Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-25
MIA ABOUT CHOLERA.
shakespeare Brings Back Ne"
Information.
r..o,a the PhilddeIDhid PreSs'

- oro this month DR.. E. o. Shakes
.,rc. OF this city, was commissioned os
President to visit the countries In hu-
,rhore the cholera was then epidemic
nronare a report upon the disease, It's
a.-o nroyention and treatment. On
,dov evening the doctor returned after
,ta years work, his researches having
landed as far asst cas- India.
". sbokesDeare was peculiarly equip
5,,r ancb a tour OF Investigation. He
u Ioon for many years pathologlst at
PHILADELPHIA Hospital, where has OPP
.rnities for the study of morbid con-
Hans nave been great. He Is IN the
lime ot life, IS years old, OF powerful
ome and robust health. lie is grad
go ot the University of PennsyVanla'
nd has been IN practice since 1909. he
also an accomplished llngulst' speaH-
mo- beside English, French, spanish,
Haitian and German, ana Oethg aoie 10
cd Dutch and Portuguese.
70 a reporter yesterday DR.. Shakespeare
,ro a hort outline of his travels and ex-
'rionces. sWhen l left this country
said II intended to go directly to
\ 'oin Int on arriving on the other side L
tannd that the cholera was more mallg-
Eont in Sicily, so l concluded 10 begin
Lbore first went TO Berlin TO purchase
Enstruments and apparatus for my re-
Loarcbes and then went directly to Paler-
H. where there was a bad epidemic. L
Eioyad there a month watching the symp-
Fans of the sick, making autopsies ana
reese arches, as well as 3D.
Lervino the general hygieDic conditions
n the CITY and people, the water supply,
drainage, food supply. mode of living ana
Iii other points bearing on the subject
when | had finished at Palermo L
Invent 10 Spain. visiting on the way the
|rjncipal cities where the cholera was
horst, ! sailed directly from Marsellles
|o Barcelona, where the disease was Vio-
|qnt in 1884 and 1885. Then l made tour
|brough ali the principal provinces mat
had suffered, and then returned TO Mad
hid for general Investigations.
"Early last spring left Spain ana went
no Paris, where l stopped little while to
ret information from the government
Shout the cholera in France. While there
met Nj. Pasteur and looked into his lab
Oratory and witnessed some of his expert
ments, | then went to London TO await
orders from my government as to whether
/ should continue on to india. Receiving
the orders, | reached Bombay early in
June, found no cholera there, but was
taken with fever and liver trouble, and
was sick for three weeks. In fact all the
work | did in India l did while lighting
against bad health. At Calcutta made
some satisfactory Investigations, and
having gone out with letters from the
British Secretary for Foreign Affairs to
Earl Dufferin, the NicerOy, and the Gov
ernors OF the provinces, | found both my
social and professional opportunities eX-
cellent. | left for home on Aug. 3, by the
Peninsular and Oriental route, and stop
ped few days at Paris on my way to
Liverpool. | have brought home from
Pasteur's laboratory In Paris several rab-
bits luOculated with hyGrophohia. and in
tend to make serious study of the Pas
teur method of treatment of that disease.
IL would not like to go into any par
ticulars as to my cholera researches un-
Ill after | have made my report to the
President. In a general way may say
that Spain has been the country most
afflicted, and this is undoubtedly caused
by the miserable conditions of living
among the lower classes there. There is
no cleanliness, the cities and villages are
filthy; the water and food supplies are
unsuitable and the mode Of lite wretched.
j saw no such squalOr anywhere except
among the lowest class of the natives of
India. In Southern France and Italy the
same conditions exist, but to somewhat
less degree. My conclusions are that
while cholera is extremely fatal to those
attacked, and little or nothing can be
done for them by medical aid, it can be
easily prevented BY the application OF the
commOnest principles of hygiene. Very
great practical advances have been made
in the knowledge of the means of proven
tion Of The invasion and spread of cholera
by the Investigations made during the re-
cent epidemic by the scientific commits
sions sent out by the various govern
ments, knowledge which, II properly ap-
piled by local and State authorities, can
certainly prevent a destructive cpl
demic."