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The San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
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European governments, including Denmark, Portugal, and Spain, implement strict sanitary measures against ships from cholera-epidemic Egypt. Concerted action is contemplated among European powers to restrict intercourse with affected ports.
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A dispatch has also been received from the United States Consul General at Lisbon which states that certain sanitary measures of a precautionary character have been taken by the Portuguese Government against the introduction of the Asiatic cholera at this time epidemic in Egypt.
By a ministerial decree the Egyptian ports of the Mediterranean were declared infected by cholera and all the Red Sea ports were declared suspected.
The Spanish Government has imposed similar vigorous measures upon vessels arriving from the English ports, and a portion of the Madrid press has advised that until similar restrictions are imposed in Portuguese ports upon such vessels, an embargo be laid upon all persons entering Spain by land from Portugal.
It is said that concert of action is contemplated by certain of the European powers as regards the continental ports of central Europe, and that stringent measures are under consideration to restrict intercourse with the ports now so plainly afflicted.
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egyptian mediterranean ports declared infected by cholera; red sea ports suspected; european powers impose restrictions on ships from egypt and consider concerted action to limit intercourse with affected ports.
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The U.S. Department of State receives information on Denmark's enforcement of laws against contagious diseases for ships from Egyptian ports. Portugal takes precautionary measures against Asiatic cholera epidemic in Egypt. Egyptian ports declared infected or suspected. Spain imposes measures on vessels from English ports and considers embargo on land entries from Portugal. European powers contemplate concert of action for central European ports to restrict intercourse with afflicted areas.