Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-29
CHOLERA ON THE WANE.
THE DEATH RATE ON THE DE
CLINE IN FRANCE.


No Reports Indicate Probable Spread
OF the Disease-The Call for the Con-
ference at Washington Formally Is
sued-LOuisiana and the Mississippi
Free from COntagiOn of Any Sort.
PARIS, July 2s.-Thers were Is deaths
from cholera at Marseilles last night. AT
Toulon there were IA and at La Yalette. a
village near Toulon, l. The mistral, a
strong wind from the northwest, is pre-
Yaiiing, and the weather is cooler. The
rate of mortality is decreasing in the
cities, but increasing in the country
| among the peasants.
There is mild case of cholera in one
OF the hospitals of this city. Three deaths
from that disease occurred at Toulon to-
! day. In that city there are 81 cases at
the Recontre Hospital. Three of the lat
ter are serious. Two TOulOn emigrants
died at La Seyne of cholera.
Inc government has organized posts of
sanitary supervision on the LYONS Rail-
way, and other lines.
During the twenty-f0ur hours ended at
y O'Clock tonight "a deaths from cholera
had occurred at MarseiIies and 6 at Aries.
Rear Admiral Krantz. i'm command of
the heet at TOulOn, telegraphs that he is
sanguine of daily diminutiOn of the
number Of deaths from cholera in that
city. Advices from the frontier are very
unfavorable. The sanitary condition of
the hospital at Vintimiglia is dreadful,
and 1t is feared that the place may become
centre of infection. Ten cases have al.
ready occurred there.
Seven days quarantine has been i'm
posed at M0ban. On leaving the tunnel
soldiers surround trains and conduct pas
sengers to the lazaret, where they are reg
lstered and numbered, and given litter of
straw for bed.
ToULoN, July 2s.-Fugitives are now
prevented from returning to the CITY, One
who had returned died yesterday.
MARsEILLES, July 2S, Noon.-There
have been five deaths from cholera here |
since O'Clock this morning.
MARsEILLEs, July %, P. M.-There |
were five deaths here from cholera be- |
tween noon and O'Clock tonight.
DIsINFEoTION OF RAGS.
Ever since the national quarantine act
was passed in 1878, the Treasury Depart |
ment has had power to restrict or pro-
hibit the importation of rags whenever
the Secretary of the Treasury thought |
such restriction or prohibition requisite |
to the good health of the country. The |
Secretary of the Treasury has exercised |
this power in every epidemic year, so as |
to prohibit the importation of rags ship |
ped from infected districts. This year |
the terms of his order are broad enough |
TO shut out all rags suspected ON |
good ground to be infected. This prohibi- |
tlon excludes large class of rags, and |
therefore embarrasses the paper trade to |
very considerable extent. Every wear |
the more influential paper stock importers |
and paper manufacturers usingr rags have |
endeavOred to secure a modification or
abrogation Of the order of exclusion. |
NvIa fhfaG Co. rot Al. IN
has refused to modify the order until it |
was perfectly safe to do so. He will |
have to pass upon the same question |
and he viii pass upon it in the same way.
Last year it was suggested by one of the |
most prominent paper manufacturing
hrms that 1t would be willing to establish |
a depot in Egypt for disinfecting its rags
II that would ensure their admission on
this side. This proposition was salts
factory to the Treasury Department,
which stipulated that the disin-
fecting process should be approved
by our Consul General in Egypt.
The paper firm at once put up |
buildings and expensive apparatus at
Cairo for disinfecting its rags. This year
IL hoped TO utilize this process, but Con-
gress abolished the Office of Consul Gen
eral to Egypt, and so the State Depart
ment has no representative there to certify
that the disinfection has been properly |
made, and therefore the rags of this firm
are excluded with the rest. 1t is entirely
possible that if the paper manufacturers
and importers would offer to disinfect the |
rags at quarantine in this country that
the Treasury Department would consider
their proposition favorably.
CHOLERA CASES AFLoAT.
ATHENS, July 2S-The steamer Tiger.
belonging to the Messazaries Maritimes.
from Marseilles, arrived off the Pireus
yesterday with two cases of cholera on
board. Admittance to the port was re-
fused and the steamer departed for
Smyrna.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC TO BE RESTRICTED.
BERLIN, July 28.-1t is stated that the
running of through coaches on railways
between Germany and France will be
stopped for fear of cholera.
LOWER DEATH RATE.
WASHINGTON, July 28.-Secretary FIRE.
hnghuysen has received a telegram from
Consul Mason, at Marseilles, as follows
'There is marked improvement at Mar
seilles and T0ulon in the cholera. The |
deaths therefrom daily, once averaging
go, fell to 43 Wednesday, 4S Thursday, 38 |
Friday, 5S Saturday, 36 Sunday, and last |
night 10 in twelve hours. The mortality |
from all causes is also declining At Tou- |
lon the average has fallen from 40 to 10. |
parts of the district. The epidemic is de- |
clared severe at Aries and Aix.''
THE MISSISSIPPI SCARE,
The Surgeon General of the Marine Hos |
pital Service received to-day the follow |
ing telegram from Joseph III. Holt, Presi- /
dent of the Louisiana State Board of |
Health: can exhaustive investigation
fails to establish even remote suspicion
of Asastic cholera as the cause of the |
death of the infant"
CALL FOR THE CONFERENCE.
New YORK, July 2S.-The following
notice has been issued:
NEW YORK, July 28, 1884.
By request of the members of the State /
Boards of Health of Illinois, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, New York, and other States a confer |
ence will be held in Washington, on Aug. Z,
to consult with the government officials as to /
the best methods of meeting and mastering |
cholera, in the event of its appearance in the /
United States. The marine and quarantine /
hospital officers are respectfully requested to /
taTe part in the conference.
ERAsTUs BROOKS, Of New York
Chairman of the State Boards of Health Con-
ence.
j. MCCORMICK, Of Kentucky, Secretary.