Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-04
Cholera Ayain.

Cholera Again.
This scourge has again re-appeared
in India as on epidemic. AS usual in
the outbreak, it has been very malig-
nant. The papers, forgetting that this
is always one Of its phenomena, ex-
claim that Its ravages are awful. The
mortality is no doubt very great, as
compared with that Of most epidemics,
or as compared with the, waste Of this
disease during the middle and latter
periods Of its visits. On the coast of
Malabar it swept away, in January, A.
428 perse rs out CT 5,034 attacked
The progress of the cholera North and
West, judging Of the course it will
again take by those it has already ia
ken, will bring the disease into East,
ern Europe IN four years from this
date, and in two years after that into
the United States. 1t would probably
be premature anticipation Of its next
visit among us to ass gn any time for
its temperance here short Of 1866.
In 1925 the cholera was o raging
epidemic in India. In 1929 and 80
it had spread into Europe. In 1882
it announced its presence in the;United
States. In 1847 We began in this coun-
try first to hear Of its appearance in an
alarming shape in Eastern Europe. At
that time it was supposed to have
travelled by the usual overland routes,
entering Russia at Artrachan AID other
southern points Of that empire.
After committing great ravages in
Europe, it suddenly, very early in 49,
40. appeared in the United States. 1t
was first announced at New Orleans,
but so little even then was it expected,
that several appalling deaths from it
in its earliest manifestations were as.
cribed to other causes. From New
Orleans, it came to St. Louis. From
; January to March, deaths from cholera
were occurring on every steamboat on
! the Mississippi. And in March, ii
D manifested by unmistakable signs, that
: it had established in St. Louis. The
mortality from it grew very severe the
d latter part Of April, and until the great
n fire in May. For a time after thai
event, there was, so to speak, lull il
the storm, and many hoped that the
city had seen the worst of it. But by
the second week in June, it showed it.
self on the increase, and by the Fourth
u Of July, it had become furious. Or
: that day, there were no less than 200
q deaths in population reduced then tx
perhaps less than $4,000. 1t was ;
j, rate Of mortality which, if continued t.
u tie years end, would have come neal
y extinguishing the entire population.
: 1t is thus seen that, looking to thu
j. history of the two previous cosmica
> manifestations of cholera, the epidem
o ic has, from the time it evinced itsel
s as such in India, taken about fou
y years to reach Europe, and about 81,
! to reach the United States. There ma,
:, be in operation causes which will retar(
y or accelerate its returning to our shores
q If the theory is correct that it follows
# great lines of travel, its path may nov
e lie, not as formerly over the caravan
" route to Astrachan, but by way Of thu
: Red Sea and the Isthmus of Suez O.
possibly by way Of San Francisco an(
q the 1sthmus Of Panama. But looking
e only at what is to be seen about it:
r movements, we may assume that thu
cholera will ravage Europe as an cpl
1 demic in 1S64-5, and ravage the Uni.
o ted States in same way in the years
a 1867.
d Of this epidemic, which seems to de.
e pend 50 much on atmospheric causes
a condition Of the air vitiated by the
introduction of malarious gases, how
generated no one knows, being one Of
s the theories in respect to its origin
v may perhaps be pronounced with truth
It that society is as helpless against its
J attacks now as it was upon its first ap.
0 pea:ance. 1t coolly claims its usual pei
: certage Of victims, with no difference
J whatever to the dictates or prescriptions
d of the medical faculty. We still see
, the same failing recipes and still hear
the same clash and contradiction of
ideas as to its origin, causes, modes of
: progress and communication. Very
: little is known about cholera and the
7 little that is known seems to have no
' practical value, in answer to the all
, important questions what will prevent
t and what will cure it ST. LOUIS
Herald, Apra -.
THE CRY OF JEDDo.-We are Just
; beginning to know something Of the
eastern shores Of Asia The Yankees
are prying into the secrets of the Jap
anese. A correspondent Of the Boston
Traveller thus describes tina wonder
full city of Jeddo: According to the
lowest estimate, the city covers an area
equal to seven of the New England
farming towns, which are usually six
miles square And all is trayersed by
streets, usually vide, we'll constructed,
perfectly neat, and crossing at right
angles-streets lined with houses and
stores as compactlyas they can be built,
and crowded with moving or stationary
masses as thick as in our Washington
street, orNeS York Broadway, at least
for considerable distances. The pop
ulation is estimated at three millions,
which MIR. Harris. our Minister. thinks