The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-11
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FIRST APPEARANCE AND PROGRESS in
AMERICA OF AsIATic CHOLERA.
DAT. vache, Health Officer OF the port
of New York, made report on this subject
to a legislative committee of New YORK 10
1850. a summary of which is given by the
New York Herald. The FIRST appearance Of
the cholera on this continent was IN Queoec'
Lower Canada, on the eth Of June, 1892 il
reached the city Of New York on the oath Of
the same month. It may, however, have been
introduced into New York direct from Eu-
rome. as ship from Havre arrived at that
mort late in June with the cholera on board
Thence it spread through the adjoining and
the Southern States, visiting Baltimore,
Washington, Richmond, Norfolk, Edenton'
and various other cities, towns and planta'
tions. The average mortality was fifty per
cent, and the duration of the epidemic from
two to four months. The deaths from choi-
era in New York, in 1892, were 3,5l3.
In 1893. it commenced in the month of Feb
ruary, at Havana and Matanzas in the island
of Cuba; in July and August visited Mexico
and Central America, and made its ap-
pearance in our Western and Southwes-
tern States. 1t also appeared at Wheei'
ing, Charleston, and other towns OF Yves
tern Virginia. In 1884, it again made its
appearance in Quebec, in the neighbor'
ing parishes, and re-appeared in the State
and city of New York. 1t also appeared IN
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and some OF the
Western States. There were a few cases at
Richmond, Petersburg and Wheeling. 10
Florida. It was introduced into Amelia Island
by the United States ship Falmouth. In 1882
there were cases in Tennessee. in Georgia.
Texas and the Mexican territories. In 1886,
it was still in Havana, and for the first time
appeared at Charleston, South Carolina
Previously, it had not approached Charleston
nearer than Edenton on the North, Sayan-
nah river on the South, and the island at the
mouth of the harbor, where it had been
brought, as was believed, by brig from New
York, in 1882. 1t also appeared in the Mis-
sissippi, but not in an epidemic character, in
1886. After that year, its appearance in this
country was so rare as to excite but little at
tention until December, ls48. The malady
was introduced by packet ship from Havre
with sick passengers. On the 18th of May,
1s49, the disease commenced in the city OF
New York, and continued until the last of
September. The number of deaths was, S.
16l. The cholera also re-appeared in that
year in other cities and places of the South
and West. 1t appeared in Baltimore, Nor
folk and Richmond in May. The legislature,
in consequence of its existence here, adjourn.
ed on the aoth Of May to Fauquier Springs.
1.-The most remarkable fact, perhaps, says
the Herald, in the history of the epidemic
cholera, is its progressive march. This is OBJ
vious in the dates of its first outbreaks in the
different countries lying between the Delta
of the Ganges, where it originated, and the
western parts of Europe. Having spread
over the valley of the Gauges in 1917, it
crossed the peninsula in 1918, and reached
Bombay in August or September of that
year.
1t was not till July, 1921, that it appeared
at Muscat, on the Persian Gulf, but in Sep.
TENDER it was at Bagdad, and extended
through parts of Persia and Turkey in Asia,
in 1922. 1t passed the Caspian Sea in 1923,
and in the month of September appeared at
Astracan. 1t made no further progress in Eu.
rope until the year $780, In that year, hav.
ing again appeared at Astracan, in July, it
extended rapidly through the Eastern part of
Europe, reaching Moscow in September. In
the following year (1sal) it extended to Riga
and Dantzic in May, to st, Petersburg in
June, to Berlin in August, andto Sunderland,
in England, in November. So again, in the
later invasion of Europe, starting as before
from Astracan, where it appeared in June,
1s47, it was felt at Moscow, in September of
the same year, at Berlin, in June ls4s, at
Hamburg, in August, in London, at the end
of September, and at Belfast in December,
1s4s."
The first appearance of the cholera in Que
bee was five days after the arrival of a brig
from Europe with cholera on board. High
medical authorities attribute its introduction
into this continent to immigrant ships, but
opinions are still divided on that subject. It
is agreed, we believe, that the disease is not
contagious