Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-09-01
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TERRIBLE RAVAGES OF
CHOLERA IN PERSIA.

4 TERRIBLE AVAGES OF
| CHOLERA In PERSIA. :.
lover $500 HUNDRED DEATHS
In Prussia Daily-The Plague
Epidemic in Hamburg
! and Havre.
TEHERAN, August 25.-The
choler RACES with unchecked
violence throughout, Persia, and
countless corpses lie everywhere
unburied. Notwithstanding the
urgent orders of the Government
the mollahs, or clergy" refnse to
perform the last rites reuuiiirede in
the case Of the dead aspreslh miinary
to bnrial. These rites include the
washing of the bodies, and this
the mollahs positively decline to
perform when death has been
causedby cholera.
The drivers of the donkeys that
carry the mail have deserted the
service, and communication is
everywhere suspended, except
where the telegraph reaches.
Raging in Hamburge.
LONDON, August pa dispatch
from Hamburge to the Standard
says: Cholera has broken out in
all parts of the city and its suburbs,
although the outbreak is worse in
the harbor quarter. Today $40
people were attacked and 130 cases
proved fatal. Several of the worst
infected streets have been closed
by the police.
The Epidemic in Havre.
PARIS, August 24-An official
telegram from Havre shortly be-
fore midnight states that there
have been recorded today (Wed-
nesday) forty-six cases of cholera
and thirteen deaths. This despatch
has been h-held from the press
Two disinfecte d engines have
been sent onto Havre.
! Mortality in zR.sss:aa.
/; 81. PlTass8uEG, August "a
( TIE cai. Isl raecsEon The So iect
!ot si,a s;at,.s So. ine s.srtaiiEy
! a7s 50o daily. Nearly evef2
ga. &gssi. La been Gt-
,.,>e,4,s ae pesti a1,le.
Four Deaths at Antwerp.
ANTWERP, August 25.-There
we're TOUR deaths from cholera
here today. Officials deny that
it is Asiatie cholera.
Alarm in London.
LONDON, August .24.-The peo-
pie of London are becoming ex-
cited on the subject of the cholera,
now that it is known to have a
foothold in a place SO closely
populated by passenger and COM
mercial traffic with Great Britain
as Hamburg. 1t is loudly COM
planned that the regulations for
examination OF foreigners arriving
in this country from the infected
districts are inadequate. These
foreigners are chiefly dumped in
the East End, where they settle
down with the habits and customs
of living as nearly as possible in
their new situation as tn ey have
practiced at home.
The Local Government Board,
under the impulse of public alarm
and criticism, is preparing to
strengthen it's sanitary forces and
endow sanitary officers with
additional powers. The newspapers
complain of the sale of rotten
fruit in the streets az tending to
promote an epidemic of cholera
should the disease find its way
here. This fruit is chiefly the
refuse of foreign imports.
WASHINGTON, August 24.-The
treasury department has communi:
Gated with the agents of steamship
companies whose ships ply be.
tween Hamburg and Bremen and
Baltimore, requesting them to
have their steamers report at Cape
Charles quarantine station, Va
before proceeding up the
Chesapeake Bay. The steamers will
be inspected by officers Of the
marine hospital service at the
| quarantine station, SO that all
danger Of the introduction o1