The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-18
Cholera and Plague in the East.

The news which reached CODstanu-
nople at the end of last May about
cholera epidemic in the island Of Padang,
in the straits OF Malacca, not far from
Singapore, which Is in constant eommu-
nication with Padang. has been con
firIued, and the International Sanitary
Commissions, both in Constantinople and
Egypt, have ordered all vessels coming
from the Dutch Indies and Singapore 10
undergo twenty-four hours watching, OF
to,pass through the canal in quarantine
while vessels on which there has been a
case of cholera are 10 remain seven days
in quarantine. The same precautions
have been taken in regard to all vessels
from the ports OF the Ottoman empire,
as the time for pilgrimages from India TO
the Holy places of Islam is approaching,
there has, rs already reported, been q
good deal of cholera at Calcutta. In
view of the dangers arising from this the
sanitary council at Constantinople has
decided that, unless the condition OF
things improves very much, to establish
a prolonged quarantine for vessels com
ing from the Indian ocean at the entrance
TO the Red sea, but only vessels convey
inc pilgrims viii be compelled to under
90 it. unless there is a case of cholera on
board any of the regular rpassenger-shipS
The Island of Camaran has been selected
as the place of quarantine, visit of the
sanitary commission some years ago
having established the fact of its being
very well adapted to the purpose. We
have already referred to the outbreak OF
plague at Ouzoundere. in Persia, to the
south of Lake Ourmiah, and not far from
the Armenian frontier of Turkey. DIR.
Arm nd fbo tot - mi
tary commission at Treheran, has been
to Ouzoundere, and he reports that the
malady is the bubonic plague, and that
out of 524 inhabitants 259 were attacked,
and 155 died Death ensues after an
Illness varying from twenty -four hours
10 a week. The population has done its
best to localize the disease by removing
into tents some four miles away and
holding aloof from all their neighbors,
The disease hss not spread any -further,s
hnd the village has been RACED to The
ground, London Telegraph.
I'm Alida Valley, sByon County, Ne
fada, the other day, small band of
Indians was camping near some willows
where the mosquitoes were very numer-
Gus. A squaw left her papoose in the
shade while she played Piute poker
with her companions. The. game was
nther high, and became so Interesting
that she forgot her unfortunate offspring
for several hours. When her attention
was again directed to the child she dis
covered that it had been almost eaten up
by mosquitoes They had collected on
the little thing in such numbers that its
II face and arms were completely raw from
their attacks So many had bitten the
baby that it died next day from the eff
iects of the poison.-- Chicago Times.
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