Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-07-17
CHOLERA,
TOWN AND COUNTRY,

eii o'ie Oiioiera prevail again IN Gin
clnnattl? is question put every hour by
hundreds. and ~swercd by as many, with
the hopeit will not. This reply is perhaps
more comfortable than philosophical; still
there are reasons which may be adduced
to sustain it.
|. In the invasion of last autumn, our
city lost one out of fifty of its inhabitants;
portion greater than the Average loss from
Cholera elswhere. Why then, should we
anticipate another visitation?
2. In the higher parts of the temperate
zone, that is, above the latitude of 80 or
81 degrees the Epidemic has not often pre-.
vailed with great mortality second time
IN the same place. 1t will probably follow
hereafter, the laws which have governed it
/ heretofore. 1t seems indeed, to be con-
forming to them a the present me:--Cin-
clnnatti, Louisville, Frankfort, st. Louis,
New Orleans and our steam boats suffered
MORALLY last fall
This spring it was re appeared, to some
extent, in all these places except Frank
Tort, but it has been less violent than in
'lcksburg, Lexington, and Wheeling
which were but slightly affected last year.
itwould seem, then, that those towns which
were scourged so severely in 1882, are
hkely to be comparatively exempt in 1885,
Several weeks since, a number of fatal
cases occurred in this city, and others oc-
+ Cured as late as the close of last week.
But the disease as yet makes no decided
progress. For three or four days past, the
number of attacks has not been such as TO
occasion any serious alarm. Society S
not disorganized in the slightest degree,
and very few have left the city. Now as
the Epidemic influence rarely hangs oyes
AIRY s,nca che rsf GAGS s' occurre ,,i bere
this spring, we may not only hope, but ex-
pect that Providence has not in store for
as, second mortal and desolating vista
ton.
/. To the question, shall we fly to the coun-
try. oppose another-is not the country
likely to suffer this year, as the city suffer
ed lastyear Every where the disease has
first attacked the populous cities, and af
forwards the villages and the country.
Ohio, last year, with the exception of Gin
cinnatti, suffered but little, and proved to
be safe asylum for fugitives from the CT
ty. 1t may be far otherwise this year, it
probably will, and should it, they who go
into the country, may have cause to repent
their flight.
1t should be known and felt however,
that such at this time is the tendency to
the epidemic in every part Of our city,
that all erciting causes should be carefully
avoided. 1t should, also, be known and APP
preciated, that the disease this spring, has
generally been more sudden in its mode Of
attack than it was last fall. The Diar-
rh9a. which then prevailed so generally,
and almost always preceded the dangerous
stages of the disease, has often been alb
sent this spring, not only in the few scat
tering cases which have occurred in Gin
cinnatti, but at Lexington, Georgetown,
Nashville, Maysville and Wheeling, where
the mortality seems at this time proper
tionably much greater than it was with us
last year. This very rapid progress should
admonish all who are attacked with any
disorder of the stomach or bowels not to
postpone a resort to medical aid single
hour.
But the chief object of this paper is to
lay something that may be beneficial, be-
fore the people of the country and smaller
towns.
In the first place they may rest assured
that, the experience of our city last fall
left but one impression on the public mind
as to contagion, which was, that the disease
is not catching, and the cases which have
occasionally presented themselves this
spring, could not have occurred if conta-
zion had been necessary to their produc-
tion. One of the first that fell under my
own observation, was that of an elderly
lady, confined to her chamber, with a
chronic disease. Another was an infant
that was seldom taken from the house. A
third was little girl, who had not visited
any one laboring under the malady. These
may be taken as specimens.
In the second place there is no reason
why those who have business to visit the
city should not do it as usual.
Thirdly. They should be fully aware
that when the malady becomes prevalent,
it will be dangerous to indulge themselves