Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-20
From, the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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fhose ,cho hare died in the greatest nmmbers.
VI all the circumstances predisposing to at.
TACK OF Cholera, say the East India Surgeons, IA
tiguo consequent 70 travelling, or to hard work in
the open ar. was the most powerful According
y, we find that troops upon tho line of march, and
people whose occupation exposed them to the wea.
ther--as boatmen, fishermen, husban linen, garden
ers grasscuters, washermoy,, pa cen bearers
were extremely subject to the disease.
In India, the Cholera attacked, the various class.
es OIL the innahitanfs to greater or lessexten
cording as they were more or less exposed TO fa-
| hgue, and irregular modes of life. The sEnrope-
ans suffered less comparatively than tho natives;
and of those, the higher less than the lower class
es Women suffered less than men, and children
IN less degree than either--of 49l deaths in ole
ven days in Bombay. 254 were Of males, .l72 of
females and SIS of children.
In Europe, and especially in England, these
proportions will not hold; the females in some pla
| ces suffering ca much as tho males.
In tho north of India, the Mahomcdans used
more nutritious diet, and were better clothed than
the Iiindoos; and in general, they were less liable
to the maiady. That this did not depend upon tho
stronger constitutions of the former seen i'm the
effect which succeeded to a temporary exhaustion.
When the Cholera prevailed at Delhi. it happened
| to be the period of the year in which the Mahome-
dams observe their annual fast of the Ramazan =.
| During this tmo all orthodox Musselmen abstain
from food while the sun is above the horizon Per-
sons of this sect, therefore, suffered moro cxten.
slvely during the fast than the Hndoos. who lived
| after their ordinary manner. At Calcutta many
of the workmen suffered, not in tho ratio of their
constitutional strength but according to their tenn
Porary exhaustion The mechanics working in the
open dock yards receive high wages, and 1.-Two in
superior manner with regard to diet and other do
mestic comforts; yot they were more frequently
seized than the day labourcrs of the poorest order
employed under shelter in the cotton screws.
In Madras it was observed that very few of the
lower castos escaped, who were given to intoxica.
ton, and slept exposed to tho night mir.
1t has been Justly remarked of the causes OF the
disease at Bombay, that fatigue, poor diet, bad
Ii
,eularly predispose to attack. In that city Cho.
iera was nearly restricted to the class of the popu.
iation which is most exposed to the labonr
OF Privaiion, and who often obliged, not being
possessed OF cot, to sleep on mud floor, with
scarcely cloth to spread under them.
Europeans, says another writer, become prcdis-
posed to the disease through incompetence, and
more certainly if they expose themselves in state
OF intoxication to the night air, fall asleep in
an open place. Tho fatigue and exposure to which
tho natives arc subject, together with deficiency
of clothing, bad food. the eating of cold frus.as
melons, cucumbers, raw vegetables, &C., evidently
lay them open to sickness and never fail in produ
cling more or less of fever and bowel complaints at
this season of the year July, 1879 But now,
says the narrator, these common affections are
Inuch lever In number than liz usual, and the Cho-
iera has, instead, been the prevailing dis:empcr
Testimony, to the like effect, has been borne with
wonderful nnanimty, by all the writer's on Chole-
Fa' not only in India, but in China, Persia, Russia
Poland Germany, and England. The disease was |
most Widely disseminated, and most deadly in its |
effects among the serfs of Russia who lived in tho
EXTREMIST filth and in habits of beastly intemper.
ancc The houses in which the disease occurred
in Moscow, inhabited by class of persons
extremely poor habitually filthy, and addicted to
intemperancc, and who lived in low and damp hou
SEES, and in celars.-Muny Of the chambers, only
nine feet square, were occupied each by thirty in
dIyiduals.
Every where in Europe, say the best authorities,
on the subject, the poor the ill-ed, and i'll he'd
and tho incorporate, have been the greatest suffer-
crs.s
When persons ofnotc have fallen victims to The
pestilence, we might, in tho instances of Mar.
shall Diebtsch. and the Grand Duke Constantine
find an explanation in much mental nxiety and ha. |
bits of intemperance. 1t has been stated on good |
authority that in ninety cases in hundred, i'm st.
Petersburg, the common victims to Cholera were
the irregular, the dssipated. those with broken
constitutions, and impaired health, the badly fed
the badly clothed. and those who indulge in intox.
eating liquors.
The coarse ascesccnt food, tho shcep-skin cloth
ing, OF the peasant, seldom cha nged, and even
at this season June the protractcd religious FISTS
the subsequent intcmperance, both in eating and
drinking, the intocrably close apartments OF the |
Russians of all ranks their consequent sensibty |
to sudden change of temperature render them in !
our opinion, say English physicians, in ST. Peters
ourgh at the time, particularly liable to suffer from
the disease.
AT Warsaw the individuals affected generally he
longed to the lowest class. Their condition, as
we learn from intelligent physicians the spot
wretched; their food, very coarse brown broad |
potato whiskey, sailed meat and behring's, cheese
of the country, and paste made OF water, which |
is very difficult Of digestion.
Three dfunkards, after one OF their orgies DC |
rlSiiei by the disease in four hours and a drunken
servant in hotel i'll which two French physicians
lodged at Warsaw, found dead in his bed
The agency of intemperaDce in predisposing TO, |
and exciting the disease, is shown by the fact, that
after it had begun to decline in Riga tho indulgence
in intoxicating drinks, and other Irregularities dur
ing the Whitsuniide holidays, caused a temporary
augmentation of new eases. The breaking out Of |
the disease at Gateshead, in the north of England,
was directly consequent Baccanalan festivities
of Christmas eve. Women of dissolutc habits have |
been common victims 10 the Cholera. Any sudden
chaDge IN the habits of individual or people, as
IN congregasiDg for religious and other festivals,
IN soldiers encamped, and in the field, strong pre-
disposlng causes of the disease. In India on the |
occasion OF an assomblage of pilgrims Ia worship !
Juggcrnaut, tho mortality excessive. The like |
disastrous consequences were observed in the crowd
of pilgrims at Mecca. The disease first showed il. |
sell in Poland, among the soldiers in the short and
memorable, bu. unfortunate campaign of 1881. IL |
prevailed more especially among those who fa-
tIgued by long and forced marches, exposed to the
lneiemoneies of the weather, and who observed no |
precautions in regard TO their health. Those reg- |
meDts were first and mainly sufferers who were
oncsmped on low, swampy ground, between noun
tains, and the soldiers of which were fed on little
else than pork. After the baltic of Ingone, tle
10th Of April which was long and bloody, tho Po-
ish soldiers, heated and fatigued by their uncom-
mon exertions, drank grcedily Of tie muddy water
of the marsh, and before tho night Of tho 18th,
many destroyed by Cholera.
Among tho causes of Cholera, mono arc more
promptly or fatally operative than depressed an.
xious state Of mind. This fact hss been recorded
by tho medical men both Of India and Europe.
That many died Of flight generally an sccrc-
dted opinion at st. Petersburgh, during tho prevail