New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-03
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
CHOLERA CORDONS.
ALETTEg FROM DIR. J. O. PETERS.

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TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
| SIR: Cordons of troops and police officers
have failed to keep cholera from cities and
Villages In Egypt aud have also failed prevent It.
once In, from getting out 1t is difficult task under all
and fahfulness against brides cannot be
expected from all ordinary The undertaking re-
quires not only the keeping In Of all persons
esty afflicted with the disease but all Of specific
diarrhGa, especially Of the choeralo kind; also, all
solcd bed and body clothes, and rags, and still all
fruits, meats vegetables &C.. handled BY persons az
fected with the premoniory sgns Of the disease and
all milk and other fluids diluted with water from wells
and brooks contaminated with cholera discharges.
MIX and water most to be Inspected all fruits and
vegetables and meats coming from cholera neigbbor.
hoods should be washed most carefully before being
cooked, and then should be boiled,
roasted, or fried by very hot fires.
No water should be used before being boiled and that
very thoroughly The water used for making tea coffee
or chocolate should be boiled hard Even sptuous
liquors will not kill the poison in cholera water.
The history Of the cordons abandoned In Egypt,
are well known through the public prints to every
They have failed, all before them. The
rst cholera reached Orenourg in the extreme east Of
Russia In 1929 and after also up by way OF
the south, from Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea.
The Emperor of Russia, through bis medical advisers,
had announced his fullest conviction that cholera
not carried about by the Winds but by persons and
Stood but called contingent contagon, and had ordered
the Isolation OF infected and places and quar-
antne OF fourteen days against all coming from infected
towns Clothes had to be washed with chlorine vim
egar or fumgated with burning sulphur other good
disinfectants 1t determined to Moscow ands
Petersburg II possible and Gordon Of troops was put
around each OF them But cholera broke out at the great
fair OF Mini Novgorod before the arrangements
completed, with about 1000 Deaths and Drasche says
cholera introduced into Moscow In August by per
returning from this two other great fairs and
markets. Twenty cholera hospitals provided in
Moscow, for each district OF the city with police
officers disrc physicians magistrate and clergymsn
for each section. Cholera apparently kept out OF
Moscow for time, but finally that city completely
surrounded by the disease in every direction except the
west 1t prevailed in every province around Moscow to
the north, east and south.
But the disease stole In quietly in many different
ways that information obtained to
how it first got In. Fifty thousand people lett the city
before the most stringent measures were enforced The
epidemic was well under way by September Is. 1885,
from the 24th to the 25th called indigenous and
sporadic, and after haG fairly formed firm Judgement.
all the means o: preventing It's entrance were en-
forced in the most vigorous manner Toe city
don; the twenty districts were separated
not ppread from district TO another. Tho markets
theatres and all places OF amusement were closed UP
general health OF the city favorable that the mortality
smaller than usual But as the presence or
eusued. and the authorities to shut tue wolf up IN the
stable" destroyed the bridges. Darrlcaded the high
roads. anc broke up all the wazoLs aud vehicles
wnie loaded cannon were pointed everywhere No one
allowed 10 enter or rom Moscow without under
going fourteen days quarantine. In October the En-
peror Nicholas went down 20 Moscow to- supervise all
proceedings and give MA subjects courage and on his
return TO ST. Petersburg subjected himself 10 fourteen
days quarantine But nearly 5000 eases occurred The
pnycans washed their faces ami hands frequently with
and often rinsed their mouths with IT, and were
careful not swallow their saliva. They also
breathod through sponges soaked with vinegar when
the yicinity OF fatal and dying cases
The doctors generally escaped but ninetYthree clergy
died No Russian dies without the last services or
clergyman.
CHOLERA slipped ntos St. Petersburg by market boats
coming over Lake Omega. while a most anxious watch
kept In all other directions by double Gordon OF
troops. The nrst commenced in June; BY July
Gl5 cases. aud all st. Petersburg was In the
midst OF solemn as aud the churches were hed with
suppllcants ali day. Violent excitement arose
against all foreign physicians and Jews who werc
cuarged with poisoning tue wells pumps and food and
with giving poisonous medicines. Ia two days one
phy Aicau killed. TWO narrowly escaped the
fate and others were severely beaten Twenty
thousand serfs broke the quarantine and beat the
police and soldiers the barriers aud aided by the
peighbOrng VILLAGERS who believed their fellows were
bens shut up and polsoued These rtoOus proceedings
we're Ony suppressed By the personal efforts ana
CUES OF the Emperor But the embargo was soon
raised the disease was not only In 81 Petersburg but
all around IL. J. q PETERS, NJ ID.
AeIe York, July %. 1883.