Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-29
THE HORRORS OF CHOLERA.
THE DYING IN THE HOSPITALS
Graphic Description OF The scenes in Mar
settles. Tcuicr, pnd ArIes-strecu FILLED
with rgith-Fsnernls NJ a,ian,rhs.

a Marscilles telegram to the New Yorl
Times says: On thc first view that on
gets OF Marseillcs no one would he app :,
suspect, either from the appearance az IN,
ely Itself or OF the people he could see
that a pcstllence had seized the town.
was estimated 81 the time OF my arrival TIA
fully 100000 people had already left In,
city; Int ihcir absence was scarcely no
ticcable from the appearance OF The streets
IN one q The public squares band OF Itai
IAN musicians were playing 20 throng Of
children and grown persons. Tho omni.
buses aud strcct-csrs were foil OF people a,
IN ordinary times, while on tho sidewalks,
under the ecff awnings, nearly all the
chairs were occupied, and The wait.
els were kept rs busy rs ever BY
9 cheerful crowd Of lcungers. Bat al
the sunlpiuoUs Hotel Noaiiies, on the Enc
Dc Noail'ts, g continuation 81 The famous
Carneblere. different scene was observed
In al i's hundred rooms ms SELF and my
courier we're the only guests to De seen.
IN The chief streets we could discern but
slight changes. In the Rue ST. Ferreol, a
Iroad and prominent street in the main
rar. o. the town, only four shops were
closed; IN The Rue IA Il Canne5iere, in
which ore situated all the finest shops and
buSiress-places 81 other kinds, only nine
were closed. But the poorer quarters.
spd God knows there are enough Of them
revealed another side 10 the picture as we
drove INTO them.
WHERE THE DISEASE AroUNDs.
Passing along The narrow and squallid
Rue CaiseerIe over one bali the shops were
seen 70 b. closed at every crossing. From
tenement region on the bill aboyca stream
q fctid water nowed aei oss the street and
plunged down PERCEPTIONS descent on the
other SIDE through dark lanes crowded
with towering rookeries, swarming below
with idle men end children playing in The
filthy CUTTERS, the women meanwhile swasl.
ing the water about with their brooms.
under the evident impression that they were
cleaning something. Each glimpse Of any
one Of these streets is enough to turn
ihe stomach OF any healthy man. The
smell through all this quarter, in which,
during space OF twenty minutes,
wC net three laden hearSes, was bad enough,
bu, The smell was indescTibably worse when
We bad driven across town 30 two Of the
most afflicted quarters OF all Marseilles--
Careleite and the adjoining quarter. In
ordcrto reech them we crossed The old ship
canal. which was filed 20 The brim with
recting water, end had its surface thickly
ciJe6ly miscellaneous and revolving kind
Finally we GOT onn street known rs Toulon
road. q wld, ,horoughfarc without a shade
bee. Along is cutters ran rivulets Of
drah.colored water, which had Oyerlown
iron the canal when the canal was damned
now and theh by heaps OF rOtting
vegetables or worse substances, in
Guiding dead cats and dogs. -Four
ont OF every five houses were found closed. 1
those which remained open were manly
tstamiu,is, where, under dirty awnings
and on dirty sidewalks, men and women
eat drinking or were already reduced 20
s,uror from previous drinking and iunk-
shops IL which filthy people were sorting
rotten RAGS in an unSpeaEably vile atrnOs-
pherc. Fostering nth was around them
and tropical sun beat fiercely down upon
the scene binding the eyes as its rays were
reflected from the white road across which,
i'm the Quarter Capelette, courses q stream
shout The size Of 4 main sewer i'm New !
York. winding rs way uncovered among the |
houses on lis journey 10 the sea. This |
,iTcam was laden With the sewage Of the !
West Of the Narseilcs qusriers-Crpe- |
lelic and the adjoining one which have |
lUfn he'd much over enc bali OF the deaths !
that have occurred in Msrseilles and IL Is /
~ IittifttAfe iutt iiiAt t4it ltt-fHl DiofpI- /
ton Oi them were Italians. The wharves /
ail slcrg the waterfront we found 30 be |
crowded Nith quarantine shipping. mostly /
Italian ana French, and picturesque sights
were these Mediterranean sailors. among /
whom were many negroes lying shout in
The shade.
1T TIE PuARO HOSPITAL.
After this experience / visited the Pharo
d NrN NNrt 90 & u
saw Ciglty-foUr patients IN all stages Of the
disease. from she last ag0Nizcd breath 20
the period Of cheerful conVsescence.
Every face in these eishiy-iour was the
face Of q UCrsOn from The lower walks OF
life, and this, am told, has been the rule
Ncuc patients igOm the first. A, the be-
.ianiug uletren-tTcnticthS OF Che patients
received at the nEaIo failed 10 recover. For
Tie last fortnight matters have so far i'm.
proved that only two thirds Of those re-
CCiyed have died. This excessive mortality
ai iI,i wag largely Due - the fact that
most eases when received had developed
into hopeless condition. The highest
number that have been In the hospital no
airy one t'ne Is one hundred aud ten, and
rhe iar9cot number received in any one day
i, 'hiTty-sey'n. The treatment both here
and e T'uion IN the frs. stages is twenty
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