Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-19
CHOLERA THIS YEAR.
It Exists in Many Countries and
 Its Victims Arc Numerous.
l,ut thc Health Adthdritios Say That Th,g Country wiii Be Frco from the seourEc- Enicisncy of sani-
 tary Agencies.

be regarded as safe against the chol
 era. Up to the opening of the month
 of August 1t had not appeared in any
 country of western Europe, and th,
 nutumnal weather will prevent it iron
 approaching the European ports with
 which New York Is in communication
 says the Sun of that city. The health
 officer of the port, who made all prep
 arations early in the spring for dealing
 with immigrants bound hither from
 the infected districts Of Russin, believes
 that any danger which might thus be
 incurred has passed away, and, though
 the Jewish Russians arc yet closely in
 spected upon their arrival at quaran,
 tine, the inspection is rather for gen
 eral sanitary pttposes than for any ap.
 prehension of the cholera. Advices
 upon the subject have been received
 from all parts of the world by the au.
 thorities of the marine hospital serv.
 zee, and Dr. Wyman believes that if
 there ever was any ground for fear,
 there is not now the least.
 During the present year, and up to
 this time, cholera has existed in Euro
 pean Russian, Arabia, India, China and Japan. It is unfortunate that trust worthy statistics concerning it cannot
 be obtained from Russia, or from any of the other countries in which it eN- ists, with the exception of Japan. It ravaged several of the western Rus sian provinces last summer; it did not
 entirely disappear last winter, and it has been epidemic since the early spring season. During the month oi July it has prevailed largely in the provinces of Voihynia and Podolia, near the territory of Austria. and, also, to some extent, in the Nistula provinces, on the confines of Prussia. Ii is said to be of an unusually malig- nant type, and its victims are speedily carried of. In order to keepit out of Germany, tho Berlin government has established a sanitary cOrdOn" along the frontier, and all travellers from Russia are again this year, as they were last year, subjected to most rig orouS inspection. Austria also has made some provision for guarding the bor- der, but it is much less complete than that made by Germany, and there have been many cases of the disease in Cali cia and Bukowina.
 The cholera appeared in Arabia on the borders of the Red sea, early in the spring, brought there, as in other years, by the Mohammedan pilgrims from India to Mecca. Alarming accounts of its fatality were sent out in the spring months and mp toJune, but noth- ing has been heard lift for some weeks, and its ravageS donbtless have been allaved. All the efforts made during the past two years by the international sanitary commission to induce Turkey to adopt the precautionary measures by which its baneful power might be checked have been unsuccessful.
 From that part of India in which the cholera Is nearly always epidemic there have been reports this year similar to those of other years. The permanent headquarters of it are in the valley of the Gangcs, and il is from there that its infection is carried into other coun- tries It is only from the British East Indian records that any knowledge of the number of cases of it can be ob- tained.
 There can be merely guessCs as to the extent Co which the disease prevails in China In the dispatches there are DC. casional references to its existence in the Liao-Tong peninsula and in the kingdom of Corea, und there is every reason to believed that it has been very destructive in these regions. It was by the Japanese soldiers returning home from the Liao-Tong peninsula that it was introduced into Japan n few months ago.
 From the trustworthy statistics that are kept by the Japanese authorities, it is learned that lip to' the close of July there had been nine thousand five hun dred cases of the disease in Japan, more than one-haf of which had proved fatal. This fatality may be regarded as part of the price paid by Japan for her victory over the Chinese, but that price was greater yet, for many of the Japanese soldiers who are yet in China have fallen under the disease. It has been epidemic over a large part of the Japanese empire.
 In some other countries besides those n;re mentioned, including Mexico and Cuba, there have been cases of cholera | turing the year, but ii has not been | epidemic in any of them.
 It has been estimated by good au- horities that the average yearly num- per of deaths from cholera the world | ,ver is close upon a quarter of mil ion. It is now known that in Russia | Ilonc last year there were nearly one hundred thousand cases of the disease, | bout forty-five per cent. of which | proved fatal; but the ravages of the disease among the Russians are light | IS compared with'that among Asiatics. Very likely it has been as widely prcva- ent in western Russia, eastern Austria nd Turkey this year as it was last ear. The governments of these coun- ries do not desire that the accurate tatisticS of it shall be published, and he official reports given thercfrom to he world are always wide of the true | mark.
 The experience of Germany in recent ears has furnished remarkable dem of the efficiency of scientific nd sanitary agencies in keeping out he dreaded disease. Not less inter sting is the experience of England, nd yet more interesting is that of the tate of New York. Tho health board this city rendered eminent service in he year 1866, and it has rendered ervice not less eminent upon several ccaSfons since then. The opinion of 'r, Edson has already been given here, nat there will not again be cholera ,are in New York
 MOLASSES TO BURN
 lAnters Have Millions of Gallons and
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