Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-26
ALARMING MORTALITY
Of the scourge of Cholera Causes
Much Uneasiness.
How the Deadly Disease Was Carried Into
te United States During Former
epidemics.

Nkw YORK, July 25.-The alarming in.
crease Of mortality from cholera 10 Egypt
causes v idespread alarm throughout Eu.
rope. The quarantine regulations are rig.
dly enforced in the Mediterranean ports,
and the British staff is making strenuous
exertions TO re,srd the progress OF the pesti.
lence, but there Is every reason 70 believe
that before the year expires many coun.
tries Oh the continent, and probably Eng.
lsnd nd the tniIed States as we'll, will
suiI. from the ravsg.s o! the most malik.
nant Of Asiatic plaques. The records vi
prev Niuus yisitatiUns Of Cholera show that
wherever Egypt has been attacked by the
c!Sasc England and the continent have not
'EcsI ed. The lower Nile uasin. however,
hrs often become infected from Europe.
In 1879 the disease was
Carried From Persia
scrO's .he Caspian into Russia, and was
gradually communicated 10 Germany,
Austria and Hungary. IL was not until
1882 that IT prevailed extensively in Eag.
and, France and Spain, and II WAS In that
year that II appeared in Egypt, having
bten carried tbither from Germany by way
OF Copsisntinople and Syria Tne same
route was followed in the next terrible
visitation. The disease reached Astrskhan
from Persia during the summer Of l5E
and spread rapidly In Southern Russis,
following the Black Sea TO Odessa and
Consraniinople, passing up the Danube
into Germany, and being carried fr0m HJl.
land TO Engsnd about the time OF its raw
ages in Egypt. During these
Two ChoIsra PesqsAs.
The disease Was not directly communicated
from Alexandria 10 The European Conti-
nent. In lsG5, however. the outbreak In
Egyp. preceded the raysges on the Cont.
neni, cholera being carried to Marseiiles
and Southampton and other European
ports by Mediterranean steamers. Ia that
year the disease was Arabian rather than
Indian in origin, and Alexandra offered
the shortest line OF communication with
Europe. The other yisitauoas we're To bs
sscribed TO IDdisn cholera communicated
10 Russia through Persia The present out
break, like that OF 1855, il apparently
Arabian in origin.
The United States will share in any
dangers of infection 70 which E1rop, msy
be exposed. In 1882 cholera was
Carried by Enigssst ships
from Ireland 70 Quebec and thence along
the st. Lawrence ard through Ontsrio 70
Detroit United States troops that we're
transported by vessels on which some OF
these enigrsnts had been sick we're attack.
ed by the disesse, End the infection was
carried along the chain OF military posts ss
far Is the Mississippi. New Orleans VS.
subsequently, visited, and the disease eI.
hsusted itself in the surrounding country.
In lSis the pestilence wss imported in
ships arriving at New Orleans from Hsvre,
End was communicated rapidly 70 81.
Louis. Cincinnati and Buffalo. snd sutss-
gu.ntly carried across the plains 70 Ban
Francisco. In 1866 New YORK vas the dis.
rritniing point from the emisrant ships;
but although
Ouibreaks of the Disease
occurred at long distances from the sea
board. the area OF infection was c0mpars-
lively narrow. n Europe suffers this year
from the p<stilepce, Its ultimate appear.
ance in the United States may be accepted
~ q foregone conclusion Quarantine reg
uiafiops cannot be % thorough - TO eI-
clude the di,esse when the tide OF immi
grstiop is setting in 20 strongly as II Il at
present. Sanitary science. however, has
made fuch marked progress In American
cities since the terrible visitation OF choler.
! In ls43 tbat the prospect Of the 90 waIo
ccurte Of the disease across the Atientic
ought not to cause widespresd sppfsnea'
siou-
EsrxRrrurxs local agents vsnted In this
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