The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-08-24
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during the last SIX months of 1919, the Chol.
era, pursuing us route to the south and east.
had also invaded the Indo- Chinese Peninsula
= Siam received more than proportional sh,ra
Il of misfortune. In Bankok alone FORTY tbonsarJ
: individuals are said to have fallen victims Tho
! contagion marched EDWARDS to HIalacca and
s Singapore. BY the end of April it was an
: nounced on the northern coast of Java Dnr.
ing May it extended with violence in the into.
t rior of this island.
S Cochin China and Tonquin were invaded in
= 1920. In December, of the same wear IL on
tered China. beginning its ravages at Canton.
Pekin admitted the enemy in 1921, and during
= that and the following year the mortality was
: so enormous, that collins and other funeral re-
T. qnlsltes were necessarily furnished at the ex-
: pense OF the public treasury, for the interment
OF the poorer classes. Numbers Of people en-
: gagged IN the pursuits of business or pleasure.
r riding or walking, were seen 10 fall in tbs
streets, exhausted by the sudden impression of
the disease, which carried them in few hours
afterwards to eternity.
We shall now return TO Bombay and describe
the course which the epidemic took 70 the north
and 'oest, in its approaches from that island to-
wards the confines of Europe and the route
by which at last it was enabled to traverse the
Russian Empire, threatening, in the present
day, the neighboring European States
In July, 1921, through the intercourse main
tanned by ships trading between Bombay and
! Muscat IN Arabia, the contagiOn was exported
to the latter Here the disea Sc DESTROYED sixty
thousand persons Many expired ten minutes
after The accession. The Cholera now spread
/ to different parts of the Persian Gulf-to Bah
rein, Busheer, and Bassora. In Bassora eigh-
| teen thousand individuals persisted, of whom
! fourteen thousand died in fortnight
| Prom the Persian Gulf-the Cholera extend.
ed inland, in two directions, following the limo
! OF commercial intercourse. On one hand, it
assembled the Euphratcs, traversng Mesopota-
mia, into Syria; and the Tgris, from Bassora
to Bagdad. On the other the disease was prop
agated into Persia In the city of Shiraz, tie
! population of which is forty thousand, there
died sixteen thousand in the first few days.
Among the victims was the East India Compa-
ny's Resident, Claudius James Rich, ESQ. He
had retired to rest but slightly indisposed. In
the morning he was found dead in his bed
| Extending through Persia, the contagion Wis.,
tied several districts in the north and south of
the kingdom. Ispahan escaped in consequence
! of the caravans from Shraz being prohibited
from entering the city. The route that was
substituted lay through Yezd. This town paid
dearly for the vcariOus Wis itation, as seven
thousand persons were afterwards swept away
by the Cholera During the succeeding win
ter, the contagion became dormant both in Per-
STA and Syria.
In the spring of 1922 the Syrine and Persian
streams of contagion had their frozen energies
restored to activity. They quickly spread in
their primitive vigor. Mosul, Beri, Aentab,
and Aleppo, were infected. In Persia, during
September, the disease spread to the northward
of Teheran, throughout all Kurdistan and
Tauris.
In the spring and autumn of 1923, Diarbekr
and Antioch were attacked, and the disease
! ravaged many of the towns along the Asiatic
side of the Mediterranean. 1t also extended in
an opposite course, attaining, in the month of
! August, Baku, upon the border of the Caspian
Sea. At length, in September, it reached the
! Russian city of Astracan, at the mouth Of the
! Folga. 1t first broke out in the marine hospt-
al. From the 22d of September to the 9th Oc-
tober there died one hundred and forty four pa
/ tents, nearly two thirds of all who had been
! attacked. Rigorous measures were enforced
| by the authorities for checking the contagon,
but it continued to manifest itself until the Sc
verify of winter had set in. During the ensu-
! ing summer it did not return. The winter of
! this year also destructive of the Syrian
branch before it could reach Egypt, Sanatory
precaution, however, in expectation of its ar
rival, had been prescribed by the vceroy.
Although Europe relieved from the i'm
pending danger, by the complete destruction or
exhaustion of those parts of the contagious cur
rents which had penetrated 20 Astracan, and
to the borders of Egypt, yet the Cholera con-
tinued TO reappcar, every summer, IN many of
the countries previously infected, showing that
the cold of winter had, in general, power to
check its morbid influence upon the human body,
but not to destroy the miasm altogether.
In 1922 it reappeared in Java and carried off
one hundred thousand people. After visiting
Trrnat, Celebes, and Banda, in 1928, it first
reached Amboyna. The inhabitants had no
f recollection of the disease having been in
the Spice Islands before. Afterwards it COM
mitted great havoc in Timor. For several
years the Cholera pursued its destructive course
through China. After desoating several cities
in Mongolia, it had reached the frontiers of ST.
IBERIA at the end of tho year 1926. In Februa-
ry, 1927, the disease fortunately received a
check during the prevalence Of strong north
wind.
After the first invasion, Persia had several
returns of Cholera. In October 1929 very
serious inroad commenced in Teheran, the roy
al residence. But the occurrence of winter
stopped its progress for the time. The conta-
gion, however, was again resusctated towards
t the middle of June, 1890, in the provinces of
= Nlazanderan and Shirvan, upon the southern
shore of the Caspian Sea- From the latter il
= passed through the town of Taurs, and destroy
E ed five thousand of its inhabitants Crossing
tho Russian frontier, it rapidly advanced to
wards the interior. In two provinces four thou
: sand five hundred aud 6ity-scven persons were
c seized with the malady, of whom more thar
= a third died. The Sjh of August it entered
) Tjhis. The population was soon diminished
from thirty thousand to eight thousand b.
/ deaths, and emigration TO avoid the distempeI
r To avert the spreading mortality, the inbablt
i, ants had recourse to religious ceremonies ant
ii professions, which, by collecting crowds, onI.
t. served TO extend the disease.
as In the mean time, by tho first Of July th'
Sc maludY had reached Astracan. Ten days AFTER
0. wards one thousand two hundred and twenty
c nine individuals had boen seized, of whom more
off than a third died including the civil governor
re and nearly all the officers OF the ponce
In This was tho second time the devoted city Q
i. Aslracan had been visited by the cont0gion. |
/ was decreed, however, that tho present attacl
10 should not yield so readily as the former ha'
10 done seven years before The resistless pro
rs orcss which the malady has since made iron
M this locality, over vast portion Of Russia, ha
served to fix the attention Of professional mel
$. in every part Of Europe, and to excite rationa
ie alarm in the minds Of the enlightened member
u of the general community