Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-30
CHOLERA ON THE MARCH.

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CHOLERA ON THE MARCH.
The alarming increase of mortality
from cholera in Egypt causes wide
spread alarm throughout Europe.
The quarantine regulations are rigidly
enforced in the Mediterranean ports.
and the British staff is making siren
uous eXertions to retard the progress
of the pestilence, but there is every
reason to believe that before the year
expires many countries on the Cont
nent, and probably England and the
United States as we'll, will suffer from
the ravages of the most malignant of
Asiatic plaques. The records of pre-
vious visitations of cholera show that
whenever Egypt has been attacked
by the disease England and the Con-
tinent have not escaped. The lower
Nile basin, however, has often be-
come infected from Europe. In 1929
the disease was carried from Persia
across the Caspian into Russia, and
was gradually communicated to Ger
many, Austria and Hungary. 1t was
not until 1882 that it prevailed extern
sively in England, France and Spain,
and it was in that year that 1t appear
ed in Egypt, having been carried
thither from Germany by way of
Constantinople and Syria. The same
route was followed in the next terri
BILE visitation. The disease reached
Astrakhan from Persia during the
summer of 1917 and spread rapidly
in Southern Russia. following the
Black Sea to Odessa and CONSTANT
nople, passing up the Danube into
Germany, and being carried from
Holland to England about the time of
its ravages in Egypt. During these
two cholera periods the disease was
not directly communicated from Alex
andria to the European Continent.
In 1865, however, the outbreak in
Egypt preceded the ravages on the
Continent, cholera being carried to
Marseilles and Southampton and 9TH
er European ports by Mediterranean
steamers. In that year the disease
was Arabian rather than Indian in
origin, and Alexandria offered the
shortest line of communication with
Europe. The other visitations were
to be ascribed to Indian cholera COM
municated to Russia through Persia.
The present outbreak, like that OF
1865, is apparently Arabian in origin.
The United States will share in any
dangers of infection to which Europe
may be exposed. In 1882 cholera
was carried by emigrant ships from
Ireland to Quebec and thence along
the st. Lawrence and through Ontario
to Detroit. United States troops
that were transported by vessels OIL
which some of these emigrants haC
been sick were attacked by the dis
ease, and the infection was carried
along the chain of military posts as
far as the Mississippi. New Orlean.
was subsequently visited, and th,
disease exhausted itself in the sur
rounding country. In 1913 the pes
, thence was imported in ships arriving
at New Orleans from Havre, and wa
communicated rapidly to St. Louis
: Cincinnati and Buffalo, and subse
quently carried across the Plains t.
:, San Francisco In 1866 New Yorl
: was the distributing point from tn
emigrant ships; but although out
breaks of the disease occurred at Ion.
distances from the seabord, the are
! of infection was comparatively mar
row. If Europe suffers this yea
J from the pestilence, it's ultimate ap
6 pearance in the United States may b
. accepted as foregone conclusion.