Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-03
THE CHOLERA.

ever scourged the world, not less devastating than
the plague and more unmanageahle. Slowly ira
versing the East since 1872, it has visited all
Asia. and finally arrived at the borders Of Po-
land, threatening to make the circuit OF the
earth. Capable of being transported by Sea. 1t
is possible that an Ocean may not protect us
from il. We find in the Baltimore American
the following interesting particulars;
Progress of the Indian Cholera.-From an
article we find in the Journals, we take the fol-
lowing particulars respecting this terrific plague,
whose wide progress is not less extraordinary
than its mortality is great
1918, existed in Hindostan as comparatively
mild climate disease, affecting small number
Of persons at certain seasons. In the August Of
that year it broke out with unprecedented ma
Lightly, commencing first among the inhabitants
of Jessore. a town 100 miles n. E. of Calcutta.
In less than month it travelled along the course
of the river to that city. IL soon extended across
Bengal. and then retired for some time to the
western bank Of the Gauges and Jumna; in Be-
mares, such was its malisnity. that in two months
RI 5000 persons persisted. Hence it gradually
extended north & west to Lucknow, Delhi, Agra,
sc. In the army under the Marquis of Hast
ings. consisting Of 10000 troops and $4,000
followers, il destroyed IN twelve days 5000 men.
AT this time the thermometer ranged from go
to 1902.
The air was moist and sufiocating, and the at
mosphere dead calm. The Cholera now d.
rected its course along the Decean, advancing,
in many instances, at the rate of fifteen or eight
cen miles. After rayaging many districts, and
then taking the direction Of the coast, it arrived
at Bombay in August, 1918, having crossed to the
western coast of the Indian Peninsula in twelve
months from the date of its appearance in Cal
cat;a. Through the country of its birth 1t had
the same charac teristc which II still retains, hay
lug measured rate Of progression with regular
halts, and course sometimes direct and some
times devious.
While the interior of Hh,dostan was thus suf-
fering, the pestileuce hadspread abroad along the
coast of Malabar and Coramandei. reaching Ma
dras the 9Th Of October Here it developed a
new and alarming feature, its capability of be-
ing transported by sea; for it broke out in Candi,
the capital of Ceylon, IN December 1918, with
even greater violence than on the Continent
BY the 18th Of September, 1919, Maurtius was
infected. and in December, the adjacent isle Of
Bourbon. Daring the last six months of the
same year. the epidemic had invaded the lndo-
Chinese Peninsula, Siam receiving more than
it's proportional share of misfortune. In Bankoe
alone 10000 individuals died. By the end of
April il was announced in Java; in 1891. Co.
chin China and Tonquin were invaded, and in
December of that year it entered China at Can
ton. Pekin received the enemy In 1891, and
during that and the next year the mortality was
so enormous that the poor were inferred at the
expense Of the Gos ernmsnt.
Returning to Bombay, we must trac its route
towards Europe. la July. 1921, through the
intercourse between Bombay and Muscat in Ara
bia, the contagion was exported to the latter,
where it DESTROYED 10000 persons. Many ex-
PRED ten minutes after the accession. Hence it
extended TO maNy parts Of the Persian GuIf-to
Bahrein. Busheer and Bassora, at which latter
place l4.OO0 persons died in fortnight. From
the Persian Gulf the Cholera extended inland in
two direc tons. following the line of commercial
intercourse. On the one hand, it assembled the
Enphrates. traversing Mesopotamia into Syria,
snd the Tisris. from Bassora to Bagdad: on the
l,her. il made its way into Persia. In Shraz,
of which the population was 10000, there died
10000 in the first few days. Ispahan escaped in
consequence Of the caravans being prohibited
from entering that city. During several success
I'VE years, the contasiQn invaded new countries,
or re-appeared in those 1t had previously scourg-
ed. Mosul, Beri, Aentab and Alepp0 were in
fceted: and also Diarbcekcr and Antioch. It had
thus reached the Mediterranean on one side; it
also, in the opposite direction, reached the Dor
der OF the caspian. Finally. IN September,
1928, it reached the Russian city of Astrachan,
at the mouth of the Noga. In 1880, it revived
in Persia with violence; and, crossing the Rus
sian frontier, entered 'rff1is, the population of
which it diminished from $4,000 to 5000 by
deaths or migration. In penetrating the heart
of the Russian Empire, it pursued the course of
the yolga. Between the Cossacks Of the Doa
and Moscow. several districts were ravaged in
succession; in that city. the;appearance Of the
DESTROYER was announced on the s8th OF Septem-
Der, having travelled from Ast~achau 900 miles
i'm less than three months. BY the 18th of No
yember, 5.507 cases. were returned, and the
deaths amounted to e,9os, more than one half.
In January, 1891, the malady had declined in
Moscow, but had appeared, to limited extent,
among the troops marching to the reduction Of
Poland. The portion Of the globe which it has
ravagcd includes seventy degrees of latitude,