Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-15
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Cholerais very irregular and uncertain
in its progress, for although it has IN
oues,ionably the greatest affinity for low,
damp situations, on the banks Of the riv-
ers or near pools and ponds Of water,
crowded population and filth, yet it some
times flies of, tangent wise, in q different
direction. The annals Of the disease show
that when it made its appearance in a
camp or a city, s far from extending to
every habitatiop, it was almost always
confined to particular portions Of even the
most ~populous places. Sometimes, in an
army, as happened in India, one or two
regiments encamped together, were the
only sufferers from an attack Of the dis
ease, One locality in mi street only ofa
town had the disease existing in it-indeed
its presence has been known to be limited
to one side Of a market-place. Removing
a camp a few miles has frequently put an
entire stop to the occurrence Of new cases.
When cholera prevailed destructively in a
village, the natives often get rid Of 1t BY
deserving their houses for q time, though,
in so doing, they necessarily exposed
themselves to many ~diseomforts, which
would commonly be regarded as exciting
causes Of this disease. Its rate Of progress
is very irregular and capricious. After
its FIRST appearance in India, in 1917, it
took oaly one year to span the base OF
that peninsula, while twenty years were
required for it to compass the globe. The
period between its being in Bassorah and
Damascus was four years; . caravan
would traverse the same space in about as
many months. In Russia, Prussia and
Austria. countries In which the greatest
efforts were made BY sanitary cordons and
the most rigid quarantine regulations to
set limits to the disease, the periods be-
tween the attacks in cities and districts
were not any longer than in India,
where the most unrestrained intercourse
by sea and land along the rivers and
roads were allowed. Cholera, though
appearing so fatally in the camp, did
no. show itself In Allahabad for
four months afterwards, and yet the
intercourse between this town and
the camp was very great. Whatever
line we may assume, we cannot observe
any regular order Of succession in which
different cities were attacked, either along
rivers or on the great highroads between
capital cities. Sometimes the disease ap-
proaches a town or village, and then pass
es around it, to return after the lapse oil
weeks, or even months. We can hardly
, give a stronger example OF the difficulty
( of explaining by any known law Of trans.
, mission or order Of succession an attack
Of cholera than its sudden appearance in
1882 in the heart Of Paris, the first city in
{ France to suffer from the pestilence.
Equally sudden and unexpected was the
bound, as it were, of the disease from
Montreal to the city Of New York, in the
same year. At Riga, OF the Baltic, chol-
era made its appearance simultaneously
in three different places-the suburbs, in
:. the citadel and in the town proper. The
inhabitants of Hamburg, in 1881, looking
with anxiety towards Prussia and the
country eastward, and enlisting all the
means in their power By sanitary cordons
and quarantine to prevent the disease
from approaching in that quarter, found
it suddenly appear in the midst Of them,
rising, as It were, out Of the earth, from
a deep cellar, whose inmates were its first
victims.
Inexplicable is the tenacity with which
cholera adheres to a certain number OF
, persons, while it passes over Others on the
same spot and to all appearances similarly
, circums,anced. In one of our visitations,
says DR.. Melkle, long a medical officer in
active service in India, two or three COM
: panies on the right Of the line were at.
: tackled with cholera, and there It contin-
ued for upwards of a month, without
I attacking a single individual in the lines
u Of the other companies. They were daily
t exercised together, went to the same ba.
$ zaar for their food, and drew water out Of
e the same we'll.