The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-01

ports, &C., which nearly establish the GER
'anty of contagious principle.
Inc course of the disease has always
oeen along the great thorough fares of com
i'erce, and 1t has moved fast or slowly, ao-
co'aing TO the rate of travelling. Along
cle coast 1t has been more rapidly spread,
rom me increased facility Of communica-
sion. On the naviga5le rivers it has also
i1iioweo the streams. /. creeps along
s'ow'y; nut surely--it may indeed skip over
s"aii uistrict, but it never misses n king
"'"'' ana as certainly as il is on the frontier,
surely VIII 1t be in the centre. The
nio'en'ehts have even been calculated with
uJusiueraoie precision. The caravans,
""ioh nave OFTEN communicated it, seem
never 10 nave been infected-thouyh it is
prooa"ie mat they carried in merchandise
'ne means OF the contagion. This fact. how.
ever seems to make little against the doc.
ZINE. In the early ravapes in India ne the
Cholera was not believed to he con,.o;o,s
no precautions were taken to ston its snreod'
ing ; but in Europe, the instances ,ybere
'he requisite precautions hive beer ,.I.an
n'o dse mas not penetrated; and many
~ .f results were remarked in Asia. In
= "HCiC, according TO Tho
ular belief, 10000 peopis died in civ ,, PIP
there were no precautions t,ken 20 1851 eeNs'
inc hisease-but in the Isle of Bonrhon
where the Governor established the 60,
est quarantine regulations, though smug
gilng vessel introduced the malady, the es-
taoilshment OF lazaret, and a military cor
uoH' prevented communications with the
country. Inc two islands are near earh
other, yet in the latter only one in fifteen
hundred peiished, while in the former one
in four were DESTROYED.
In Persia, Teheran, the residence of the
Shah, was preserved several wears. Inv an
order tor the caravans to 90 on another
route-the order was rescinded and tho
Cholera introduced. At Lat,aouia. the
French Consul, and many Europeaps shut
themselves up while the pestilence was rao-
ing around them, and not one received the
disease; numerous gardens and farms es.
capped the contagion by similar system
AT Manila, while $4,000 people were dyipo
IN fourteen days, the vessels in the harbo,
were Tree from the disease, as the com.
manders lnterdlcted all communication with
the shore. The people of the large town O.
Sarepia, with the pestience near, were pre-
served by strict quarantine. In village
where there were more than 100 cases o
Cholera, barricade was made, and s,r;c
regulations enforced-the result was tba,
not one case occurred beyond the ba,ricade
up to May last. there had been in Asia
and Europe upwards of CSC different erup
tons OF the Cholera-and perhaps as man,
more, OF which there is no record. At Bss
sora, out OF 10000 inhabitants, $4,000 fell
IN fourteen days; in many cases the death.
occurred IN little more than an hour aftel
the attack.
The Cholera entered Europe bv the way
OF Astrachan, from whence the facilities o
spreading it were but too great. Astracbar
Is on the Volgu, river which connects the
largest towns in the Russian empire. and
which is the great medium of communica-
ton. These towns suffered in succession
near one of them, Zaritzin, three great
roads branch of-and the pestilence stalked
along these to the north, south, and centre
@h fRf sqg pl6ecteh f IN Ge TeSiew aha Aha t5sv
seem to establish the fact of contagionE
though not exactly of the kind which
communicates the plague which has been
Ior centuries common in the Levant.
The Cholera is indeed near US when it is
IN England, and it is never 100 early TO COM
mence precautions. If it should come, it
may possibly, by vigilance and care, he con-
hned within narrow bounds-perhaps with
IN lazaret or hospital-instead of beipr
permitted TO pass up our various roads and
rivers TO devastate the country.