Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1854-11-02
RC.AppCaanec Of the Plague in Tendon.

-ff'"1O VI tHO lluSuU III lUUuUU,
A story has been circulated in this
country OF the frightrul re.appearauce of
the London plague, which ravaged that
city hundred and fifty years ago, the
contagon having been derived frem bones
dlslnerred in carrying new sewer
through Argyle street, by digging to an
unusual death. 1t is asserted that phvsi.
clans have pronounced that the disease is
not the cholera, but that it is undoubtedly
tho plague, and that it is propoguted by
contaglon, and is even more speedy in lis
fatal effects than the cholera. The wri.
ter in an article without date, which is
copied from the Home JourHol, says that
."Ihe disease, in week from the time at
which 1t broke out, had completely rava.
ged the streets in Soho and its immediate
vicinity. At the present moment Poland
street, Argyle street, and others, are clos.
cd against all passers. Half the shops in
Regent street are shut up. The remain.
der are rapidly closing. At two o'clock
in the day, scarcely a dozen persons may
be met with in that great thoroughlare. In
those streets which the disease is most
speedily depopulating, the dead bodies are
placed IN the open air, Immediately that
life has departed from them, so great is the
fear Of contagion. have seen in two
instances, half dozen bodies being car.
ried off in black sacks, like bales of goods,
for burial. You will easily Judge how
great fright This has created. Every
one who is able 10 do so, has fled. Lon.
don, generally at this time just emptying,
is now half dcPopulated.
The London papers do not contain any
thing 10 countonance this story, beyond
the fact which has been repeatedly stated,
that the cholera has prevailed in London
to a greater extent: than in any year since
ls49. The deaths from cholera in that
year 10 the 23d Of September had carried
off l2,264 persons, This year there has
been in ten weeks 10 the same date, 1858.
The latest sanitary report published in
the London Time Of Sept. 27, says ",he
cholera is slowly retreating from London
but it destroyed last week 1884 lives
and 10 persons died from the allied dis
/ case diarrhoo." The deaths from chol
era in the next preceding week were l549,
and in that next preceding 20j0. The
number of deaths from all causes during
the last week in London, in a population
Of 1862 ,236 wss 25O4.
There was district in London in which
the cholera prevailed for a short period
so fatally, that sewer in the vicinity oh
tanned the designation of "Tho plague
/ pit. THE disease in that quarter being
attributed, in articles which appeared il
some Of the papers 10 the openings intc
the streets in that vicinity for the ven
tilation Of some newly constructed sewer
At a meeting Of the Metropolitan Sewer
Commission, on the Goth of September,
long report was made, upon a lhoruogi
investigation Of the cases of the parlicula
yiruence Of the cholera in that locality.
1t seems TO have been fully accounted
for by the excessively crowded and filthy
state of the houses, and the want Of drain
age communicating with the sewers re
Gently constructed, and which had beer
charged with being the cause of the dis
ease. The report Of the engineer, VIII,
had inspected 207 houses, represents
them as in the most disgusting state o
fllh from the attic to the cellar, and en-
lirely without drainage, and no inlimatioi
is given that the disease is different from
that which prevailed elsewhere. Nopani
in the city, or any unusual suspension
of business, or deserton of the city b,
any portion Of the population, more thn
in any culinary season.