Show T 1 scourge in southern franc e b ed by a U ILS 8 consul f lly by western press 6 to the arf malam aug 9 0 fra frank n k II 11 aikson united states constia at mar blar seil leg in a dispatch 9 the att department part ment beati relative to file cholera Sat at thai that place and toulon says s s 1 if it appears that all the progress ini im medical scie erico fice and the tile cry perfect arrance arrangements ants for collecting and treating safi stricken ken of the scourge more nore 1 jhan ilan two thirds of choso attacked ai attacked tacked jiahe bave died alven during the first forti fortnight ight of the tile epidemic when all san sanitary tary conditions were nvere most favo favorable rabla the almost immediate of the from toulon to and next the enormous death rate of or seventy per cent in the earliest stage of tho tile epidemic seem to prove that sanitary science and in medical skill have made hut but little substantial pro gross in dealing with asiatic cholera a second feature pre present sent in irr thil epi demio demic ig is tile rigor and deadlines deadliness of its attack us compared with mhd last great cholera summer 1875 the tile rapidity and find virulence of hid this development fire arc attributed in tome some measure to tho the intense damp sliding stifling heat which prevailed daring during most of the days sinco since tho tile of june there are aro physicians of jud judgment ment and experience per peri ence who maini maintain alij that desiccation ti is the only effective destroyer of the microbe on a largo stale scale and that dry hot weather while it in may 1 ay be unfavorable for those already sit attacked tacked is the most effective in staying the spread off or the contagion another noticeable fea few ture of the present has be been the simultaneous and sudden appearance oft of the lie malady in all parts of thy the city of 31 marseilles arseilles fugitives from here have died and other towns tow ns in southern ou thern franco france but the epidemic has bits thus far not been kindled there nor have any persons been attacked except stich aa as brought the contagion from toulon in vsev view of the en enormous oranous emigration which has occurred sin cj outbreak three weeks ago it itis bisesti estis mated by good authority at persons from marseilles marseill as and from toulon and tho tile distribution of this vast contingent throughout france italy switzerland and netherlands it is most worthy of note and encouraging that no authenia case of cholera has occurred among this army of fugitives at an anny point north of grenoble although Althou although gK a great number of italian working left tho the two strick stricken eXi elliea for northern italy during the early daya da of tho the epidemic the disease has bas not apparently been carried with them thern or if it has it is not yet developed nothing in all the disputes con concern cerii ing the orgin origin and cure of the dis this case has lias added any effectiveness to the means hitherto known for tho lie treatment of patients hiie aai proportion the of deaths to ases cases abw ap pears to increase rather ish A ma momentary mentar gleam of ho liopo PO was WO 1 diffused by the announcement that patients ants bad had been rescued at st the tile col lay jacso stage of tho the malady at tile bog hospital I 1 in toulon by inhalation of oxygen but this encouragement lias has been clouded by tho tile disco discovery that tile effect of this powerful stimulant was but temporary and patients th thus us treated finally died in the same ratio as those treated by other methods metho ds 11 |