Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-17
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. | A GORDON OF DEATH Stretched Around the City
 of Alexandria TO HEAD OFF THE CHOLERA, All Egypt In a State Of
 Alarm. MATTERS COMING TO A CRISIS In the Impending Strike of
 Photographers.
EGYPT.

The March of Death-ChOIera Reaching Out Further in its Ravages-Alexandr1R We'll In its Grasp = People Fleeing From the City by Hundreds - Great Alarm I'm the Lands
 ALEXANDRIA, July 16-The alarm prevailing here cannot be exaggerated. No one doubts the existence of cholera here, but the au- thorities refuse to admit the fact except with regard to the two cases already reported. Peo- pie who can do so are fleeing from the city by hundreds and it is not believed that the scourge can be mastered or it's progress stopped in Egypt. At least twelve deaths are reported to have occurred to-day, but that fact cannot be verified. The military cordon is set about the whole Turkish quarter, and distasteful as the duty is six hundred troops have been drafted from the English army here for detail on the cerdon lines, which were yesterday enlarged and strengthened The English forces here have also been lessened by other details for chol- era oordons as well for service in the Soudan. Despite the fact that the authori- ties do not admit the presence of an epidem- ic they have burned the contents of the two houses in which they say deaths occurred from dysentery and have sealed the houses up and moved the cordon line out of the same street. In another section of the Turkish quarter six houses have been burned. Forty people who were dwellers in the two houses already named have been imprisoned in quarantine at Gambara. No person is allowed to pass out from within the line except nurses and physicians who submit to disinfeetion and no one except for imperative reasons enter the line. A chief sanitary commission con- sisting of fifty-four members has been form cd with smaller executive commission and number of departmental boards, who have divided the city off in sections and who in spect all quarters. They have published off cial instructions in French, Arabic and Greek, enumerating the precautions to be taken to guard against infection and describing the treatment in case of seizure. All the wine shops are closed at midnight and force is used when necessary and the sale of sal fish or of either green or over-ripe fruit is strictly prohibited. But the same fruit is thrown into the sea and rots on the shore carried back and forth by every tide and no possible precautions can prevent the filth which characterizes both the streets and houses in the native quarters. The only privileges granted those within the COI0OA hG0 eu0 RuECAdSo Ol pLObAb1OuS OS11S- cred on the line and of conversing with per- sons across the line, but without coming in contact with them. The cordon is practically ''dead line," for the sentries stand with rifles loaded with ball and with fixed bayo nets and their instructions are to use them under given circumstances. There is great danger that the progress of the disease will be greatly aided by the progress of the fast of the Ramadan which began on July 9th. The day fasting is weakening and it is fol- lowed by nights of dissipation and orgies. There will be forty days of insufficient nour- ishment and forty nights of over-indulgence in wine and liquors. The Arabs and Turks have practically no hospitals and have 8 dis like to going to one. They have no medi- cines in the infected towns of the Delta except laudanum and almost no physicians scarcely averaging one to each town, many of the native doctors having fled on the first appearance of the disease. The sanitary inspector of lower Egypt is Euro pean, an Italian, but with all the assistance he can get it is too late for him to do any thing There is no longer any possibility of passage by any of the ordinary steamers and vessels of all sorts are being fitted out by spectators, who have placarded the town with flaming posters inviting the fugitives to patronize them and charge fabulous prices for wretched accommodations. Rich fami- lies are ehartering private steamers. A panic prevails and business in the greater part of the city, except of the most necessary sort is almost at 8 stendstill.'
 Cairo is in deplorable condition and the dispatches tonight announce that the cpl demic has appeared in every quarter of that city. All that could be done in 8 precaution- ary way had been done in advance, and as the disease advanced steadily up the Delta almost every European left the city, most of them reaching Alexandria and hundreds of them succeeding in leaving the country. Several deaths are known to have occurred yesterday and to-day, but the official report does not give the number. Expert physi- cians now believe that no considerable town on the peninsula can escape and that the dis ease will devastate Egypt and Arabia and pass into Syria. From no reports re- ceived from any of the infected points can any estimate be made of the proportion of the population attacked or the proportion of fatal cases, but at Mansourah nearly every case is said to have been fatal.
 The number of deaths at Cairo to-day are reported to exceed fifty. Railway conmuni- cation between that city and Alexandria has been cut of. The British troops at Cairo have completed their preparations to go into camp outside the city so as to avoid the post if possible.