The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-01
CHOLERA RAGING.
,nrZEMlTTANT AND NOT ENDED.
the Consulate Report of MarseillCs-it is
Clean ,City-The "Tideless Sea"
Does Not Afford il the
Necessary Drainage.
Consul Mason's Report.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-The Secretary
If state received from Consul Mason
long report on the cholera epidemic
now prevailing at Toulon and Mar
lilies. The CONSUL says in his report:
Nth Marseilles and Toulon suffered |
iorribly in the cholera epidemic of 1865.
Nineteen years have elapsed since then |
and Marseilles has been in several i'm |
Sortant respects almost rebuilt. |
Ter payements, her sewerage
system, her water supply |
vi method of cleaning streets, remoV-
ing night soil, inspecting and regulating
m9ritts, her quarantine regulations
and hospital facilities are all probably
"nsurpassed in excellence by those of
"ny European or American city. The old
"narter Of the city OF ancient Marseillcs,
which we're scourged 50 sharply by the
nlnpnc i'm former centuries, has
E"an riarced with broad avenues.
streams of pure water flow
down the cutters. The narrower streets
and alleys and pavements Of principal
Il thoroughiarcs are washed and swept
with care and frequencc, which leaves
nothing to be desired. The terrible les
son Of former epidemics have been well
learned by the Municipal government,
and long before the first rumOr of
trouble ut TOulon, Marseiles was cleaned
and nude ready tor sunme' heat.
5Bt wan all the intelligent liberality
which the city has evinced in the con
astructun of her drainage system, there
is an unsurmoun able difficulty which
4 all Mediterranean cities are alike com
pellcd to face. Their sewers flow into a
tidelcSs and generally placid sea. The
.hlrbOr of MlrSgilles is almost
entirely artificial. The old part
lis simply an estuary of
small creek dredged out into Il large
EdOck with q narrow outlet to the sea.
The new parts are spacious harbors
Enclosed by miles Of break waters anc
Eieepened to navigable depths by dredg-
Hing and excavations. Into those en-
closed parts, which extend along two
thirds of the shore front, the City's
Eentirc volume Of sewerage is poured,
land as there is only surplus of pure,
'rcsh water of city MIGRANTS to dilute
|ths turbid flow and as there is no tide
to maintain a circulation of sea water
Through the enclosed ports the inevita-
|be result is that the latter grows foul
4 land pestilent.' The same conditions.
mmitigated by equally careful sanitary
measures, prevail at TnulQn and i is
thought it was dredging of disus,d
dock there during the months of April
and May which developed the seeds
of the present epidemic. The MarSelles
Government relies solely upon the most
rigid and searching enforcement OF
recognized sanitary measures. Dredg.
ing ports have been stopped, and that
source of miaSma, as lar as possible
abated during the summer. Since the
outbreak in Toulon that whole city has
\ been literally washed with water an,
\ diSintcCtants, not once merely, bu
INaily and nightly. The marieS
II IRE carefully inspected, and imucnS,
II Quantities OF stale and unripe fruit anC
Vegetables seized and destroyed. Rail
way ears, stations, OmnibuSsCs, street
cars, even hackney carriages, are 1umi
Il gated, and the smell of chloride. sui
plates and carholic acid is every
where. In spite OF this a number o
u deaths occurred in the cleanost anC
NJ handSOmcst portions Of Marscillcs
The attack of cholera hG
been this year far more yigOr u
and fatal than In the great epidomi
nineteen years ago and all present in
dicatOnS point to a summer of gloon
and suffering for the people. Toulnl
and NarSeillcs, all that energy and ill
| Taitv could perform, all that sauiur.
1 science could suggest has been done, hu
| peSticnCe Is mere and deiics restraint
The present situation may be sum
n marizad rs follows: The cpidcm
b lie which prevails AT Marscill
. anl Nuuiun Is \ siutiC chOler
imported beyond all reUs lnab.c doul
from Saigon, China, 10y the Frcuc
Transport Sarthe. to port Toulun. \
first tie disease was Of that type mcC
ially classified rs "bcnign.' hut il
mallgli has since increased and dC
NelOped under the influence OF cOntiG
bed hot weather. In compliance wit
Distractions from the department, thI
. Consulate has aSCertainCd from Otlicii
Sources that no emigrants have recent!
lW either 'roulOn or Marscil,r, 10y ST
iTthc United States. 1t should bo &C
Ned however, that few cmigrautS {,
Amerran ports ever embark hel
asSeauIurs leaving MarSriiles usual
Touch ut one or more Mediterranean
fiaOns before leaving their final poii
pIdeparture, and emigrnts usually !
by rail to their ultimate 20 of depaI
pre- to embark for the United States,
Is, therefore, respectfully suggested tn
al vessels bringing Cmigrunt or Ia
gage tothe United States from BDrdeau
llavre or any utner French port not d
tlared Infected should he subjected
lhe most careful sanitary regulation
clean bills Of health have been rcIus
" TINS consulate to all vessels clraril
nr ports in the United States sin
suhG -, and none such will be grant
ehlll MarscillcS is officially deClar
pee from contagiOn.
lhe Prejudice Against the Physician
II NARsEILLEs, July "a. Tho low
Il VlaSSe' dislike and oppose physical
Ii pc'ause they have gotten the mott
III th3I physicians have been instituted
III N,lP cholera along in order to get rid
ue surplus population, \ paper r.
III ~ medical man in Berlin lRudi
q tn"lera RS sweeping OFT beings unfit
t w uie struggle OF existence has hC
|NW'iE reproduced in France a
nclPed prejudice the people agail
|tuc doctors and confirm th
Jn the belief that
N,ovemmont views are similar to IN,
Az the Berlin assayist. An instance
ny popular hostility toward physicians
M curred in this city yesterday. \ doc
lh WaS going into the slums to attend
,h ueht, when he was confronted by
parly Of the sick mans nclghhors "
Sc fNhlNes, who chased him away and 7
III "hled his ministcring to the suffer
\ Case of lnhumHniiy.
~ ARIES, July H.. A sad incident
M connection with tho cholera panic h
pened recently near this city. \ lad
york IN farm was seized with Won
ihg. The farmer refused to allow i
|, eater the house, and the poor fell
D 3led IN the field, without care and alo
hen the father OF the lad arrived
body in the stable but was forced
Pave it in open air while he wen
own to procure u colin. lie then c