The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-08-01
THE PLAGUE.
Strange and Horrible Prejudice Agains
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Strange and Horrible Prejudice Against
the Physicians-How it is Manifested.
MARsEILLEs July 31.-The lower classes dis
like and oppose the physicians, because they
have gotten the notion that the physicians
have been instructed to keep the cholera along
in order to get rid of the surplus population.
A paper read by medical man in Berlin,
landing the cholera as sweeping off beings I'M
lifted for the struggle Of existence, has been
widely reproduced in France, and has helped
to prejudice the people against the doctors,
and to confirm them in their belief that the
government has adopted views similar to
those of the Berlin essayist. An instance of
the popular hostility towards the physicians
occurred in this city yesterday. A doctor was
going into the slums to attend patient, when
he was confronted by party of the sick mans
neighbors, armed with knives, who chased
him away and prevented him minstering to
the sufferer.
Some of the Horrors of the Plague.
ARIES, July 31.-A sad incident in connee-
ton with the cholera panic happened recently
near this city. A lad at work on farm was
seized with vomiting. The farmer refused to
allow him to enter the house, and the poor fell
low died in the field, without cara and alone.
When the father of the lad arrived he was not
permitted to place his sons body in the stable,
but was forced to leave it in the open air while
he went to town to procure a coffin. He then
conveyed the body on wheelbarrow to the
burial authorities, who refused ia give him as
sistance, and the father was finally compelled
to bury the body in the cemetery alone.
The Alarm in Italy,
BONE, July 31-Six thousand persons are
detained in the various lazarettos on the from
tier and along the coast.
Infected Ports.
LISBON, July 31.-The port of Huelva, in
Spain, has been declared to be infected with
cholera. Ports between Cadiz and Ayamonte
both inclusive, are also suspected of being in
fected
I-ee Death Roll.
PARIS, July 31.-There were three deaths at
Marseilles, and three az Toulon last night
| from cholera.
MARsEILLEs, July 31.-There have been
three deaths here from cholera since 8 O'Clock
this morning.
MARsEILEs. July 31.-There have been
| three deaths from cholera since 8 o'clock this
morning.
Alleged Origin of the Plague.
WASHINGTON. July 81 Secretary Freling-
hpysen has received from Consul Mason at
| Marseilles, a report on the alleged origin and
| character of the cholera epidemic now pre-
vailng at Toulon aud Marseilles, and the
| measures taken to prevent its inception and
| arrest its progress, together with SUMMARY of
the present situation and its effect on the sea-
| ward commerce of Marseilles and the city' 4
| communications with the interior of Eurone.
With regard to the origin and nature of chole-
| era st Touion and Marseilles there has been a
hot and acrimonious dispute. The mavor of
Toulon insisted that the disease was Asiatic
| cholera, Imported by the government trans
| ports employed IN the expedition to TopGuin,
| On tho other hand, the chief officer of the
French government, supported generally by
the OFFICIAL Jlurnals and medical authorities OF