The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-26
Reappoarance of ChoIera.

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The terrible scourgc Of AsiatiC cholera
threatens another invasion Of the world.
Almost simultaneously with the reports
Of It's terrible ruvagGs in Persia, comes an
Official announcement from the Russian
authorities that II has also appeared In
Poland. Its last general European irrup.
ton was In 1920, when 1t made its APP.
pearancc in Southern Russia A year
later and II had travelled over the whole
OF Europe, including England Two
years afterwards itHppcarcll on this con.
tinuit, first mt Quebec, then nj Montreal
and New York, sweeping, In the course
of comparatively lew months, over the
entire Country, and CarryingOll from forty
To fifty per cent NJ all who were attacked.
Considering tho intimate commercial re.
lations ii the United States with almost
every nation Ol tho earth, and tho fact
that this dreadful sCorirge seldom or never
originates spontaneously but spreads
from one human being To another, there
Is danger tllRt, sooner or later, our hour
Ot visitation will again come, unless more
perfect precautionary measures are hken
TO preserve the public health than are
now observed. Slight, too, us may DO its
connection with the subject, we notice
that In Canada md the lake towns Of the
United States, the people are greatly exGr.
cised in regard IN tue presence Of what is
known rs Tue "pestilenCe fly" an insect
seen only ut long intervals, and believed
to be the lOFCrunner Ofan epidemic. lie.
ferring 10 It's reappearanGo In Canada, n
Dominion journal states that Its last pre-.
vious visitation was In 1854, just before
the cholera epidemic Of that year; while
the Toledo papers, allpding TO its pres.
encc in that locality, direct attention to
the same fact This may be, probably Is,
nothing more than mere coincidence,
but II II shall have the effect Of soaring
people into the adoption Of wiser sanitary
and hygienic regulations than arc now In
vogue, the more such condolences VT
get the better. II even the superstiLiOtls
fears Of mankind can hU made To COndllcG
to the public good by all means let them
be cultivated.
10 return from this depression The
present yGar has been characterized by tx.
cessivu floods and heats, to say nothing Of
wonderful local Disturbances, and ii seems
to have been sufficiently established that
the greater prevalence Of Asiatlc CliOlera
In some years than in others, arises from
the laCt that 1t Is largely dependent for it
existence upon heat and moisture. The
year l8l7.lS, when the great epidemic
broke out all over India, was remarkable
for extraordinary heats and rhinlalls
while in this country epidemic cholera has
always burst forth in seasons Of sinilal
kind, becoming vigorous In proportion Il
the existence Of favorable meteorological
influences. Dry years have never wit
messed an epidemic attack Of the pesti
lence.
It's introduction into this country hal
generally been traced TO the arrival Of ar
infected vessel, and It's first victims llavt
invariably been those who were brough
most Immediately into contact with thu
ship or passengers. II has been found
moreover, that in those counties having
the most frequent and direct COmmunica
ton with Asia, il is most common, whit
on the other hand the counties which
have hitherto escaped It's rdvages are thost
having no such intercourse, or, as In TN
case Of Australia, only reached by very
long voyage. In view of these facts, ant
Of its present existence In an epidemic
form, our own maritime connection will
Asin, and with other nations whose com
mercial relations with that quarter of tn
globe are yet more intimate than ours
would seem to render precauton and fore
sight not only prudent but highly neces
saty.