The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-08-15

the negro moro than the Turk; tho Turk
moro than the European.
Every time that this pestilenco has APP
poarcd in Europe, tho arrival Of ship. in
which Quo or more persons have died Of it,
has proceeded the event. II always broke
out at the port at which the vessel had
arrived. Wherever Gordon Of police or
soldiers has boen stationed ouudan in
fected town, the plague has been circum.
scribed there. Persons closely secluded in
tho heart Of au infected town, who do not
handle clothing Of tho infected, often es.
cape. Ii a ship. leaving an infected port
has no case Of plague on board, il does not
communicate plague 20 tho port which 1t
enters. ......u.
The pestiferous miasma does not long
remain in any article of clothing or mer-
chandise. In Egypt and Syria tho plague
usually disappears about ST. Johns Day.
Immediately alterward the clothes Of tho
dead arc openly suh in the markets of those
countries without fear. Another remarka-
bic fact is that ut a hospital in Cairo, In
which moro than three thousand patients
had been treated. somo OF whom were still
left there not fully recovered, different
class of patients was admitted, who slept
in the same beds, under the same WOODEN
counterpanes. the blankets alone having
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the plague. In London, Immediately after
the cessation Of the great plague, the houses
which had been filled with the dead were
inhabited by the living and many went into
beds where persons had died, and even be-
| tore they had been cleaned, and yet there
was no evident extension of the disease.
At Corfu it was customary to wash all in-
footed wares in salt water and dry them in
the sun, after which they were employed
in the British garrison.
This determines the question of preven-
ton. Quarantining is ample TO meet the
exigency, and observations show that this
need not exceed three weeks An infected
person would exhibit the disease in that
period, and generally in very few days.
Tho attendants on sick persons should
avoid as much as possible all direct contact
with the patient, or any article linen or
other material that he may have touched.
Distinctions should also be employed.
With these precautions the atmosphere ofa
plague hospital was found, both at Malta
and Cephalonia, to be so little noxions that
the attendants slept in the ward with im-
punity, provided they secured Themselves
from all personal contact.
PROSPECT OF EXTENDING WESTWARD.
There is therefore great probability that
the Russian Plague, in case it is really the
epidemic which has so repeatedly prevailed
in the eastern hemisphere, will not
reach the western countries of Europe.
Science and observation have placed ut tho
command of the sanitary authorities the
means of arresting its progress. If, how
ever, the proper precautions should be
evaded or neglected, the plague would DO
liable to onter this port. Once here, and
incubated, there would be scarce q chance
to arrest its progress. Its route could DO
eaeily traced in advance Like its accom-
panying pestlence. the cholera, it would
hurry with almost lightning rapidity
through the densely populated precincts.
1t would depopulate the tenement houses,
the porter houses, boarding houses, the
"made land" and all the districts whero
tho earth is constantly giving off unwhole-
some exhaations. Tho dance-houses and
. dens of similar character would be indi-
Gated morning by morning by the corpses
at the threshold awaiting the dead carts.
Tho groggeries, junk shops, secondhand
clothing establishments, pawnbrokers'
shops would serve as so many hot-beds for
its development. 1t would be impossible
|, to arrest its progress till it had run its
course.
The best preparation that the public au-
thorties can make for it's arrival will relate
to the police of these dens of postilence,
which have been so often remarked, but
seem to be too powerful for our municipal
authorities to grapple with We would
not excite undue apprehension, for with
proper attention on the part of tho
quarantine oficersl tho plague can be kept
+ from our shores but we have she right to
, demand that all proper attention should be
given to the condition of those parts of the
city where pestilence would be sure 10
mako terrible havoc in tho event Of its
coming.