Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-03-15
March Of Cholera.

! a March Of Cholera.
The doubts which we expressed, in
speaking of the Medical Congress al
Constantinople, of the sincerity &C the
, Emperor Napoleon in yproposinga meet
. ling DC physicians on the cause and treat
msnt OF cholera, are confirmed in refer
ence to the history Of this fearful cpl
demic. The stress laid on the occur
renee of the disease among the pilgrims
to Mecca would be more forcible If the
disease had not on other occasions had
its origin in other places, and been de-
veloped by other causes II win doubt-
less prove interesting to our readers TO
note lis march, and in doing so we make
large use of the Report of the College Of
Physicians OF Philadelphia, in 1882,
written by DR.. John Bell, IN reply TO a
request for information on the subjectby
the Board of Health. Ii is distinctly
affirmed in the Bengal medical reports
that the disease appeared in the Mud
deah and Mymensiag districts IN May,
| 1917; ragged extensively in June, and IN
July reached Dacca. Before the end Of
November 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 rivers, the map
of population was ,sensibly diminished
by the pestilence Delhi, the ancient
capitol Of Hindostan, on the western
H. 1f al L., att m III
1878, Alter 1877, Calcutta was, for
succession of years, regular sufferer
from cholera. The, same remark applies
to Bombay, and with the exception OF
two years, to Madras. The disease made
its first appearance in the former of these
two cities in September, 1918, and in the
latter in October, 1878, Little more
than one year after it broke out in CAL
cutta. IN less than two years it had en-
braced 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 Philip
pine Islands, and at the conclusion Of the
rear was in Canton and the southern
ports of China Proper Pekin, the
capitol, was assailed in 1921, and also |
M 1923 and in subsequent years
In Chinese Tartary the disease ap- "
,eared at two different times, with a
period Intervening. In July,
1921, the island of Java, and in 1923 \
be Molucca Islands were visited by the
disease. Persia was subjected, to its
'svages five different times from 1921 to
$50. In 1922 it was raging in Meso-
,otamia and Syria, and showed itself at
in .Judea, in 1924. In Septem-
yer, 1923, the disease appeared in Astra-
AN, at the mouth of the Yolga, on the
lorthern shore of the Caspian Sea. But
t soon subsidized here, and did not break I
'ut again in any part of the Russian
empire until the close Of the year 1925
vhen the town of Orenberg was attacked 4
IN the last of July, 1890 it again appeared
n ,Astracan, in, which, city and province
he mortality was this time excessive.
Near the close of September, Of the
anne year, it was announced as prevail
ng at Moscow, and at Mecca in May !
83l, and in June of the same year at
It. Petersburg and Archangel In Au-
,ust it had spread to Cairo and Alexan-
lria, in Egypt. Hungary was the theatre
# its fearful operations in this year;
.lso in Berlin and other parts of Prussia
t appeared in August; in Vienna it ap-
Feared in September and in Hamburg
n Oct, 1881. Ii
The FIRST place attacked by the cholera
n England was Sunderland, seaport
own in the county of Durham, The
disease appeared in August, 1881, but
'xcited no alarm until the latter part of
he year, soon after which it was in Edin-
,urgh, Glasgow and other towns of Scott
and 1t appeared in London in Febru.
Try, 1882, and in the spring Of the same
ear in Dublin, Belfast, Cork and other
,lsees in Ireland. 1t struck, at once, at
Paris in April of that year, leaving I'M 4
ouehed until afterwards all other parts
4 France In June it was ravaging
Montreal and Quebec, and by July had 4
n one leap lighted in New York city
t invaded Philadelphia and Baltimore 4
n August, and Cincinnati and New 4
orleans in October, l932-thus taxing
Up twelve years in its march from India
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