Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
FRIGHTFUL MORALITY.
| The Dreadful Condition of the Plague
Stricken Country.


ALEXANDRIA, July %.
The sanitary commission has decided that
all passengers must undergo a medical exam
ination before leaving Egypt. The commits
sion is considering permanent sanitary meas
ures to be enforced against vessels arriving
at Egyptian ports from Bombay.
The deaths from cholera on Saturday
numbered 30l in Cairo and its suberbs, 80 at
Mansurah, Il at Samanoud, 20 at Mehalla.
SO at Chbin. % at Chobad, 33 at Ghizeh, 4
at Damietta. s at Menzafeh and a total of "a
in six villages.
Burials are only a pretense, and the at
mosphere of the section of Cairo so familiar
TO travellers who visit Ghizeh and the pyra
mids, is said to be fetid. Trenches are dug
in the sand and the dead are piled so close to
the surface that the first gust of wind exposes
the putrid remains on the top, which have
not been covered deep enough to prevent the
sun from reaching them through the sand.
No Gordon is necessary TO prevent people
from visiting the infected districts, for they
are avoided by every one except deserving
negroes, Portuguese and South African and
English deserving sailors, who have been ac-
custOmed to exposure to infection in the
East or in the yellow fever districts of South
America, and who will bury a body for fl0
or any greater or less amount for which they
Cdu uTlVe d UdI gain, oT WIZ uO uOt hesitate
to loot whole street in the poorer quarters
for whatever they can get Even burial has
been avoided by the authorities, who have
burned houses containing dead bodies and
left the debris untouched.
CAIRO, July 90.
Fifteenl hundred inhabitants of Bulak have
been remOvedup the Nile. The owners of
the burned houses will be Unidentified. The
natives oppose the removal of patients to
hospitals. The disease is very sudden in its
effects. People frequently fall dead in the
streets. The epidemic is spreading north
ward as well as southwark.
LONDON, July %.
The Standards Cairo special SAYS the
disease is spreading everywhere. Mortality
increases. Hourly evictions at Bulak were
ordered by the native ministers. The inhab-
itants were suddenly driven out of their
homes by the police during Friday ard Sat
urdav night, and huddled on board barges
Hundreds of them evaded the police and fed
to the centre of the city, taking with them
their filthy bedding and rags. Eight hundred
of them were landed at Turah Today Gen
Woods troops compelled the others to return
and since thtn there has been a case of
cholera among Cen. Woods force at Surah
The deaths at Cairo numbered nearly 4Sl
between o'clock A. NJ. and 6 p. NJ, Sun
day, besides fearful mortality among the
Egyptian artillery. The natives of Abbasess
are panic stricken. The British officers there
have to bury the dead.
A serious outbreak of cholera is expected
at Bombay, as there were thirty-seven spo-
radio cases of the disease there last week At
Suez the quarantine against the arrivals from
infected and suspected ports have been re-
newed
Advices from Egypt state in addition to
the outbreak of cholera at the town of Fore
skour, eight miles southwest of Damietta
leprosy has appeared there, and is spreading
rapidly. There are neither doctors nor med
icine at Foreskour.
ALEXANDRIA, July %.
The report of deaths on Sunday from
cholera is follows: At Damietta, Il;
Mansorah 10; Semanoud. %; Tantah, II;
Chobar, II; Chibin, 80. At nine places
there were 295 deaths from the disease.