Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-03
AsIATiC CHOLERA.
The Terrible Disease which Now
Threatens Us by Way of California.


In the coarse of a recent interview with
the New Orleans 1inses-Dsmocrot, DIR. Stan
ford 4. Chaille said that "cholers, like vel
iow-feyer, is a germ disease, and is carried
ABOUT from one locality TO another in mich
The same way. Just as yelIovF-feyer ia pres.
ent In Cuba all the year round, so cholera is
always prevalent in Hindoostau. The two
diseases seem to occupy about the same
position IN their respective hemispheres.
Choiera marches in the route of travel and
traffic, with a speed equal to the speed of
actual communication: consequently, should
the dleease become epidemic in England, il
might reach this country In eight or ten DAYS
Most oil the cholera epidemics that have
appeared in Europe have been traced to the
pilgrims from Mecca. These pilgrimages
nave, therefore, been opposed on sanitary
grounds. Cairo, Alexandra and the other
northern African cities have so much inter-
course with England, France aud Spain that
when cholera breaks out in the former places
It is but short lime before it is carried TO
Europe, where it has existed further north
thsn 81 Petersburg. From present indica-
tons there is 70 need of alarm. II. how
ever, 1t should reach any of the countries of |
Europe with whom we are in direct COM |
or from whom we draw our sup |
ply OF emIgrants, the greatest precautions |
would be necessary, as 1t might get to New |
N this country, which was in 1873, made it's
appearance at New Orleans, and spread
rom here over the country. How it was
1rought here has never been determined
jholera does not seem to be restrained
~ climatic influences or limited in terri
orIai extent. 1t has ragged here in New
orleans during both The summer and winter
easons, the most malignant period of one
pldemic being IN December and of another
flr12 "a Il
email town In the north of Russia after
aving been frozen in for two years; which !
'ouid go 10 show that cholera germs are not
estroyed by extreme cold, as in the case of
Toe disease first made its ap-
earsnce in the United States in 1911, and
New Orleans in 1882, when it ragged yio-
nifty Tor three or four months, Lasting till
sS3. Although it broke out ON the 18th of
ctooer; $40 cases occurred during that ]
sar. DIR. Halphin OF this city. reported To
e Paris Academy of Medicine that there +
ere 5000 deaths in twenty daysl In De- G
mber, 184S, it appeared here, lasting for Z
ght years; then in July, 1866, for three 3
'ars, and in the spring OF 1873 mildly for I
70 years. Cholera statistics are imperfect. =
cause whenever this disease occurs, cases n
e reported under the four heads, aAsiatic 4
oiera, cholera, cholera morbusn and =
holera infantum," and il is impos sible to c
termine how many of these cases, esp ecially e
the two last, are true Asistic cholers. Z
The disease will probably never ravage | =
irope as 1t has done, ON account of the i'm a
ovement in sanitary measures. A promi- "
ut physician of England has said that he T!
ubted whether cholera would ever again "
tain foothold in that country. So it does Il
follow that because out of 700 cases 500
|. fatal in Yokohoma, a city of dense popu-
ion and poor sanitary conditions, that it 4
uld be so terrible here. One thing in
or OF New Orleans would be the Missis- M
pl river water that is drank and that IN
lid CONTAIN no contagien. The disease is la
adiul as yellow-fever is, on account of the se
&c namber OF people who die from it at tn
same time, and not on account OF large vi
centage of deaths. II tn disease is taken ch
land at Its first indicate on it is not TO be ne