The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-11-04
CHOLERA IN JAPAN.
40, 600 Deaths In !, Pew NIontiis-A Dreadful
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| 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 Il
false one: AT first none of the foreign resi-
dents were attacked, but within the last
month, just as the disease is gradually
dying out among the natives. there has
been quite humber of cases right here in
Trukiki, where the members of my family
are staying. We have had the disease all
around us. We arc residing at No. 10, and
there have been several cases at Nos. Ii
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 Il man could never tell
when he woke up III the morning whether
or not nc would find a policeman
CARRYING A DEAD SERVANT
out to the waiting cart and disinfecting the
premises. | had barber who came every
other morning to shave me, for which
PAID him one Mexican dollar q month. lie
doesn't come any more. The cholera carried
him OIL. His brother was second cook of tho
American legation. After visiting his
brother one day he went into the yity anC
| never came back. He had been seized will
cholera in the street and was carried to the
hospital, where he died two hours after. A
servant dropped in at the house Of one OF
| our neighborS. and died while talking will
other servants. The master of the house
never dreamed Of the death until he saw
the police carrying the body out of tho
| 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 tc
the plague. At first it did not concern US
REFRAINING FROM FRUITS,
vegetables and fish. We drank only water
which had been boiled two hours. Tho
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
lit'crs, but we felt no special alarm. We
would sec patients carried by our gate
every day, too and even when japanese
died right next door we never linchcd
But when one or two foreigners died with
the disease right close to us, then that be.
came Il different matter and we began tC
bc 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 a
place i'll Japan at that time where we could
nave any medical attention outside of
Toxic, except, of course, native physicians,
whom we preferred not to 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 ~ or IA foreigners here and in Yoh0j
hama have died so far, but several arc now
very sick. | WAS three times threatened
with the disease, but every time / got a
| physician in ten minutes and was relieved
am satisfied most cases will yield when
the physician arrives in time. The treat.
mcni Is to put the patient under the in
flucncc of an Opiatc at once. and this is
! usually done 10y hypodcrmic injections.
only last Saturday was taken down and
the physician gavcmc three hypodcrmic in.
Jccil"nS during the day. 1t is fearful to be
so badly frightened rs we have been. but
w" nope 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.