The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-21
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
Rayages of the Dreaded Epidemic
Throughout Europe.
Entire Families and Many Doctors
Carried Away in Spain.

An idea of the advance of cholera abroad
will be obtained IN the following record of
one days ravages, as given by cable dis.
patches:
Returns for the past twenty-four hours
make the number of now cases in Spain ), 500
and the number Of deaths 1850.
In Granada the cholera is increasing fear
fully. In the province, outside the city,
there have been reported to-day 21S deaths
from the disease and 4S5 now cases, and in
the city 2l3 deaths and 40 new cases. The
popular agitation against sanitary interfer-
ence has been renewed in Seville. The local
authorities have all resigned. The shops are
closed, no business is being done, and the
scourge has an uuobstructed field.
The Spanish consul at Gibraltar reports
that cholera has appeared within the Span
1sh lines. A dispatch from Gibraltar says
there have been only three fatal cases of
cholera there, all occurring in one house,
which had forty-seven inmates and was in a
bad sanitary condition.
In Madrid there were nineteen new cases
and eleven deaths, and in the province
seventy-two new cases and twenty-eight
deaths. IN Saragossa the epidemic is de
creasing slightly. In Granada the condition
is terrible. Many doctors are dying. Who'e
streets are infected with the scourge. by
which entire families have been carried away.
The total number of deaths in the infected
Spanish provinces since the outbreak Of the
epidemic is $1,000, and it is estimated that
1900 persons have fled from the kingdom.
The epidemic has appeared in the founding
hospital and other public institutions, and in
the best quarters Of Madrid.
The Marseiiles GFranceJ municipal authori-
ties have decided to establish u cholera am
bulance at every fire station. The epidemic
IS spreading to the e%nvirons of Marseilles.
The English government has prohibited the
importation OF rags from France.
At the IharO hospital, Marseilles, there are
sixty cases under treatment, and there We're
eight deaths to-day. Among the victims IF
last night wasa young lady twenty-six years
old. Her husband, who is a public Official,
in n sudden tit of desperation, and while
embracing the dead body of his wife,
revolver. In order to satisfy the demand Of
ment have scarcely anything to do, on account
of the total cessation of maritime movem N
the mayor has ordered that employment lie
given them in carrying out various works for
the improvement of the sanitary condition
of the city. Two new fatal cases are
reported from Salon, France. and at Pelis-
Same several cases of suspected cholera are
announced from the department of Var.
The municipal authorities Of Marseille.
attribute the outbreak of cholera tn re &c
the proximity of n camp which was recently
di,bIndcl, M in which typhoid fever wa,
creating h1vi' amOuc the troops
Iuited States Consul Mason. at Marssillcs,
in Il caLlcgram to the Sc Rotary of STATE a.
Washington, say, that the cholerl in tlat
Place is Asiatic. anil very fa.al. The dea H.
nuGihcr forty daily. Tic disease is spre3 lin
TO the interior.