The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-09-18
CHOLERA'S TRAVELS.
COURSES THE PLAGUE HAS PURSUED
.sgr -.'~ IN THE PAST. ..a TT
How the Pestilence YVES Brought Across
r.. the Atlantic Ocean. and How II
Scattered Throughout tbs -..r
Inter Ocean.1

The march OF cholera toward Chicago Ii
fearfully anticipated. since the experiences
with past epidsmics Of tho disease teaches
us that escape next year II hardly 10 DO
hoped for Thsrs ID q painful Interest In
noting the course the plague pursues In it,
advance upon the great central points OF
civilization In 1889 cholera prevailed in
France to such an extent that 10. COO deaths
occurred within the year. 1000 Of which
were In the short space Of sightssn days
In the spring Of the next year it appeared
in England and in Ireland From Liver
pool, Cork. Limerick, and Dublin five res
sells Of emiara sailed for Qusbec, and l79
deaths occurred during the passage. These
ships were put In quarantine at Crosse
Isle, but on June vessel con-
with their baggage, to Qusbsc and
Montreal Cases Of cholera occurred at
Quebec the next day. From Montreal the
emigrants were forwarded by the smigrant
society rs fast as they arrived. and the
pestilence 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 the 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 the well An infected
mattress flung from q passing vessel was
picksl up by q man, and both he and his
wife died OF cholera.
In October, 1851 the brig Amelia, with
10S persons on boari, sailed from New York
for New OrlsanS The disease appeared on
boarl the sixth day out The brig was
stranded on Folly island, ten miles frora
Charlie ton, and In two days the disease be-
gan spreading among the inhabitants OF
that island. Before that there had never
been a case Of cholera within 80 miles Of
Folly island. An emiyraut ship having
cholera on board reached New York,
whence the disease spread up the hudson.
and was carried south wardly to Philaiel-
phia. AMI thence TO the west
In 1888 the disease broke out In Havana,
whence 1t was carried TO Mexican and
American towns on tho gulf OF Mexico, and
up the Mississippi and Ohio as far as the
western border Of Pennsylvania The next
year there was q second outbreak at Que
bee, occassionsd by vessel Of emigrants
coming in. The disease prevailed in Cam
ada and New York, and thence spread all
over the country In 1854 Then there was
gradual subsistence and the disease disap-
peared for nearly ten years. .sr
In lS45, however, 1t entered upon its old
path. and reached England In October, be-
ginning with Sunderland. tho very town Il
first visited In 1881 Two vessels sailed
from Havre. one for New York, tho other
Cor New Orleans, both carrying German
emigrants. The New York boat occasioned
an epidemic in the quarantine grounds
There was no quarantine at New Orleans.
the sick Of the vessels were conveyed to hos
pitfalls, and n severe epidemic ensued A
boat from New Orleans to Memphis carried
the di ease to the latter point, and the next
spring it spread thsnos TO St Louis. Cincin-
natl and the whols Mississippi valley. In
October 1t reached Sacramento by means OF
overland emigrsnts, AMI San Francisco by
steamer. .#=z. u.s.. a~a5 ..'
In ls49 the disease reappearsd In New
York, and 5000 persons die1 The disease
rested until 1883, when It broke out in
Teheran, Persia, destroying 1000 persons,
and reached France, whsrs Ia, coo died, and
England, whore there were 10, QUO deaths.
In 1854 smigrants introduced it isto New
York, whence IL was carried In Philadelphia,
extended to many towns In New England,
and was borne along the western channels
Of emigration. There was rest until 1854,
when the cholera broke out among the pill
grims to Mecca It reached Europe Ia 1855,
/ and was thence borne by the usual means to
North Amsrica and the West Indies In
1865 1t was carried from Halifax In troop
ships to New York and the various southern
ports. from whence its progress could be
traced to Texas and the gulf states. and to
the towns of tho Mississippi and Missouri
The last appearance OF cholera Ia the
United States was In 1873. when IL occurred
at three points far distant from each other,
being introduced In the effects Of emigrants.
These were C,rthage, Ohio; Crow River,
Minn.. AMI Yankton ID. T. In each place
twenty-four hours after the poison particles
were liberated the disease appeared. Il Is
thus shown that cholera Is not general In
this country from any local conditions, but
depends upon the introduction Of the speci-
fc poison OF the disease. Water ID the main
channel through which the infectious prin-
ciplss Of the disease are spread, but the par
sicles can also Be- conveyed In clothing,
proving fatal when liberated. ....