Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-10-25
From the n. Y. Times !
r,.E ADVANCE OF TaE cHoLEhA'

THE ADNhNNA< W
The news by Yesterdays European mail
shows that we 10 America, must begin 10
"set our house in order" Tne only point
of doubt thus far about the present lnva-
sion of cholera, with medical men, has
beeu whether it was more than an epi-
demic of the Mediterranean basin' Ill
recently. the disease had not left th5 shores
of that sea, In Italy, no inland towns
had been attacked, and even cities IN the
filthiest. condition, such as Verona, had
altogether escaped tue pcstilence. France
had. indeed. been sssailed, but II was on
the coastal Marseilles. Now, however
we hear of cases in the interior OF Italy,
and above all, the news reaches US that
cholers has broken out in Paris and other
parts Of interior France. 1t cannot be
long. probably before cases are reported
in England Winter is not necessarily
safeguard against it, nor extreme cvld In
tie great attack Of 1880. the pestilence
ragged all Winter frightfully in St Pc
tersburgh, and broke out in England first
in October, remaining torpid, as it were,
till the next Spring, and then raging
through tne cities of Great Britain. 1t
did not appear here till Jnne. 1t is not
improbable that as the season is so far
advanced before it has reached Paris, its
ravagcs may be but slight this Autumn,
and next Spring may witness its reap.
pearance in Western Europe. If that
shall prove the fact, the pestilcnce will
inevitably cross the ocean, and appear here
next Summer.
Physicians already notice certain
choleratic aspect to diseases this year-a
popularity said often to precede general
attack of Asiatic cholera If this mystic
rious agency which produces cholera
this current or wave of invisible fungi or
0njm0lcafce or malaria is on its progress
around the world. quarantine or exclusion
can shut it out. In the first invasion it
broke out in New York soon after it ap-
peared in Montreal.
The only thing that human foresight
can do is to remove the soil in which the
pISho VI WV Sih ElOn. III INNS connection
Il significant fact vas mentioned recently
10y our London correspondent, that during
the last attacks Of cholera which afflicted
England, not u case occurred ia the model
lodging houses. while there were numbers
all around them.
In general, however, it may be said that
the well-cared. for parts of city receive
the miasma from the neglected In Glas-
gov, certain height, well Luilt and clean,
tar above the low, recking lanes of the
town, and inhabited by the wealthiest
families, was reached by the poisoned air
from the filthy districts, and was so des-
oIatcd that "hearses were said to be as
thick there as omnibuses in a crowded
street We all know the favorable con-
dition for cholera. Physicians have alal-
yzcd its soil, and can tell what suits, it,
as quickly as good farmer would say
where corn would grow
1t needs especially, to give it vigor and
duration, fhh-masses OF dccaying animal
and vegetable matter, whose gases are set
loose by rain and warm sunlight; it
wants dirty houses, where the scrubbing-
brush and whitcwash have been seldom
seen, and heaps of nastness have long
lain in closets and halls; it requires, es-
pccially, a great crowding Of people to-
gether in close rooms. so that the organic
poison sent forth from their persons may
form kind of rich manure for its
growth.