THE CHOLERA.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 386, 26 August 1884, Page 3

THE CHOLERA.

Tke New Tork, 1 Times' prints a t ele * grana five columns long giving the account of the first Englisb^speaking; correspondent who visited and , Toulon daring the epidemic, which, late, .news tells us is. spreading. Th« following are extracts :— "j.haye visited every room in every cholera '"'hospital existing m Marseilles and Toulon,, j andjseen wretched people dyipg, in" jhospitalp and in ; their own novels, arid buried at' midnight iii cemeteries bs ithe?Kght.ofc torches, ilnd ■ ilinterns: •• I have tstbf hospital witH priests,, and with aittfiea, f andjtfiy conolusiori'is that 'the much d^df^jßfiotera ie , prpbaitjly ; tie : most, fatal aid seyere* of all dise&ies to .which t&e humstf'nesh is'Heir. ; 'lt'ii a^birigof which no intelligent community^ ef ! a well-ofdered city and with -.a;, well arranged syst«m of seW«r pipes need hare alarming fears, even when brought into close contact with it, .to say* nothing of getting into a panic at a distance, _Thp ..■.vilest ( quarters; of Marseilles,: Capallette/anid its adjoining, districts have famished most of the^cases of cholera, : »n.d 1% is an interesting ,fact'.sh,&fcr the largest proportion of them ape Italians. I visited the chief h,ospit»laf} wheretl save 84-: patients in all stages of the distase from the last agonised b'ryath >!i to' !r the' period " of convalescence, Mfrjs face «f ' tke^ie. 84^ •' males aM females J was the face? of: a person; from the lowest walks of fife, and this, Ir am told, has heen tEi fl rale J limoifgat" p'atieftts'ijjom. the first, Nimet«an.>.twentiathH3f 'the |Jaiients received fttthe Phapaoh Hospitaljailed to recover. For the last fortnight matters have improved. Tk© treatiiienV feoth^here and'stf Toulon in tke first sJ«ge«!Jis;2ft drops of.laudaaum with S grains ..of , jether^wlith ice placed in tk«r aoith to" ' J itt^ 'vomiting/ ' ' ln i^Q SeePpadt ■tage th&Tpatien^ifcedtone ve?y PQld, and f r»m 10 ty 1/ypapnnyss qf acetate qf ammonia, th« samed^ntjity pf alcqhol, ai;d two injec«r«K»*dl'»ittptoi/wi :| -giren: daily; If the patient cannot lireithe, 1 artificial leepiratioi^ of o^yg«Ufls,?.prod»Qed^ and the. Urftb^ :^re tabbed with turpentine, r T}\& tW?4 is In tke coffin, "fleWj ih plßOiftg hodies in eaff wts njad9>'n£o6flS4i7 by the fact that violent pest mortem option of the limbs tekts place, csvueed by the terrible reactiq^ , srfter ae»&f in'whioli 'the temppwture jjsesi' ft»m extrepe ; cp!d^fc,d^olutiqn to 420 idet grees after it, E»eh qolfin is qsrefuUy disin, Feeted." After Tisiting the oeroe.tery at night flmd witnessing/thfffhpmble burial then enacted/the corresponderit returned to the central part „of , the,; city, . 1% rtiy enough. ; Bands ware playing, an,d rat reafe^igmpi'Vf drift gleaming. People i» r . ; thrpng»; -Ijsmk ij wftlkingf iv > the streets" laughing mermy,;, and, .many, heads were, poked omt 'W- the ' windows' ' of hoases. East morai«iy^.j^s^a gumxt&yX ;p?«6«fisiiwi' ; J»ew tim* bo tSaf^they might v receiTO ttodlcijm of bwwJ /jSi Ta'B Sonaftioir ' of Mar* 9lll«e is frightful.Jjut that ,of, Toulon struck iinf'aß^implyrAur^Grdua. Toiilon must be ahabited by peopldj^^r.^tejfaUyKigriore' •reiy precaution ' which health requires. T^*|^jb3itli 3 hidheir t hQmeran^ the r fl»udgtWho sleep in 3plnWnltfWߧsl,wHo'b r re J atheair polluted by ihe sewage ,pt.the ;tow^., itsjtlf x ,to;escape the . eliolera. njarvejl is that .^he .disease did not find its* yeafs r before. Toulon always has been a breeding'|>ltfce of f'disefcs'e'. 1 if ajwaya ot » WtrHSWffi t W?' e J W* w ° re " cult to stamp p\i^ than, elsewhere. He saw tKere 36 caelsof cholera. The condition of ttie patients differed in no respect from those in Marseilles. He noticed that the doctors ■moked cigars and chewed considerable quantities; ,of »cairiiihbriU iTh'e 1 doctors 'drink; wine and beer freely. He put a piece of tobacco in. .his mquth andv ( cbe^edjdur^ng|hj^i Y^i^ fdllorwiri^'t^e^dvi^e f^"l»ii".jPj[d' sea^in^lr) fai«ixd oj 'vriWe'^iio^ei -"