Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-01
THE CHOLERA.
The Origin of the Disease and its
History,
The Causes Which Will Bring it to Us

The Causes Which Will Bring it to Us, |
Aud Things Which Gan be Done to Pre-
vent 1t.
The positive temperance OF the
cholera in Spain, In epidemic form
and with very fatal results, gives the
subject new interest here. With peo-
pie dying by hundreds In Spain, and
with fair prospects of new outbreaks
in other parts of Europe, the matter
becomes of vital interest here, so easy
is the passage across the sea, so FREE
quent the passengers and so probable
| the communication OF the infection.
| A little pamphlet of something more
than 100 pages, written by DIR. Ezra
A. Bartlett and published by ii. II.
Bender of Albany, MY, intended for
the people and not for the doctors,
| Is full of value in this connec-
ton. 1t is divided into seven
chapters, of which the first is devoted
to the often.told but always interest
ing history of the disease, viz: that
the disease came from Asia some three
or four centuries ago, that 1t ragged in
London two centuries ago, that along
about l20 years ago In Japan similar
disease ragged, and that in 1917 and for
soEe years after India was devastated,
are familiar facts. From Bengal to
Madras, from Ceylon's isle to the
other isles of the sea, from China to the
Persian gulf, to the shores Of the Gas.
! plan, to Astrakhan, Orenburg and
Moscow, and so on, by st. Petersburg,
Dantzic, Berlin aud Hamburg 10
England the disease took
is way. In June. 1882, lpnly a
, year after reaching England, 1t ap.
pesred in New York. For two or
three years it prevailed with more or
, less violence In this country, and then
dropped out OF sight and mind. In
: lSi7
TT AGAIN sTARrED FROM INDIA.
In the spring of lS46 1t reached Euro
!, pean cities, and rapidly moved to New
> York and New Orleans. AT the for
mer American city 1t was checked by
!, quarantine, but in New Orleans, the
= weather being very hot and Other
% things favorable for its reception and
: propagation, cases multiplied rapidly
. and soon it had extended into Texas
" and up the Mississippi to Memphis
y The next year 1S49), following it
!. appearance in Europe, ii broke GU
!. in New York, Philadelphia anC
u many other places on the Atlantis
o coast. Starting afresh in New Or
leans, ii overspread the valley of tn
Mississippi, took up it's habitatioi
u with those who were toiling over tn
u plains toward the land OF gold and di
~ not from there entirely depart. For
u half-doZen years there were occasional
r. cases on the shores of the Pacific, bu
40 along some 90 years ago the choler
10 took new start from the East. /
" struck Mecca in 1865, (bear in min
AZ that this history is illuminating, an
III the pilgrims were its food. The cit
has 1000 inhabitants, with an annul
influx of 100000 to $50, 900 pilgrim
who stay a week or month. Thel
20. are any number of houses built in fla
& tor the accommodation OF the pilgrim
no. each flat being provided with one I
% two badly constructed privies, whic
p. empty themselves into pits dug ~
ill side the houses. When the'
he get filed they are emptit
into other pits, which are made in Il
nd streets or any other convenient spo
or and then covered over with earth. Fl
OF the poor, privies or latrines are mac
on the same principle, in and outsiC
OF the town, and the same method
m emptying them is employed. Th
system or
BURYING FOUL MATTER
in every direction has been pursue
ID, for centuries; it Is not, therefore, su
n. prising that the ground in and arouI
A Mecca is surcharged with eXcrement
~. tious matter, which rains (these q
n; frequent in Mecea) carry by filtratiC
M into the wells. One of the princlp
IN, of these, and one most used, Is call,
Il Hagar's well. 1t Is not spring, b
tt, its water IS supplied by filtration, tn
N, il, by rain water passing dow
N through an everything mass of 70
le- matter. In addition to this pilgrim
NJ by the thousand, sick and we
nd diseased and sound, daily wash best,
III; it, when the water used naturally fin,
u its way back into the well. The p
d iron saint of the cholera could ha'
~, asked nothing more favorable.
w. things go on, until last August Il
p disease broke out in Naples. On IL
18th day of September there were 81
on deaths, This was the culminatiI
lie. point. There ives the usual subsi
p ence, but, now the winter and sprir
I'd; have passed, it breaks out again al
IN threatens this side OF the Atlantic. u
III, Bartlett, from whose rapid revie
w these facts have been drawn, thin
by, the history of the past makes it prob
lg- BILE that we shall have the disease
H the country this year, and he asl
Id, these pertinent questions:
~; "What has actually been done
ty; any city, town or village to meet sue
is. an emergency Are there hospita
lie, ready for the reception OF patients?
|, one case occurs, it ia the source fro
)k. which there will arise many, unle
ar active measures are adopted to pr
vent it. There is disposition not to I
ty. port such solitary first cases. Have Il
IN, necessary arrangements been made
II an inspecting corps? Are the detaI
n for disinfecting provided for? Are Il
A people thoroughly instructed as TO h
sss measures they must adopt to rend
d. the spread of the disease impossibl,
do Are the authorities OF cities, town al
villages taking active measures
am cause the removal OF all filth and d
~, ease-breeding material, which is h
fauarifa habitat nj fha ahOlar. f,avr,