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 MOs1em Pilgrims Its
Presence in European Cities.
Special Cable Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Cable Dispatch 10 lie 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
| more threatening. apparently, than it was
last year, and the following authentic re-
ports, gathered today by telegraph from
the dlnerent points comprehendtng almost
the entire extent of territory usually visited
by the plague, convey a warning to the
| health authorities the world over that they
should not hesitate to accept.
Cairo: The latest news from Mecca says
that about a hundred people per day die
OF cnolerd there at the present time, and
this state of things has prevailed since
June y. During the time from May 10 to
June Is the number OF victims in Mecca
and the port of Dscheddah was from 800
to 1000 per week. There are quite many
women and children among the victims as
men. ana 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 or wells the
1000 supply Is insufficient and the pilgrims
are exposed to the tremendous heat and the
| for covering.
| The sanitary commission having its seat
| IN Alexandra has no power TO act though
II Is supposed to be of international charac-
| Ter all IL has done SO far is the establish
| ment OF quarantine at FL Tor. Meanwhile
| the pestilence stricken hordes are arriv-
| ing undated from the Red sea. from Asia
| and from everywhere. The English gov
| eminent Is rather tardy in taking a hand
| IN the matter or stopping the piigrimageS
ana thereby cholera, for many OF her sub
| 1ects are Interested in these annual excur-
| sions for which they furnish transporta-
| ton or provisions. The disease usually
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.
| fbeh In the beginning of June, being car
| ried here from Asiatic Turkey. where II
| 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 l.:
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
| OF secreting the outbreak of the epidemic
| in various parts of the empire. All that
Turkey has done far is the establish
ment of military Gordon at Bassora, and
| the sending of a dozen or more physicians
| to Mecca The resolutions of the interna
| tional sanitary conference have not been
l carried
| ton is growing more dangerous every day.
At Mustapha-Pasha all trains are stop
ped and passengers quarantined for three
days. Passengers and goods from the
coast of Bulgaria and east Roumani" "'
being quaran tined for five days. and those
from the Gulf of Smyrna for ten days.
Bucharest: Cholera broke out first al
Soolima among the peasants in the be-
ginning of June. and as the disease was not
lowed to spread rapidly in the neighbor-
| hood About ten people per day have died
there since June ). Cholera is also raging
| at Braila. at Cernawoda, at Galatz, at
| Zernawoda and other places. About sew
| enty per cent of those stricken. die.
The disease was undoubtedly carried into
| this country from Turkey. In the bod
! brudja province bounded by the Black sea
| and the Danube. which is largely inha bited
by Turk the people 90 eyerything 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 eovernment instead of enforcing
the sanitary laws, has given orders not tc
| force the Turks to submit to them.
| St. Petersburg: Cholera has again APP
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 tina,
cholera is epidemic in ten provinces. OF
governments; The minister of war has just
prohibited the holding of maneuvers in
| Congress-Poland. In Helsingfors. the CAPT
tai of Finland. the epidemic has also ap-
| peared in a mild form. One hundred and
| twenty people have died there of cholera
| since August /.
Budapest: Cholera made its appearance
| about August in Raho and Korosmezoe
among gang of railroad hands, natives
and Italians. From there it spread to the
Marmaros Comitat. and to the city of Sol
| nok and SADDLES. Those stricken have
| been isolated, and only small percentage
| of them have died. Altogether 500 people
have died of cholera in Hungary since the
Vienna: The news from Galicia where
| cholera IS raging since over month, l.
very diseouraging. Maneuvers have been
| 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 a
| d
Illness. In Tartakow, MikuliZzyn, Kolomea
| many people have fallen victims to the cpl
demic. The peasants object to the visit o,
| physicians. whom they accuse of poisoning
| their patients in order to subdue the cpl
! demic. In Zzernowitz, Bukowina. fourteen
persons have died of cholera since the 18th
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 tc
| twenty soldiers have died, as far as can be
| learned. The military authorities try &c
| 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 cpl
J demic. which is said to assume alarrnine
proportions.
| Sporadic cases of cholera have appeared
/ at Graz and other towns of Syria being
introduced by workmen. who had been en-.
| 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
in the welfare of Naples. receives daily re-
ports from that bottled 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 il 81.
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