The Cholera Scourge.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5205, 22 September 1885, Page 3

The Cholera Scourge.

Madbid, August 22.

There were 4448 new cases of cholera and 1441 deaths reported throughout Spain yesterday. Returns from the populous Province of Navarre, however, are stjll incomplete. King Alfonso has donated £4,000 to the Granada cholera fund. The money was badly needed at that place. Traveller* in many districts are quarantined from five to twenty days, and undergo great hardships, being lodged in barns, or in the open air, end suffering from lack of food. Some villages are itrictly cordoned. Trenches have been cut to stop travel on the roads, and villagers threaten strangers and compel them to leave. The Government has ordered thVGovernors of the provinces to sup press lazarettos, but the Governors are in many instance* powerless to carry out the orders. The Press calls upon the Government tnd higher classes to combine in their efforts to alleviate the national calamity. The King and Queen have sent large donations to Saragossa and Granada, The epidemic is visiting all the fashionable sea* side resorts. At each place visited a panic ensues, and the place is deserted in fortyeight hours. . The total number of deaths from chbleria in Spain since the outbreak of the disease has been 72,456 out of a total of 187,565 cases. -"■'■■•" •',. Pabiß, August 24 The existence of cholera in Marseilles is bow officially admitted. Horror prevails over the prospect of a repetition of last year's experience. The cases of cholera here are mostly among the poor elasies. The Portuguese Consul has sue eumbed to the disease. Minister Le~ grande and Dr Bronardel have arrived here to organise a. system of sanitation. The municipal authorities have conferred With the foreign Consuls here respecting the establishment of quarantine. The local doctors are not yet agreed as to what place Marseilles may thank for the return of the plague. Some think it was imported from Tonquin. United States Consul Mason, at Mar* seilles, in a cablegram to the Secretary of State to day, says the cholera in that place is Asiatic and very fatal. The deaths number forty daily, and the disease is ■preading to the interior. ..: Ma.KBSH.les, August 23. The cholera is assuming a form which the doctors are unable to cope with. The victims die suddenly, without diarrbaea or vomiting. The patients feel a coldness which cannot be counteracted by the use of motives, or even by the most violent friction. Two hours after death the body j becomes black., not contagious, it is feared that 100 deaths daily will soon be recorded. J Toulon, August 27. Seventeen persons died here yesterday from cholera. , , , , j All the theatre* here are closed and the hotels and shops are closing. The people j are despondent. Twelve new case* of cholera and six deaths from the disease were reported at Salon to-day. Several deaths from cholera have occurred at .bancon, Cornillon, Bt. Chan. Chamas, Grons, aid Bonne. At Bonne a member of the Chamber of Deputies and the Mayor of the town have died of the disease.