Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-11-16
THE MARCH or CHOLERA.
An Alarming Statement.

iAA
Tho London Lancet, an excellent
medical authority, says the danger OF
! n renewed invasion Of cholera in Eng
land hats been rather ,nlcratcd than
cvcrratc,7 From the middle Of June
last, cho!rr:: has been nncasing]y active
in many localities along the course of
the rivers E1plr;,tcs and Tigris, ;tnd it
| has been widely prevalent in the cen
/ traI, northern and northwestern pro
vlnccs OF Prussia. Within the period,
! also, the epidemic has visited with CON
sidtrabl" severity several parts OF the
! tr;lns-Caucasian provinces OF Russia.
The diffusion of tho disease in these
provinces links the epidemic in Persia
with the epidemic III Europe; and it is
! not improbable that, us the history OF
! the epidemic becomes more clearly un-
dcrstood, it will be found that the re
cent diffusion of cholera in Europe is
IN extension of the disease from Per
sia, where the ma'aly has probably
been constantly prevalent in an epitlc.
mic form since 1867.
But while II doubt (;>ll, the lancet
must for the present rest upon the mode
of origin of the existing diffusion OF
cholera in Northern Europe, no Il1cs-
| tiou can arise as to the extension OF the
epidemic now in progress in Arabia
| an extension which seriously threatens
Egypt, and through Egypt Southern
/ Europe, i'll the manner ana. by the tracts
first wavcrcl by tho disease III 1865.
Starting from Meshed Hussein, in the
pashalik of B;,&tlad, a few weeks ago,
! the epidemic has spread to Hayal, in
| the Jcbcl Shammar, and thence to
Khaybcr, i. village only three days jour
ncy from Medina, and situated on all
important route to that town. The time
Of the Mecca pilgrimage for this year
is close at hand, and We understand
that considerable anxiety is manifested
by the Ottoman authorities in view of
the probable introduction of cholera
among the pilgrims.
About the time, apparently, when
this extension of cholera from the pas
halil of B;guad into Arabia began, the
epidemic, already widely spread i'll Rus
sia in Europe, became incrcasingl y diff
fnsivc there. It re-appcarcd in several
Of the Russian port, Of the Sea Of AZof
and Of the Black Sea, especially in Tag
anrog, Bostow and Khcrson-all ports
affected III the previous year, and earl
ier in the present year. The disease
in fact, spread into all the principal
divisions Of Russia in Europe, and it
is now practically distributed over the
whole area of tho Baltic portion OF the
Russian empire. While this greater
extension of the epidemic was going on
i'll Russia, cho'er;. WAS steadily spread
ing along the coast districts Of the Ger
man provinces of the Baltic, from Kon-
igsberg to Swinemunle.
At the present time epidemic cholera
is prevalent in the pashalik Of Bagdad,
in the central and Northwestern pro
vinccs of Persia, in the trans-C Caucasian
provinces of Russia, in several of the
Russian ports of the Black Sea, and
Sea of Azof, throughout Russia in Eu-
rope, and III the provinces OF Germany
on the Baltic and North Sea. The dis
case is extending from the Dashalik of
Baglad into the Haljas, from the Black
Sea- to the Bosphorus, and from the sea.
board provinces of Germany to the cen
trail provinces Of the empire. In pres
cncc Of a widely spread extending cpl
dcmic of cho.cla which has effected Il
.lodgment in the wcsttrllmost part Of Eu-
rope, and is increasing there, the d:,n-
Ccr Of tho epidemic invading Great
Britain Can hardly be held to be re-
mote.