The Arkansas advocate., 1831-07-06
PROGRESS OF THE INDIAN
 CHOIER

From an article we find in the jour nals, we take the following particulars respecting this terrific plague, whose wide progress is not less extraordinary than its mortality is great.
 Indian or Spasmodic Cholera had al- ways, till 1877, existed in Hindostan as a comparatively mild climatic disease. affecting small number Of persons at certain seasons. in the August of that year It broke out with unprecedented mailgnity, commencing first among the inhabitants of Jessore, town 100 miles N. E. of Calcutta. In less than month 1t travelled along the course of the river to that city. It soen extended across Bengal, and then retired for some time to the western bank of the Ganges and Gumna; in Benares, such was its malig- nty, that, Tn two months, l5,000 persons perlshed. Hence 1t gradually extend- ed north and west to Lucknow, Delhi, Agra, &c. In the army under the Mar qnis of Hastings, consisting of 10000 troops and S0,000 followers, 1t destroy- ed in twelve days 5000 men,. At this time the thermometer ranged from 90 to 100 deg. The air was moist and suf locating, and the atmosphere d dead calm. The Cholera now directed its course along the Deecan, advancing, in many instances, at the rate of fifteen or eighteen miles day. After ravaging many districts, and then taking the di- rection of the coast, it arrived at Bom- bay ln August 1918, having crossed to the western coast of the Indian Penin- ssla in twelve months from the date of its appearance in Calcutta. Through the country of its birth it had the same characteristics which it still retains. hay ing a measured rate of progression with occasional halts, and course sometimes direct and sometimes devious.
 While the interior of Hindostan was thus suffering, the pestilence had spread along the coast of Malabar and Coro- mandel, reaching Madras on Sth of Oc- toiber. ficre it developed new and alarming feature, its capability of being transported by sea; for it broke out in Candi, the capital of teylon, in Decem- Der, ISIS, with even greater violence than on the Continent. By the 18th of i September, 1919, Mauritius r,as infect ed, and in December, the adjacent isle of Bourbon. During the last six months of the same year, the epidemic had in- vaded the lndo-Chinese Peninsula, Siam receiving more than its proportional share of misfortune. In Bankoe aione 10000 individuals died. By the end ol
 April it was announcedin Java; in 1920,
 Cochin China an Tonquin were invad-
 cd, and in December of that year if en-
 tered China at Canton. Pekin receiv-
 ed the enemy in 1921, and during that
 and the next year the mortality was so
 enormous that the poor were inferred I at the expense of the government.
 Returning to Bombay, we must trace
 it's route towards Europe. In July, 1891.
 through the intercourse between Bom-
 bay and Muscat in Arabia, the conta- zion was exported to the latter, where
 il destroyed e0.000 persons. Mary ex pired ten minutes after the accession
 Hence it extended to many parts of tho l Persian GuIf-to Balirein, Busheer ane
 Bassora, at which latter place l4,n0(
 persons died in q fortnight. From th.
 Persian Gulf the Cholera extended ia land ia two directions, following the lint