Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-30

what the French ministers Saw on their
Voyage Of inspection.


Voyage OF inspection.
The Radical Deputy Of MarseiIles, NJ.
Clovis Hughes, says a Herald cable OF
July %, has been all through the hospital
and cholera haunted quarters there. A
graphic pen gives description Of the dead
and dying whom he saw. The hospital is
on the nigh promontory between the en-
trance Of the port and Corniehe, and Is
kept cool BY the sea breezes even at noon
tide. The restaurants and baths In the
neIghborhood are deserted. The Interior
of the pharO is in the gorgeous style OF
the Monaco Casino, and is beautifully
clean; but it is said the patients are kept
too dry. They are not allowed hot water
in abundance to drink, or prolonged hot
baths to help arterial circulation, which
the Asiatic cholera impedes. The VOl-
with the Ministers, confirms this impress
sion. He says the sea breezes enter
freely all the rooms, but the patients are
unconscious of them.
AT THE BEDS.
In the first room there were ten lying in
their final attitudes. Their limbs were
parched and dry as sticks, all black and
icy. Nothing but the eyes showed life.
They were, however, staring and enlarged
by the attenuation of the rigid faces, but
the Pickering flame of a dying candle was
in them. They expressed nothing but in
difference. 1--WE were profoundly sad
dened says the writer by their aspect,
and did not, from fear of disturbing them,
breathe freely. We walked on tiptoe.
The Ministers took off their hats. NJ.
Clovis Hughes went to bed where boy
of twelve, in a spasm of pain, had
kicked off the sheet. His eyes were fixed
on the dimpled, sun-hghted, blue
sea, and he did not turn them to look at
the visitors. We approached him and
pressed his hand, but he made no sign.
In the females ward we saw an old woman
black as if carbOnized, and a beautiful
young creature with an amber skin and
magnificent physique, breathing her last
breath. When she died her bed was
wheeled into the disinfecting chamber.
NJ. Waldeek-ROusseau, who showed
remarkable courage, helped the Sisters of
Charity in their lugubrious task. This
mortuary chamber is whitewashed, and
has vaporizing machines which cast out
clouds of phenylized steam so thick that
we were each soon invisible to the other"
IN THE SUBURBS.
Many people are camping out in the
suburbs of Marseilles. The roads in the
country are thrOnged with vehicles, car
rying articles of furniture belonging to
the poor, who think they are safe outside.
On every side you may read on the shop
doors, "Shut on account of absence"
The travelling fruit hawkers have almost
all disappeared. An Italian navigation
company has reduced the wages of its
employees 10 per cent. on account of the
cholera. Some amusement was caused
when it was learned that after leaving
France and arriving at Geneva,
DIR. Koch was not little indignant
to find that he had to be disinfected like
the other passengers coming from France.
He strongly objected to go through the
unpleasant process of fumigatiOn. SIT is
all nonsense to disinfect me-" observed
the illustrious German physician to the
official on duty. "Nonsense or not, re-
piled the latter, ''you shall be fumigated
like the rest" and the doctor was accord
ingly conducted to the disinfecting room.
CuriOusly enough he had previously de-
clined TO give information on the cholera
epidemic to the Swiss representatives in
France, on the plea that he held his
commission from the German Govern
ment.