The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-01
THE
Former visitations of the Dreaded
scourge of Humanity.

India for centuries. Contrary, howev-
Ell, to the generally accepted theory,
which received added weight from the
conclusions Of the international cholera
conference of 1866, the place Of its orr
gin does not appear to have heen the
Ganges Valley-whence it spread in
1s17-but Goa, on the west coast OF
the peninsula, where its ravages were
observed and noted in 1859 by o Hol-
lander named Liuschot, by Mandelsloe
in 1888, and in 1916 by one Dellon, who
was so unfortunate as to incur the hos
tility Of the holy inquisition, and whose
observations were made during his i'm
%prisonment by that most sacred and
charitable institution Of Mother
Church. It is a fact, though, that the
outbreak of 1877 exceeded in severity
and the extent of its expansion all that
had preceded it. It was, moreover,
the first to reach Europe. and there
fore it shall be the first of which we
treat. During August, 1917, the cholera,
known to the Malrattas as Mordeshin,
and to the Mohammedans of India as
haiza, ragged at Jessore, a place on the
upper 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 ia October, and by
January, 1919, it invaded Ceylon. Here
we leave it to trace it's westward march,
merely observing that it spread far to
the east, overrunning farther India and
China. Its course northwest was by
way Persia, whence it proceeded along
the great routes of travel until it reached
the Caspian sea and.Armenia. In 1882
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 expect
ed the invasion from this quarter, but it
was not made. and it was not until July,
1880, that the most notherly district in
tested, that along the borders ofthe Cas-
plan, transmitted the dreaded scourge
to European Russia. From thence
its spread was q mere matter of time,
and for eight years-that is-until 1898
it was continually present in one
country or the other of Europe. In the
meantime it crossed the ocean and
sprend over the western hemisphere.
Nine years after the cholera disappeared
from Europe it again visited the CONT
nent-in 1S47-and again came to this
country, where 1t was very severe. It
was not entirely got rid Of in Europe
until 1859.
The year 1865 witnessed an invasion
from a new quarter, the disease this time
entering Europe from the Mediter-
ranean ports, after having devastated
Egypt, where 61,192 persons fell VIC
tins to it. 1t was very severe in Eu-
rope, 1000 inhabitants of Paris being
carried off by it in October, 1865. In
1866 England, Holland, Prussia, Hun
gary and Austria suffered severely. In
November of 1865 it was brought to
New York by the immigrant ship At
lanta, but did not spread beyond the
immigrants hospital on Wards Island.
The following April witnessed its arri-
val at the same port on board the ships
Virginia and England, of
whose passengers 2S1 had died
on the voyage. The next two
months saw a few isolated cases in the
city itself. and thenceforward it spread
rapidly, taking off 1895 persons up to
October Is, on which date the last case
occurred. In Brooklyn between TOO
and 800 persons died, at st. Louis 5
Philadelphia 1874, Cincinnati 1900, Chi
cago 97S, Savannah 231, New Orleans
1872, &c,-altogether, 1O,SO5 deaths
from this cause were reported during
the year. In October, 1867, it reap
peared, this time on board the United
States ship Potomac, at Philadelphia,
but was confined to the vessel. At New
York the plague was reimported in i'm
migrant ships, the Lord Brougham ar
irving on December l from Hamburg
with twenty sick on board, after having
buried seventy-fve at sea, and the Leil)-
nitz on January IL, from the SAM port,
with thirty-five sick and o list of 1O5
who had died on the passage. Here,
rs ct Philadelphia. the disease was kept
on board ship. But the South was not
so fortunate. Pensacola, Mobile and
New Orleans were all visited by the
plague, which extended up the Mississ-
ippi and its southern tributaries, many
deaths occurring III the Indian Territory.
At the riverside town Of St. Louis it
was stoutly denied that cholera existed
there, but the records of that place
show fearful mortality from cholera
morbus. III
We are now brought down to the
present plague, which, like its prede-
cessor, has entered Europe from the
Mediterranean. We may now turn to
matters unconnected with the direct
progress Of past epidemics, but before
doing SO it is as well to emphasize the
fact that experience has shown there is
nothing unusual in the manner in which
the disease has made its appearance in
France. Nothing is more common in
The progress of this mysterious plague,
than for a time to elapse after it has
disappeared from one spot before it
moves on to another. A few words
may now be said of Chicago's experien-
ces. In May, 1s49, the first case oc-
Cured here, and was fatal, a Captain
Jackson being the victim. By August
| it had reached its height, thirty per-
sons dying on that day. Among the
victims of this epidemic was the Rev.
w. II. Rice, of the Tabernacle Baptist
church, who was taken i'll
when rrturning from the bedside OF
. patient and died the next day. In
the fall Of 1S49 the plague disappeared
to return again in 1851, 1852 and 1853.
In the first of these years it carried off
PIG persons, in the next $50, and in
the last lib. A few cases occurred in
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