TO prevent the return
OF the epidemic from Egypt and the Hedjaz, none
being taken to prevent its temperance in tho
city suburbs As is said that the cholera made some
fifty thousand say thirty thousand victims during the
last here you imagine the number Of graves
around and in the capital most OF them not more than
two the three feet In depth, and but slightly
covered Then the ordinary suices Of the place are left
open filed with the infectious of substances These
being left TO the immediate action of the local authorities
they totally neglected.
have heard of nothing being done by the commission
the subject OF the best treatment OF the cholera
Where many physicians attended to the sick might be
supposed that their united experience would form code
Of which could guide others in other countries
1t is composed of some thirty-eight members named
and dcputed by the various governments OF Europe
mostly the secretaries OF the legations residing here and
few have been expressly for the commission, as
France the civil deputy the Count de Tallemand
formerly charge daares at this place, since holding
the rank OF full minister lin pdribtis)
The members have resolved into two factions
English and Frenchhc former headed by the Secretary
of the English Embassy, Mr. Stuart formerly Of her
Britannia Maesty's legation At Washington.
The chief subject Of discussion is that OF
quarantine TO be placed upon all vessels arriv-
those OF British India Az the pilgrim passengers which
these convey all subjects Of her Britannia Majestys
possessions India such detention naturally Affects
them most Some Of the members hold that the epidemic
be checked and arrested by rigid qaranncs and by
thoroughly fuHgatng, while Others, in the minority
say that, being an epidemic IL Is not transmssble by
contact with Infected clothing or by diseased individuals
The question OF a Quarantine deeply interests also mo
Persian aud Turkish pilgrims The former, after visit ng
the Islam, sacred tombs OF Mersched and Kcrbeeh
he Persian Ottoman irontiers, proceed by land to
travel hence iat least many do) through Asia Minor to
Damascus. and thence to the holy cities Just named II
the endemic be introduced into Persia from India or by
tho Persian gulf, u may be carried overland into the
Hedjaz but will most probably, be taken direct by
sea to the ports OF the Red Sea.
The French have a large number Of pilgrims from
| Algeria visiting the Hediaz though Egypt and the
works on the Suez Canal might seriously retarded by
the renppearance of the cholera In Egypt hence the
oncting reports of the French and English dispatches
The small commission sent some months ago by the
Porto direct the Hednz for the parpose OF
ing whether not the effects Of the sacrifices there
has reported In the latter sense. This believed and
just proven by the English deputaiona fact but
others believe in its truthfuncss.
The Porte apprchcnsive that 10 be called upon
to execute the findings OF the commission and TO nom
nate ofcers-alLat It's own expcnsefor this purpose
One of these might be that In Of the Of
the cholera In the Hedjaz Arabia there shall be
rihces at all, and IL therefore apprehends revelation
among It's inhabitants. Already this is rumorcd
among the Mussulman population Of Constantinople,
aud they say though do moi believe the satemcn that
the Sheerf OF Mecca and the Civil Governor have not
fed their designations and that country
| apprehensive of their lives.
mttces each having particular subject 70 report upon
When these are ready the stngs will be resumed We
learned through the public papers that the
take part IN it, and seemed satisfied thereby il will
no doubt contipue to exist for some months moro.
In conclusion will venture the assertion that the
cholera fully and fearfuly transnisbc by diseased
individuals and by infectious articles and therefore
be arrested by quarantine and fumigation This
done both % protect and preserve cities check
spread from house TO house There Is real TO
apprehcnd extension from one family TO another IL
the attacked are promptly and eecuay cared for and
the premises fumgated
Prompt action is ndispensably requisite, and general
cleanliness and healthy diet equally so
Cholera I'm England.
A CASE IN LONDON AND PREPARATIONS TO MEET
THE DIsEAsE-Irs PROGRESS At SEA AND now
1T Is CARRIED.
From the London Times May2l
The return Of the Registrar General today contains
the details OF an apparently undoubcd OF Asiatic
cholera The disease in IL epidemic character at
any moment be among But the truth Is that ia
has been marked by OF the usual charsctersics
and we cannot venture upon any OF the conclusions
which would have been justified few years since Hap
PLY the change 10 be all favor The cholera
of 1885 not like the cholera of Isle 1892 IL
less OF an exotic pestence and more Of an ordinary OPT
demc II did not arrive from the regions travel
by the same track though, the other hand, IL has
fingered strangely and tenaciously in many places
throughout the winter and has diused itself
rregulariy over wide tract Of country.
How the d ease, after devastating the cities Of Egypt
and Turkey established tsef In the basin Of the Mcd
erranean, how II threaded the straits Of Gibraltar,
cended the Atlantic coasts Of spain and France aud fell
upon Paris and Madrid, need not repeat All this
viii be in the recollection Of the public thai the
plague actually appeared for few days the southern
shore Of this country But, that time, though
occasionally active The example
nposssd only, only few days ago VIII be iIe.n
sailed for America with thirteen hundred pcrsops
on board There was no cholera at Liverpool when
Shc left, nor was any Infection supposed 10 exist |
among the passengcrs hut the plague broke upon
the voyage and tho vessel pu, into Halifax with report
increased to three times that number Exactly tho
thing occurred IN the autsmn when the British steamer
board though she had left this country with dean
bill OF health and, again, British troopship with sol
Cape o. Good ne HOPE Now . h1.a example, 1 ss
coincide 10 suggesting a particular inference and
Iatory n no case was tho disease Communicated 10 the
population Of the country into which IL was thus i'm.
ported The cholera patients were landed and treated
10 the inhabitants The epidemic did not break out
either In our own colony OF IN New York though far LEES
In former times would have been thought sufficient
10 create H. II u plain therefore, that may have
not only single case of the disorder Bristol or
dozen eases ri Southampton, bot actual importa.
zion Of paeuestroken cargo without any tension
establishment u the disease The question arising from
these examples s very singular and Of small i'm.
portance.
How did the ehoera ongns,e in these thrce vessels,
We're the seeds Of the disorder taken on board by
gers, or was developed by the conditions of living
within the ship seifs The former conclusion is per.
hap the more probable The Ataanta touched :, Brcst
where cholera was known 70 be rife and from Bret the
infection might certainly have been imported The |
roopshp touched We believe, st spanish port, |
and the disease might have been there contracted |
In the recent case, however, of the Liverpool |
steamer our calculations are more ai fault, for !
she does not scem 10 have touched d any pert |
whence the infection could have beeu taken. She had
however German passengers board and IL obvious
W possble hsf these coming from Infect
81 part Of the cont nsnt, might have brought With them
the seeds of the disorder In default however Of this
evtenos we should b. led 10 the ccneInsion that the