Commercial. No. 39 (1883). Further correspondence respecting the cholera epidemic in Egypt : 1883 [In continuation of "Commercial no. 34 (1883)".].

  • Cookson, Charles A.
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1883
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    et passages, qui se trouvent dans le meme etat que j’ai denoncd dans mon dernier Rapport. En amateur, je me suis rendu ce matin au cimetiere Arabe pour voir en personne les scenes qui auraient lieu, entre les indigenes qui voudraient v entrer pour prier sur leurs morts et la garde etablie pour les en empecher, et j’ai vu <le mes propres yeux (etant inconnu aux soldats de la garde) que ces derniers y ont laisse entrer en ma presence bien des personnes moyennant une piastre tarif, une demi piastre aussi et meme moyennant une galette appelee “kahka” ou “ fitir.” Les cas constates par moi ces jours-ci ne presentent plus ces caract&res graves qui se manifestaient par le passe et consequemment ils guerissent facilement et quelquefois meme sans aucun traitement; cela me prouve que la maladie est k sa derniere periode. Je conclus en vous faisant connaitre aussi que tous les medecins ont ete rappeles et qu’il ne reste plus ici que le medecin de la ville, Ally Effendi Ghibril, et le pharmacien de l’hdnital. Veuillez, &c. Le Directeur, (Signe) Dr. FERRARI. (Translation.) Damietta, August 5, 1883. IN continuation of my last Report of the 2nd instant, I have the honour to address to you these few lines on the condition of the town. The sweepings of the few chief streets, which are swept to throw dust in the eyes of the people passing, are thrown into the Nile a few metres from the Governor’s house, that is to say, close to the Persian Consulate; I do not speak of the other streets and passages, which are in the same state, that 1 denounced in my last Report. I went unofficially this morning to the Arab cemetery to watch in person the scenes which take place between the natives who wish to enter to pray over the dead, and the guard set to prevent them, and I saw with my own eyes (being unknown to the soldiers of the guard) that the latter allowed persons to enter for a piastre, half-a-piastre, and even for a cake, called “kahka” or “fitir.” The cases reported by me during the last few days are no longer of the serious character which they formerly were, and consequently they are easily cured, sometimes even without any treatment, which is to me a proof that the disease is in its final stage. In conclusion, I have to inform you that all the doctors have been recalled, and that there only remains the doctor of the town, Ally Effendi Ghibril, and the hospital chemist. Accept, &c. (Signed) Dr. FERRARI, Director. No. 2. Sir E. Malet to Earl Granville.—(Received August 21.) My Lord, Cairo, August 10, 1883. WITH reference to my despatch of the 5th instant, I have the honour to inclose herewith a further Report by Mr. Vice-Consul Borg on the cholera in Cairo.* I llclV0 &C (Signed) ’ EDWARD B. MALET. Inclosure 1 in No. 2. Vice-Consul Borg to Sir E. Malet. (Extract.) Cairo, August 9, 1883. I HAVE the honour to report that the decrease which has been noticed in the progress of cholera has been fully confirmed by the results of six on the seven days of the week ended on the 4th instant. The return lor that period, which I beg to inclose, brings up the number of deaths from the epidemic at 1,662, which figures compare favourably with those of the third week * See “ Commercial No. 34 (1883),” No. 52.