The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-08

food for its ravages in the large towns, contain
ing filth, q dense population and defective
sewerage. In those days rigorous quarantine
established at the mouth of the St Lawrence
would have effectually prevented the scourge
spreading throughout the whole length OF Lower
and Upper Canada, as according to the state
ment made at the time it had spread by the last
of June, in Canada, to the distance of 800 miles.
The whole number of deaths in Quebec from
June 8 to Sept. was 2,218, and in Montreal,
/, 843
The cholera appeared in the city of New York,
June q, 1882, two children in one family sud
denly dying, and by the 4th of July it had
spread to every part Of the city and was at its
height on the 25th, on which day there were 1l5
deaths BY the last Of August it had disappeared;
the whole number Of deaths being 1920 1t is
curious it was not until July Ii, some TWO
weeks after its outbreak in New York. that the
epidemic commenced in Brooklyn. 1t lasted
sixty nine days in that city, causing the death OF
l91 persons. 1t broke out the same day in New
Haven, Conn, and in Baltimore on the 10th,
1t followed the Hudson river, breaking out in
Albany July g. continuing sixty lone days, with
406 deaths 1t thence followed the Erie canal
to Utica, and the western cities to Buffalo.
Dr. Davis, in a compilation called the Half
Century, gives list of the cities visited by the
cholera, its commencement, number of days OF
continuance, number of deaths, etc, from which
some of the above data are cleaned.
The first case in Philadelphia, in the same
year 1882 occurred July 16, and the disease
was at us nelght on the Z0Cn. Inc Wnole num-
Der of deaths to September / was TAT The
cholera appeared in Boston August To- The
mortality was comparatively light in that city,
the deaths numbering IS.
1t commenced in Cincinnati in July, but did
not become epidemic till September 1t con-
tnued through most of the summer of 1883,
but was not very severe. It was very fatal in
New Orleans where it commenced in Octo-
Der, 1882. During ten days previous to No
vember there were 1900 deaths. It spread
through all the cities and large towns Of the
West but the deaths did not in such places as
St Louis and Cincinnati exceed twenty-five or
thirty a day. It prevailed in the valley
Of the Mississippi through most of the summer
of 1888, when it disappeared from the country
This is a noticeable feature of cholera
as well as Of yellow fever-that the scourge gem
really repeats its ravages the second year after
the first attack, though probably in q somewhat
milder form.
I'm 1897 says the same authority, '.the
cholera was very severe in St Louis and in Gin
cinnati. It continued in each city from May to
August, and there were in each city more than
5000 Deaths
It spread in that year over all the Middle
and Western States and in many towns in New
England The President of the United States
appointed August 3, l849, as a day of fastin g
and prayer to God, that he would s'avert the
pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the de-
struction that wasteth at MONDAY 1t was gen
orally and seriously observed throughout the
country