The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01
THE CHOLERA.

In the twenty-four hours ending at s
O'Clock Monday evening fifty-seven deaths
occurred at Marseilles. The chamber of
10, 600 francs for the relief OF the sufferers.
The plague has made its appearance at
Brignoles, town of about 5000 inhabitants
in the department of Var. Three deaths
occurred there. The panic among the in
habitants has extended to the government
officials. many of whom have fled. AT
Toulon fOrty-six deaths occurred in twenty
four hours. During the same time no
cases were registered at the hospital.
Shop-keepers are closing their establish
ments, the flight of residents is universal,
and even the men stationed at the arsenals
are leaving. The refusal of the municipal
authorities to allow procession of women
in the streets offering prayers for the cessa-
ton of the scourge has created bad i'm
preston.
Later reports from the cholera districts
represent the dread ,scourge as increasing,
the deaths at Marseilles ON Monday num-
bering sixty-one. Provisions are growing
scarce and costly at Toulon.
Thirty deaths from cholera occurred at
Marseilles Tuesday night and twenty-eight
at Toulon. A panic was created at ToulOn
by the arrival Of 100 collins ordered from
Marseilles. In order to allay the excite
ment it was found necessary to send the
collins back.
A CASE AT PHILADELPHIA.
Addison b. Zeigler, stout grocer, aged
43 years, died Tuesday at 1880, twenty-five
hours after his seizure by what Is claimed
to be Asiatic cholera. Friday night after
closing his store he and two policemen ate
heartily of watermelon. Sunday Mr.. Zeig-
Ter suffered all day from diarrhGa, utcalled
no doctor. AT midnight Sunday he was
griped with such horrible cramps as to
scare everybody in the house. DIR. j. Frank
Mead remained with him for two hours,
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tions of morphine and good deal of chic
raline. His agony was excruciating. His
stomach seemed twisted into knots and the
muscles of his legs were drawn into convul-
sive knots. His hands were clenched until
the nails entered the flesh. At o'clock
is greatly alarmed The dead mans BROTH
er told the coroner this morning that the
body was turning black. DIR. PeltZ, coro-
ner's physician, after examination, declared
that death was due to genuine Asiatic chol-
era, his colleague, DR.; Huidekoper, pro-
morbus. DR.. Meade said: 1.-THE symptoms
are those of Asiatic Cholera, but / believe
the disease was cholera-morbus, although
the latter seldom proves fatal inside of "a
hours"
A SANITARY CONFERENCE.
A meeting of the National Sanitary Con-
ference will he held i'm Washington Aug. z.
ho 10 VI lCpiCoCIibd-
tives of State Boards OF Health. Its object
is to secure concert of action by all health
organizations throughout the country to
prevent the spread of epidemic diseases.
Quarantine officers Of all the principal ports
from Maine to Texas and OH the Canadian
frontier, the Ontario Board Of Health, the
health officer Of Montreal, and the health
authorities in the large cities i'm the States
where no State Boards of Health exist are
invited to attend the forthcoming meeting.
This action OF the conference is made
necessary by the absence of any properly
equipped National health organization COM.
petent to cope with the threatened invasion
of Asiatlc cholera, and TO aid and cooper
ate with states and local organizations in
preventing Its spread from one state to an
other.
The failure of Congress to make the nee
essary appropriation for the work Of the
National Board OF Health and to enlarge its
powers has thrown q responsibility upon