The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-25
The March of the Cholera.

In the years from 1921 to 1928 the
cholera, which had first left its home Of
centuries among the marshes of tho
Gaugcs in 1917, passed through Central
Asia to the northwest and reached Oren-
burg, on the eastern borders of Russia.
To reach Moscow occupied thirteen
months, the disease appearing in that
place in September, 1880. In nine
months hsaiterwardsit it arrived ut St Peters
burg, June, 1881. In the same year it
spread over Central Europe and appear
ed in England, Sunderland, in October,
In the next january (1s32O Edinburgh
was visited, and London in February.
1t reached Paris in March, and thence
spread through France. The terrible
disease first appeared on this side of
the ocean at Quebec, on June s, 1892.
Within two days it appeared at Mon
treal, and on June u at New York.
Curiously enough, there wasno evidence
OF its presence at any place between
these cities. From New York the dis
ease extended to all points OF the COM
pass to Philadelphia, Rochester and
Albany in August; as far west us Gin
cinnati, and south to New Orleans in
October. We had another visit in 1884,
but since that time cholea has never
been an epidemic in the country, though
in had appeared at various places us an
endemic, and in 1SiS-i9 it travelled
from New Orleans up the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers to the lakes and Canada.
1t is subject OF discussion whether the
disease Of 1850 was the true Asiatic
cholera, most authorities agreeing that
it resembled that disease, and might
have been mild type Of it. 1t is some
consolation to us, and, we fear, n source
Of dangerous carelessness on our part,
that the cholera revisited Europe in the
years 1896, 1896 and 1897, without
crossing the Atlantic. This year in
February, n few slight cases Of cholera
were reported at Moscow. Early in
March the disease made rapid progress
at st. Petersburg, assuming an epidemic
form; during the last weeks Of April
and the first weeks Of May its severity
at the Russian capital decreased. As
the warm weather began it agnin he
came more virulent In the middle Of
June it broke out in other parts Of tho
empire, in Tamboy, Jareslay, Novgorod
and Olonetz. At the last accounts re.
ccived from Russia the violence Of the
disease seems to have diminished in
most parts of the infected districts, ex-
ccpt Mt Moscow, Mt Borissoglevsk and
KirsnnOy, within the government OF
Tamboy, and in some districts within
the government of Vlnclimir. There
have thus far, it is said, been over seven
thousand cases in st. Petersburg; five
hundred at Cronstadt, the port of the
great city: one hundred and six cases
were reported in two days Mt Riga, the
maritime outlet of Moscow and there
have been twelve hundred at wilma.
The epidemic has now reached Ham
burg, which Is such an important ship
ping portthat it may be chosen by the
cholera as its place OF embarkation for
America. Hamburg is two hundred
miles west Of Stettin. Altoona, which is
n port on the Elbe, about ten miles be-
low Hamburg, in the Duchy OF Holstein,
has population of about 10000. At
this place sixteen deaths from the chol.
era have been reported. In Kenigsberg
there were three hundred and twenty
nine deaths during the week ending
August % ; of these one hundred and
twenty.seven were children. On the
9th there were one hundred new cases,
with twenty. mine deaths in Knnigsberg;
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