The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-10
The Cholera.

warn the Close VI ACS5. SuOicTd tnci
reappeared in Persia, and gaining a
footing in the Caucasian provinces bor-
dering upon the Caspian, it entered
Russia in Europe. The capitals, old and
new, and other parts of the great En-
pire 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 Rus
sia to Austria, Hungaria and Germania.
the victims in the latter country alone
numbering more than 100000. Upon
the Goth Of October, 1881, twas brought
in ship from Germany to Sunderland;
on February 6, 1882, it appeared in
Edinburgh, and on February Is in
Rotherhithe and Limehouse, and on
March Is it was reported from Dublin.
and during the year it prevailed extern
sively throughout almost the entire
Kingdom of Great Britain. The exact
numbers are unknown, as there was
| then no registration of deaths: but the
deaths of 52.547 persons were reported
| through various sources to the
Board of Health. France, Spain
and Italy afterward got their turn. Be
tween March and August $4,000 people
died of the disease in Paris, where. AS
in Hungary, the people, being SUSPECT
Gus of occult poisoning, were, "excited
/ to madness and murder.
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 afterward it presented
itself in Arabia, Egypt and the Nile dis
| trict, and it was general throughout
| North Africa in 1885. In 1S41 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
Indies, there being 10000 cases in ia
maica in 1850. 1t was in October, 1913,
that the first cases became known in
England. On June 3. 1S49, the deaths
in Paris numbered 119. On June IL
the General Board of Health in England
reported that since the latter end of
March the disease had broken out in
twelve different parts of the metropolis,
in twenty-seven towns in England and
| Wales, and seventeen towns in Scot
land. During the week ending Sep
TENDER ID the deaths in London were
3,lS3, the ordinary average then being
1000. BY order of the Queen, the fol-
lowing day, Sunday, prayers were
offered up in all the churches for the re-
moval of the scourge. The number OF
deaths from cholera from June IL to
October >, in London alone, was Is, 16l.
The sickness disappeared in the middle
of October. Out of a population of H.
554,6 in this country 3d. died OF
cholera and 1887 of diarrhea.
England has had experience of four
epidemics of Asiatic cholera. The two
remaining outbreaks of which we have
to speak were much milder in character
than those already described. On Sep
TENDER 4. 1853, the disorder again broke
out with great severity in Newcastle,
and North Shields and other adjoining
towns suffered greatly. 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 1S49 occasioned the
highest mortality. Indeed, as DR.. Suth-
erland reported to the General Board
of Health, there was remarkable SIM
ilarity throughout in the progress and
development of both epidemics. In the
week ending September 9 there were
$500 deaths from cholera in London.
The epidemic reached its maximum in
nine weeks, but the mortality did not
fall to that of the first week until thir-
teen weeks after the maximum period.
From the LIST of July to the 10Th of De-
cember the total mortality from cholera
in London was 1868, and from diar-
rh9a, 2,60l, while from typhus it was
L3i7. On the north side of the Thames
there was one death to 3j3 inhabitants;
on the south side the proportion was
one to every los. During the Autumn
the terrible disease appeared in many
parts of the Kingdom, and in some
cases the epidemic was severely felt
1t was in the September of this year
that Lord Palmerston issued his famous
rebuke to the Presbytery of Edinburgh.
which had suggested a National fast.
when man has done his utmost for his
own safety" said the Home Secretary,
'.then is the time to invoke the blessing
III Heaven to give effect to his eXer-
ticns." In July, 1854, the alarming in
telligence reached England that the
cholera had appeared among the Brit
ISL 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 Kostendii nearly 5000
Frenchmen We're swept away. For..two
years the epidemic prevailed extensively
on the Continent, 10000 persons dying
at Naples, and it also spread with great
virulence over North and South Amer
lea. Ten years elapsed before the awful
scourge again visited Europe. From
June to July. 1865, it had ragged in Alex
andria, and in August it was causing
deaths at the rate of 1000 day in Con-
stantinople. The deaths in CONSTANT
nople had reached nearly $4,000 when
the great fire on September ), which
destroyed 800 houses. besides mosques
and other public buildings, pretty sum-
marily closed the career of the cpl
demic. 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 a great satisfaction to
those persons who had been interesting
themselves between epidemics in the
promotion of sanitary reform to know,
did not materially affect the returns OF
mortality for the whole Kingdom for