Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-10-27
BRITISH FOUGHT CHOLERA
GREsT VICTORY OVER THE
sCDURGE IN EGYPT.
Troops Advancing ON DOnEoia
Make stand Against the Pes
BIcnce that walks at Noon.

n late ulSpatcn from CalrO gives
the following account of a victory
other than warlike achieved by
the British expedition to Don
COLA:
Cholera was brought to Egypt
by the pilgrims returning there
from Mecca in August, 1895. 1t
sho wed itself very distinctly dur
ing the last month of that year,
but was confined entirely to Dam
ietta, Lake Menzaleh, and neigh.
boring villages on the Mediterra-
mean coast. 1t was successfully
driven out of these positions by
the energy of the English physi-
clans of the Egyptian Sanitary
Department, but it unfortunately
gained a strong hold in one of the
suburbs of Alexandria, where it
smonldered peacefully until the
edvent of the cholera season,
which in former epidemics has in
variably been from May to Sep
tember or October.
True to its former traditions, it
bsoke out in an epidemic form
last May and, slowly advancing
with human intercourse, it success
fully invaded Cairo and the Upper
Nile, seriously hampering for Il
week or two the plans of the
Egyptian troops advancing on
Dongola. For the first time in the
history of cholera epidemics in
Oriental countries, it was deter
mined not to run away from the
enemy, but to stand and fight it
out on the spot. The English
medical men eagerly volunteered
for the fray and made themselves
as ubiquitous as possible. Under
their orders were placed all the
available native doctors and
students. Some of these, espe-
cially the younger, worked with
willing intelligence and deserve
the highest praise; others, unsc-
customed TO any serious labor,
could only be compelled to do
their onerous duties by the con-
slant and reproachful supervision
Of their English chiefs.
The infected districts were
thoroughly cleansed, all natives
were compelled to drink uncon-
taminated water, much against
their will. the sick and the dead
were isol, I'd to prevent infection,
and cholera huts were built every
where as precautionary measure.
Never has cholera visited Egypt
so lightly, and any one who has
witnessed the stamping. out pro-
cess must be convinced that this
is the true and only method of
fighting the disease.
In only two of the country pro-
vinces the cholera proved too
much for the sanitary officials,
and in both Of those there was
some contamination of the gen
eral water supply. Keep your
water aud everything connected
with your water clean, and you
eau afford to laugh at cholera !
The mighty Nile, as known to
Western visitors, becomes. a low
and almost stagnant river in June,
and this was, of course, the time
when cholera was at its worst and
slew victims by more than three
hundred a day, about thirty of
these being contributed by CAIRO.
lin 1883, the last time cholera
visited Egypt, there were more
than three hundred deaths a day
in Cairo alone.)
The Nile slowly rose in height
and swiftness until the flood in
August provided an abundance of
fresh water for all the outlying
districts, and when the middle of
September arrived the Nile was
at it's height and cholera had
faded away. There may be drop
ping cases in the country which
the energy of the sanitary officials
will discover, but the epidemic
was all over in September, and
there is no reason why visitors
should not go to Egypt as usual
in November and the late months.
Itnnay be a comfort to some to be
told that epidemic cholera has
ntyer yet been in Egypt between
the months of October and May.
Mecca this year was free from
cholera, so that the returning
pilgrims brought no new edition
OF the disease into Egypt. In
order to be absolutely on the safe
side, the Egyptian Government