The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-07
The comparative number of in each month is
shown bv the following

Thus appears that whereas the nine weeks which
the total number of only the corresponding
number of weeks in 1882 357 the pesence, how
not reaching its height until nine weeks alter this
Rod, when in only weeks the number amounted to
1865 that is in the twenythrd week there occurred 997
and in the twenty-fourth week. 96S cases
In like whe has been stated, in all the coun
try in England in which the disease has recently
only c2 cases. there were Tor the corresponding period
1872 LIS cases; although for the first four weeks OF this
Sunderland and in twelve weeks it had extended to
more Than about fifteen towns, all northern.
While the disease has been TINS limited in its extent in
England. it has been in Scotland where II has
mp the present date has been chiefly restricted
town, namely Edinburgh and its vicinity, there having
been comparatively very much fewer cases IN Glasgow and
in the other in which it has appeared.
With reference to the second inquiry to which your
quarantine regulations for preventing introduction
cholera into country, the General Board of Health beg
careful inquiries which have been made into this subject
On the appointment of the sanitary commission in the
directed their attention the reported progress OF Ash
ae eh9e5a towards EnGpe and md the probability of its
that from attentive consideration of the history of
progress of this pesence throughout Europe they have
arrived at the following conclusions;
THAT the manner of The introduction and the extern
sion of this pesence in the various cities of Europe which
NJ invaded, was every where similar.
That there evidence that cholera spreads by the
communication OF the infected with the healthy"
In proof of the OF this conclusion, the COM
m,ssiones adduce, among Others the following facts;
five days after the appearance Of the rst case
city, the disease had spread the whole OF Lower
Egypt, making everywhere nearly equal ravages, and
nearly at the time injecting Mansoora Fus Aiexan
da Rosetta, Burlos Damieta and all the and VII
lagos of the Delta"
'Dr Leievre physician the English emba ,sy St
fetersbugh states, that in few days after the first
OF cholera had appeared in that city, 1884, dis
ally preclude all idea OF with
oected persons the cause of iIs propagation
Sir David Barry and Sir William Russell, the ply
cios appointed by the English government investigate
The and mode OF propagation of cholera APP
peaed in Russia, make exactly the same
Dr.. Lelevn."
similar account is given OF the of its spread
70 Uantz AT Vienna also, having broken the 18th
Sepember, 1881, the III, had extended 70 quar-
es OF the GUY; and the following day II had spread
through all the rest"
iurhe stated, that when the disease invaded France
pesped at one bound the distance between London and
Its outburs IN Paris 10 represented as having osen
sudden, and its violence extreme, TO set at nongh'
al cacusuon and render all precautions that were
Men insufficient Thus IL appears thar on the Nth Of
w., nn iSI six persons attacked simultaneously; on
e Ss'h 2l the 3ls, 3O0 and this short space oil
out Oh the forty eight quarters OF Paris the disease
o invaded thiryve In eighteen days alter the first
H'on Oh THIS plague namely, tho l4h Of April, there
from iIooo 10 49, 900 SICK 900 had already
Peneo ana The deaths this period 900 daily
eh erences thus uniform in their nature, the san-
inter thai the superstition that disease
auaeks simultaneously such large numbers OF the
poopM, ana at places distant from each ohs he
/ out OF the question. " II Y -
nahsr the efpersnce Of the towas OF Buston and Rr
Ny's~' ~ Asa y sdducsd hy ths eSlpmiseiopsp p Of