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alce is being maintained. Medical inspec
tors are ready at any moment to investigate
suspicious cases in any part of the country
and III two or three instances cases not to be
distinguished from true cholera have already
been met with in this country during the
last few weeks. The most rigid sanitary
measures have been adopted in each case,
and, as yet, happily, there has been no exten-
sion.
Within the offices at Whitehall daily re-
cordis kept of all suspicious attacks occurring
i'll this country, and immediate notice is SUI
piled to the Boards medical officer by the
Registrar, Generals Office Of any case Of
death the certified return Of which rem
dels tie attack in any way suspicious. Bao-
THEOLOGICAL investigation is made by DR..
Klein Of all material available in such suS-
picious cases. DIR. Barry, one of the medical
inspectors, has under his special charge The
maintenance of records of the movement Of
cholera abroad. His room is filed with
charts and maps, in which, by means Of flags
Of different colours, the movement Of the
disease at different dates is shown in
tie various provinces of the different
European States. Some flags imply Suspi-
cion only. Marseilles has for some time past
been under suspicion. Late last week it
became known that a fatal attack had oc.
CURED at Bordeaux in a person who had
come from Marseilles within the previous
48 hours. In short, Marseilles is a place
where true cholera must now be regarded as
existing.
The maps and charts referred to show that
up to the end of June the area of cholera
prevalence in Europe was chiefly confined to
+ ropean Russia and to districts of AuStro-
Hungary and Of Germany Immediately adj
joining that country. In Russia some 20
Government districts, chiefly situate in the
South-west of Russia and IN Russian Poland,
had been declared to be infected III Austro-
Hungary five districts situate III astern
Galicia and in Bukovina, close to the Russian
frontier, had been invaded a@d in Germany
cases of cholera had occurred at some two or
three places situate on the Vistula near to the
frontier of Russian Poland.
There were, indeed, other cholera centres
in France, Belgium, and Turkey in Europe
declared during the first half of the year-in
France, in the extreme northwest, in the
departments Of Morbihan and of Finisterre
in Belgium, in the provinces of Liege aud of
Limbourg, as we'll as isolated cases in other
provinces and in Turkey in Europe,
in Constantinople and the neighbouling dis
tricts.
Since June 80 a considerable extension Of
cholera has taken place i'll Russia, some 10
more Government districts have become in
vaded, the majority of the newly invaded
districts being situate in the west and north
west Of the Empire. Apparently in connexion
with this western extension there ives q
marked and alarming increase in the number
of cases reported from day to day as oc-
curing at ST. Petersburg and at CronStadt in
July-an increase which has, fortunately not
been maintained.
In Austro- Hungary cholera has extended
in Eastern Galicia along the river Zbrucz,
which forms the boundary between Galicia and
Russia, nd to places situate ON the ViStula,
in Northern Galicia.
In Germany cholera has invaded many
towns and villages situate on the river
Vistula from The point Of its entry into
Germany to its mouth at Dantsic. Isolated
cases imported from St. Petersburg have also
been reported from Berlin and Bremen.
In Belgium extension has taken place
to several towns situate on the Meuse
and Sambre, in the provinces Of Liege and
and Limbourg.
In Holland cholera has appeared at Maa-
stricbt and other towns situate on the MeuSe,
in the province Of Limbourg, near to the
Belgian frontier. Cholera has during the
last few days been reported to have occurred
at several towns i'll Nootdholland and IN