Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-07-26
THE CHOLERA.


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ward the close of 1929. Cholera then
rc-appearcd in Persia, and, gaining a
footing in the Caucasian provinces
bordering upon the Caspian, it entered
Russia in Europe. The capitals, old
and new, and other parts of the great
Empire came under the scOurge.
Grave alarm spread over Europe,
where the dread disease had put itself
in evidence for the first time. 1t
passed from Russia to Austria, Hun
garia and Germany, the victims in the
latter country alone numbering more
than nine hundred thousand. Upon
the 26th of October, 1881, it was
brought in ship from Germany to
Sunderland; on February 6, 1882 it
appeared in Edinburgh, and on Fcbru-
AIRY II in Rotherhitho and Limehousc,
and on March l3 it was reported from
Dublin and during the year il pre-
vailed extensively throughout almost
the entire Kingdom of Great Britain.
The exact numbers are unknown, as
there was no registration of deaths:
but the deaths of j2,ji7 persons were
reported through various sources to the
Board Of Health. France, Spain and
Italy aftcrward got their turn. Be
tween March and August IS 600 pco-
pie died of the disease in Paris, where,
as in Hungary, the people being sus-
picious Of occult poisoning, were sex
cited to madness and murder"
IN AMERICA.
From France the cholera crossed the
Atlantic and spread through North
and Central America. From Germany
it had previously Travelled into Turkey.
A little while aftcrward it presented
itself in Arabia. Egypt and the Nile
district, and it was general throughout
North Africa in 1888. In 1911 Il great
epidemic broke out in India and China,
and, developing upon the lines of the
former epidemic, it reached Europe in
1917, and, passing over the Continent.
Travelled to America and the West In.
dies, thcre being 10000 cases in Jamai-
ca in 1850. 1t was in October, lSiS,
that the first cases became known in
England. On juno 3, 1919, the deaths
in Paris numbered ll9. On the llth
of June, the General Board of Health
of England reported that since the lat
ter end of March the disease had brok-
en- out in twelve different
parts of the metropolis, in
twcnty.scycn towns in England
and Wales and seventeen towns in
Scotland. During the week ending
September Ii tho deaths in London
were ), 3,lS3, the ordinary average then
being 1,OOS. BY order of the Queen,
the following day, Sunday, prayers
were offered up in all the churches for
the removal OF the scourge. The num-
Der of deaths from cholera from June
II to October , in London alone was
Is, lGl. The sickness disappeared in
the middle of October Out of Il pop
ulation of 1851, ,6jG in this country
50, 293 died of cholera and 1887 Of
diarrhca.
IN ENGLAND.
England has had experience of four
cpidcmics of Asiatic cholera, The two
remaining outbreaks of which we have
to speak were much milder in char
aetcr than those already described.
On September I, 1858, the disorder
again broke out with great severity in
Newcastle and North Shields, and other
adjoining towns suffered grcntly. In
July, 1854, it again made its presence
felt over the whole of the metropolis.
The epidemic reached its height in the
second week of September, almost on
the same day that the epidemic of 1919
occasioncd the highest mortality. In
deed, rs DR.. Sutherland reported to
the General Board of Health there was
n remarkable similarity throughout in
the progress and development of both
epidcmcs. In the week ending Sept
embcr there were 2,OjO deaths from
cholera in London. The epidemic
reached its maximum in nine weeks,
but the mortality did not fall TO that of
tho first week until thirtccn weeks after
the maximum period. From the 1st of
July to the 10th of December the total
mortality from cholera in London was
1859 and from dlarrhea 2,60l, while
from typhus it was l,347. On the
north side of the Thames there was one
dcatht to 3j3 inhabitants; on the south
side the proportion was one to every
10S. During the autumn the terrible
disease appeared in many parts of the
Kingdom, and in some cases the cpl
demic was severely felt.
LOED PALMERsTON'S REBUKE.
1t was in the September Of this year
that Lord Palmcrston issued his famous
rebuko to the Presbytery of Edinburgh,
which had suggested national fast.
"Whon man has done his utmost for
his own safety said the Home Secre-
tary, "then is the time to invoke the
blessing of heaven to give effect to his
exertions,n InJuly, 1854, the alarming
intelligence reached England that the
cholera had appeared among the Brit
ish troops in the Crimea. Regiments
were reduced to 300 or 400 sickly men.
1t took the guards two marches to get
over the ten miles of ground lying be-
tween Alladyn and Varna. During an
expedition TO Kostendji nearly 5000
Frenchmen were swept away. For
two years the epidemic prevailed ex-
tensivcly on the Continent, 10000 per-
sons dying at Naples, and it also spread
with great virulcnce over North and
South America. Ton years elapsed
before the awful scourge again visited
Europe. From June to July, 1865, it
had ragged at Alexandria, and in August
it was causing deaths at the rate of
1900 day in Constantinople. The
deaths in Constantinoplo had reached
nearly 10000 when the great fire on
September 8, which destroyed 1,50O
houses, besides mosques and other
public buildings, pretty summarily
closed the career of the epidemic. At
this time, also, it was to be found in
Russia, Italy, Spain and France, and
Austria lost 10000 lives. In April,
1866, the cholera reached England via
Bristol and Liverpool; but the number
of deaths, it was great satisfaction
to those persons whohad been interest
ing themselves between epidemics in
the promotion of sanitary reform to
know, did not materially affect the re-
turns of mortality for the whole king
dom for the year. In the London dis
trict, however, 1913 persons died Of
cholera and 3,197 of diarrhea, princi-
pally in the East End.
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