The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-07-27
FAR ARGENTINA.
Recurrence of Strange Epidemic
Corner in Coffins.
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which are not mentioned in
ration bureau literature that
so freely disseminated
{ Europe and the United
ne of these omitted truths is
recurrence of a strange and
-, which has never yet been
satisfactorily accounted for.
,nding that the locality de-
4ame from the good airs"
die climate for which it is
r periodical scourge has been
now down its hundreds a
not yellow fever, nor one of
!ras common to Semi-tropi-
is. nor yet the dreaded vom-
ID is said to partake some
+ nature of each of the afore-
also to exhibit symptoms
81 Joth typhoid and typhus
ttive physicians are equally
crrning its origin and treat
Though a special commit
sed Of medical experts-Ar-
French and English
united by the government
rs ago to investigate the
report has never yet been
lrgentian ever speaks of the
epidemic except when it is
tug. When it can no longer
the fashion is to attribute it
3 habits of the Italians who
quarter of Buenos Ayres
The Boca," but the fact re-
turing the worst season the
as been greater in the wider
er portions of the city.
quarantine regulations APP
Y good, except for the pro-
Fps visiting the harbor, for
which is unknown in any
nd never penetrates far in
IDENTIFY indigenous to this
The strange distemper is
its height in January (mid-
this side of the Equator),
III most seasons the worst is
NV weeks and the victims so
5 presence is hardly felt, it
4uown to linger five or six
Il to become a frightful pesti-
sweeps all before it. | have
ing to an American lady's
CUNT of her experience with
nd am going to repeat it to
own words as nearly as |
Jer them. She has lived in
many years and her expert
ruts that of many thousands
r. class; the horrors that the
oWly have had to undergo
limly imagined, The events
several seasons ago,
likely to be duplicated any
the conditions remain the
-irst case that attracted at
urred in June, when several
i the same family died with
Us a plague was then raging
na. Spain, from which port
ru came to this harbor, it
t to be an imported disease
.uardntine regulations were
Ill ships from Europe and
It for weeks previously the
HE Rio de la Plata, from
IS the water supply of the
zen covered with dead fish,
3ter smelled like carrion.
as river was purple in color
d is from the blood of ami
6, in the slaughter-houses
anks, and there was a great
mess among the people liv-
vicinity, but as these great
dbIishments have existed
centuries and the men en-
em enjoyed excellent health,
believed that the germs of
ated there. Indeed, it has
stom from time immemorial
yalids to BARRACKS on pull
ale the peculiar atmosphere
Ughter-houseS, which was
as beneficial as that of pine
I petroleum Oil. So no
h ere taken to suspend the
'- cattle or to purify the
ore its rottenness was dis
10 the Rio de la Plata and
ned into the reservoirs of
he people OF Buenos Ayres
dit of sitting or promenad-
lat roofs of their houses in
the day, to enjoy the wide
", plain and river; and my
IS that if the wind happens
III the direction of Darracas
Us SO CHASTITY that no human
endure it without fainting.
liyal-time came the people
of an unexplainable disease
Of eight or ten a day; but
is, to whom the carnival
re as dear as their religion,
eyes to the approaching
md determined to ignore it
til the season of gaiety was
yer were carnival prepara-
P on a grander scale. The
Instructions to cause all
> take place after sun set,
body spoke uneasily of the
sickness, he was assured
as confined to the Italian
midday was the first day of
and crowds Of merry
ers went about the streets,
lowers, bon-bons and costly
o ladies in their balconies.
so, comprising three Of the
treets, was four miles long,
lung with banners and hav-
lid triumphal arch at each
re streets cross. Between
he hour of Ave Maria more
thousand flower. bedecked
and ten thousand horsemen
ng. The horseman were in
t costumes, as crusaders,
/ the time of Cortez and
dian caciques, and cavaliers,
fantastic style. The same
ok place on three successive
very night the fireworks OF
tipality outdid all previous
II in this land, which from
u mind has been proverblal
'hnic displays.
spapers have appeared dur
time, and on Ash Wednes.
t We're astonished to learn
had been busy during theil