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THE QUATERCENTENARY of JOANNES Cambridge, of Which 1162 authorities continued to deny that cholera existed, though been at Haskeui, and in the equally low-lying and insanitary the Turkish, American, Spanish, and other Consuls were quarters of Cassim Pasha and Fundukli. The cases have, delivering "foul" bills of health. Finally, at the end of however, been very widely scattered through all, or a greater September it was officially declared that 2 cases of cholera part of, this large city, which, with its suburbs, spreads from and 1 death had occurred in Naples. the Marmara to the Black Sea, and includes the Asiatic shores of the and some of the Cholera in Bosphorus (for distance) Bulgaria. Marmara. From three to seven cases are still being reported Up to the present the only mention of cholera in Bulgaria daily, and it may be suspected that slight cases occur which has been the report of a death on Sept. 8th from what was do not come to the knowledge of the authorities. It may be believed to be the disease on board a Hungarian ship at noted, however, that the total mortality in the city during Samovit, a Bulgarian port on the Danube. the past few weeks has not shown any marked tendency to rise. Cholera in Roumania. Cholera in Persia. As in Hungary and Bulgaria, so in Roumania, cholera seems Early in August cholera appeared in the Russian port of to have been confined to the of the Danube. mainly valley Astara on the Caspian Sea, but it was not till the middle of Only very few cases have occurred. On Sept. 7th there was the month that the Persian port of Astara became infected. a (suspicious) death of a woman at Galatz, and on the 17th a At Ardebil the disease broke out in July and continued to suspicious case at Tchernavoda, 64 kilometres from Kustendje ; prevail through August ; the returns from this town have but in both these cases the evidence was bacteriological been very imperfect, but between August lst and 10th there the 19th a case occurred at negative. On suspicious were 66 cases and 29 deaths among its inhabitants, who on the 13th and 19th two cases were Corabia; suspicious number about 30,000. In July the governor of Ardebil seen at Braila, and one of these was confirmed by the results reported that cholera existed at Hassan Barough, Niase, and of at Galatz a bacteriological investigations. Finally guard Nir, on the Ardebil-Tabriz road ; on July 19th it was reported on the landing-stage of the Italian line of steamers died from from Dare-Djaz and Kelat-i-Nadiri in the province of cholera on and here also there was Sept. 12th, bacteriological Khorassan. On August 15th cholera was present in Sorab, a of the nature of the disease. confirmation town of 10,000 inhabitants on the Ardebil-Tabriz road, and Cholera in Asiatic Turkey. for some time from 10 to 15 cases occurred there daily. The disease was also from and near With cholera the Russian shores of the reported Nedjan Velazguerd, prevalent along and from near Sorab. Until later and Black in the of Ardebil, Djounta, Sea, ports Sevastopol, Odessa, Taganrog, fuller are received it is to know and it is not reports impossible exactly Theodosia, Nikolaiefsk, Kertch, Poti, Batum, the extent of Persian invaded the or the that the infection has to territory by disease, surprising spread the parts of Asia of the in different of that Russian intensity epidemic portions Minor adjoining territory. Since the middle of territory. cases of the disease have been seen July several imported Constantinople, Oct. 5th. on steamers or sailing ships arriving from Russian ports at Trebizond, Surmene (close to the Turko-Russian frontier), Sinope, Kavak (at the entrance of the Bosphorus), and other ports. In the town of Trebizond the earliest cases were seen THE QUATERCENTENARY OF JOANNES on Sept. 16th, when 6 cases with 2 deaths were recorded in CAIUS. four different houses. The disease soon spread here ; on the 18th there were 6 cases the reservists called among newly ON Oct. 6th, the of the birth to the colours, and on the 21st there were 12 cases in the Thursday, quatercentenary of John Caius was celebrated at Gonville and Caius local prison. The has since prevailed in the town, College, epidemic of which he was the second and most among the reservists, and in the prison, and down to Cambridge, College munificent founder. The occasion was made a Sept. 25th there had been in all 127 (registered) cases and largely medical one, and the for this was abundant. 