THE CHOLERA IN SPAIN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1350, 2 July 1885, Page 3

THE CHOLERA IN SPAIN.

A London special despatch of May 19th says the authorities have tried for a longtime to conceal the fact of the rapid spread of cholera in Spain. They have given out glowing accounts of the suocesß of Dr Ferran's system nev? as a preventive, but these accounts are now known to be much overdrawn. Dr Ferran had inoculated several thousand persons, and comparatively few of them have been attacked and killed by the cholera, but subjects generally selected are from the better classes of people, who, by their cleanliness and regularity of habits aud exemption from exhausting labor in the rice-field and elsewhere, are naturally less susceptible to the intention and less liable to succumb if attacked than the bulk of the peasantry. London medical men are indisposed to credit the efficiency of Dr Ferran's discovery, and prefer to await the order sent from England to investigate. Later despatches say the cholera is increasing in virulence, aud that fortyfive per cent of those attacked die. Orders have been ssnt out by the French Government to form a strict cordon in the Pyrenees. The disease made its appearance in Madrid on the stb. Despatches say the epidemic continues to rage at Valencia with increased virulence, as well as in other towns in the south-east provinces of Spain. The peasantry chafe under the sanitary restrictions imposed, and their habitual evasion of them help to spread the disease. The country is in a feimont, and local difficulties have arisen between the French and Italians. One of the latter slapped the face of a lieutenant of Chasseurs as he was coming out of the theatre. The Italian was arrested and condemned to Bix days' imprisonment. The French general thought the punishment inadequate, and issued an order commanding all officers for the future on the least provocation from Jews and Italians to draw their swords. He also decided to punish severely an officer, whose face had been slapped, for not running his assailant through.