Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-15

evening there were II deaths by cholera
in the city and 81 in the hospitals.
Fewer fresh cases of cholera are report
| ed to-day, but the mortality has increased.
There are now 400 cholera patients in the
hospitals. There were Yesterday % deaths
in the city and 46 in the hospitals. In the
y hours ending at noon to-day 10 deaths
occurred in the city and IL in the hos
pitfalls.
An American named Christian Chris
tensen, from California, died of cholera
here to-day. He was the first American
victim. Three deaths from cholera oc-
Cured at Nantes to-day.
One death from cholera occurred at
Toulon to-day. The proposed fete for the
benefit of the sufferers by the cholera cpl
demic has been postponed.
A number of refugees have gone to
Versailles to escape the cholera.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GENEROSITY.
A meeting was held here to-day of
American and English residents to take
measures for the relief of the sufferers
from the cholera. A resolution was
adopted to distribute list of precautions
and to provide soup kitchens for English
and American poor. Rev. Drs. Gill and
MOntpied, Drs. Mccarthy and McGavin,
Prof. YeatOn and Messrs. Sewen and
Searle were present.
FAVORABLE FRIGIDNEss.
The continued cold weather is exercis-
ing a favorable effect on the rate of NOR
talIty, which does not exceed 1 in $4,000.
In order to equal the rate of mortality
shown at TOulOn when the cholera was at
its worst, it would be necessary to have a
daily total of $500 deaths in Paris. The
ravages of the epidemic are trivial as
compared with those of typhoid fever. An
apOthecary bring questioned as to the ef-
feet of the cholera epidemic on his busi-
ness, said that 1t was not half so
profitable for him as a period of
bad weather, when cold catching
was prevalent. His principal business,
he said, consisted in the sale of preVen-
tive medicines and disinfecting drugs.
The epidemic shows little if any effect
upon the pleasure-seeking proclivities of
the people. The theatres and other places
of amusement are we'll filed every night.
1t is known that the deadly disease has
made large ravages among the soldiers of
the garrison, but the military officials
publish no returns and refuse all infOrma-
tiOn. The west end is still healthy
but is comparatively deserted.
Most of the residents of that quarter
have preferred to place themselves at a
safe distance from the possibility of in
fection. DR.. McGivan writes to Gdliq-
ms Messenger that the exodus Of
English and American people from Paris
is altogether unjustifable. Many per-
sons, he says, have fled for refuge to more
dangerous places. He advises that only
weakly constituted and nervous, timid
people should leave the city. Strong and
healthy people are perfectly safe in Paris
if they avoid eXcesses and Danish all fear
| of disease.
CONSIDERED BY THE CABINET.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE Cabinet
to-day considered the protest forwarded
to the President by prominent physicians
in New York city against the continuance
! of Secretary Gresham's modification of
the Treasury order excluding rags on
account of the cholera in France. Mr..
Gresham's modification admitted rags
shipped from nOn-infected ports. Under
this modification, it is alleged that rags
collected in the cholera districts of Mar
seilles and TOulOn have been shipped to
the United States via Havre, a nom
| infected port. 1t is claimed that these
very rags introduced the cholera in
Paris. The New York physicians, in
| their protest, ask that all rags
be excluded, no matter from what port
they may come. 1t is understood that
the Cabinet, taking all these facts into
| consideration, agreed that new circular
should be issued at once to 90 into effect
within tWenty-fOur or at the utmost forty
eight hours, excluding from importation all
| rags shipped from any French port. This,
| it was believed, would be adequate to keep
| out the infection. This order would have
| been issued this afternoon, but for the fact
that the Treasury officials could not agree
| upon its language. 1t will probably be
issued tomorrow morning, going into
effect Monday. This will enable import
| ers and dealers to communicate the infOr-
| nation to their French correspondents.
Surgeon General Hamilton, speaking gen.
| orally of these orders restricting the i'm
pOrtatiOn of rags, said this morning that
they need work no damage to the import
ers and paper manufacturers, because he
| had just witnessed in New York expert
ments with an apparatus which disin-
| fected the rags in the bale while still on
| the lighters for less than SO a ton in
less than ten minutes to the bale.
He does not think that the infected rags
| which caused the cholera in Paris have
been shipped to this country, nor if the
proper restrictions upon the Importation
of rags were maintained did he think that
the cholera would get into our country.
AMERICAN PRECAUTIONS.
Secretary Mccullough has prepared
circular in relation to the importation of
old rags from infected ports, which mod
ifies the existing orders on that subject
so as to continue the embargo against
that class of rags till further notice, and
to declare all French ahd Mediterranean
ports to be infected. The order will be
issued tomorrow and 90 into effect at
once.
The National Board of Health sent the
following communication to all the Gov
ernors of the States:
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. TO- 1884.
SIR-The second section Of the act Of Con-
gress, approved March g. 1879, 20 Stat, at
large, p. 4S4, chapter 2o2, requires that the
National Board of Health shall ''advise the
several departments Of the government, the
Executives of the several States and the Com
missioners of the District of Columbia on all
matter submitted by them, or whenever, in
the opinion Of the Board, such advice NAV
tend to the preservation and Improvement of
the public health" In execution of this pro-
vision of the law, am directed to advise YOUR
EXcellency that the presence of Asiatic chOl-
era, in epidemic form. in Europe, is a constant
menace to the people Of this country
The disease has pressed steadily westward
during the past two years, carrying wide
spread desOlatiOn in It's path, and now it has
found lodgment in European ports, whence
more than one Of the epidemics from which
we have hitherto suffered have been brought
to our shores. With our vastly increased in
tercOurse with foreign powers and the facili-
ties for communication, the disease NAV at
any moment appear IN this country. It is
profoundly to be hoped that we may escape
ing the history of past epidemics, we can onlv
hope for exemption from its attack or
should IL gam q 1OObnOIQ, Tor q mitigation Of
the suffering which necessarily attends IFS
progress by the most prompt and efficIentsan
itary service No portion of any State should
be left unguarded, for our facilities for both
local and Interstate communication afford
ample means for carrying the poison far and
wide through the land.
DISTRIBUTING CENTRES.
In the absence of sanitary service at anv
point, that point may, in the event of the ap-
pearance of cholera, become a centre from
which the injection may spread to other por-
tions of the States. In view Of the danger
which threatens our people and the RESPONSE
bilities resting upon the rulers and all in
high official station your Excellencv is re-
spectfully and earnestly requested to call the
attention of the Legislature to the subject.
and to urge the necessity of appropriate
legislation for providing means whereby the
most thorough sanitary service-State and
local-may be Immediately organized and
much preliminary work requires to be done
in many portions Of every State to place the
country in good sanitary condition, and to
this end every organized communitv should
be provided with competent board oNhealth
| and every State with a State board. supplied
with every requisite for aiding and direct
ing the local authorities in their
| sanitary work. By the prompt adoption of
such measures, we may hope, if not wholly
| to escape an invasion Of this dread disease to
| be able at least to limit its rayages to the
| places where it first makes its appearance. /
| transmit herewith copy Of the rules and
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