Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — KING CHOLERA. [ARTICLE]

KING CHOLERA.

The Epidemic Spreading in Spain —The People Dying Off by the Hundreds. [Madrid dispatch.] The total number of new cases of cholera reported Monday from the infected district in Spain is 1,3'22, and the total number of deaths 60’2, being an increase, of 30 per cent in new cases and 6 per cent, in deaths over the total number officially reported Sunday. [Alcira (Spaini special to Chicago Tribune.] Dr. Feiran, accompanied by Drs. Gibier, Van Ermingen. Me.adier, the latter the Bordeaux delegate, several other doctors, and the Tribune correspondent, visited the infected town of Alcira. They went to the sick-beds of fifteen cholera patients at the Hospital de la Caridad and to private houses. The visitors were escorted everywhere by a crowd of enthusiastic natives, who evidently regarded Dr. Ferran as the third Redeemer, the other two being, according to Dr. Ferran, Christ, the moral savior of mankind, and Dr. Pasteur, the physician-savior. Most of the patients are recovering. There are only two very bad cases there not inoculated. Mendacious official statistics set down the population of Alcira at 16,00 t). The real population is 20,000 or 22,000. Of these the correspondent finds 9,10!) inoculated, 7,500 of whom were reinoculated. After minute examination of documents the correspondent finds that , rich and poor of the middle class have all submitted to be vaccinated. The most belong to the richer part of the town, while the non-inoculated include about 1,000 persons dependent on charity or comparatively poor, Kring badly, and, therefore, more liable to disease. Alcira was on the whole a thriving town. Two-thirds of the people have been vaccinated—women, children, and the rest chiefly small land-owners or workmen in tolerably comfortable circumstances. Altogether 320 cases of cholera have been recorded at Alcira. Of these 130 died and 138 recovered, while fifty-two are under treatment The deaths of non-inoculated persons were 130. against seven inoculated and three reinoculaied. Of the inoculated and reinoculated, twenty were cured out of fifty of each category under treatment. On returning to Valencia the whole party was obliged to undergo the absurd pretense of fumigating.