Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-06-02
THE CHOLERA.

All Europe stands struck, at the approach of
this terrific disease the most formidable which
acourged the world not less devastating than the plague
and more unmanagesble. Slowly traversing the East
since 1877 it has visited all Asia, and finally arrived
at the borders of Poland threatening to make the cir
cult of the earth Capable of being transported by Sea-
is possible that an Ocean may not protect from it.
We find in the Baltimore American, the following in
tsresting particulars.
PROGRESS OF THE INDIAN CHOLERA.
| From article find in the Journals, we TAX.
the following p.rtic.iats sespectiug this err.6e
plague. whme wide p ogscss not less e3traosdnar,
! than it's mortality is great.
Indian or Spasmu.ic Cholera had always till
I 1917 exi-tcd in Hindstsn q cumpa ra,lvey rnll
climate disease, citing small number Of per-o ..
ut tert.in seasons. In the A gust If thst year
broke out with unPr cedented nalignny. common. %
first uuong the inhabitants of Jesspre. a 'own lou
miles E OF Calcutta. Ia less Than month
aveled along the IF the river to that Gil y
1t extended across Bengal, and then fired tor
some time TO The west IN bank of the Ganees ana
Jumna: III BenaYes, such Wa i,s malgni y. that in
two months, IL quo persons perlshed. HpDce II
gradually extended north and vest 10 Lucknow
Delhi. Agra. &c. IN he army under the Marquis f
HasInEs consisting # 10000 troops and $4,000 f1
towers, II destroyed IN twelve days OoJ mel. Al
TINS lime the Thermometer ragged from go to 1907
the ait was moist and suffocating. and the atmo>-
Dhere dead lin. The Cioiers Tow rect. Il
cruT.e along the d ccan, ndvan ing 10 many lnstan
ccs, at he rate OF fifteen cIgh cen II, | q day.
After ravaping many districts, ard then taking the
direction of ths coast, it arrived RInoay I'D Au-
gust 1873, having IEOFsed 10 he western coast of
The Indian Penrn.ula il twelve months from, ,h,
date of It's appearance IN Calcutta. Through the
:"untr. at I,r burn It had the same cha racrrrlsic
wEicn II sii retains. living measured rate fl
progression with occasional hAs. and a courg,
sometime dire CT and sometirncf devious
hile thc interior Of Hndostan wus thus apfEsr-
ing, the pas'ilec had spread abroad along the copsl
Of mala6ar and CorpmRndel, r"aohIng Madras tn,
9th OF October. Here It dey lopeA new and a!ar
I'm fea # no l.
se.; tor It broke out Candr the cap tai Of Cey-
ION, IN December 1919, with greater vloIrnc,
Tran on the Continent. By the 18th Of Sept
1919. MauYitIus nfeci ed, and m Decenbrr trt
adjacent isle OF Bourbon. During .st Blk mont hs
of the same year, he epidemic had invaded the H.
do Chinese Peninsula. Siam receiving more than
Its proper l,usl share Of misfortune. in Bankue
alone. 20 0u0 individuals died. By the end of Aprii
it was announced il Java in 1891, Cochin China
and TonqulD were invaded and in December of ha,
year it entered China at Canton, Pekln received
the enemy IN 1884, and during that and the mex,
year the mortality Was SO enormous that the poor
were inferred at the expense of the Government
Returning to Bombay, must trace It's route
towards Europe. In July. 1921, through The inte,-
course between Bombay aud Muscat in Arabia, th,
conlsg'"n was exported To the latter, where it de.
trnyed 10000 persons. Many expired ten rnnut, S
after The Accession. Hence it extended TO MANY
parts of the Persian GUlf-to BthTein, Bu=heer and
Bnssora ct which latter place l40J0 persons died
in fortnight. From the Persian Gulf the ChOlcrs
extended inland in two directions, following tn.
line Of commercial intercourse. On the one hand
it sscended the Euphra!os travsrsIrg Mes" poamra
MO Syu', md the Tgris, from Ba>sora 10 Il gdad
On the other, IT made iis way into Persia. IN Shr
faE, of which the population was 4ODnO thrre dieG
10000 in tho 6's, few days. Ispahan escaped H. |
consequence Of The caravans being prohibited from
entering that city. Du ing several Successive years
the cou'agion Invaded countries or Ee-appeared
in those which it had previously scnuKged -Mosul |
B"ri, Acntab, and Alcppo we've infected, and also
Darb"cker and Antioch. II bad thus reached the |
direcrn reached the border Of the Caspian. Final
y, IN September, 1923 it reached the Russian city
Of Astracban, at tho month Il the Volga. In 1890
it revived in Persia with Violence ind crossing the
Russian frontier, entered T'flls the population Of
which it diminished from &c 900 to 600 bv deaths
or mgrstion. IL penetrating the heart OF the Rue
sian empire, i pursued Iao so1ysc Of tho Tolgs.
Re,Vceh tho c7.TscsS $50 slo ar Hceac,o. gsv