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tined Dates from New York of the
9Th, informed US that the cholera had
arrived there but that it did not spread,
:" being confined to the passengers at
the quarantine Thus while the dis
ease in New Orleans was sending 100
per day TO their graves, and blasting
the business prospects of the season, it
spent its fury at New York on those on
ly who brought it there. While here
the malady was regularly introduced
into the city, literally under the aus
pices of those specially charged with
the public health where il revelled in
the work of death for nearly six months
there it was chained to the quaran-
tine station until the succeeding spring.
The business of New York suffered no
injury from the appearance on that oc-
casion of cholera at their gates. The
winter Of lS49 in New Orleans might
well be erased from the calendar of
trade; for S2o,OOo,ooO would not indem-
Nifty her for the pecuniary loss she sus-
tanned through the cholera OF that
year.
Cholera, for aught that is known, may
defy human efforts 10 put an efectual
stop 10 its subtle advances. | am with
ont the means either of ascertaining
how far the agency of quarantine has
been successful in staying this disease,
or of noting lis introduction into coun-
tries with or without such safeguards 10
health, and observing the difference
Thus far its course has seldom been
marked by wide deviations from the
channels of trade. Hence we may in
fer that il is transmitted from place to
place, following the complex ramlflca-
tions of commerce. If this be correct,
it is possible its progress might be en-
tirely stopped by rigid measures of nom
intercourse. In 1882, the New York
authorities were successful in repelling
It's introduction by sea. They did not
guard against its approach by land !; and
TO Quebec it was eventually indebted
for the epidemic of that year. | think
| am justified in assuming that had we
had quarantine here in l84S, such as
that in existence in New York. the
cholera of that year might have been
kept beyond our limits and the ab-
sence of such an institution there al
the close of the year of lS4S, might
have been followed by consequences as
generally disastrous as those which
afflicted our city.
Those who believe in the local ori-
gin /" of yellow fever, and who deny
lis conta giousnesS and transmissibiiily,
nevertheless give conntenance 10 the
opinion that 1t is an American disease.
They have even denominated it the
American plague, in contradisiinction
TO the European disease of that name.
IF these views are correct, how are we
to account for the frequent appearance
Of yellow fever in European ports, and
its spread thence to cities in the inte-
rior. History is silent as 10 the exis-
tence of such disease on the eastern
side of the Atlantic prior to the close of
the 18th century. Yet from that time
until comparatively recent period, its
ravages in European ports, and particu-
larIy in those of Spain and Italy, were
frequent and terrible. and in some in
stances stand without a parallel for
mortality on this side of the ocean
Let US point out few of the most re-
markahe Of these yisitatious.
The first instance Of lis appearance
in Europe was in 1894. when it was car
ried from the West Indies to Rochefort,
seaport in France, In 1741, It was
introduced from the West Indies into
Malaga and Cadiz. In 1900, the fever
again visited Cadiz, introduced there
by three vessels from Havana, one of
them .he American corvette Dolphin !;
and from Catiiz il was communicated
to the cities of Seville. Espera, Ubrique,
Moron, Puerto Real, Rota. San Fernan-
do. Port st. Maria, Arcos la Rambla,
LIE Briza, Las Cabezas de San Juan,
Carlotta, Xeres de la Fronterra, San Lu-
car, Carmona, Carolina, Louisiana aud
Cordova. In 1905. the Spanish ship
Anna Maria. from Havana, arrived al
Leghorn via Cadiz and Gibraltar, with
yellow fever on board. 1t spread to all
parts of Leghorn. The same year the
malady was communicated in the same
manner to Cadiz, whence it was trans
mitted to Ximenia, Los Barrios, Port
st. Maria and Rota; and to Malaga,
whence it spread 10 Espejo, Espera,
Ronda, ARGOS la Rambla, and Xeres de
la Fronterra. In 1919, it was again In
troduced into Cadiz by vessels from
Havana. and from Cadiz TO Seville, San
Fernando. Port St Maria. Rota, Xeres
de la Fronterra and st. Lucar de Bar
The last and most awful in
stance Of its appearance in Spain was
at Barcelona in 1921. On the 18th Of
April of that year, convoy of 81 sail
left Havana for different parts of Spain.
Of these, "a arrived at Barcelona in
June and July, 10 of them having yel-
low fever on board. 1t was soon COM
municated to the city, and notwith-
standing the fight of one half Of the
1900 of those who re-
NAMED became its victims. Outward
bound vessels having received the in
lection, it was communicated from Bar
ceIona to Cadiz, Malaga, Tortosa, Ma
non and Ro,a;; from Cadiz to Port St.
Maria and Xeres de la Fronterra; from
Q. CaR, y,aar do Rar-