The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-02
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CHOLERA APPEARING IN NEW TOWNS.
rhc Disease Gaining in Area What 1t II
Losing In Intensity-Fears of n Fresh
Outbreak at MISUNDERSTANDING
News from Marseillcs
THIS LATEST REPORT.

AZ Aries during the twenty-four hours end
Tag at nine o'clock last evening. The gen
.ral outlook is considered favorable Four
teen cases were admitted yesterday to the
Pharo Hospital, seven were discharged
cured and sixty remain. While the plague
is losing in virulence 1t is spreading
rapidly and has appeared in sew
erh p laces heretofore exempt Two
fatal cases have been reported
to the department of Var. The sale OF
lemons has been prohibited at Marseilles
During the popular prejudice it is positive
~ dangerous for the doctors to walk alone
in the suburbs at night One instance Is
reported of a doctor who while visiting a
woman seized with cholera, was assaulted
by her son, who drew a revolver and com.
PEELED him to leave the house. Several
other doctors have also been assaulted.
The condition of Aries is pitiable. The
people have no confidence in anybody, and
are frightened so that they regard their own
lives secure only by the sacrifice of all
comfort to other people. This was illus
trated yesterday in the funeral of Father
olivier, an eminent local divine who fell a
victim to cholera. Not one OF the municipal
counselors called on him during his
sickness, or visited his remains after
death He contracted the malady by his
devoted attention to sick boy who was
seized with the cholera at u farmhouse and
died in the fields, where he had been taken
by the farmers, who refused the request OF
the priest to have the boy admitted to a
i BILE. The father was obliged to procure
Il coffin and take the body to the cemetery
on a wheelbairOw.
The discoveries of Drs. Guerin, Deniei
and PrOulst, of the French Academy, have
led TO discussion which showed the MEM
Jers are of the belief that the early treat
ment Of dialrhea is the best precauton
against the epidemic, and also that the best
puOlic measure of precaution is an organ
lled system OF domiciliary visitation.
ToULoN, July 3l.--A record OF cholera
cases in the hospitals OF this city yesterday
is as follows: Admissions, :; discharges, / Il;
deaths, under treatment, 1877. a great
many fugitiyes have returned in the last
few days. The visit of the deputaton
from the extreme LEFT in the Chamber of
Deputies excited but little interest.
ROME, July 31.--There was only one
death from cholera here yesterday, and the
authorities are hopeful that the scOurge will
disappear entirely. a case of cholera has
tai of San Giacomo two unoccupied wards
whichswere being prepared for cholera pa
tients were destroyed.
ST.. PETERSBURG, July 3l.-A mild form
of cholera has appeared here 1t also ex-
lists at Charkott and several other Russian
towns. Thirty deaths have taken place at
Pleskoff from Siberian plague.
ToULoN, July 80. The hopes of a cessa-
ton in the plague here are giving way to
fears of a fresh outbreak of even greater
virulsnce than before, owing to the return
of many fugitives who had left the city.
There were thirteen deaths here Monday
night, this being decrease on the mortality
record for the past few days
MARSEILLES, July 30.-During the twen-
ty-tOur hours ending at nine p. IN. last night
there were twenty three deaths from chole-
IA. The situation here is regarded as i'm
proving steadily, and the authorities now
anticipate gradual decrease in the ravages
Of the plague.
PARIS, July 3O.-There were six deaths
from cholera at Aries during the twenty
four hours ending at six o'clock last even
lug, and two deaths have occurred at AK
since noon. A dispatch received here last
evening announces that seventeen cases of
the disease have appeared at Pancalieri,
1t Iy. The patients are mostly refugees
from TOulon and Marseilles. The author-
ties have taken the utmost precautions to
Isolate the district and all other needful
measures are being observed.
In the Chamber of Deputies last night a
deputation, under the leadership of M.
Clemenceau, appointed by the extreme left
to visit the places afflicted by cholera, re-
ported that the people of Aries were fleeing
to farms in the vicinity, where they are
huddled together in novels and slept as best
they could. The sick were entirely neglect
ed. The cases of cholera were kept secret
from the authorities and no surveillance
was observed. The deputaton inspected
madhouse at MarselleS and found numerous
cases of cholera there
WASHINGTON, July 30--An application
was recently received at the Treasury De-
partment for admission at the port Of New
York of consignment of rags shipped at
Marseilles in May last The vessel showed
a clean bill of health and had passed quar-
antine at New York. The application was
denied on the ground that the order prOhb-
iting the entry of rags from infected ports
was imperative, and allowed no discretion.
PARIS, July 80. When the cholera APP
peared at Touon the Academy of Sciences
began to collect the remedies that we're sug-
gested for the treatment Of the disease.
Suggestions were solicited, and in reply
great many methods of treatment were re-
ported. The academy has since been
actively engaged in testing their merits, and
NJ. De Vulpain presented his report yester-
day, in which he rejects $50 of the rem
edies suggested. The others, a very few in
number, are reported to have more or less
merit which, however, is Of sanitary or
preventive char lcter.
OF the total number of deaths in France
from cholera this year probably the great
majority died inside OF nine hours after they
were seized with their illness. Some have
not died until after being sick a week or
more, but the majority of cases were set
tied one way or the other within
eight or ten hours. At the start
there is diarrhea and vomiting. This
usually lasts but short time,
then follow the cramps and the icy chill,
and this stage has commonly been reached
by the time the patient has arrived at the
hospital. II the circulation can then ke re-
stored and kept up by the use of ten to fif-
teen grammes Of acetate Of ammonia, the
same quantity OF alcohol, and by violent
rubbing, there is some chance for recovery,
though the chance is slight But if the