Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-24
The Cholera.

There is at the present time very gen
alarm in Europe lest the havoc and
wrought by the war are to be follow.
BY the terrors of pestilence, a destruc'
agent which cannot be confined to
h bounds by any skill of diplomacy.
Eever exaggerated the reports from
STA may be, there is no reason to sup
that the country has not suffered a
fible experience By late mails we re-
e information that the cholera has ap-
bed III G ntral Russia, Russian Poland,
FERN Prussia, Roumania, European
key, and other countries, and later re-
S by telegraph announce that cases
occurred in Marselles and in some
be eastern ports of England. This in
gence cannot do otherwise than
ken general apprehension. The suf-
BIZ, privation and weakness resulting
the late war make it quite certain
if the plague settles upon France and
many it will find hosts of prepared
Inns unable to resist the conquest.
base will riot over the fields war has
Jed, and death will reap another har-
not less awful because less bloody.
Fther the countries not impovished by
are for any other reason equally IA
Bile fields for the spread of pestilence
annot say. The conditions it finds
hospitable are yet but partially uu-
kood, and where best known are al
anticipated and efficiently guarded
hst
|ould the disease become epidemic in
English ports or even In those OF
zee and Germany, it will be scarcely
BILE to protect our own shores from in
IN. 1t embarks unseen on the noblest
ls, and escapes all the vigilance Of
hntine officials. Whether or not it de.
PES here in formidable proportions,
yzing business and turning pleasure
burning, depends chiefly upon the
instances it finds on its arrival.
its with our people to determine in
bee whether these shall be favorable
herwise. After the unwelcome guest
Inded on our shores it will be too late
gin preparations for an inhospitable
)tion. The outside door must be
d before the stranger has made his
% the chambers.
portion ofthe duty incumbent in view
Intelligence lately received must be
rmed by public officers and another
bn by the private citizens. II should
E care of the proper officers to put
tiles Immediately 10 the most health
nd resistant condition. Extraordi-
precautions against the accumula-
y filth in every neighborhood, and
etc activity in purging the quar-.
host likely to invite a pestilence no.
in the air seeking a spot whereon
He, should be at once shown. A con-
Of the streets, sewers, tenement
,, manufactures, slaughter houses,
hich might be tolerable and safe
q in ordinary times, is not what is
Pite TO give security against an in
g pestilence All the powers
are given TO the officers charged
boxing out for the sanitary cOndi.
our cities should be energetically
BED and all necessary regulations
(usly enforced. The ounce OF pre-
which is worth pound of
Mould be administered while it is
pc. The danger may not seem very
ent, but there is no safety except
raation. To jog along in credulous
ence that we shall escape is the
tpedient Of recklessness, which may
lied much cheaper than it can be
% OF or rcmedied.
every individual, too, have regard
pwn circumstances and sanitary con-
A man thoroughly well, who pru-
Regulates all his habits. incurs little
attack by the cholera, while the un-
md the rash are easy victims. 1t
remembered that the last time the
was in the country it ragged with
Violence in the Western cities. One
most distinguished physicians of
~ has since told us that, seeing 1t
ming and knowing from the CTR.
ces OF the city that there was an
nm ahead, he went to work to