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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 631, 27 June 1876, Page 3

With respect to the spread of the plague in Mesopotamia, the Levant Herald of the 12th instant says ;—"The latest telegrams to the Constantinople Sanitary Board indicate an increase in the number of plague cases in Mesopotamia, ns well as an extension of the area infected. The following are the returns At Hiliab, in the apace of fire days (from the 27th to the Slstof March inclusive), there were 66 new cases and 43 deaths. At Bagdad, from the 28th of March to April Ist, there were 146 new cases and 75 deaths. The plague in that city has now crossed from the right bank of the Tigris to the left bank, which had been previously free from the contagion. The epidemic has likewise made its appearance at Meshed or Nedjef Ali, where from the 25th to the 29th ult there occurred five fatal cases, and also at Kut-el-Hamra. A severe quarantine, we are assured, has been established at Kournah, at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris, under the superintendence of Dr Colmar ; and it is also stated that the Persian Government has ordered that arrivals from Mesopotamia shall undergo a quarantine of fifteen days before entering the Shah’s territory,"