The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-09-16
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The civil and military authorities of Madrid
are making strenuous preparations against the
eventnality Of the cholera spreading through
out the city in the autumn, as medical mon
generally seem 10 fear will be the case. In
each reimbursement of the local juutas small
hospital for fifty cases is being organized in
addition to district hospitals capable in case
of need Of accommodating 600 to 1000. Special
isolated cholera wards, moreover, have been
established in all the civil and military hos
pitfalls of the city. So far Madrid itself has
suffered but lightly, aud no case has yet oc-
CURED among the troops of the garrison, num-
bering high on Is, 900 men. The houses where
in the disease has passed are thoroughly funii-
gated and disinfected, the inhabitants being
turned out and sent to the refugees of the assist
dncc pubi0Ue. The poor quarters Of tho old
town, with their narrow streets, unhealthy
courts, dark staircases, obscure and badly
ventilated apartments, wherein whole families
are crowded together pcllInell, and support
existence God knows how-such quarters are
the vcriest hotbeds of propagating the foul
disease. Unfortunately their inhabitants are
invariably refractory TO the cleansing mea-
surcs essayed by the authorities, and will
frequently conceal their sick for the purpose
of preventing their being sent 10 the hospital
and the rooms dsinfected.
As it is impossible to convert this popula-
ton to hygienic principles the authorities are
attempting to surround US with the old and
exploded safeguards Of quarantine. Fumiga-
ton of passengers, baggage, etc, takes place
ot no less than ten stations of the three rail-
way lines running into the city; Que is sub
jected 20 the same operation in the Madrid
stations, where passengers and their luggage
are again closely inspected. while u strict
watch Is kept on the fruit and vegetable
markets Under the infuenco-parlly of fear,
partly Of sustom-thousands of the richer in
habitants have fled for refuge TO the sixiccL
Provinces of the North and Northwest, not
yet attacked; many even having pushed on
into France, Notwithstanding the rigorous san
itary precautions that have tecu enforced Oh
The Pyrenenn frontier since the cholera has
declared itself in Saragossa, Barcelona, Pm
peluna and tie valley OF the Ebro.
The accounts received from the provinces
are hcartrendcring. The epidemic appears to
be extending, especially in the east of the pen
nsula. In the Province of LOria its ravages
are terrible. In 4 single town Of that district
100 corpses have been lying exposed in the
streets for three day; all the physicians, all
he municipal councillors except one, and all
Nurcia announce that 20 corpses remain un
buried in the town of Ajecla, whence almost
Ill the survivors have fed In Audalusia also
he pestilence is spreading. At MonteEuado
Ourth of the inhabitants have been carried off
n ten days; the town is without any ply
iician, and the single surviving gendarne is
occupied in interring tie bodies. The credits
'oted for combating the epidemic are exhaust
d, and tho Government will be obliged to
'onyoke the Council of State to obtain fresh
The disease is beginning seriously to affect
he Treasury receipts. During May there was
. further decrease of several millions in the
mount of imports, with consequent loss of
100000 francs to tho customs. The figures
or June and July have been SO bad that the |
treasury had been forced to pledge per cent
mortissable bonds and drafts on the army re-
nlistment fund as security for an immediate |
dvance of $4,000, 900 francs to meet current
Expense, and the bank will pay itself later if |
be found possible to get in the taxes, which |
re now levied with the greatest difficulty in
he afflicted districts. The floating debt has |
hus again made its appearance, and should |
be epidemic last on till the autumn, as there
GEMS every probability of its doing, this debt |
lust rapidly incrcase.-FreRch PdDeT