Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-24
MARCH OF CHOLERA.

The doubts which we expressed, in speak
ing of the Medical Congress, at Constanti-
nople, of the sincerity of the Emperor Ma
poleon, in proposing meeting of physicians
on the cause and treatment of cholera, are
confirmed in reference to the history of this
fearful epidemic. The stress laid on the
occurrence ofthe disease among the pilgrims
to Mecca would be more forcible if the dis
ease had not on other occasions had its origin
in other places, and been developed by
other causes. twill doubtless prove inter-
esting to our readers to note its march, and
in doing so we make large use of the Report
of the College of Physicians, of Philadelphia,
in reply to a request for information on the
subject, by the Board of Health 1t is dis
tinctly affirmed in the Bengal medical re-
ports that the disease appeared in the Mud
deah and Mymensing districts in May, 1917 /;
ragged extensively in June, and in July
reached Dacca. Before the end of Novem-
Der few towns or villages in an area of several
thousand miles escaped an attack. In this
month the grand army was first assailed by
this new enemy at Mundellah.
Along the whole extent of the Delta of
the Ganges, and especially in the tracts
bordering on the Hoogly and Jellingly
bly, diminished by the pestilence. Delhi,
the ancient capital of Hindostan, on the
western bank of the Jumna, was attacked in
June, 1918. After 1917, Calcutta was for a
succession Of years regular sufferer from
cholera. The same remark applies to Bonn
bay, ard with the exception of two years,
to Madras. The disease made its first APP
pearance in the former of these two cities in
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1918, little more than one year after it
broke out in Calcutta. In less than two
years it had embraced a space from the
most northern parts of Hindostan to Ceylon,
and from the Indies on the west to China on
the east In 1920, cholera showed itself in
Cochin China, Tonquin and the Philippine
Islands, at the conclusion of the year was in
Canton and the southern ports of China
Proper. Pekin, the capital, was assailed in
1921, and also in 1923 and subsequent years.
In Chinese Tartary the disease appeared at
two different times, with considerable
period intervening.
In July, 1921, the island of Java, and in
1928 the Molucca islands, were visited by
the disease. Persia was subjected to its ra-
wages five different times from 1921 to 1880.
In 1922 it was raging in Messoppotamia and
Judea, in 1924 In September, 1923, the
disease appeared in Astracan, at the mouth
of the Volga, on the northern shore of the
Caspian sea. But it soon subsidized here, and
did not break out again in any part of the
Russian Empire until the close of the year
1929, when the town of 0renburg was at
tackled. On the last of July, 1880, it again
appeared in Astracan, in which city and
he
cessive Near the close of September of
the same year, it was announced as prevail
ing at Moscow, and at Mecca, in May, 1881,
and in June, Of the same year, at st. Peters
burg and Archangel. In August it had
spread to Cairo and Alexandria, in Egypt
Hungary was the theatre of its fearful oper-
parts of Prussia it appeared in August; in
Vienna it appeared in September, and in
Hamburg in October, 1881.
The first place attacked by the cholera in
England was Sunderland, a seaport town in
the county of Durham. The disease APP
peared in August, 1881, but excited no
alarm until the latter part of the year, soon
after which il was in Edinburgh Glasgow
and Scotland. 1t appeared in London in
February, 1882, and in the spring of the
sdiuS year Ah Duoiih' DeilaSt, NoEk anu III
other places in Ireland. 1t struck, at once,
at Paris in April of that year, leaving I'M
touched, until afterwards, all other parts of
France. In June it was ravaging Montreal
and Quebec, and by July, had, in one leap,
lighted on New York city. 1t invaded
Philadelphia and Baltimore in August, and
Cincinnati and New Orleans in. October,
lSS2-thus taking up twelve years in its
march from India to the new world.-Pha-
adolDhia LEDGER.