The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
THE CHOLERA SCOURGE.
March of the Dreaded Pestilence
in Europe.
Total Number of Deaths Since the
Outbreak.

A special cable dispatch from London says
chat up to midnight on Thursday the total
number of deaths in Europe from the cholera
since the outbreak in Toulon was IA, 1872. OF
these Italy had 1914 France. 5,79S, and
Spain, $50. The actual totals, says the
correspondent, may be higher from
the two causes of official con-
cealment and bad reporting, but 1 have
every death which found its way into any
report, local or general The Province of
Naples has now furnished more deaths than
,he whole of France the total being 5,q23,
of which only 800 or so belong outside
the city. Next in Italy comes Genoa, with
G22, two-thirds of which come from little
Spezia. The disease has now, however,
got firm grip on the city of Genoa, de-
spite the ridiculous Gordon kept around
Srezin to save the marble
city. To this barbarous measure, which lit
orally scared and starved the Spezians into
the disease, may he ascribed the frightful
mortality that has prevailed there. A gen
tleman Just arrived from Geneva tells me
the back quarters there are very dirty,
and that the epidemic is likely to have
many hundreds of victims, The Province
of Cuneo has had AGA deaths, half of them
being in the city of Busc I, which likewise
has been martyr to a medieval Gordon.
The other provinces which have had over 100
deaths are Bergamo, with 3O6; Massa Car
rara, with 14S; Parma with 1l2; Turin, with
1O3, and Campo Basso, with 101. In the last
three the plague seems now to have died out,
but it is raging in new fields. In ALL IL pro
vinces in Italy have been infected
An Italian friend of mine who is member
of Republican society in Italy tells
me the curious fact that his latest circu-
lars from headquarters announce seces-
siuns by the hundreds from membership,
including some of the best men in the
society, owing to the admiration for the
kings courage in visiting Naples. The
Garibaldians from Milan who volunteered
to nurse the sick at Naples, and who wear red
shirts, and are to man Radical. were met in
the slums the other day by Cardinal San Fe-
lice. The prelate shook hands with all of
them, and thanked them warmly This fact
has done more for the real unitcation of Italy
than it is easy to believe.
In France there are now twenty-three de
partments where cases have been reported,
and nineteen that have had deaths. The
stricken communities number 237. Mar
settles has had LBS deaths, Toulon, 9S!,
Aries, 1888; Perpignan, 1S6; AK, 1862, and
Carcassonne, 1906 The feature of the week
has been the spread of the disease into new de
partments-Isere, Gers and Cantol-and its
appearance in the northern suburbs OF
Paris Five different suburbs have had
deaths since the l4th. The River Seine at
Clichy and St Eens is in a horrible state-so
Dad. in fact, that a party of scientists who
made an examination yesterday were made
violently i'll by the stencil. 1t will be no mat
ter for surprise if the genuine Asiatic cholera
breaks out there and invades the Belleville
and Grenele quarters of Paris before many
days are passed.
In Spain the plague continues to be confined
to three provinces with rumors of an outbreaL
at Barcelona.