Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-28
THE CHOLERA SITUATION.
A Summary of the Advices From Differ.
emit Points
How 1t Spread From the East-Car.
ried by Moslem Pilgrims Its
Presence In European Cities.
pecial Cable Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Cable Dispatch to The Evening Star.
| LONDON, Aug 2s-The first rumors of
| the temperance of cholera reached Lon
| don about the middle of May this year.
| They came. usual, from the east. from
| Arabia and Ottoman dependencies, where
| the annual pilgrimages, assuming almost
| the proportions of an exodus, have become
| an institution so woven in the life of the
people that. despite the death and disease
/ these confessors of Mohammedanism carry
| with them from town to town in their pro-
gress, they apparently can be neither check
| ed nor terminated.
| Steamers from ports touched by these pill
| grims or brought into contact with them
| through trade. or used by them for passage,
/ carried isolated cases Of the disease to
the Mediterranean cities, and, finally.
/ some four weeks ago, the first case reached
| England. Since then cholera has been grad
ually. and perhaps. for that reason, i'm
percepttbly extending. 1t is at this moment
more threatening, apparently. than IT was
| last year, and the following authentic re-
the different points comprehending almost
the entire extent of territory usually visited
by the plague, convey warming to the
health authorities the world over that they
| should not hesitate to accept.
| Cairo: The latest news from Mecca says
that about hundred people per day die
or cholera there at the present time, and
| this state of things has prevailed since
June q During the time from May 10 TO
and the port of Dscheddah was from 800
| to 1000 per week There are quite as many
women and children among the victims as
| men, and only very few physicians look
after their welfare. These latter are mostly
| Turkish army physicians. who know little
| or nothing of cholera. and care less There
are no sanitary arrangements to speak OF
| In these parts. no springs wells, the
food supply is insufficient and the pilgrims
are exposed to the tremendous heat and the
changes of weather without Il roof or a tent
for covering.
The sanitary commission having its seat
IN Alexandria has no power to act. though
! 1t Is supposed to be of international charac-
ter; all 1t has done SO far is the establish
ment OF quarantine at Ell Tor. Meanwhile
| the pestilence stricken hordeS are arriv-
ing unabated from the Red sea, from Asia
and from everywhere. The English gov
eminent is rather tardy in taking hand
in the matter OF stopping the pilgrimages
| and thereby cholera, for many of her sub
1ects are interested in these annual eNcur-
| sions for which they furnish transporta-
| breaks out on the vessels bringing the pill
grims to the holy city. They are always
over-crowded, the provisions are bad and
| the water worse.
Teheran: Cholera broke out at Sum-
ibeh In the beginning OF June, being car
| ried here from Asiatic Turkey where it
| RACES worse than last season The number
| OF victims in the cities is especially great
Bassora, Mohammara, Abul Hassib and
other towns are almost deserted by their
inhabitants The number of victims
counted by thousands.
Constantinople: The foreign representa-
tiveS here have endeavored to bring the
| sublime porte to an understanding of its
duty, but without much success. the Turk
ish government still adhering to the policy
| OF secreting the outbreak of the epidemic
| in various parts of the empire. All that
Turkey has done far l., the establish
ment of a military Gordon at Bassora, and
| the sending of dozen more physicians
| to Mecca The resolutions of the interna-
| tional sanitary conference have not been
| carried out to any extent and the situa-
/ Is ia
At Mustapha-Pasha all trains are stop
ped and passengers quarantined for three
| days. Passengers and goods from the
| coast of Bulgaria and east Roumari" ""
| being quarantined for five days. and those
from the Gulf of Smyrna for ten days.
| Bucharest: Cholera broke out first at
| Soolima among the peasants in the be-
| ginning of June. and as the disease was not
originally recognized as such; it was al
| lowed to spread rapidly in the neghbor-
| hood About ten people per day have died
! there since June ). Cholera is also raging
at Braila. at Cernawoda, at Galatz, at
| enty per cent of those stricken die.
! The disease was undoubtedly carried into
| this country from Turkey. In the Dod-
| brudja province bounded by the Black sea
and the Danube. which is largely inhabited
| by Turks. the people DO everything to mis-
| The Turks will not allow the bodies of
| their compatriots having died under sus-
! picious symptoms to be dissected, claiming
| that 1T is against their religion. The Rou-
| manian government. instead of enforcing
| the sanitary laws. has given orders not to
force the Turks to submit to them.
| St. Petersburg: Cholera has again ap-
| peared in the governments where it ragged
last season. the percentage of death being
| about one-fourth of those stricken. In the
| Don provinces the percentage is about one
| half of those stricken. Since the end of
June fifty persons per day have died Of
| the disease. The government admits that
| cholera is epidemic in ten provinces. or
governments. The minister of war has just
| nrnhfhifa1 he hnlHinU Of ;,,
Congress-Po Poland. In Helsingfors. the capt.
tai of Finland. the epidemic has also APP
| peared in mild form. One hundred and
| twenty people have died there of cholera
| since August l.
Budapest: Cholera made its appearance
| about August in Raho and Korosmezoe
| among q gang of railroad hands, natives
| and Italians. From there it spread to the
Marmaros Comitat. and to the city of Sol
| been isolated. and only small percentage
| of them have died. Altogether 500 people
have died of cholera in Hungary since the
| middle of July.
Vienna: The news from Galicia. where
| cholera Is raging since over a month, is
prohibited and the work on the Szigeth-
| WOronienka Railway had to be stopped as
| most of the workmen ran of to their
| homes, being fearful of the cholera. which
| assumes a very dangerous character kill
| ing most of its victims. In the district of
| Delatyn twelve died of seventeen. after
| few days and in some cases, a few hours Of
| illness. In Tartakow, Mikulizzyn. Kolomea
| many people have fallen victims to the cpl
/ demic- The peasants object to the visit of
| physicians, whom they accuse of poisoning
| their patients in order to subdue the cpl
! denic. In ZzernOwitz, Bukowina. fourteen
| persons have died of cholera since the 5th
of this month.
The government is afraid that the dis
| ease might be carried along the banks of
| the Danube by vessels and by the pollution
| of the water
! At the military encampment at Bruck
| twenty-three miles from Vienna, cholera
| appeared about a week ago and fifteen to
| twenty soldiers have died. as far as can be
| learned The military authorities try to
| suppress the facts, and strict quarantine
| has been established all along the line of
\ the encampment. The emperor receives
| daily reports of the progress of the epf-
demic, which is said to assume alarming
I proportions
| Sporadic cases of cholera have appeared
at Graz and other towns of Syria being
/ gagged at railroad building in Galicia and
/ Hungary and fed from there.
| Cholera has also appeared in the garrison
/ of Gurkfeld and of Radkersburg. At the
/ latter place it has almost assumed an
epidemic aspect
| Rome: The pope who is much interested
I in the welfare of Naples. receives daily re-
ports from that hotbed of cholera. Masses
are said daily in st. Peters Church to pray
| the Almighty TO save Naples from the
dreadful plague. The number of people who
! died at Naples from cholera since the end
| of May is 6T
| Cholera is raging in the province of Ales-
sandria and the maneuvers, which Were TO
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