Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-08-28
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Decmins the following facts i'm relation 70 The cholo .
@ Tor he most part, from the best works that have
on ne subject calculated to alay the APP
Prenesoh and dread which fill the minds of so many of
our Fellow cuzens, rendering them more liable TO its attack
they are submitted for publications:
lst. Cholera is the same disease I'm cvcoss H., -.
lsed In ASIA Africa, Europe and America from time i'm
eoa now Tor the first time, raging as an epidemic in
some oil the United States, at all more IT,
the yellow Fever of the country which is pretty gcn
~ admitted 10 be nothing more than bilious fever in ex
3D. Though certainly very fatal disease Tho ,o,, IS
us MORTALITY may be limited by udcious medical aid moro
especially procured in its first second stage
us mortality, so far from exceeding that of all Other
mas not as yet equaed that which has attended
.e fellow Fever. AS early 1918 the abotipines os
I, se,''oI aohg 'he coast, from Plymouth in Mas
by this fever The Massachusetts tribe alone wa" en-,
posed 10 De reduced from $4,000 300 When our ances
TORS arrived III 1920, their unbued bones still whitehead
the surface of the earth
More recently, viz: in l79s three thousand four hun
dred and forty souls persisted by yellow Fevnr Min IN
limits OF the city Of Philadelphia. But compared ,vity
the pesulenceS that have from time TO fine hamcd o
uUI I our epidemic may almost be regarded as a
mid disease; not to speak in detail of tho plaques with.
winch the world visited in more remote Periods.
which, during the reign OF Justinan LIST threatened The
win humiliation. In 1915 England was visit
ed by pestience which proved fatal to 600 persons IN
one year In 1919, the old grave yards being led two
hundred per day were inferred the new cemetery near
honuon IN 1860, IT passed from England TO Sweden
Wnsfe IL was estimated That third OF the inhabitants
IN lSol' from an epidemic which ravaged three times
me town oil PlescOw in Russia by no means ,npulous
city, the deaths averaged thirty per day
In 1861, the city OF Smoensk where the ponula,;on
nad been Immense was left with only fifteen nhabita6ts
IN uiuchow and Balesow not soul survived its
NoVOgoro hasan, liver, and Moscow, were also depop-
lated But Russia not the only victim of this disease:
" extended TO many other parts of Europe
AZ basie In Germany, ina single year there were more
nah oOO deaths; at Strasbug, $4,000 at Vienna from
9og 10 UOo were buried daily for consecutive months
AZ huoec 100 died in days Eriur daily; aud al
munster and Oznabruck the living were nadcGnate to
the nterment oithe dead. The total loss of Germany from
at 200 Geo. 0' VIZ '"'e"
rance was not spared In Paris for weeks five hun
ueu were buried daily The beautiful city of Marseles
was ehurely depopulated not living soul remained IL
Is asserted that fourth of the population OF that charm
ng country pershed The picturesque and healthy coun
Try oil Switzerland lost third offs inhabitants In Asia
ABOUT tue same period, and from tho sane cause twenty
hiohS OF human beings persisted. In short more thar
nan ne human race IN the Of eight years of the
lo'r'eeh'h century, were swept from the earth
Ii has been said by yscia,s thai mar, rc 10
past pain with pleasure and past pleasure with
DE "l' as may, review OF tue gloomy picture above
poMr'yed' Is certainly calculated 10 strip the epidemic
whch some OF the United States are now visited OF
nch oil e horror felt at its threatened appearances
in our city. NEbiC,IIS
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