Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — IN THE TRACK OF DEATH. [ARTICLE]

IN THE TRACK OF DEATH.

The Cholera on the Increase in Franc* —Washington Authorities Anxious. A cable dispatch from Paris says: Thres cases of cholera occurred here yesterday one of which proved fatal. It is believed they are sporadic. The heat is intense and the streets are deserted'. All the cholera patients have been removed from the hospitals to pest houses in the suburbs. The Mayor of Toulon has been stricken down with the plague. There were seventy-two deaths at Marseilles during the last twenty-four hours, showing an increasing virulence in the epidemic. Dr. Koch has gone to Berne to confer with the Swiss authorities as to the best means of excluding cholera iron Switzerland among the country people around Toulon, as the cholera is increasing in the country districts. Thirteen deaths occurred here last night. Austria is becoming alarmed, and has asked the Porte to co-operate in measures to prevent the cholera from entering Austria and Turkey. The authorities of Odessa. Russia, have quarantined French vessels from the Mediterranean for two weeks. Every effort possible is being put forth to keep the cholera from the port. London dispatch: Edwin A. Merritt, United States Consul General, has refused to grant clear bills to vessels leaving London and Liverpool for ports in the United States unless the American Inspectors certify to the health of those on board. Washington dispatch: Secretary Frelinghuysen has instructed the Consular officers at London, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen, and Hamburg to at once appoint competent physicians to inspect all vessels and -passengers departing for the United States from those points. The Consular officers referred to are instructed to refuse clean bills of health in all cases, except upon the recommendation of tho Sanitary Inspector. The Consuls are instructed to report by cable any case of infectious or contagious disease.