New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-04
The Progress Of the Cholera.
From IL. London Time, August 20.


Inc present visitation of cholera, as reported
TO us rom the countries afflicted is characterized BY
particular feature distinguishing II broadly from the
epdemics Of former times Hitherto. this disease has
always advanced IN certain track presumably from
India, toward the regions Of Western Europe We
could mark Its progress stage by stage not always in
direct line or without many capricous deyiaOns and
jumps, but stu generally from the South East To the
NOrthW West 1t was heard Of In Persia Asia Minor
and Turkey then reported from Vienna from Prague
/ from Warsaw, from Berlin, and from Northern Ger
many till it got 10 Belgium and Paris After that came
our own turn. The epidemic wave struck us al last
and suffered in proportion TO the severity of the h
tack measured against organized defenses That
If the sketch which would serve generally for the vista
tions Of 1882, 1s49 and 1854.
At the present tlne not one OF these characteristics
is discernible, We heard nothing whatever of the
cholera as its route from India. 1t was first re.
ported quite abruptly from Aexania whore IL ragged
terribly, spreading along the coast TO Dametta and
running up the Nile 10 Cairo. Then We heard Of il at
SMYRNA in the Isle Of Cyprus at Consantinople and in
the villages the BosphOrns Presently IT is reported
from AncOne, from Gibraltar and Malta, from Mar
seiles from Barcelona, and from Valencia But in no
Of these instances has IL advanced from the sea.
coast into the Interior for the Of Cairo can hardly
be considered exception 1t has not spread beyond
Ancona though the disease In that town was very in
tense. Once there story OF its appearance In
Milan, but that not confirmed Ii has not advanced
beyond Marseles beyond any OF the infected ports
on the east coast Of Spain
Southern Italy has been attacked, but only under
similar conditions. Cholera is last reported from San
Nicandro and San Severo--the former town close
upon the coast the latter little beyond. These are
the results Of survey Of the to the present mo
men The only exception is report OF the cholera in
Hanover but this in professional statements Is reduced
TO chOlerine. and Is apparently only such disorder
as occurs most Autumns in London. In short upon "a
summary Of the evidence come TO this, not that an
Asatc pesence is advancing upon us across Europe.
but that there has been extraordinary outbreak Of
cholera in he basin ofhe Mediterranean
This marked and special Limitation OF the epidemic
may not unreasonably suggest 10 hopes of i'm
munity Within the basin Of the Mediterranean no
shore has escaped; beyond il no cholera has appeared.
The latest intelligence reports panic from Waachia
and Moldavia but the disease had not yet declared it.
self in those provinces though 1t is obviously probable
that it might creep into the Black Sea and make the
circuit of those coasts ALSO Nevertheless though We
place these facts before the public. and leave them TO
npart such assurance they may be thought TO
vey far from wishing to inspire any undue
fdence. Threatening symptoms are not wanting TO
teach us timely wisdom.
Disorders akin to cholera have been sngulary rife in
the metropolis this Summer. and 1t Is evident that the