The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-01

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empire in the years 1867, 1863 and 1S9.
4 From $50 to 260 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 a plagne swept away
such multitudes that 'ithe living were
i hardly sufficient to bury the dead. " A
long continued and dreadful plague be-
gan in Europe in sos, and subsequently
extended all over Asia and what was
then known of Africa. During the
years 1869 Constantinople lost 100000
of its population, and the pestilence
devastated Calabria, Sicily and Greece,
/ At Chichester, England, in 772, $4,000
people died. and in 954 Scotland lost
40, 900 people,. There was plague in
London in 962, and great mortality
from the same cause in 1924. Ireland
was sorelv visited in 1898; in 1172,
when King Henry H. was forced to
leave the country; in 1904, when pro-
digious number persisted and in 1889.
In Ill the plague in London extended
to cattle, fowls and other domestic
animals.
The 'black death" ravaged Italy in
1910, and the plague of 1888, general
in Europe, was one of the most men,
orable on record Its effects in Flor
ence were described by Boccaccio in
what will live as a 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 a
dreadful mortality prevailed in 1361-62,
in 1867 and 1869. In Ireland there was
pestilenee in 1870, and a still worse
one, called the fourth great plague, in
1888. In 1907 London lost $4,000 citi-
zens. Another pestilence, superinduced
by famine, visited Ireland in 1866, when
great numbers died, and Dublin was
wasted by plague in 1870. An lawful
pestileuce" ravaged Oxford in 1471,
and throughout England, in 1873, a
plague .f'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 SO
dreadful that Henry VII. and his court
fled 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 1925
and again in 1851. In 1904, 30,57e
people persisted of plague in London.
Constantinople again lost 100000 peo-
All inhabitants. In 1852 Lyons lost
10000. In 1856, 100000 people died at
Naples in six months. In 1864 Lon
don's great plague took off 68,596 in
habitants; some say 100000, One OF
the most awful plaques that ever ragged
prevailed in Syria in 1860. In 1773,
| 80, 900 inhabitants of Bossora, Persia,
died of plague. In 1892, 100000 per-
sons died of plague in Egypt. In Bar
barry 5000 persons died daily, and in
1893, 247, 900 people persisted at Fee,
and epidemics called plaques ragged in
various parts of the East in 1900, 1910
and 1873; there were many deaths in
Bagdad in 1876. There was an cpl
demic fever of great fatality at Gibral-
tar in 1928.
Cholera was described by Garcia del
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 it
reached Russia in 1880 and Germany in
1881, carrying off more than 90O,O 200
persons in the meantime. Asiatic
cholera first appeared in England at
| Sunderland October &c, 1881, and in
North America at Quebec, June 8, 1892,
and in New York, June %, 1882 Ii
revisited the United States in 1884,
slightly in 1849, severely in 1855, and
again lightly in 1867. In 1889, So
1913 people died of 1t in England and
Wales, and in 1854 those countries lost
20,097 and Naples 10000 persons. In
1868, 10000 people died of cholera at
: Constantinople. AS will be seen, the
United States has been relatively free
from pestlence and plague, and in no
case has it suffered from epidemics in
: digenous to its soil. Yellow fever has
at times been terrible visitor, and its
awful effects in 1873 will not be forgot
ten. But in that case as in every pre-
vious one, the contagionwas introduced
from the West Indies. At ITS worst,
however, yelloWfevernever 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,S09, in 1878. Yellow
fever first appeared in this country at
Philadelphia in 1899, when it wrought
great havoc. 1t has frequently APP
peared in various cities since, and in
1898 carried off several thousand vic
tins in. Philadelphia, fl 1t scourged New
York in 1871, Norfolk and Portsmouth,
=. Va, in 1855, 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 its tropical birthplace. Troy IN
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