The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14
Three Fatal Gases of the Disease at Malta
"A History of the Deadly Plague
in Europe,
Great Satisfaction in Peru Because
of the Close of the War.
Further Protests of English Business Men
Against the De Lesseps Agreement
Other News by Gable.
THE CHOLERA.

Three Deaths Reported to Have Occurred
at Malta from the Disease.
ALEXANDRIA, July 13.-Forty deaths from
cholera occurred at Damietta yesterday, sew
enty-three at Mansourah, ,fifteen.at Samanoud,
and three at Shirbin. During the twenty
four hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning
there were twenty-five deaths from cholera
at Damietta, sixty-one at Mansourah, twenty
seven at Samanoud, and four at Shirbin;
three deaths in Malta,
History of the Epidemic-The First Known
Record in 1929 in Europe.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The first historical epidemic, so far as Eu-
rope is concerned, commenced toward the
close of 1929. Cholera then reappeared in
Persia and, gaining footing in the Caucas-
ian provinces bordering upon the Caspian,
it entered Russia in Europe. The capitals old
and new. and other parts OF the great Empire
came - scourge Grave alarm
spread ovel pc, where the dread disease
had put itself in evidence for the first time.
1t passed from Russia to Austria, Hungary
and Germany, the victims in the latter
country alone numbering more than nine
hundred thousand. Upon the 26th of Octo-
Der, 1881, it was brough in ship from Ger
many to Sunderland on Feb. 6, 1882, it ap-
peared in Edinburgh, and on Feb. 13 in
Rotherhithe and Limehouse, and
on March 13 it was reported
from Dublin, and during the year
it prevailed extensively 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 ko,547 persons were reported,
| through various sources, to the board of
health. France, Spain and Italy afterward
got their turn Between March and August
| $4,000 people died of the disease in Paris,
whereas in Hungary, the people, being sus-
| picious of occult poisoning, were excited to
madness and murder"
From France the cholera crossed the At
| lantic and spread through North and Cen
trail America. From Germany it had previ-
ously travelled into Turkey. little while
| afterward it presented itself in Arabia
Egypt and the Nile district, and it was gen
eral throughout North Africa in 1885, In
1841 great epidemic broke out in India and
| China and, developing upon the lines
of the former epidemic, it reached
Europe in 1847, and passing over the
continent, travelled to America and the West
luuleS, Gn6F6 DelIlR 4U,UUU cases III Jamaica Ill
1885, 1t was in October 1848, that the first
cases became known in England. On June
3, 1849 the deaths in Paris numbered 1I9
On June II 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 Scotland During the
week ending Sep. Is the deaths in London
were 3, l83 the ordinary average then being
1,00S. By order of the Queen the following
| day, Sunday, prayers were offered up IN all
| the churches for the removal of the scourge
| The number of deaths from cholera from
June II to Oct. . in London alone was 13, 16l
| The sickness disappeared in the middle of
October Out of population of H. 564, ,656
in this country 53,293 died OF cholera and
| Is, S87 of diarrhCea.
England has had experience of four epi-
| denies of Asiatic cholera. The two remain
| ing outbreaks of which we have to speak
| were much milder in character than those
| already described. On September 4, 1853,
the disorder again broke out with great Sc
severity in Newcastle, and North Shields and
other adjoining towns suffered greatly. In
| July, 1854, 1t again made its presence felt
over the whole of the metropolis. The epi-
demic reached its height i'll the second week
| OF Septemb ber, almost on the same day that
the epidemic OF 1S49 occasoned the highest
mortality. Indeed as Dr. Sutherland re-
ported to the general board of health,
there was remarkable similar
ity throughout in the progress
and development of both epsdemics.
In the week ending Sept. there we're 2,050
deaths from cholera in London. The epi-
demic reached its maximum in nine weeks,
but the mortality did not fall to that of the
first week until thirteen weeks after the
maximum period From the 1st of July to
the 10th of December the total mortality
from cholera In London was 10, 675 and from
diarrhCea 2,601, while from typhus it was
], ,347. On the north side of the Thames there
was one death to 1853 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 epidemic was severely
felt.
1t was in the September of this year that
Lord Palmerston issued his famous rebuke
to the Presbytery of Edinburg, which had
suggested a national fast. When man has
done his utmost for his own safety" said the
Home Secretary, then it is time to invoke
the blessing of heaven to give effect TO his ex-
ertions." In July, 1854, the alarming intel
ligence reached England that the cholera
had appeared among the British troops in
the Crimea. Regiments were reduced to
300 or 400 sickly men, 1t took the Guards
two marches to get oyer the ten miles OF
ground lying between Alladyn and Varna
During an expedition to Kostendii nearly
three thousand Frenchmen were swept away.
For two years the epidemic prevailed extern
sively on the Continent, 10000 persons dying
at Naples and it also spread with great vlru-
lence over North and South America Ten
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 1000 day
in Constantinople. The deaths in CONSTANT
nople had reached nearly $4,000 when the
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