Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-07-24
THE AsIATIC CHOLERA.
The Present scourgc In Spain and
France.
History Of the scourgo In tho
United states.

From the New York SUM-
The spread OF cholera from Spain into
France, aud its temperance there at
some OF the commercial ports which il
ravaged last summer, and which are in
direct marine communication with our
own, will revive discussion OF the scourge
in this country, although there appear to
I've no additional grounds for immediate
apprehension.
II is little more than half century
since cholera first appeared in America.
lts history shows that it may enter any
where along the Allautic coast, from the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence to the Gulf OF Mexi-
co, unless effective precautions are taken.
It has never yet crossed the Pacific, though
il has more thfn once ravaged China. 1t
was first brought TO America from Ireland
in the eniigrant ship. Carrick, which arr
rived in the St. Lawrence early in June,
1882. Ii had then devastated nearly all
parts OF Asia, by turns and internittently,
during fifteen years, and for more than
twelve months had ravaged Europe. II is
we'll to recall there historic facts in order
that those ignorant OF them may not has,i-
" infer thar the restriction OF the disease
mainly to southwestern Europe during the
last season, and 30 far during the present,
ia a guarantee Of its being confined to that
region, or even TO that continent, without
the exercise Of the most rigid precautions.
The epidemeic had reached Moscow in the
autumn of 1880, where, in the space of six
weeks, il had destroyed three thou-and vic.
tins. The summer following it ragged in
st. Petersburg and moved to Warsaw with
the Russian soldiery, from whom 1t was
communicated TO the Austrian and Prus-
sian troops there, and through them to
Vienna and Berlin. From Berlin it moved
to Hamburg aud across the North Sea to
the Sunderland, and then to London,
which il reached on the 18th OF February,
1882. II destroyed 1886 lives In that city,
and altogether 1929 in Great Britain.
Meanwhile, il had crossed the Irish Sea and
prior to the 4th Of May there were IBIS
cases and sos deaths in Dublin, and 997
cases, with 267 deaths, at Cork. From the
former port the Carrick s,iled for Quebec.
Forty. two Of her passengers died on the
way over and on the 9th OF June the
scourge she brought out was spreading in
Quebec. Two days later 1t WIS in Mon
treal. Each of these places contained at
that time about thirty thousand people,
and in each nearly two thousand died OF
cholera. The epidemic rapidly extended
up the river, through villages and farms
TO Kingston, thence along the shores of the
great lakes to Buffalo, Detroit and Chica-
| go, and then through the Mississippi val
ley.
Meanwhile cholera had broken out in
New York City on the 9th OF June, ap.
parenilv before IT'S arrival anywhere else
IN the United States, unless perhaps at
Ogdensburg and Plalisburg. Atall events.
since even Albany was safe until July 8,
although eventually 3S9 persons died Of it
I'tlere out of population Of twenty-five
thousand, il is believed that the New York
visitation sprang from a different source
the arrival of the ship Henry Nv, from
Havre, with cholera patients. The first
case occurred in Cherry street, and then
the pestilence ran rapidly all over the
lower part of the island, and nor,hward
into Greenwich, Chelsea, Yorkville and
Harlem. The city then contained abou,
225, 900 inhabitants, but perhapsa third o!
.hem fed to the country. On the 2lst day
of July, when the scourge WAS at it's height
in the city, three hundred new cases were
reported; and during the week succeeding
| IneTe were Ooo uedtUs lTOm CHOlcEd. 1Ht
total number Of deaths certainly ascribabl.
to cholera in the city up TO the middle o.
October, when it disappeared, was abou
5000. One out of every two attacks proved
fatal. and this terrible ratio of mortalit,
, produced panic. those were not the day
of sewers, and refuse was dumped into th,
cutters.
The scattering Of people from New Yorl
e took the disease TO every quarter of til,
r compass 30 that while it WAS following on
n path up the St. Lawrence and down tn
!, MISSISSIPPI, it was from another focus ex
= tending everywhere inland. Yet its west
= ward tendency was n,arked-save a fe'
= cases in New Haven, Newport, Providence
d and Boston. New England was not sew
!, erely visited. Philadelphia had its frs
G case on the 9th OF July, and its second o
d the 9th. Up to the middle OF Sepiembe
If there were 935 deaths in population
nominally of 100000, but which had pee
greatly reduced by fight. The tot,
IL deaths up to the end OF the season are nc
q known since the mortality record was the
:, very incomplete in that city, and man
C cases of choler. in private practice wei
/ not reported at all. The disease theI
e reached its height Oh the TN of Angus
about n fortnight later than in New Y"rl
In Baltimore, which also took the epIdem
70 ic from the New York locus, the deaths u
lc to the end of September numbered 40;
re Norfolk. up to September IL, there wei
-e about 400-a heavy ratio to the porml1
tiOn. In Cincinnati there were 3n7 d-a II
up to August Z. In New Orleans, whlc
}; was reached much later in the year, fro
a The Quebec focus, the mortality was eat,
h, mated nj &, ,000 tie slaves suffering heavil
| aud tl,anr1. in mi iustal In (nl,, anil A..
'e leo, which were also frigltfully ravage
At IL has been said that in TampicO. the 10
d owing year, 900 persons died within De
IN enieen daya.
The paths If the seconl cholera epi1en
'" ic in Americ, were wholly different FRO
a those ot the tirst. IL was brought ~ Ne
re Orleans on the ] lth Of Deceuber. 1S4S, I
i the emigrant ship Swanion, from ll'vr
nf There was no proper quarantine. and b.
). fore the end Uf that month $50 perSOl
\. had died oi the disease in New Orlcai
= by the end oil January the number Of vi
tiuis had reached nearly thous,n
er Meanwhile, on the 20lh Of December, ii
n disease had Travelled 10y steamboat mp Il
= Mississippi to Memphis. For over ihr,
"a weeks, by a determined struggle, il WI
l., held within - short radius OF the steamer
a. dock; bur at length il evaIed precaution
20 and spread up the river, reaching
a. Louis ard then Cincinnati in the spri,
" Of lS49. That was the year when Cali
h. fornia was pcOpled with gold hunters; AN
20 the sconrage travelled with them, bot
=, overland To Sacramento and by way
a Panama TO San Francisco.
al New York WAS not reached until II
- l0lh Of May. when a case broke out
:. what is now Baxter street. IL Is wort
- observing that in That very month of De
- cember, when the lack OF quarantine aG
=. miiled the disease al New Orleans, a siri,
q quarantine al Staten Island had found
~ coming on another vessel IRON Havre. an
4 had completely corralled il on the groun,
n there and qnenched il. When from Il
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