The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-02
CHOLERA EPIDEMICS.
ACCOUNTS OF PREVIOUS OUTBREAKS.
Tho Origin OF tho Plasne-Its Progress
Toward tho West and the Dovas,
y tation which Has Always
Marked It's Pathway.
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With cholera ct Toulon, and the fact In
memory that this scourge has never raw.
aged Europe without sooner or lAtercross-
Ing tho ocaan TO America honloA brief 90.
count Of the rise and progress Of previous
epidemics will no doubt possess interest
for readers Of the Daily Nssos. 'isa7,l'f ga
As was brieay mentioned In yesterdays
niorning Issue Of this paper, the qscourge
has been Known 70 exist In India for cen.
turies. CONTRARY, however, to the ,gsnsr- 7
AllyASctptsd theory, which rscCfved added
weight from the cancellations Of the inter.
national cholera conference Of 1885. the
placs Of its origin does not appear 10 have
been the Ganges Valley whence II spread
In ISi7-buk Goa, on the west coast Of the
peninsula, where it's ravages were observed
and noted In 1850 by a Hollandef- named
Linschot, by Mahdelsloe In 1888, and In
1916 by one Delloh, who was so unfortu.
nate as to incur the hostility of the holy
inquisition, 50 and whose observa-
tions were made during his impris
onment by that most sacred and char
table institution of Mother Church. tits
fact, though, that the outbreak'of 1917 ex.
ceeded in severity and the extent Of its ex-
pansion all that had preceded it. It was,
moreover, the first to reach Europe, and
therefore 1t shall be the first Of which we
treat. During August, 1917, the cholera,
known to the Mahrattas as mordeshin, and
to the Mohammedans of India, as haiza,
ragged at Jessore, a place on theupper part
of the Ganges delta, about sixty miles
from Calcutta. From thence it passed
from district to district, now slowly and
now fast, but never jumping over any
place along its route, until in September,
1918, it reached Bombay. Madras was
visited in October, and by January, 1919,
it had invaded Ceylon. Here we leave it
to trace its westward march, merely OBJ
serving that it spread far to the east, over.
running Farther India and China. Its
course northward was by the way of Per.
sia, whence it proceeded along the'great
routes of travel until it reached the Caspian
Sea and Armenia. In 1922 the disease was
established in the coast towns of Syria and
Turkey, which seem to have been reached
from Armenia and by way OF Arabia, to
which peninsula it was conveyed from
Bombay in 1921. Naturally, the people
of Europe expected the invasion from
this quarter, but it was not made, and 1t
was not until July, 1880, that the most
northerly district infected, that along the
borders of the Caspian, transmitted the
dreaded scourge to European Russia.
From thence its spread was amere mat
ter of time, and for eight years-that Is,
until 1S3S-it was continually present in
one country or the other of Europe. In
the meantime it crossed the ocean and
spread over the Western Hemisphere.
Nine years after the cholera disappeared
from, Europe 1t again visited that CONT.
nent-in 1S47-and again came to this coun.
/ try, where it was very severe. 1t was not
entirely got rid Of in Europe until 1853.
The year 1855 Witnessed an invasion
from new quarter, the disease this time
entering Europe from the Mediterranean
ports, after having devastated Egypt,
where 61, 1872 persons fell victims to it. It
was very severe in Europe, 1000 inhab.
! itants Of Paris being carried off by it in
| October, 1865. In 1866 England, Holland,
Prussia, Hungary and Austria suffered
severely. In November 1865 1t was brought
to New York by the immigrant ship At
lanta, but did not spread beyond the i'm
migrants hospital on Wards Island. The
following April witnessed its arrival at
the same port, on board the ships Virginia
and England, Of whose passengers 2Sl had
+La. b rha f,,,n fI,c
saw few isolated cases in the city itself,
and thenceforward it spread rapidly,
taking Off 1,195 persons up to October ID,
on which date the last case occurred. In
! Brooklyn between 100 and 800 persons
died, at st. Louis 1852, Philadelphia
S3l, Cincinnati 1900, Chicago 97S,
Savannah 231, New Orleans 1872
etc.-altogether 1O,SO5 deaths from
this cause were reported during the
year. In October, 1867, it reappeared, this
time on board the United States ship Poto
mac, at Philadelphia, but was confined tc
the vessel. At New York the plague wa.
reimported in immigrant ships, the Lore
Brougham arriving on December from
Hamburg with twenty sick ON board, aftei
having buried seventy-five at sea, and tht
Leibnitz on January II, from the same
port, with thirty-five sick and list of 1Oi
who had died on the passage. Here, as a
Philadelphia, the disease was kept OF
board ship. But the South was not so for
tunate. Pensacola, Mobile, and New
Orleans were all visited by the plague
which extended up the Mississippi and it,
southern tributaries, many deaths occur
ring in the Indian Territory. At the river
side town of st. Louis 1t was stoutly de
MED that cholera existed there, but th
records of that place show fearful MOI
tality from cholera morbus.
! We are now brought down to the presen
plague, which, like its immediate predece.
sor, has entered Europe from the Meditel
ranean, and concise account Of whic
was published yesterday. We may no,
turn to matters unconnected with the d
rect progress Of past epidemics, but befor
doing so 1t is as well to emphasize the fac
that experience has shown there is nothin
unusual in the manner the disease ha
: made its appearance in. France. Nothin
Is more common in the progress of th
mysterious plague than for a time to elaps
after it has disappeared from one spot b
fore it moves on to another. A few wor6
may now be said of Chicago's experience
In May, 1S49, the first case occurred her
and was fatal-a Captain jackson beir
the victim. By August it had reache
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