The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-10-06

empire in the years l65, loS ana l69.
From 250 to 26O there were awful pes
tilences. For some time 5000 persons
died daily in Rome alone, and whole
towns in the empire were depopulated.
In Britain in 430 q plagne swept away
such multitudes that 1.-THE living were
hardly sufficient to bury the dead" A
long-continued and dreadful plague be-
gan in Europe in $50, and subsequently
extended all over Asia and what was
then known of Africa During the
years 1869 Constantinople lost 200, 900
of its populations and the pestilence
devastated Calabria, Sicily and Greece.
At Chichester, England, in 772, "a, 900
people died, and in s954 Scotland lost
40, 600 people. There was plague in
London in 962, and great mortality
from the same cause in 1924. Ireland
was sorely visited in 1895; in 1172,
when King Henry III. was forced to
leave the country; in 1904, when a pro-
digious number persisted and in 1889.
In I'LL the plague in London extended
to cattle, fowls and other domestic
animals. sidHs a.ik -
The ..black DEATH ravaged Italy in
1910, and the plague of 1882. general
in Europe, was one of the most mem
orable on record. Its effects in Flor
ence were described by Boccaccio in
what will live as q part of immortal
literature. Britain and Ireland suf-
| fered terribly, and in London alone 200
persons were buried daily in Charter
house yard. In London and Paris
dreadful mortality prevailed in 1361-62,
in 1867 and 1869. In Ireland there was
pestilence in 1870, and a still worse
one, called the fourth great plague, in
1883. In 1407 London lost 30, 900 citi-.
zens. Another pestilence, superinduced
by famine, visited Ireland in 1866, when
great numbers died, and Dublin was
wasted by plague in 1470. An lawful
pestileuce" ravaged Oxford in l471,
and throughout England, in 1478, a
plague destroyed more people than
the continual wars of the fifteen pre-
ceding years" The Sweating sick.
ness was very fatal in London in 1885.
and in 1499-1500 the plague was 50
dreadful that Henry VII. and his court
fed to Calais for safety. The sweating
sickness, which was fatal in three
hours, occurred in London in 1906 and
again in 1917. In most of the towns
half the people died, and Oxford was
depopulated. In 1922 thousands were
swept away in Limerick. The sweat
ing sickness revisited England in 1928
and again in 1861. In 1904. 30,578I
people persisted of plague in London.
Constantinople again lost 200,00 peo-
pie in 1911. In 1926 London lost 3d.
All inhabitants. In 1852 Lyons lost
$4,000. In 1856, 4OO, 900 people died at
Naples in six months. In 1864 Lon
don's great plague took off 1886 in
habitants; some say 100000. One OF
the most awful plaques that ever ragged
| prevailed in Syria in 1760. In 1873,
80, 900 inhabitants of Bossora, Persia,
died of plague. In 1892, 10000 per-
sons died of plague in Egypt. In Bar
barry 5000 persons died daily, and in
1899, 247, 900 people persisted at Fee,
and epidemics called plaques ragged in
various parts of the East in 1900, 1910
and 1873; there We're many deaths in
Bagdad in 1876. There was an cpl
demic fever Of great fatality at Gibral-
tar in 1928. ,.sa
Cholera was described by Garcia de,
Huento, a physician of Goa, Portugal,
about 1860, though comparatively little
was known of it until the present CEN
tury. 1t became epidemic In Bengal in
1917, and gradually spread until il
reached Russia in 1880 and Germany in
1881, carrying off more than 900, 700
persons in the meantime. Asiatic
cholera first appeared in England at
Sunderland. October 26, 1881, and in
North America at Quebec, june 8, 1882,
and in New York, June %, 1882. It
revisited the United States in 1884,
slightly in 1849, severely in 1856, and
again lightly in 1867. In 1889, 3d.
2y3 people died of 1T in England and
Wales, and in 1854 those countries lost
20,097 and Naples 10, 900 persons In
1865, $4,000 people died of cholera at
Constantinople. As win be seen, the
United States has been relatively free
from pestilence and plague; and in no
case has it suffered from epidemics in
digenous to its soil. Yellow fever has
at times been q terrible visitor, and its
awful effects in 1878 will not be forget
ten. But in that case as in every pre-
vious one, the contagion was introduced
from the West Indies. At its worst,
however, yellow fever never approached
the plaques of the old world in direful
power. The largest number Of deaths
ever recorded in the United States from
this cause was 14.809, in 1873. Yellow
fever first appeared in this country at
Philadelphia in 1899, when it wrought
great havoc. It has frequently APP
peared in various cities SINCE. and in
1898 carried off several thousand VIC
Tins in Philadelphia. II scourged New
York in 1871, Norfolk and Portsmouth,
Va. in 1856, Wilmington, N. c., in
1862, Savannah in 1876. and sporadic
cases on shipboard and shore are of
common occurrence in the heated sea-
son, when persons come in contact with
the germs of the disease, transported
from it's tropical birthplace. Troy IN
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