National Republican., 1883-08-30
THE Two PLAQUES.
Interesting Report on the Cholera In
ERypt-YelIow Fever Notes.


ERypt-YelIow Fever Notes.
The department of state has received and
transmitted to the Treasury department
dispatches from the United States consul
general at Constantinople, dated July 1921,
in regard to the cholera in Egypt and the
sanitary condition of Constantinople. He
says that when the cholera was reported in
Damietta IL created the greatest alarm in
Constantinoplo, and stringent orders were
Immediately issued to exclude IL from the
country, as we'll as to combat its ravages IL ii
succeeded in getting foothold. All arrivals
from Egypt were required TO undergo quaran-
tino at the entrance Of tho bay of Smyrna
The limited accommodations at Beirout and
Bourla were enlarged, but the panic stricken
refugees from Alexandria came in such num-
bers that the quarters soon became insufficient
to accommodate them, and as each day
brought fresh arrivals, the sufrerings Of the
people from exposure to tho burning sun and
the chilly night dews became very great, and
threatened to create the very evil IL was in
tended to guard against. The arrivals at
Beirout were the greatest sufferers, and the
authorities were finally compelled TO tclc-
graph to Alexandria TO give warning that no
more refugees could be received or would bo
allowed to land.
But while the sanitary administration were
employing the best means their resources ad-
mitted of to prevent the introduction of chol-
era, the orders from the palace for the cleans
ing and disinfection of Constantinople were
totally neglected, as was also tho case in the
provincial towns. The most elementary
measures of precaution had not even been
commenced after tho cholera existed at
Damietta for over month. Tho ditch
draining into the Golden Horn, which drains
about two square miles of land thickly built
up and densoly populated, receives through
thousand tributaries all the sewage of that
large district. 1t is an open stream of filth,
and its noxious gases spread with every
breeze to distant quarters This pestilential
ditch still yawns and befouls the atmosphere
of Pera and other quarters facing the Golden
Horn. While the authorities are discussing
measures to improve the sanitary condition
of the city, the streets remain unswept, tho
sewers choked and overilowing or open, and
indescribable filth and garbage go on in
creasing in open spaces the accumulation of
years.
The consul general says that as under
these circumstances it can scarcely be eX-
pected that Constantinoplo will escape vis-
tation of cholera, ii is his duty to call the
attention of our sanitary authorities to
the necessity for taking prompt precau-
tions against its importation into the
United States. There are several classes of
goods that originate in the east that have
been active agents in the introduction of in
fectious diseases-hides and skins, rags, rugs
anu carpets anu WOOlSu COUUOn, SllKeu anu
linen tissues and embroideries. mostly old
and worn. Danger is especially to be appre-
hended from rugs which come from remote
parts of Asia 1t is we'll known that when
the plague has prevailed in Constantnople
the bazars, whore these goods are sold were
centers of infection. Russia has virtually
put the whole world in quarantine rs regards
her southern ports, as an order has been is
sued that all vessels passing the Dardanelles
under whatever flag shall be subjected to
quarantine on arrival at any of the Black Sea
ports.
The consul general incloses tables giving
the death rate from cholera in Egypt to the
fifteenth of July, and says that considering
the density of the population of the delta Of
Egypt and the habits of the inhabitants the
rates are not extraordinary. The outbreak OF
tho cholera is sufficiently accounted for by
the condition of the towns infected Before
the epidemic appeared n cattle plague of eX.
treme virulence had been raging for some
time and such of the infected animals as were
not slaughtered for food were allowed to die
of the disease and after being skinned theil
carcasses were thrown into the river and
canals, whence all the drinking water j!
drawn. The hides after drying were stored
in the villages to be sold. In some places
carcasses were tied to the banks of the river
to attract fish and render their capture easier
and these fish, feeding on putrefied flesh, were
sold for food The water in many o.
INC CdIldlS ID SUuBudnI, anu uHs
become putrid from the number of car
casses thrown into them. Evrything seems tC
have been done to create and propagate chol
era and it is quito useless to seek its origir
in India whom such abundant causes for it,
generation exist in every part of the delta
Since the military cordons have been estab.
lished around infected places-either through
ignorance or from malevolence-they not only
do not allow any one to pass out, which is o
course quite right, but they allow nothing tC
pass in, not even provisions or medicines
Meanwhile the dwellers in these plague
stricken places are without food or medi
Cines, and it is not to be wondered at tina
they should cat the carcasses of animals tina
have died Of disease, preferring to risk thu
chance of cholera rather than incur the Ger
taintY of death from starvation. The wonde
is not that there is cholera in Egypt but tina
the mortality is not much greater than re
ported.
YELLOW FEVER.
The surgeon general Of the marine hospita
service has received a telegram from Surgeon
Burgess, at Havana, stating that the Spanisl
bark Dace de JUNO, which left there tn
twenty sixth instant for Brunswick, Ga, LEI
two cases of yellow fever at Havana.
Commodore English, acting secretary of tn
navy, has received the following Telegram
from Lieut.. Comdr. Welch, at Pensacols
Fla: mo new cases and no deaths in tn
yard DIR. Guiteras has reported" A privat
Telegram received from fenSaCOla unlS morn
ing states that Paymaster Brown is dead an
that Mrs. Brown has slight attack.
By Associated Press.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. GA speciG
dispatch to the PiCdyune from Pensacola says
Paymaster Zachary T. Brown, of the Unite
states navy, died at the navy yard last nigh
of yellow fever
PENSACOLA, Aug. 29.-Another day hi
passed without any sickness at Pensacola
With population of 10000. the intermen
to date in August have numbered only nine
two still-born, two cOnsumptives, and til
balance children.
Paymaster u. II. Brown, at the navy yarC
is dead. Another child of Surgeon Owens
reported sick,
Must Sign Tax-paId Stamps.
An application has been received by tf
commissioner of internal revenue from a co