The true northerner., 1885-11-19

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from the Inter ocean,

Courses the Plague Has Pursued I'm the
Past.
from the Inter ocean,
In 1882 cholera prevailed in France
to such an extent that l20, 900 deaths
occurred within the year, 1000 of
which were in the short space of
eighteen days. In the spring of the
next. year it appeared in England and
In Ireland. From Liverpool, Cork.
Limerick, and Dublin five vessels of
emigrants sailed for Quebec, and 179
deaths occurred during the passage.
These ships were put in quarantine at
Crosse Isle, but on June vessel con-
veyed load of these emigrants, with
their baggage, to Quebec and Montreal.
Gases of cholera occurred at Quebec
the next day. From Montreal the emf
grants were forwarded by the emigrant
society as 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 disease reached
direct and indirect between the sick
and the well. An infected mattress
flung from passing vessel was picked
up by a man, and both he and his wife
died of cholera.
In October, 1882, the brig Amiael,
with 10S persons on board, sailed from
New York for New Orleans The dis
ease appeared on board the sixth day
ont. The brig was stranded on Folly
Island, ten miles from Charleston, and
in two days the disease began spread
ing among the inhabitants of that
island. Before that there had never
been a case of cholera within two hun
dred miles of Folly Island. An emil
grant ship having cholera on board
reached New York, whence the disease
spread up the Hudson, and was car.
ried southwardly to Philadelphia, and
thence to the West.
In 1888 the disease broke out in
Havana, whence it was carried to Mex
lean and American towns on the Gulf
of Mexico, and up the Mississippi and
| Ohio as far as the western border of
! Pennsylvania. The next yesr there
was second outbreak at Quebec, oc-
casioned by a vessel of emlgrants COM
ing in. The disease prevailed in Can
ada and New York, and thence spread
all over the country in 1896. Then
there was a gradual subsistence and the
disease disappeared for nearly ten
years.
In 1S45, however, it entered upon its
old path, and reached England in Oc-
tober, beginning 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 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 hospitals,
and severe epidemic ensued A boat
from New Orleans to Memphis carried
the disease to the latter point, and the
next spring it spread thence to st.
Louis, Cincinnati. and the whole Mis-
sissippi Valley. In October it reached
Sacramento by means of overland emf
grants, and San Francisco by steamer.
In ls49 the disease reappeared in
New York, and 5000 persons died.
The disease rested until 1853, when it
broke out in Teheran, Persia, DESTROY
ing ii 900 persons, and reached France,
where la, 900 died, and England,
where there were $4,000 deaths. In
1884 emigrants introduced it into New
York, whence it WAS carried to Phila-
delphia, extended to many towns in
New England, and was borne along the
western channels of emigration. There
was rest until 1864. when the cholera
broke out among the pilgrims to Mecca.
1t reached Europe in 1865, and was
thence borne by the usual means to
North America and the West Indies.
In 1866 it was carried from Halifax in
troop ships to New York and the vari-
Gus Southern ports, from whence its
progress could be traced to Texas and
the Gulf States, and to the towns of the
Mississippi and Missouri.
The last appearance of cholera in the
United States was in 1873, when it oc-
Cured at three points far distant from
each other, being introduced In the
effects of emigrants. These were Car
thage, Ohio; Crow River, Mimi, and
Yankton, Dakota. In each place twenty
4 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 specific poison of
the disease. Water is the main chan
mel through which the infectious prin-
ciples of the disease are spread, but
the particles can also be conveyed in
clothing, proving fatal when liberated.
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