3-074-493 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Cholera in Egypt: scene in the courtyard of a house at Cairo, 1883. 'It seems now to be completely ascertained that this epidemic, which has cost nearly fifteen thousand lives, is not Asiatic cholera, and cannot have been imported from India, but is of local origin, having originated in some districts last April, simultaneously with an outbreak of "bovine typhus."...Our Artist has depicted, in the Illustration published this week, a melancholy scene of hopeless suffering, with the lack of proper attendance, in the households of native families occupying different apartments of a large town house at Cairo, where the dying cholera patients have been laid in the open court-yard, either for the sake of the cool air, in the evening, or because the other inhabitants dread the chance of infection within the building. On the stone steps, and in the balcony above, several of these poor creatures are beheld in attitudes of extreme exhaustion, while their despairing friends know not whither to turn for aid and relief...Egypt has already lost twice as many of the people by cholera this year as by the war that ended with the battle of Tel-el-Kebir'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.