Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-11-04

The London lane, an e, ce lent medical au-
thrifty, says the danger Of a renewed invasion OF
cholera in England has been rather underrated
than overrafed- From the middle OF June last
the cholera has been unceasingly active in many
localities along the course of the rivers Euphrates
and TIgris, and it has been widely prevalent in
the central, northern and northwest provinces
OF Persia
Within this period, also, the epidemic has
visited with considerable severity several parts
of the uans-Caucasian provinces of Russia.
The diffusion of the disease in these provinces
links the epidem in Persia with the epidemic
in Europe; and it is not improbable that, as the
history of the epidemic becomes more clearly
understood, ii will be found that the recent diff
fusion of cholera in Europe is an extension of
the disease from Persia, where the malady has
probably been constantly prevalent in an epi-
But while doubt adds the ''Lancet") must
for the present rest upon the mode OF origin of
existing diffusion ofcholera in Northern Europe,
no question can arise rs to the extension of the
epidemic now in progress in Arabian extern
sion which seriously threatens Egypt, and
through Egypt, Southern Europe, in the man
ner and by the tracts first traversed by the
disease in 1866. Starting from Meshed Hussein,
i'm the pasbalik of Bagdad a few weeks ago, the
epidemic has spread to Hayal, in the yebel
Shammar, and thence to Khayber, village
only three days journey from Medina, and
situated on an important route to that town.
The time of the Mecca pilgrimage for this year
Is close at hand, and we understand that con-
siderable anxiety is manifested by the Ottoman
authorities in view of the probable introduction
OF ch0l0ra among the pilgrims.
About the time apparently, when this extern
sion of cholera from the pashalik Of Bagdad into
Arabia began, the epidemic, already widely
spread in Russia in Europe, became increasingly
diffusive there. 1t reappeared in several of the
Russian posts of the Sea of Az0v and of the
Black sea, especially in TaganrOg, Bostav and
Khersen-all ports affected in the previous year.
The disease, in fact, spread in all the principal
divisions of Russia in Europe, and il Is now
practically distributed over the whole area of
the Baltic portion OF the Russian empire. While
this greater extension of the epidemic was going
on in Russia, cholera was spreading along the
coast districts of the Gsrman provinces of the
Baltic, from Konigsberg to Swinemunde.
At the present time epidemic cholerais preva-
lent in the pashalik of Bagdad, in the Central
and Northwestern provinces Of Persia in the
trans Caucasian provinces Of Russia, in several
OF the Russian ports of the Black Sea and Sea of
Azov, throughout Russia in Europe, and in the
provinces of Germany on the Baltic and North
Sea. The disease is extending from the pashalik
of Bagdad into the Hadjas, from the Black Sea
TO the Bosphorous, and from the seaboard prov
inces of Germany to the central provinces of
the empire. In presence of q widespread, ex-
tending epidemic Of cholera which has effected
a Judgment in the westermost ports of Europe,
and is increasing there, the danger Of the cpl
demic Invading Great Britain can hardly be held
to be remote.