The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-10
FHE WESTWARD MARCH OF THE
CHOLERA.

There has been something past
the finding out of the. most learned
in the frightful death list of the
past winter. The work of destruc-
! ton of human life by disease has
or country. The smallpox carrying
of its tens of thousands of victims
has not been confined to the United
States and England, but has ravaged
Europe as well. When it came, or
how, no one seems to know. II
came in with the first frost of fall
here on the Continent and in Eng
land. How fatal has been its visit
alton may be imagined from the
fact that in London alone, since
August last, there have been nearly
ten thousand deaths from this single
epidemic. In nearly every city in
the Union it has also claimed large
numbers Of victims, and though it
is now everywhere disappearing
under q warmer temperature, there
is no assurance that it will not re-
turn to US again.
But the death list of the world
was not increased during the lasl
twelYemonth 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 noticing
England's exemption from the in
vasion of that plague during the
fall, ascribes it altogether to the
timely arrival of the cold weather.
1t makes the rather startling declar-
alton that England is now enjoying
respite and nothing more. Ii
England is threatened with cholera
certainly this country cannot be
without well grounded fear of its
coming. The communication be-
tween that country and this is so
general and frequent that conta-
gion there is almost certain TO be q
contagion here. AS confirmation
of this a recent report Of the New
York quarantine authorities shows
that within q period of less than
twelve months two hundred and
forty-three vessels arrived at the
port of New York from England
having on board persons afflicted
with smallpox.
AS regards cholera, it is well
known that during the low season
lhO ~" 0ldLO O6L1 IAO SA
tension of the disease, without ex-
tinguishing its power of subsequent
activity in the particles of cOnta-
gion which await the return of q
higher temperature. The Russian
experience of 1847 is demonstrative
of this, for the epidemic which had
become general at the close of that
year appeared to have been brought
to an end by the severe winter of
1S47-S. From the first of February
184S, there were no more cholera |
deaths, and the outbreak was sup
posed to be over. But in the
months of April and May cholera |
everywhere in its haunts
of the previous year and spread |
with frightful rapidity throughout
the entire Russian Empire.
The number of deaths in all
Russia during the month of July,
1S4S, is stated by DIR. Chaseaud, of
Smyrna, in his prize essay, just pub
lished at Constantinople, to have
been $4,000 weekly. 1t was but
little while ago that German ship
at New York freighted with
the cholera, and that such dangers
threaten US constantly cannot be
The very air of the coun-
try seems impregnated with potash
the scarlet and spotted fevcrs, the
smallpox and a contagious throat
diseases are unusually prevalent all
over the Union, and it seems as If
sanitary measures
should everywhere be resOrted to
in order to render the lives of the
people secure from the ravages of
any threatened epidemic.-[P hila-
Inquirer.