Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-06-26
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o'Si, uut ing duOtNcF VlSltdllOn OF |
cholera 70 these shores, DR.. Wester-
velt, the then Health Officer Of the |
Port of New York, acknowledged |
that in 1882 cholera had arrived at |
the port Of New York in infected |
ships prior to its outbreak upon
the st. Lawrence, bu. that for
prudential reasons the facts had
been suppressed by the Board OF
Health. "The SICK" he said "were
cared for in the quarantine hospital
and the aceU emigrants were shipped
rapidly FROM the city," The infec-
tion was brought from the st. Law
renee by emigrants into New York
State, and met the line of infection
then advancing northwari from
New York city. Thence it was
spread here and there throughout
the country.
In l848 the cholera was brought
hither by two ships, the one arriv-
ing at New York, the other at New
Orleans. Both ships came from
Havre, which wss regarded as free
from cholera, and both ships had a
clean bill of health. A portion of
the emigrants aboard these essels
came, however, from infected places
in Hungary. Very excellent cir
cumstantial evidence that the chol,
era germ may readily be carried
safely for thousands of miles in the
luggage of emigrants is furnished
by the reports of the masters of
these two vessels-the Swanten,
bound for New Orleans, and the
New York, bound for New York
city. The first says there was no
cholera aboard his ship until, an
unusually hot wind having begun
to blow, the, emigrants overhauled
their luggage for thin clothes; and
the master of the second ship SAYS
that it was while the emigrants
aboard were searching their dun
mage for thick clothes to withstand
a sudden cold blast that the first
symptoms of the disease first ap-
Feared.
During the years 1851, '52, '53
and '54 cholera broke out ia several
parts Of the country, being in every
instance directly traceable to the
luggage of emigrants coming from
infected portions Of the Old World.
Toward the end of October, 1865
the steamer Atalanta arrived in the
port of New York from Havre
with six hundred passengers, among
whom cholera was raging, and the
Hermann arrived a few days later
under similar circumstances. Chol
era was then raging in both Mar
seilles and Paris, and all these pas
sengers had come thence. A nurs'
on the hospital ship at quarantin,
visited Wards Island, and in eleve,
days there were thirty two attack
, and eighteen deaths. This mad,
the time of travelling for the chol
era germ only nine months fron
Bombay to Wards Island via waite
and land routes.
DIR. Mcclellan, in his narrativ
of the epidemic Of 1873, says
Three distinct outbreaks of choler
occurred at widely remote points il
the United States from poisor
$ packed and transported in the et
fects Of emigrants from HOLLAND
Sweden and Russia.
"These people and the vessels i
which they were carried had bee
: perfectly healthy, and the people n
| mained so until their goods wer
5 unpacked at Carthage, Ohio, q
Grow river, MINI, and at Yankte,
OAK, respectively. Within twel
= ty-four hours after the poison pa
S ticles were liberated, the first cas-,
f of the disease appeared, and the Vi
fortunates were almost LITERAL
!, swept from the surface of the earth
As to the intensity Of cholera,
: very excellent authority, Liber
It says:
n "Nothing can be moro capricior
e than the variation in the intensi
of cholera in ditfereat places and
= different times, even at differel
times in the sams places. An il
ported case may end in a local 6
,r tack, confined to a single room
2. house; even a simultaneous impo
8 tation of number of cases at diTt
eat points may exhaust itself in
J. number of local epidsmics, while
I'd other times a single case suffices
s. swi iftly produce an epidemic or ev'
1t a raging pesSilerce."
=, A careful study of previous eI
" denies show that there is little ola
O. ger from that which, like rags. mu
n pass under customs inspection.
lp is the emigrants themselves, and
n. pecially their luggage, which shou
49, receive the most attention; and frc
!! the evidence at hand it may safe
sn be laid down as uncontrovertit
er that as long as this dunnags, or ev
u part of it, is permitted to en-
ms the country during the prevaler
of epidemic cholera abroad, we m
:, at any moment expect to hear
ne its outbreak here, if not at the p
10 of New York, at other pol1
ID. whittier emigrants landed here hs
he been dispatched.
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