Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-27
SPAIN.
CHOLERA IN THE PHILIPPINE AND soULoU
ARCHIPELAGOES


MADRID, September 26-Much alarm is
felt in Spain at the sudden spread Of cholera
in the Philippine ami Soulou archipelagoes,
of which Manila is the capital. 1t seems
that steamer which was not submitted to
proper quarantine precautions brought the
dreadful epidemic to the Spanish station 10
Jolo. in the Soulou Islands. Thence the
disease extended rapidly among the natives,
causing fearful and yet unknown havoc in
islets and distant parts OF the archipelago
where Europeaus seldom go. 1t was re-
marked from The first tina but few Europeans
became victims and ooly on the men-of-war
stations ut Jolo aud Zamboanga several
officers and sailors died. These Soulou Isles,
about l20 in number, are Inhabited by
savage, war-like race, whose chiefs recog-
nize the nominal supremacy oil young
sultan not yet of age. This potentate and
his mother, with their principal tribes, de-
clared themselves ready 10 abide by the
treaty made between the late sHltan and
Gen. Moriones, then captain-general of Ma
Mia, whereby SPANS old pretenslons to
suezerian rights over the whole archipelago
and its dependencies were in due form, 1t
appears. admitted After the epidemic had
ragged for several weeks in the Soulou Isles
it was rumored in Madrid that cholera had
appeared also in Manila and LuzoD, OF the
Philippine group to the north. The papers
the colonial Office telegraphed TO Gen.
Primo di Rivera, the governor general, IN
structng him to wire daily bulletins, and TO
abst lin from conceaIing the truth, as his pre-
decessors often had done when similarly
placed. The result was that Gen. Primo di
Rivera at once telegrsphed that not only
cholera existed for some time in Manila, bu
that the most distressing accounts had come
in from the country districts and from the
4. h # 1Qa IA
in Manila, the capital snd seat OF govern
ment, is daily 2SS 10 325 natives, and from
four 10 eight Europeans, the latter being
M ostly officials and military men. Few cas-
ualties are reported among the crews oil mcr-
chant or war vessels in the barber, but the
authorities say il is almost impossible to give
q precise figure of the deaths among the In
dians, as they are so panic stricken and su-
perstitious that they oppose no resistance TO
the epidemic. The outbreak OF the disease
in Manila and in the colonies in SPAN In
the China seas has been aggravated, 1t seems,
by the dirty and slovenly habits oil the ma
tiyes, by the inefficient sanitsry arrange
ments and the deplorable drainage that are
30 common even in Spain itself, by the great
heat of this summer, and, above all, by the
extreme repuguspce of the Indian to call IN
a European surgeon. The natives oil these
| colonies, when they are not heathens and
Their bitter foes Of their European mas
iers, generally belong 10 the Roman
| Catholic religion. They are SO nat
| urally supersfitious that they have b.
| come, after three centuries OF Casiilliar
rule, the mosi priest-ridden OF all the points
| of the globe where the flag of CASTLE eyel
| hoated. They are almost all under the con
| troll of the powerful monastic orders or Of
| wealthy Jesuit missions that really ruled
the Philippine archipelago more tffectually
| IF Gpain who h ad
| and still have, to consult these clerical inter
ess even in political and trade matters. Nc
| more resoiute opponents OF reform or change
| can be magined than the missions and mon
| asteries of The Philippine archipelago. 1h'
| government, after consulting with the Su
preme Board OF Health, has ordered al
vessels proceeding from her infected colonies
in the far East to be subject 10 rigorou
quarantine. Lazarrettos for that purpos'
have been established Immediately IN tn
Balearic Islands large enough to hold seve
raj hundred persons. Severe quarantine Il
| to be enforced on vessels also coming iron
Cuba and Puerto Rico, where the yellow
fever is raging, and from the ports OF Russi'
| and Turkey, where Spanish consuls report tn
existence of typhus. This alarming intelli
gence, coupled with unsatisfactory rumor
of cholera among the Moslem pilgrim
returning from Mecca to all the States OIL
the Mediterranean coast OF Africa, creai
much unea-iness in Spain, and ought, /
seems, to call for energetic action upon tn
part of the British authorities in Egypt
These vessels, arriving from Arabia will
the dirty crowds Of unhealthy pilgrims, an
the steamers that enter Suez barely i've o
Elk weeks after leaving Manila or the tw
infected archipelagoes, ought 10 be strictl
watched, or they will iuflicl upon our troop
in Egypt far more formidable visitation
than Arab and bis Bedouins. The heat an
drouth OF the present summer in Southern
Europe-and especially in Spain-and i
North Africa have created, with much dis
tress and much ill-health, conditions highl
favorable for the development of epidemici
and it is already common saying In III
peninsula and in Morocco that the summe
of 1882 presents many OF tine characteristic
of the cholera seasons OF 1855 and 1863.