The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-09
CHOLERA'S TRAVELS.
COURSES THE PLAGUE HAS PURSUED
IN THE PAST
How the I'estIIence Was brought Across
the Atlantic Ocean, and How 1t
Scattered Throughout the
United States.


The march of cholera toward Chicago is
fearfully anticipated, since the experience
with past epidemics of the disease teaches
us that escape next year is hardly to DO
hoped for There is painful interest in
noti-g the course the plague pursues in its
advance upon tho great central points OF
civilization. In 1852 cholera prevailed in
France to such an extent that 100. 600 deaths
occurred within tho year, 1000 OF which
we're III the short space of eighteen days
In the spring of the next year it appeared
in England and in Ireland. From Liver
pool, Cork. Limerick, and Dublin five YES
sells of elnigrants sailed for Quebec, and 119
deaths occurred during, the passage. These
ships put in quarantine at Crosse
Isle, but on June vessel con-
veyed load of these emigrantS,
with their baggage, to Quebec and
Montreal Cases of cholera occurred at
Quebec the next day. From Montreal tho
emigrants were forwarded by the emigrant
society as fast as they arrived, and the
pestilenca was sown at each stopping place.
The epidemic in that way reached Detroit.
continued west along the great lakes, and in
September the military posts on tho upper
Mississippi were attacked, and the most
fatal effects were displayed when the dis
ease reached the troops at Fort Dearborn.
The infection was both direct and Indirect
between the sick and tho we'll An infected
picked up by a man, and both he and his
wife died of cholera.
In October, 1852, the brig Amelia, with
10S persons on board, sailed from New York
for New Orleans. the disease appeared on
board the sixth day out The brig was
stranded on Folly island ten miles from
Charlie ton, and in two days the disease be
gan spreading among the inhabitants of
that island Before that there had never
heen a case of cholera within 200 miles of
Folly islnni An emigrant ship having
cholera board reached New York,
whence the disease spread up the Hudson,
and was carried southwardly to Philadel-
phia, AMI thence to the west.
In 1893 the disease broke out in Havana,
whence it was carried to Mexican and
American towns the gulf of Mexico, and
up the Mississippi and Ohio as far the
western border of Pennsylvania. The next
year there was a second outbreak at Que
oec, occassoned by n vessel of emigran Is
coming in. The disease prevailed in Cam
ada and New York, and thence spread all
over the country in 1S35-;;6 Then there was
a gradual subsistence and the disease disap
peared for nearly ten years.
In 1915, however, it entered upon its old
path and reached England in October, be-
ginning with Sunderland the very town it
first visited in 1881. Two vessels sailed
from Havre one for New York, the other
for New Orleans, both carrying German
emigrants The Now York boat occasioned
an epidemic i'll the quarantine grounds.
TEere was no quarantine at New Orleans
the sick of the vessels were conveyed to hos
pitfalls, and a severe epidemic enSuel A
boat from New Orleans to Memphis carried
the disease to the latter point, and the next
spring it spread thence to st. Louis. Cincin-
natl and the whole Mississippi valley. In
October it reached Sacramento by means OF
overland emigrants AMI San Francisco by
steamer.
In 1919 the disease reappearsd in New
York, and 5000 persons dieI. The disease
rested until 1853 when it broke out in
Teheran, Persia, destroying IL 900 persons,
and reached France, where III 900 died and
lgland, where thera were 10, 900 deaths.
LII 1874 emigranti introduced it into Now
York, whence it was carried i'll Philadelphia,
extended to many towns iii New England,
and was borne along the western channels
of emigration. There was a rest until 1864,
when the cholera broke out among the pill
erims to Mecca. 1t reached Europe in 1867
AMI was thenco borne by the usual means to
North America AMI the West Indies In
1866 it was carried from Halifax in troop
ship to New York and tho various southern
ports, from whenca its progress could be
traced to Texas and the gulf states, aud to
tho towns of the Mississippi AMI Missouri.
The last appearance of cholera in the
United StataI ill 1873. when it occurred
at three points far distant from each other,
being introduced in the effects of emgrantS
Thess were Clrthagc. Ohio; Crow River,
Mimi, aul Yaukton. ID. Il. In each place
twenty four hours after the poison particles
were liberated the disease appeared 1t is
thus shown that cholera is not general in
this country from any local conditions, but
depends upon the Introduction of the speci-
fic poison If the disease Water is the main
channel through which tho infectious prin
ciples of the disease are spread. but the par
ticles also be conveyed in clothing,
proving fatal when liberated.