New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-17
THURSDAY. AUGUST II, 1871,
THE APPROACH OF CHOLERA.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS IN KoNIGsBERG.

TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS IN KOSIGsBERG
LONDON, Aug. 18-In Konigsberg, Prussia,
on the 18th ns GO persons wero attacked by tho cholera
and there deaths from tho disease Tho case in
ths city Is said to have been English. not Asatic
HOW IT REACHES NETWORK - IT'S FORMER
RoUTEs-PRECAUTIoNARY MEASURES.
Cholera, it is clearly proved, has never been
brought to America except by ships Early in 1892 the
brig Carrick, with emigrants from England arrived at
Quebec Forywo OF the passengers had died Of cholera
the VOYAGE and the disease broke out in severe cpl
demc at Quebec the 9th OF June. by the 10th it
had travelled up the st. Lawrence TO Montreal and soon
reached Detroit In the latter part OF June the snip
Henry ~ arrived at NewYor with cholera patients
and the disease appeared in the city by the 2it IL soon
spread up the Hudson River joined the Canada TRAIL aud
was quickly carried to the West
During the epidemic In Europe in Sis two yes
ses sailed from Havre where cholera prevailed; one,
the NewYork for NewYork and the other the Swanton,
for NewOreans Both contained large numbers of Ger
man emgrants. On one the cholera appeared when 10
days out with II Deaths the other In % days. with IL
deaths The NewYork arrived nj Staten Island Dec. 2,
1s,s and severe epidemic broke out but confined
10 the Quarantine Grounds The Swanton arrived at
Newt Orleans Dec II quarantine was instituted, and
in two days patients taken into the Charity Hos
pal. This was the beginning OF a severe epidemic,
which increased in power all Winter, till In june lSi9
800 died Of 1t in NewOrleans Dec. 90 1ss 1t reached
Memphis by steamboat from NewOrleans, where for 20
days 1t was confined to the landing place, but then
spread In the Spring 1t carried TO st. Louis and
Cincinnati and the whole Mississippi Valley In Oct0-
Der It reached Sacramento by means OF overland emil
grants and almost at the same time by the United States
steamer Northerner from Panama Tho Chinese OF Call
forna suffered most severely.
Whatever after occasion there may have BEEN the poi
son which wrought all this ruin directly traced to
infected clothes those two ships In the case OF the
chip NewYork It proved that OF the passengers
had chest Of clothing that belonged to person who
had died OF cholera peculiar feature Of the cholera OF
ls4o was the violence with which it ragged at the foot of
Reed-st, Philadelphia The dwellings were well built,
but few yards off the empted ts contents upon
covering many From 1913 to 1855, the ef-
swanton epidemic regularly carried to
Forts Laramie and Leavenworth by troops and emf
grants the named place being then rendezvous for
all troops going further West
In the latter part OF 1885, cholera brought to Liver
pool and prevailed during that Winter all through En-
gland In the following FALL cholera ships came In
great numbers to New York in October alone 20 infected
ships arrived with LA cases. and tho disease became
epidemic at Staten Island Quarantine but seemed to die
during the Winter In the SPRING other vessels gave
it start and spread to the large cities, the epidemic
actually breaking in Detroit and Chicago before 1t did
in NewYOrk. where the euigrans landed. In October
1865 the Atlanta brought cholera from Hayre to
NewYork Ii was also brought by tho England
and Virginia Tho outbreak OF the disease on Wards
Harris Governors and Tybce Islands began with Atlanta
passengers.
There have been IA epdemlcs OF cholera at Staten
Island but only four have reached NewYork. There
has been gradual Improvement in tho English ana
American quarantine and sanitary regulations In 1882
only of cholera received at our Quarantine
yet there were 32 deaths in the city, in 1si9 go
at Quarantine and 5O71 deaths in the city, in 1854, AIS
cases at Quarantine and deaths in the city, In 1865
COS the Lower Bay and only 2O deaths in New
York, Brooklyn, and vicinity The same decrease Is
shown London where the deaths were In 1si9, 1437
in 1884, 1033 in 1885, 55I3, OF which 5000 We're IN the
Eastern District.
The leading physicians Of this city to follow their
"fooks" into the country faithfully the leading
cergymen. Among ten OF the chief doctors who were
visited in search OF "yeWs" concerning the cholera
prospects, only two found at home. Those seen
had not given the subject much attention One said that
we rarely escape the epidemic here when 1t prevails in
England and France. As to sanitary preparations he
laid great upon tho complete cutting of of all pos
sbillty OF exhaatOn from into dwellings, and
thought that too much cannot be said about the
sy of keeping the and banks Of the roton free
from nusances. To this end the population should DO
kept sparse in that region.
The Brooklyn Health officer says there not the least
danger of the cholera yellow fever reaching that city
this year. and that he has made preparation to meet
these plaques beyond keeping the city clean.
CHOLERA IN RUSSIA AND PERSIA.
From The London Lancet July2 %.
RuSsid.-The latest returns from St Peters
burg show that, July 13 there were 10 OF chol
deaths, July T. The total from the beginning Of the
epidemic, August 30 1870 to July T. 1871, is as fol-
lows:
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