, 1883-07-28
The As;at:c Pest.

The appearance Of Asiatlc cholera IN
E,y.. i, an event which viii excite
g-ester attention in America than Eis'efl
wars and politics. Although the interval
of l3 coo mules seems 10 afford protection
from this rsIen;lesaly fatal epidemic. e1-
perience shows Low great the danger
really Is. of the SIX great epdemIcs OF
cholera in the past century, three have
invaded the United States and produced
terrible and widespread mortality. Tho
source of the disease has uniformly been
Hindoostan, and the occasion IN those
years whose grea. religious festivals m
vOlving pilsrimages to sacred shE;nes
have taken place. The prevaience OF
cholera from year to year IN India is not
attended With widespread death, save AZ
the time Of the great twelve-yesriy festi-
vals az the Hindoos. To this depofSsion
of the disease is due It's regular perIcdlcity
of twelve years, and to this also Is its
deadliness OWING 1t is only when 1t be-
comes epidemic, and the nalarial condi-
,ions concur. that il assumes the worst as
pec.. The rapldi'y with which cholera
spreads appears IL the fact that 1t has US
ually run It's course IN t@O years. The
endemic of ls293l, the first 10 cross the
Atlantic, approached Europe BY way Ct
Moscow, having appeared IN AstrahhHn
IN Aurust of 1920. From Moscow 1t gas
disseminated al over Northern Russia,
and was carried by coaling vessels on the
p.l,:- y. England, and vas soon epidemic
al over Scotland and Ireland. Thence,
by ten Cr twelve Irish emisrant ships, he
disease landed in Quebec, to be sent up
the ST. Laurence river and the lakes {"
Detroit. IN time 10 bring down number
Of American troops destined for the scene
nf the Black Hawk war. Chicag", Rock
Island and Prairie du Chen were soon
infected: and later the disease tOoh rs
course down the Mississippi 70 New Or
leans, where G,000 deaths took place,
when the ci.y's population was az, 900
The next gre,. epidemic occurred IN lsil,
arising in lower Bengal, reaching Afghan
stan If 1874. The Black Sea and the
the Danube ca.,ied It 10 Germany, and,
a IN 1880, emigrant ships carried it 10
America, tbs time to appear first at New
Orleans. In 1880 the cooler Northern
climate DETECTED the course # The disease
southwark. where its greatest havoc oc-
cured in the heated term. In its second
appearacce the course was northward.
River steamers had twenty 20 thirty ycases
aboard daily as they came up 70 st. Louis
and CiucI-nstI Bot again the Northern
climate proved a successful preventive,
and the cholera spen; ils force IN the
North without the excessive mortality
that WAS visited upon SJuthe:G cues
The tendency Of ,he disease 20 FroPel IT
sell was well illustrated IN It's traLsporta-
tion TO San Francisco by emigrant trans.
The las; visitation Of the past was in 1865.
when, with the means ot rapid transit 3y
railway and steamship, the in,erVs! oi
time from It's appearance in lGt!a OF its
arrival at New York was butfour months
1t thea sPre,d as lar weat as Kansas.
The United States has been the bGrylns
ground Of the cholera In each Of the last
three great ep;demlcs. and 1t has never
crossed the Pacific to complete the err
cult OF the world. Ii it should reach our
shores this time. it is no. improbable that
It Will he able 10 reach China by means
OF the ocean steamships and greatly in
creased travel, The pest bas now reached
tle oujpoass ot its home. The rex' c;;i,a
TO receive /; will be those from which II
spreads most rapii.y-Constau,inopie,
Odessa and the Mediterranean and E,i;.o
ports Thence lis Journey 10 Ame: {. i.
nrlsf and Undertaking.
There should DC Lo isss occas ga 8.
a arm GOV than IL pe,irus yaI.'en.'S
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