The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

THE CHOLERA.
France Taking Measures to Prevent Its Spread—Dr. Ferran's System.

Paris, May 28. Dr. Proust has been sent by the government to Marseilles to advise upon measures for preventing a repetition of last year's cholera scourge. There are some indications that the authorities are waking up to the fact that cleanliness is what is needed. There have been some attempts to render Marseilles and Toulon less filthy, but they have largely failed because of public indifference. The Spanish Government's prohibition of further inoculations by Dr. Ferran is conceivably due to the fact that some peasants who had been subjected to the treatment died. Dr. Ferran, however, points to the fact that out of 6,000 persons inoculated with the cholera germ the deaths, if any, have been so few as to escape record. He does not see how the Government commission of inquiry now at work can fail to report favorably on his system, in view of such results as these. The Doctor, however, cares nothing about the result except from a humanitarian point of view, and says that if the Spanish Government will not let him save the people from cholera in Spain he will visit Paris and London, and expound the system in public there, hoping to secure its adoption by some government.