St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-17
HISTORY OF AsIATIc CHOLERA,

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HISTORY OF ASIATIC CHOLERA.
The news of the alarming aspect of the
cholera outbreak in Spain will give fresh
interest to everything connected with the
fatal plague. 1t is the one disease whose
visitation is dreaded more than any other
calamity that could befall a community.
And while the medical profession is at sea
in determining the causes of the plague, it
is a singular fact that it is one of the Oldest
diseases whereof distinct description eX-
lists. Away back in the fifteenth century it
is reported to have existed, and descriptions
by some of the medical sOlonS of that period
tell accurately the typical symptoms of
Asiatic cholera as it is known to-day. Cen
turtles ago it was looked upon as visitation
of the wrath of the gods, while later in
Japan the disease was generally attributed
to diabolical agency. In his work on the
History, Cause and Prevention of Cholera
BARTLETT proves that the disease is
indigenous to Asia and appears in other
countries according to the sequence
of given circumstances. In the sum-
mer of 1859 there were over co. deaths
from it in India. SIMMONS says that the
disease spread so rapidly and the deaths
were SO frequent that the graveyards were
all filled up, and no space remaining for
more burials the priests of the various SectS
established cremation grounds, where cof-
fins in countless numbers were seen piled
up on top of each other awaiting their time
to be burned. In 1917, for the first time,
the disease crossed the confines of India and
overspread the whole peninsula, ''pene-
trating wherever mortals lived, and leaving
in its course the CHASTITY corpses of millions
of Victims" For five years this giant stalked
abroad making it's ravages through Bengal,
whence it started up the GangeS, through
Central India, across the Ghaut mountains on
to the western coast Of the peninsula. Then
turning southwark to Madras it crossed to
Ceylon and other islands of the sea. The
Island of Sumatra, the peninsula of Ma
lacca, Siam and the Burmah dominions did
not escape its ravages. Visiting Northern
China and Tartary the giant reached the
shores of the Persian gulf and, making
its way northward, finally reached the Cas-
plan sea and closed its five years orgies in
the Russian city of Astrakhan. Its success
in this campaign seemed to have whetted
its appetite for more victims, for in five
years from that time it was again knocking
at the doors of the town of Ohrenburg in
Russia, and two years later it entered the
city of Moscow, where its appearance pro-
o+ar he,
of the great confagration associated with
the invasion of the first NAPOLEON. Hasten
ing onward it successfully attacked st. Pc
tersburg, Warsaw. Dantzic. Berlin and
Hamburg and crossed to England in 1881.
The same year it not only appeared in Lon
don and Paris, but overleaped the barrier
presented by 5000 miles of water and made
its first assault on the new continent-ap-
pearing in Quebec and Montreal. 1t was
on the oath of June, 1882, that the scourge
made its appearance in New York, where
it found the city as though it had come,
''like thief in the night" totally unpre-
pared for its approach. The same summer
it visited Baltimore, Philadelphia and
ST. Louis. For two years after that there
were cases here and there in the United
States and then it entirely disappeared. In
1917 for the third time the cholera, after a
season Of rest and recuperation, left its
home in the delta of the Gauges, and, pur-
suing the same route it had on previous oc-
casions, continued it's march of conquest
until winter overlook it at Moscow. With
the advent of the next spring, it ragged in
St. Petersburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Edin-
burg, London and during the month of
August crossed the Atlantic second time
and scourged New Orleans and was only
checked at New York by quarantine. The
next year. 1S49, it broke out in New York,
Philadelphia and other places on the At
lantic Seaboard. Starting afresh in New
Orleans, it overspread the Mississippi valley
and, following the emigrant trains on their
westward course to- their Eldorado, it finally
reached the Golden Gate and rested at Sac
ramento, where for six years milder
exhibitions of the epidemic were frequently
appearing. In 1865 for the fourth time its
poisonous breath swept over the continent
of Asia, creating its greatest havoc at Mecca
among the thousands and tens of thousands
of loyal Mohammedans who had congre-
gated there to worship at their shrine. In
1866 and 1867 it reappeared in New York,
but was quickly stamped out Last years
epidemic in Naples has created an uneasi-
ness that there will be temperance OF
the scourge this season, and the fact
that there can be no certainty In fixing the
locality of its next outbreak makes the un-
easiness become universal, for no city OF
town on the face of the globe can feel that
it is absolutely sure of being exempted from
its ravages. The only security that exists
is in thorough sanitation.
CUSTOM FRAUDS.
In making examinations into his depart
ment for the purpose of discovering and