Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-11
For the S1'@hpo,i Telegraph.
Cholera.

ARISING IN the Delta OF the GdnGcS, this
disease has extended itself over eastern,
Asia, the Islands of the African sea, Persia.
Arabia, Syria, Russia, Prussia Germany
France, England and America.
It's destructive visilalinns have found no
barriers, ii has rcvelcd in us work OF death
equally in every country which it has inya-
ded, whether insu}ar or continental
whether distinguished for its salubrious or
pestIcnlial climate.
Its march has been rapid over the burning
sands of Arabia as along the banks Of the
Euphratcs. and its strength has not been
impaired IN It's passage across the Atlantic.
1t seems to have gone forth on mission.
to accomplish given object, and steadily
it has held lis drciul and desolaIing course
Nations stand APPALLED, in its presence, and
millions perish by its breath. 1t bids def
ance 10 all human skill, being subject to no
known laws. prevailing alike in the heat OF
Summer, and The cold of winter, but extreme
cold holds it in check.
Cholera is a disease which has been long
known and fully described by many au~
thors; but until about the middle of the
l1th century lis devasialions were limited:
neither It's prevalence nor fatality was su(>
ficicnl to invest it with the character ii now
wears
Sydcnham says "that it appeared in an
epidemic form in England in 1869, again
in G76, and that It's symptoms were so Sc
we're as 10 irighen the bystanders, and Kill
the patients in twcniy-four hours In
1862 it appeared in Bengal. and carried off
10000 negroes and 500 Europeans. 1t
invaded Madris in l714. Mauritius in 1878;
in 1871 division of Bengal troops were
attacked by it so fiercely at CANAAN that
5000 were admitted mo the hospital the
first day, and by the third, the bali Of the
entire corps were i'll.
During the festival at Hurdwar in 1880.
1000 people fell before its destructive in
Auence; and in 1887 ii ragged at Arcol.
1t is therefore eronious 10 suppose. that
this peslilence first made lis appearance in
1917.
On the 2Sh Of August 1917, this disease
suddenly appeared at Jcssore, town stu
ated. about 100 miles north-east of Calcui.
ia. In November when the English army
tan chiefs, although they were accustomed
to blood and carnage, the hard and bonv
tread of this pestilencc awakened a fear Of
death that disbanded the army. 76f off
GERS and $500 men were swept off in ten
days.
From Calcutta it travelled westward TO
Bahor, from Bahor northward to Banares,
Lucknow and Delhi. Then southwark to
Agra and Nagpore. Then Southwest 10
Panwell and Poonah; and by the middle
of September 1918 it took up lis residence
in Bombay, on the northern coast of the
Indian Peninsula.
1t passed rapidly along the Commanded
coast to Madris and then broke out on the
SIh day of October 1918. about one month
after its appearance at Bombay, traversing
the whole Peninsula of India about $4,000
square leagues in less than year.
From that day down to the present. it
has increasingly preyed upon British India,
ALTERNATING to rest during the winter
months, but on the approach of spring il
again takes up its march, having gained new
strength from its transient repose: and al
though it has thus swept It's towns and lis
rivers. some thirty times, until the ground
has shrank and blackened at its tread, it
still finds fresh victims for the slaughter,
and 1t still betrays poison as magIignanl
as ever.
This imperfect outline Of the geographi"