Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-08

Ineeung' .. NJ. DOO IL Chairman.
RonERT II. HoTcHKIss, Secretary.
CHOLERA PHENoMENA.--On Friday we
gave sketch of the system pursued by the
French authorities, when the cholera APP
peared i'll Paris in 1899, and the important
contributions to medical science which re-
Eu'ted from its operation. The report TO
which we referred is an octave volume of
about 200 pages, and contains a variety of
tables and statistics relating to the habits of
the cholera, of the highest Importance The
following observations and deductions,
drawn from the report, will be of general in
terest at this time. 1t will be borne in mind
by the reader that the report is confined to
the history of the cholera in France.
The cholera appeared in the country and
city at the same time, or within an interval
not exceeding forty-eight hours.
More women than men died, both in the
city and the country, but in the country the
mortality of females was one-fifth larger than
that of males, and comp aratively larger than
in Paris.
The period of human life that suffered
least was that between six and twenty, and
that which suffered most, compared with
The chances of ordinary mortality, was be-
tween thirty and forty, and that which sus-
tanned the greatest aggregate Of mortality
was between sixty and one hundred years
The average duration of an attack was 81
hours, but varied with the ages of the pa
liCnt as follows:
From birth to one year the average du-
ration Of the malady did not extend over 43
EOurs.
From l year to 5, 40 hours.
From to 10, 40 hours.
From 10 to 10, 55 hours.
In the years included between and GO.
81 hours, and go to 90 and over, 60 hours.
Thus, with the exception of the age Of
10 10, the resistance of nature to the pro-
gress of the evil showed itself in direct IA
ito to the physical strength Of the patient, as
inferred from his age, but so seldom did that
strength prevail that the only benefit Of its
efforts was 10 delay death, not for some
weeks or for some days, but only for few
hours.
During the year, al Paris, it had been re-
marked that there had been an overpus Of
e5 foggy and rainy days, or nearly three
months more than the average for that city;
and the wind blew from the south and south
west Ids days instead of 1870, as usual.
The temperature rose to ll.60 cent.
above the ordinary rate, and the year, there
fore, was more damp than dry, and more
warm than cold.
Incessant variations Of the atmosphere,
which caused the thermometer TO rise or
fall from three 10 eight degrees in the space
Of few days, or even in twenty -foar hours
marked the course of the month of March,
1892, the month when the disease made IT'S
FIRST appearance in Paris.
TO ascertain the degree Of violence man.
ifested by the epidemic in those streets gem
orally regarded as the narrowest, drtcst
and least healthy, fifty streets were selected,
and the number of deaths lhat occurred in
them compared with the number which oc-
cured in Fifty other streets superior in
width, cleanliness and general salubrity.--
In the streets first named, the mortality oc-
casioncd by cholera, was 33. 81 in 1000, in
the second only 1924 difference of
nearly one half.
The effect of the vicinago OF evaporabe
waters on the development of cholera; was
to augment its mortality in tho ratio of in
1000.