The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-08-26
l72
The Cholera--Its History and Progress.

attacked body OF troops at Gunlam, a
coast town 535 miles northeast of Madras,
which latter place it reached during the next
year In the year 1888 it attacked many OF
the native inhabitants of India, and twenty
thousand deaths occurred. 1t then disap-
peared: but in 1917 it again appeared, and
fairly earned its name as terrible epidemic
disease.
In Jessore, india ten thousand deaths in
a population of sixty thousand took place.
From India it was supposed to be conveyed
in ships to Mauritus, the Dutch East Indies,
and China. In 1921, it had reached the
Persian gulf; and, continuing its western
progress, we find it on the banks of the Ii
girls, thence in CauCaSia and, finally, on
the 14th of September, 1880, it reached Mos
cow. Taking the couse of the great rivers,
The Don and the Volga, the disease rapidly
spread itself over Russia. In January, 1882,
the cholera appeared at Edinburgh, on the
l4th Of February, at London, and in March,
at Dublin. Calais and Paris were also at
tackled in March.
The ninth day of June, 1892, will ever be
remembered as the period when this scourge
appeared on the American continent. 1t
appeared at Quebec, where it was also very
severe in l949. The first case in New York
occurred on the 9th of June of same year,
and the disease disappeared in October.--
1t is estimated that in the fourteen years,
from 1877 to 1881, the disease carried off
eighteen millions of the inhabitants of Hin
dostan. The number of cases in England
and Wales in 1872, was 63, ,236; deaths,
20,726. In Scotland, 20,202 were attacked,
Of whom $3.50 died In Ireland, there were
34,552 attacks, and 81, III deaths In the
city of London there We're l. ,020 cases, and
1926 deaths. The disease visited Spain and
Italy in 1885, and finally disappeared from
Europe in 1878.
The appearance of the cholera in the Uni
ted States created great panic, and proba-
bly, many persons died from fear. In Que
bee, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia
Baltimore, Albany, Norfolk and Rochester
there were about fifteen thousand deaths
during three months.
twill be seen by the above that it is COM
parativelv easy to ascertain the origin and
progress of the cholera of 1882. The epi-
demic of 1852, is not so clearly traced
1t is alleged that it made its appearance at
Cabul in l845, and pursuing almost the same
course as in 1882, it reached Moscow in De-
cember l847. In May l848 it reached Con-
stantinople and spread throughout the Dan
ubian provinces. The cholera appeared at
London and Hull in September, 1913. 1t
disappeared in December, and the whole
number of deaths in the United Kingdom
was 72,l80. 1t is estimated that the ex-
pense of funerals exceeded five hundred thou
sand pounds sterling, and the cost of the
disease altogether about two millions of
pounds. The only large city exempted from
the cholera was Birmingham, where not d
single case occurred, although half the in
habitants of small town in the vicinity
were swept off. In New York the cholera
appeared in May lS49; eliminated in the
week ending July 25 when there were I'D
deaths and disappeared in November The
whole number of deaths was 4,072. In some
Of the western cities it was much more Sc
we're. aa
The cholera at present has not risen to the
dignity of an epidemic, and the calendar of
1854 will bear no comparison with those of
1882 and l849. 1t first appeared during the
winter of 1894, at Sunderland, England
1t Is remarkable fact that the cholera of
1882 appeared at the same place The first
case in New York was reported early in June;
but there have not been sufficient number of
deaths since to oexcite anything like panic
The cholera is now raging at Detroit and
Montreal with great violence. 1t has reach
ed st. Louis also, and will probably go down
the river to New Orleans BY accounts