The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-07-20

CHOLERA MoRBys. Our readers have seen
frequent notices ofthi plague which has swept
away so many thousands with scarcely warn.
ing of danger. But they are not generally
aware of the extent of country it has passed
over and almost depopulated. We, therefore,
throw together the following facts in relation
TO it, which we found in an article from the
Englishman's Magazine, copied into the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce,-the author of which is
probably medical man attached to the British
army in India.
The disease is termed the Indian or Spas
modic Cholera, and has always prevailed in In.
dia as a mild climate disease, till 1877, when it
assumed the terrible character which renders
1t such scourgs to the countries it visits 1t
first broke out as pestilence, at Jessoro, 100
miles N. E. of Calcutta. In a month it reach
ed Calcutta, having dssolated the villages on
its way thither from Jessore. In May, 1918, it
had pervaded Bengal as far as Cuttack on the
coast, and Aahabad in the interior, at the june.
ton OF the Jumma with the Ganges. 1t then
reached Benares, where $4,000 persons perish
ed IN two months. At Allahabad 40 or so died
daily. In November it reached the British ar
my which was concentrated at Jubbulpore and
vicinity. The army consisted of l0, 900 soldiers
and 10000 followers" In twelve DAYS 5000
died ofthe cholera. The army at length chang.
90 Its position to higher ground, and the disor-
der was checked. 1t now crossed the Deccan
at the rate OF fifteen to eighteen miles dav.
continuing at various places several weeks. II
soon reached the Nerbuddar and extended south
to Poonah, whence it struck off to BOMBAY. ar.
irving there in year from its appearance in
Calcutta. In the mean while the pestilence
spread about the Malabar and Coromandel
coasts, to Madras; and in Deeembsr was car.
ried thence to Ceylon by ship, and thence 10
the islands Maurtius and Bourbon, II, had al.
80 extended easterly into Siam, where. in
Bankok alone, 10000 persisted. In 1920. Il an.
tered Cochin China, Tonquin, and China, and
extended east as far as Ku.ku-ehotin, town
east of Pokin. In 1921, the cholera was CARR.
ed from Bombay to Mascat, in Arabia, where
10000 were destroyed, many of them in ten
minutes after the first attack. In Bassora
$4,000 died. $4,000 in fortnight. 1t assembled
the Euphrates to Syria, and the Tigrs to Bag
dad, and also penetrated Persia. In Shiraz.
population 100000 $1,000 died in few days
In 1923, it reached Diabekir and many other
towns in Asia Minor; and appeared at Astra.
chan, in Russia. In 1929. it re-appeared at
Java, and carried off 100, 900 people. 1t extend
cd eastward to Timor, and New Holland. Chi.
ma suffered from it several years. Although it
had received a temporary shock, in Persia, il
again broke out there in 1899, and in 1880
secured the southern borders of the Caspian
sea through Tauris, where 5000 died, to Tifiis
" russia the population of which was in a
short time reduced by disease and figbt from
$3.50 70 ooVV. The people here resorted to
W. eersuonies and PROFESSIONS 10 stay
s"e 'o0uige' Du' this only Increased /. by bring.