The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-19
THE ASIATIC CHOLERA.
Its Spread Throughout India to the
West Line of Russia.-No Probab-5
ility that it Will Come to America
this Year.
From the Kew York Herald, August 3.

The Asiatic cholera, we learn by ca
BILE dispatch from London is raging in
India and in many towns Throughout that
vast and populous country, and that the
number of deaths from the pestllence is
appalling that the greatest consterna-
ton and alarm prevail among the inhabi
tantS of the infected small and thickly
settled town, who, In dread of an epide-
mic, are hurrying to the settlement where
the disease has not yet appeared. Again,
a dispatch OF yesterday S date from St.
Petersburg reports the breaking out of
the cholera at Grodno, in the western
part Of Russia and recently we had the
intelligence from Constantinople that the
widely dffiused pestilence was committing
fearful havoc in that quarter. In short,
at the present time this Asiatic plague
prevails at different points, from its
headquarters in India to the western Dor
Gers Of Russia, and the question again
is suggested, especially from this gener
al outbreak OF the disease over India, is
| there any danger of It's Speeding again
as an epidemic over both hemispheres
We do not apprehend any such univer-
sal calamity as a repetition OF the rava
/ ges which the nations and continents
west Of Asia have suffered from time to
time, since 1880, from this disease, as a
travelling epidemic. In this capacity its
powers or the materials upon which it
| feeds appear 20 be exhausted, or it may
be that the knowledge which the western
nations have gained from experience and
from scientific tests and experiments as
| to the causes and means for correcting
and preventing the spread of the disease,
/ have rendered it comparatively power
| rar fin
Der, that from the sudden appearance of
/ this unwelcome visitor in various places
In Germany, we warned our local auth or
tiles and all concerned in maintaining the
health of the city, of the precautions
needed against the possible importation
here OF the CT olera In some infected Ger
man vessel. The supposed danger, how
ever, passed IL, leaving US untouched;
and now, from The facts that for five or
six years past this cholera has, to grea-
ter or less extent. prevailed In Russia,
and has once or twice within the same
period crent into Germany, and even SO
far as to carry off few victims on the
eastern coast of England, but has been
arrested, we are led to the opinion that
as travelling epidemic this pestience
| from the Ganges will seriously trouble
us on this side Of the Atlantic no more
At the same time we believe that the
reason why the disease has disappeared
/ from the nations west Of Russia, while
in that country it still fingers, may be
summed up very briefly as follows ID
Russia from semi-barbarous habits and
manners of living oe the peasentry and
their ignorance in regard to cholera and
Its treatment, the disease has still COM
paritively free course, while in the nations
west of Russia scientific resources have
reached the causes of the pestilence and
the precautions and remedies by which
it can be mastered and driven away.
We therefore do not apprehend this new
outbreak of cholera in India, though it
may extend into westward Russia will
not extend much farther