The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-03
CHOLERA IN JAPAN.
10000 Deaths in Few MonthS-i Dreadful
ScourSe.

TOXIC, Japan, October 23.-The cholera
has been PLAYING sad havoc in Japan.
There have been over 100000 cases and
10000 deaths. The old theory that cholera
would not attack foreigners has proven 4
false one At first none OF the foreign resi-
dents We're attacked but within the last
month, just rs the disease is gradually
diving out among the natives. there has
beer quite number OF cases right here in
Truliki, where the members Of my family
are staying. We have had the disease all
around us. We are residing at No. -. and
there have been several cases III Nos. l3
and II. One child died in two hours after
being seized with the disease The japanese
servants all over this concession have had
the disease, and 4 man could never tell
when he woke Up III the morning whether
or moi he wcUld find q policeman
CARRYING :, DEAD SERVANT
out to the waiting cart and diSinfcc'ing The
premises. I had a barb1.. who came every
other morning u shave me- for which
paid him one Mexican dollar 4 month. He
doesn't come any more. The cholera carried
him oil His brother was second cook of the
American legation. After visiting his
brother one day he went into the city and
never came back He mad been seized with
cholera in the street and was carried to the
hospital, where he Gicl! two hours after. y
servant dropped iseat the house OF one OF
our neighborS. and died while talking with
other servants. The master Of the house
never dreamed OF the dcati until he saw
the police carrying the body out OF the
house. Our life here for two or three weeks
has been one OF terror and anxiety, for we
never know when we would fall Victims to
the plague. At first it did not concern Us
individually more than
EEFEAiNING FROM FRUITS.
vegetables and fish. We drank only water
which had been boiled two hours. The
theory was that with precautions foreigners
Were exempt. We went out on the streets
every day. and would see hundreds of
patients being carried to the hospitals on
litters, but we felt no special alarm. We
would see patients carried by our gate
every day, too. and even when japanese
died right next door we never tiinched.
But when one or two foreigners died with
the disease right close to us. then that be-
came different matter and we began to
be frightened. We thought of going into
the country, but about the time We got
ready to go every foreign physician had
returned to Toxic, and there was not 4
place in Japan at that time where we could
have any medical attention outside OF
Toxic, except, of course, native physicians,
whom we preferred not 10 risk.
WE ARE STILL. HERE.
Nearly all of those who went into the
country for the summer returned only to
be seized with the dreadful disease. Only
about Il or ii foreigners here and in Ioho,
hama have died so far, but several are now
very sick l was three times threatened
with the disease, but every time | got 4
physician in ten minutes and was relieved.
am satisfied most cases will yield when
the physician arrives in time The treat
ment is to put the patient under the in
tluence Of an opiate at once, and this is
usually done by hypoder,nic injections.
Only last Saturday I was taken down and
the physician gave me three hypodermic in
iections during the day. 1t is fearful to be
so badly frightened as We have been. but
We hope for better things now that the
weather is growing cooler. In fact, we
foreigners do not expect any further danger
from the awful disease which has caused
the death OF many thousands of natives.
FRED. S. MANSFIELD.