Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-19
DESERVING CITIES.
AMONG THE TERRIFIED PEOPLE.
Many Infected Houses Burned English
Soldiers Guarding the Turkish
Quarters Of Alexandra -
Other Notes Of Interest.


vailing here cannot be exaggerated. No
one doubts the existence OF cholera here,
but the authorities refuse to admit the
fact, except with regard to the two cases
already reported. People who can do %
are fleeing from the city by hundreds, and
II is not believed that the scourge can b
mastered or its progress stopped in Egypt.
At least twelve deaths are reported 10 have
occurred to-day, but that fact cannot b
verified. The military Gordon Is set about
the whole Turkish quarter, and, distaatsfoi
ss the duty is, 600 troops have been drafted
i,gH 81 ERs!i:A lSnE A1C ies aR
.arged and strengthened. The English
forces here have also been lessened by
other details for cholera corions as well -
for service in the'Soudan. Despite the fact
that the authorities do not admit the
Presence Of the Epidesnie
they have burned the contents Of the two
houses in which they say deaths occurred
from dysentery and fever, and have sealed
the houses up and moved the Gordon line
out Of the same street
In another section OF the Turkish quar-
ters Elk houses have been burned. Forty
people, who were dwellers In the two
houses already named, have been imp.is.
oned in quarantine nj Gambara. No per
son is allowed TO pass out from within tho
line except nurses and physicians who sub.
nit 10 disinfeclion, and no one, except for
imperative reasons, enters the line. \
Chief Sanitary Commission, consisting of
fiiy four members, has been formed, with
a smaller Executive Commission and .
number Of departmental Boards, who
have divided the city Oft into sections, and
who inspect all quarters. They have pub
lishCd Ctlicial instructions in French,
Arabic and Greek, enumeratinS the pre-.
cautions 10 be taken Ia
Guard Against Infection,
and escrbins the treatment In case OF
seizure. All the wine shops are closed at
miLnigLt. and force is used When necessA.
~, and the sale OF salt fish or OF either
green or over ripe fruit IL strictly forbid
den. But the same fruit Is thrown into
the sea and rots on the shore, Is carried
back End forth on every tide, and no posi-.
Die precautions can prevent the nth.
shiCh characterizes both the street, and
huuscs n the native quarters. The only
privileges granted within the corlQA ara
he purchase Of provisions delivered ~ the
tine line and Of converting with persons
across the line. but without coming In
contact with them. Tho Gordon Is prac.
tically dead line for the scntriss stand
with rifles loaded with bali and with fixed
bayJnets. and their instructions are 10 use
them under given circumstances.
There is great danger that tho progress OF
the disease will be
Greatly Aided
by the progress OF the fast of the Rams.
uh hauun u. n
fasting IL weakening, and IL II folio Sed ny
nights OF dissipation and orgissN There will
be forty dnys of insufficient nourishmcnt
and forty nights Of oyer.indn!g"nce In wine
and LIQUORS The Arabs aud Turks have
practically no hospitals, and have an In.
yincible dislike 10 going TO one They have
no medicines In the infected towns of tho
Delta, except laudnnum, and almost no
physIcians, scarcely averaging one 10 each
led" led on i"r the rs r. 's Sppssrsncc f Il iRs dsas
The Sanitary Inspector l Lower Egypt
in n European-an Italian; but, with all
tho assistance he can get, IL In too late Tor
him to do anything.
There II no longer any possibility Of se'
curing passage 10y any OF the ordinary
steamers, and vessels Of all sorts az being
fitted out by speculators. who have
rdsd the Town
with Gsming posters inviting the fnglt lvss
to patroniIe them, and who charge fabu.
lous prices for wTstched accommodations.
Rich families are chsrtering private steam.
ers. A panic prevails, and business In tho
greater part of the city, except OF the most
necessary sort, IL almost ri . siandstill.
Cairo Ia in . deplorabls condition, and
dispatches tonight announces that the cpl.
demic has appeared in every quarter of
that city. All that could be done In pre-.
cuutionary way had been done In advance.
,nd as the disease sdvspcsd s'ssdily up the
Delta almost every European left the city,
mo,, Of them reaching Alexandria, and
hundreds Of them succeeding In leaving
the 90. ntry. Several deaths are known Ia
have occurred yesterday and 70 day, but
The ,ridal report does not give their nun
rr. Expert physicians now believe that
go cCutIdcrsbls town on the peninsnls can
s,arr. end thnt the disease will dsyastate
EpNpt and Arabia and ps,s into Syns.
fitm 80 reports received from any oil the
NJ Cied POINTS can any estimate lie made
4 'r- proportion "f the population a,.
.srlct or ID. proportion OF fatal cases: bu,
Ngrsoura;h ncar,y every case 10 said TO
.,sy. been fatal. The latest dispatches say
.ta' fry deaths occurred to-day. nnd that
railway service has been Suspended.