Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-03
SPAIN GROWING PANICKY
CHOLERA INVADES ALICANTE
AND A PANIC FOLLOWS.

All Towns and Provinces Trying the
Efficiency of Quarantine Regulations
The Disease Developing Alarming
Virulence at Naples-The Bulletins of
the Day as Gloomy Usual.
PARIS, Sept. 2.-ChoIera has undoubted-
ly appeared in the city and province OF
Alicante, Spain. 1t was brought there
by family from Cette, France, by way OF
Algiers. weeks quarantine to which
1t was subjected proves to have been an
insufficient safeguard. Another case in
addition to those already reported has oc-
cured in the city of Alicante, while at
Novelda, town on the railway few
miles west, 16 persons have been attacked
with the disease, Of whom ) have died
A sanitary Gordon has been promptly es-
tablished about the town. At Elda 9
| suspected cases of cholera appeared and
likewise at MOnOYar. All the other pro-
Ylnces of Spain will maintain q quaran-
tine of 10 days against Alicante. Much
alarm prevails at Madrid. A railway
train arrived yesterday bringing 100 pas
sengers from Alicante. Those are now
quarantined at village near the capital.
TERRIBLY yIRULENT AT NAPLES.
There was sudden and remarkable in
crease in the number of cholera cases in
y
was reported, one half of which proved
fatal. The great increase is attributed to
eXcesses in which the people -indulged
Sunday, which was a fete day. The
Archbishop is manifesting great zeal and
devotion in his endeavOrs to relieve suffer-
ers. A Yeritable panic prevails, and dis
turbances among the pOpulace in the
quarter about the market place, where
the epidemic is most virulent, are fire.
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Rome.
The authorities of the canton of Gen
eva, Switzerland, have resciuded the or
ders for special precautions against chOl-
era, as it is believed that the danger is
over.
At Marseilles there have been deaths
from cholera in the "a hours ending at
O'Clock this evening.
The cholera epidemic is subsiding in
South France.
At Naples the lower quarters of the
town are in filthy condition, the drain
age being detective. From midnight Sun
day to noon Tuesday there were "a fresh
cases and 90 deaths in that city. On Tues
day " fresh cases appeared, and 30 per-
sons died from the disease. The increase is
owing to the heavy rainfall, and the con-
sequent lowering of the temperature.
The western or higher portions of Ma
pies are practically free from the epi-
demic. Lazarettos have been established
at Ceptano and at Albano, stations on the
railway from Naples to Rome.
ITALY's BULLETIN.
The official bulletin, showing the pro-
gress of the cholera in the various prov
inces of Italy for the past a hours, is as
follows: Acquilla, fresh case, l death;
Bergamo, IL fresh cases, deaths; Cam
pobOsa, fresh cases, death; Cuneo. IA
fresh cases, II deaths; Genoa, Al fresh
cases, 10 deaths; Lucca, 2 fresh cases;
Massacarrara, l death; MOdena, . fresh
cases, death; Milan, fresh case: Par
ma, 4 fresh cases, deaths; Turin. fresh
cases, 8 deaths; city of Naples, go fresh
cases.
The Italian Government has forbidden
the continuance Of the quarantine regula-
tiOns arbitrarily established by local au-
thOrities in various parts of Italy.
Seniors Mancini, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and Grimaldi, Minister of Agri-
culture, are visiting Naples. King Hum
bert also talks of visiting that city to in
vestigate it's sanitary condition.