64 deaths. Of the cases 40 had occurred in the justification prison. the of has The infection appears to have the land frontier Although University Cambridge always kept passed before her as her ideal a broad academic rather between Russia and towards the end of July ; on the training Turkey than a and this is 20th of that month 2 sudden deaths occurred in a batch of professional equipment, although the ideal of those at in authority 210 persons crossing the frontier at Keutek. It was not, distinctly present over Gonville and Caius, the second founder of however, until a month later that the disease spread in the yet the was a and also neighbouring vilayet of Erzerum. On August 22nd 3 cases college great physician president of a medical John Caius in his day and 2 deaths were recorded in the village of Vekil Khan, great corporation. was an embodiment of the widest as well as three from Erzerum, and 2 suspicious cases in learning days’ journey an of he was a fine Erzerum itself. In the week ending August 26th 21 cases exponent professional wisdom ; scholar and once been a of and 13 deaths had been recorded in the vilayet; in the week had, indeed, professor Greek; but it was as a court that he made the 2nd there were 18 cases and 26 in that physician large ending Sept. deaths ; fortune which enabled him to re-establish the ancient ending Sept. 9th 13 cases and 6 deaths ; in that ending Gonville Hall on lordly lines, and to with it his Sept. 16th 48 cases and 30 deaths; and in that ending incorporate new of Caius. Caius moreover, not 23rd 224 cases and 138 deaths. In the last two bulletins college was, only Sept. President of the of of but the figures, relate to the vilayets of Erzerum and Van Royal College Physicians London, was at one time to St. Bartholomew’s together. In the last bulletin the names of 23 villages are physician Hospital, within the of the it was included in the list; that most severely affected was the residing precincts hospital ; therefore that to the commemora- village of Nardjan, where 130 cases of cholera with 80 deaths particularly fitting had occurred. tion of his 400th birthday the Master and authorities of his should invite to take in the The of on the Black Sea-important as college part proceed- port Zunguldak, the official heads of the medical being the port for the large coal mines of Eregli (Heraclia)— ings profession. Science in as well as that of was has recently become infected. Since Sept. 28th 10 cases general, indeed, medicine, well at the as is have occurred there among arrivals from Constantinople and represented commemoration, sufficiently inhabitants of the port. shown by enumerating some of the distinguished guests who were at on the occasion : Professor Sir Mention may also be made of a death at Basra, present Cambridge suspicious Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S. Professor of in the near the head of the Persian Gulf, but there is as no (Regius Physic yet of Sir W. T. confirmation of the belief that this was a case of cholera. University Cambridge), Allchin, Sir Barlow, F. R. S. (President of the Royal College of Physicians of Cholera in Constantinople. London), Rev. Dr. Bonney, F.R.S. (President of the British Apart from rumours and unconfirmed cases, the first case Association), Dr. J. B. Bradbury (Downing Professor of of undoubted cholera in this city (confirmed bacteriologically) Medicine in the University of Cambridge), Mr. H. T. Butlin was declared on Sept. 19th ; the illness had apparently (President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England), begun on the 13th and the patient (a woman) died on the Sir Francis Champneys (chairman of the Central Midwives 17th. This case occurred in the low-lying and specially Board), Sir William Church, Sir Anderson Critchett, Professor insanitary quarter of Haskeui, near the tip of the Golden Howard Marsh (Master of Downing College and Professor of Horn. Down to Oct. 4th there have been in all 69 cases Surgery in the University of Cambridge), the Bishop of Ely, with 34 deaths. The principal " foyers " of the disease have Dr. W. Ewart, Dr. J. Kingston Fowler, Sir A. Geikie 1163 (President of the Royal Society), Dr. F. de Havilland Hall, Professor Jackson, O.M., F.B.A. (Regius Professor of Greek THE CORONERSHIP FOR THE CENTRAL in the University of Cambridge), Dr. F. G. Kenyon, F.B.A. DISTRICT OF THE METROPOLIS. (Director of the British Museum), Sir Joseph Larmor (secre- tary of the Royal Society), Dr. P. W. Latham, Dr. E. Liveing, Dr. Norman Moore (senior physician to St. Bartholomew’s IN connexion with the appointment of a successor to Dr. Hospital), Dr. J. A. Ormerod, Professor W. Osler, F.R.S. G. Danford Thomas, the late coroner for the Central District (Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford), of the metropolis, the London County Council on Oct.
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