Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-05-22
The Westward March of
the Cholera.
tFom the Philadelphia Inquirer.l

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death list Of the past winter. -
The work Of destruction of hu
man life by disease has not been
confined to any one place or
country. The smallpox car
rying off its tens of thousands
Of victims has not been confin,
ed to the United States and
England, but has ravaged Eu-
rope as well. Whence it came,
or how, no one seems to know.
.Itcame in with the first frost
Fof Fall here, on the Continent
and in England. How fatal
has been its visitation may be
imagined from the fact that in
London alone since August
last, there have been nearly ten
thousand deaths from this sin,
gle epidemic. In nearly every
city in the Uuion it has claim
ed large numbers Of victims,
and though it is now every
where disappearing under a
warmer temperature, there is
no assurance that it will not
again return to us.
But the death list of the
world was not increased during
the last twelve months by the
smallpox alone. From the
east the most horrible details
have been brought to US of the
ravages of the cholera, and the
British Medical journal, in no.
ticing England's exemption
from heinvasion Of that plague
during tile fall, ascribes it alto.
gether to the timely arrival OF
the cold weather. 1t makes
the rather startling declaration
that England. is now enjoying a
respite and nothing more. If
England is threatened with the
cholera, certainly this country
cannot be without we'll ground.
ed fear of its coming. The
c,mmunication between that
country and this is so general
and frequent that contagion
there is almost certain to be a
contagion here. AS confrma-
tion of this recent report of
the New York Quarantine au-
thorities shows that within a
period of less than twelve
months two hundred and forty
three vessels arrived at the
the port Of New York from
England having on board per-
sons afflicted with the small
pox.
AS regards cholera, it is well
known that during the cold
season the low temperature ar
rests the extension of the dis
ease, without extinguishing its
power Of subsequent activity
in the particles Of contagion
which await the return of a
higher temperature. The Rus
sian experience Of lS47 is de-
monstrative of this, for the epi.
demic which had become gen.
eral at the close of the year
appeared to have been brought
to an end by the severe winter
of 1947-8. From the first Of
February, l849, there were no
more cholera deaths, and the
outbreak was supposed to be
over. But in the months Of
April and May, Cholera ap-
peared everywhere in its haunts
Of the previous year, and spread
with frightful rapidity through
out the whole Russian Empire,
The number Of deaths in all
Russia in the MONTH of July,
184S, is stated by DR.. Cha
seaud, of Smyrna, in his prize
essay, just published at Com
stantinople, to have been So
900 weekly. 1t was but a lit
tie while ago that a German
ship arrived at New York
freighted with the cholera, and
that such dangers threaten us
constantly can not be denied
The very air of the country
seems impregnated with pot
ash; the scarlet and spottec
fevers, the smallpox and {
contagious throat disease are
unusually prevalent all ove1
the Union, and it seems as i
extraordinary sanitary meas
ures should everywhere be re
sorted to in order to rende
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