Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-04
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. IA T'ALR OF MISERY From The Ch0lera-Ridden
 Land or Egypt. THOUSANDS FLEEING IN DESPAIR. The Dead Left Unburied In
 The Streets. A VESSEL LAUNCHED IN BLOOD. Nearly One Hundred Per- sons Go Down With Her.
A VESSEL LAUNCHED IN BLOOD.
EGYPT.

| The Ch0lera-FriGhIfuI Scenes in the ! Infected Dtstrtcts-WheIe Towns Peo- pied only by the V1ctims-The Dead l Left Unburied I'm the Streets
 | CAIRO, July 3.-The situation between here and Port Said in one direction and AIexan-
 dria in the other is deplerable and can scarce. | ly be exaggerated. The effect of the cholera | plague owing to government precautions is not actually known, but the statements of | those who have escaped from the infected 1 districts, and whose very presence is summed by almost every one, reveal terrible state of affairs. There are scarcely enough well
 natives to bury the dead in some of the com paratively isolated villages along the Medi- terranean, the low Nile delta districts be- tween Lake Menzaleh and Lake Boorlos.
 Deaths are announced at Fl Burg and other
 new points. The number is not stated
 There is not believed to be single foreigner
 in the district except few self-sacrifcing
 physicians, English, French and Greek, who,
 beside risking their lives. stay under discour- aging circumstances, as they secure remedies only with difficulty and are met by under
 handed opposition by the native doctors so- called, the only ones who collect fees, and
 their presence is everywhere resented by local officials, since they alone are likely to give any information of the extent of the epidemic, while the government by the most strenuous efforts is trying to keep every fact out of sight. Two foreign physicians have already sacrificed their ives-Dr. Laird, Scotchman, who had been thoroughly accH- mated, and Dr. Ernest, German from Cob lentz. Many terrified English and French families, great part of whom have had clerical or other government employment, are also there awaiting for remittances to enable them to return home. Several English soldiers have died at Damietta, fact which English officials have endeavored to hide The natives blanc th6 whole matter on the English for having failed in the presence of abundant warning to prevent the outbreak of the disease in the first place. The contin- uance of the infection is, however, due to the habits of the people, the filthy condition of the villages and the dense ignorance of the natives and the prejudices of the local prac- titioners. The atmosphere at Mansonha, where Hamondy l.. the famous Arab phy- sician, died, is said to be absolutely fetid. The dying have been left alone in their houses, friends and relations fleeing and their bodies have remained in some cases unburied for days. Dead bodies have rot ted in the sunshine in the streets of villages deserted by all except the dying and the 
 helpless and starving. Anything like graves has been unthought of. In the low delta ground, where water is formed at the depth of two or three feet, the trenches have been dug in 50 shallow and filled so full that the first wind blew away the covering of sand or the first rain washed away the earth. Even where the rotting bodies were not uncovered and exposed, they were so near the surface as to rot under a hot sun and allow the gases to filter to the surface and poison the air. The health council to-day ordered the removal of the whole population from the infected dis tricts in and about Damietta, but 1t is too late to serve it's purpose. The soldiers under strict order are supervising the natives whom they are compelling to bury their dead. Fire is the only disinfectant and part of Damietta and the whole of several small villages have been burned. At the former place the sick and those subjected to the in lection have been placed in tents. The hos pital camp has been surrounded by strong guard, death line has been fixed and the troops have been ordered to fire upon all persons attempting to pass the sanitary cor don. Despite the strictest guard regulations there is great danger of the spread of the dis ease in European ports
 LONDON, July 3.-The government is show ing much anxiety on the subject of the chol- era in Egypt and has announced, in answer to many requests for information on the part of officers, that should the epidemic spread all British troops now on duty ln the Nile districts will be removed to the Medlter- ranean stations, where they could have ex- cellent treat ment and unpolluted air.