The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-27

rs we advance along the centuries o1
| che Christian era we find numerous
records Of plaques and pestilences ] Al
home In 80 there was a ssmost awfu]
| plague; : 10, 000persons persisted every
day.. 4Sirniiar sepidemies ravaoed the
empire IN the years 167,t 1863 and 1Se.
from 700 to 260 there were awful pes
tnences.sf For some time D 600 persons
died daily in Rome alone, and.whole
towns IN the empire were depopuiated.
In britain in 430 a splagne swept away
such multitudes that 'sthe LIVING were
hardiy1sufficient to bury the dead. a. "a
long-continued and dreadfplsplaoue be-
| gan IN Europe in 558, and subseauently
extended all over Asia and what was
| then known of Africa. During the
years 1869 Constantinople lost 200, 900
OF its population, and the pestilence
devastated Gaiabria, Sicily and Greece.
At Chichester. England, in 772. 81 0o0
| people died. and in 954 Scotland lost
4eso00peoples There was aplaeue ii,
London in. 962,, and great mortality
from the same cause in 1904. ireland
was ssoreIX visited in, 1Q95; in, ,1172,
when King Henry IE was forced To
leave the country; in 1904. when pro-
dlgious number perished and in 1889.
In Hll the plague ingIlondon extended
to cattle, fowls and other domestic
| animals. sss81sS3 eE@ "a aAg5E3tL
The ss'black. DEATH. rayaged ItaIy in
1340s Aala The plague of 1889, general
in Europe, was one of the mosf mem
orable on record aTts effects in Flor
enee Were described by Boccaccio in
what VIII live as part of immortal
literature. Britain and Ireland suf-
fered terribly. and in London alone 200
persons We're buried daily in Charter
house. yard uIngs London sand Paris a
dreadful mortality prevailed in 1361-62,
In 1867 and 1885,. In Ireland there was
peslIence in, I570,s and still worse
one, called the fourth greatplague, in
1888. In 1407 London lost $4,000 citi-
zens. Another pestilence, superindueed
by famine, Visited ireland in1 4s6. when
great numbers died, and Dublin was
wasted by plague in 1470.. An s.awful
pestileucen ravaged Oxford in 1471,
and throughout England, in 147S, a
plague destroyed more people than
ceding years. fhe ! ..sWeatffig t H SICK pss-
ness was very, fatal in. London In 14S5,
and in f499-f500 the plague was so
dreadfRl THAI Henry VII. and hisyaourt
led to Calais for safety. The sweating
sickness which was fatal i'm hhree
hours, occurred In London in 1906 and
again in 1517. In most of the towns
half the people died, and Oxford was
depopulateds In 1929 thousands were
swept away in Limerick. The sweat
ing sickness revisited England in 1928
andsagaia ii 1551.A In i6OS-4, 30,57s
people perished of plague sinsEondon.
Constantinople agar. lost POO, 900 peo-
pie in 1911. In 1925 London lost 35,-
All inhabitants. In, 1852 LYONS lost
$4,000. In1656. 4o0, 900 people died at
Naples in six months. In 1864 Lon
don s great plague took off 68,596 in
habitants; some say 100, 900. One of
the most nTfaI plaques that ever raced
prevailed in Syria in 1860. In 1873,
80, 900 Inhabitants. of Bossora, Persia,
died Of plague. In 1892, SOC, 600 per.
sons died OF plague in Egypt. In Barr
barry 8, ,O00 spersona died atEaily, and in
1893, 24z000 people perished at Fez,
and epidsmies called plaga ragged 81
various paEtsp the East in 1900 1910
and 1873; there were many deaths in
Bagdad in 1876. There was an epi-
demie fever of 9ggst fatality at Gibral-
tar in 1928. p IL III
Cholera was described hg Garcia del
Huento, physician of Goa, Portugal,
about 1850 though comparatively little
was known of it until the present CEN
tury. 1t became epidemic In Bengal in
1917, and gradually spread untilxit
reached Russia in 1880 and Germany in
1881, CARRYING off more ethan 903. 900.
persons in the meantime.a Asiatica
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 1919, severely in 1855, and
again lightly in 1867. In 1889, 53,-
293 people died of 1T in England and
Walesgaad in 1854 those countries lost
20,097 and Naples 10000 persons. In
1860, $4,000 people died of cholera at
Constantinople. As will be seen, the
United States. has been relatively free
Irom pestlIence and plague, and IN no
case has it suffered from epiaemics in
dfgenous to its soil. Yellow fever has
at times been a terrible visitor, and its
awful effects in 1873 will not be forgot
ten. But in that case as in every pre-
eiods ohes ths eontagien was introduced
from the West InaiessaA>t its worst.
however, yellow fever never approached
the plaques of the old world fngdireful
power. The largest number of deaths
ever rscorde led IN the United States from
this cause was 14,SG9, In 1878. Yellow
feverfrst appeared in this countsyrat
Philadelp phia an 169ey when It wreseht
great havoc. It. has frequently APP
peared in various cities since. and in
1898 carried off several thousand vic
TINS in Philadelphia. 1t seourged New
York in 1871, Norfolk and Per assnehth. q
v "a - slna 1856. w ilmington, N. c., in
1852, Savannah i1 1876, and sporadic
cases on sshipboard and shore sase of
common occurrence ID the heated sea-
son, when personscouae IN contact with
the germs of the disease, transported
Lromaits tropical Eirthplaee. ron 81
II Times.