New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-20
Cu0GR1A-ITs HISTORY AND LO-
CALTZiNG CAUSES.

pamphlet upon lhe eupyoOt vi cPiuU"'i' N ~
issued bv the Council of Hygiene OF the Citi-
yens' Association. Although the Association Is
20 unhappy as to be called by Mr.. Boole AN
arrogant and selfconstituted organization, the
document in question is the work Of physicians
,,non A subject within the province OF their Owl
orofeSs;op: and since the author of Don Juan
,ras right in saving of physicians that "when
.ol. ,ro call them TO attend Us, without the least
propensity TO sneer," there is no sound reason
xhv thew should not be attentiyely heard when
they do what they arc not paid Tor dong
.,oot IN warning. Cholera is not an attractive
.rh;ect. and we are aware that any phase Of
..ven such topic as Reconstruction would
.ooner fix the eyes of most readers; neyer'he-
less. shutting ones eyes does not avert danger
and not because we are alarniSts, but because
We do not believe the newspapers can irlgh'eh
.nrbody into having the Cholera, and because
az want to see some efficient cleaning-with OF
ithout the passage of the pending Health
ill-done during the Winter months as 4 pre-
eaution against the appearance OF the epidemic
aext Spring, we recur again to The matter
Cholera and Commerce have this much con-
lection. that the former follows the path Of the
liter and keeps most easily along water sides.
At Alexandria, it began last May in nlthy
suburb occupied by dense crowd OF Arabs
Maltese. and Greeks. aud there strengthened
tself until it killed 200 day. 1t also Travelled
10
o Cairo and other places along the ME- IL
passed around the eastern coast Of the Medlter-
anesn, reaching Beyrout, Jefa, Alexandretta'
md SMYRNA. and bv the middle of July was
,akins a thousand lives daily in filthy Constan-
tinople. The island Of Malta, the province ci
Palermo, the cities of Modena, Ancona, San
Paulo, Valentia, Toulon, MarseilleS, Gibraltar
Madrid, Odessa, Paris, and Southampton. were
reached, proving that the epidemic does
follow water lines. 1t Travelled TO
Bagdad and the borders of the Persian
Gulf and to Damascus and Jerusalem.
At the same time, Mecca and' Medina, and
she caravans of pilgrims, were most severely at
tackled. Out of 700, 900 pilgrims visiting Mecca
in May, it is estimated that 1000 persisted by
Cholera. Out of a single sbipload OF deyotees
from southern India, arriving at the Arabian
port of Moculla in Midwinter, 50 died before
their companions left the ship. And, generally,
il may be remarked that the relation OF human
agency in the transportation of the epidemic
was unusually marked, and that the epidemic
has followed the laws previously deduced from
its history: That the season was exceedingly
hot aud damp; that the first and chief epidemic
centers were by the water sides and in the most
humid localities, and that the epidemic earliest
and most fatally afflicted the persons and
classes who dwell in foul air. and who are most
negligent and reckless in their diet, who indulge
IN excuses and abuses of the appetites, and
who are generally most subject TO the diseases
that arise from bad diet and the neglect of self
care"
This country has had four visitations OF Chol
era. In June of 1892, it was found in an emf
grant vessel in the st. Lawrence River; it
reached Quebeca few days later, New-York two
weeks later than Quebec, and soon afterward
eases were found in Albany and other cities
along the water line of the Middle States. III
this city, it then killed 3,5l3 On the I'd OF De-
cember. I5is, it again reached New-York in the
em;graut ship New-York, having killed
Ia passengers during 1.-THE voyage of three
weeks from Havre. Aboutthe same time, it
arrived at New Orleans, killing there l,iOO dur
ng January; in q fortnight it was at Memphis;
another fortnight carried it to ST. Loufs; and
another 20 Nashville and Cincinnati. On the
IIth of Msv. it reappeared in New-York, finding
home awaiting it at the Five Points; and dur
ing that year 5,O71 deaths occurred in the city
By it; aud in the Summer Of 1854, it claimed
2,509 more.
DR.. Snow, the Superintendent OF Health OF
the CITY OF Proyidence-th0n whom more
careful and efficient health officer is not TO be
found-in 2 recent report to the Providence
Board Of Health. declares that he "can point
out the precise localities in the city where the
Cholera will prevail if il visits rs again; can
show the houses in which it viii do its worst
sork; eau name the families and almost the
individuals who will have the disease; can
show wha, there is in those localities, houses,
antilles and individuals which will cause
the discN-c; and can show that those
causes might be removed and the dis
ease prevented by the proper aotion Of the
suthorites. Of the owners Of the houses, and Of
individual" The General Board Of Health of
Great Britain declared that. as was anticipated,
1919, tie Cholera returned tothe same coun-
tries, and The same cities and towns, and even
he sans streets, and houses, Gnd rooms, which it