The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-05
CHOLERA HERE TWICE.
sAvANNAH's VIsITATIo FROM
THE DREAD Disc ASS.

THE DREAD Disc h6Hs
the Victims Of It's Ravogss In 1894
and 1866-22 Deaths of White Peo-
pie on the Islands North OF the City
in I834-No Record Of the Mortality
Among the NeGroes-356 Deaths
During ths Last Visit of the Disease
Amer the War-How 1t Was Brought
to Savannah
Cholera has prevailed In Savannah twice
Curing the present century. In 1884 1t first
reached here, a:5 ragged with fearful fatal
Ity among the negroes on the island plan
tatious north OF the city.
The first case appeared Sept. IL. and dur
ing the remainder Of the year twenty-five
deaths of white people were recorded.
These occurred in Septsmbsr and October.
The number Of deaths among negroes is not
known and no burisls were recorded. This
was probably owing to the fact that the
negroes were buried on the plantations
where they died.
The disease did not extend more
than ten miles west Of the city and there
were few deaths reported within the limits.
It was confined chiefly 70 the lowlands and
Islands.
In 1866 the disease again ragged with
greater fatality than before. II broke out
on board q vessel bound from New York to
Savannah with troops. The infected pas
sengers were landed on Tybes Island in
June and were placed In tent hospitals. The
disease proved signally fatal, the men dy-
ing rapidly.
BROUGHT FROM TYBEE.
A panic ensued and many escaped from
the island, and coming to the city brought
the disease with them. II spread rapidly,
and the first death, that Of q colored pilot,
was reported Juiy9.
The epidemic continued the remainder Of
the year and until February, 1857. Il then
ceased until September, when 1t again made
its appearance and continued during the re-
naming months Of the year, with 81
deaths during January, 1868. It then
ceased and has never since appeared here.
The records show that there were IS
deaths OF white people and Oil Of colored
people In 1886, IL whites and II colorsd In
1867 and Is whites and Is oolored In 1868,
making total Of $50 deaths in Savannah
from the disease from the time ii was intro
duced until it disappeared.
The ratio of mortality from July, 1866,
50 February 1868, was 49, deaths per 1000
people There is no record to show the num-
Der that fell victims TO the disease at Tybee.
sAvANNAH's ONLY vIsITATIoNs.
With the two visitations Of 1884 aud 1886
Savannah has been free from the ravages
of the disease. While only 356 deaths oc-
CURED here there were $500 IN New Or
leans. 1857 in st. Louis, 5,514 In Cincin-
natl, l,022 in Philadelphia and SOL in
New York in the scourge that
visited those cities in lS49 and
filed q black page in the history of the
dread pestllenoe. 1t was the plague of 1886
that almost decimated Memphis, Tenn.
The first person there who was attacked by
the disease was q mechanic who lived and
worked In a part OF the city remote from
the river front-had not any intercourse
with persons who had come from any other
place; nor could direct personal intercourse
be traced between any two OF the first half
dozen cases, which were developed rapidly
and simultaneously in different parts OF the
city, without the sick having had any inter-
course one with another. The disease arose
as if from the ground, aud all sections OF the
city aud all classes Of the community were
attacked alike, the features Of the epidemic
being the vigor aud deadliness of the attack.
WHERE TIE EPIDEMIC OF '66 CAME FROM.
The disease which ragged in Memphis and
BavannAh and elsewhere during 1866 and
1857 and 1868 was carried into Halifax by
the steamer England of the National Line,
which vessel afterward proceeded to New
York, where, on April 20, she landed 805
passengers and 116 officers and men, having
lost 3l6 by cholera. There were cases and
8 deaths among those who had to do with
the vessel ct Halifax. Two days previous to
the arrival of the England the Virginia had
arrived at New York quarantine, having
had l16 deaths on the voyage, and hefore
the first death of the epidemic of 1886 had
occurred, on May 2, there had been nearly
5000 arrivals in New York OF individuals
who had been directly exposed TO the intec-
tion at Liverpool on shipboard and at quar-
antine. Notwithstanding this, so slowly
does cholera spread from person TO person,
except whore there is an epidemic consti-
tuition OF the air that there had been oaly
81 deaths from the disease in New York up
TO July s, although there were frequent
arrivals of cholera injected ships during oil
the time.
SAvANNAH's FIRST CHOLERA.
The epidemic in 1882, which reached
Savannah two years later, was introduced
into Canada, it was supposed, on the ship
Carrick, from Ireland, which arrived at
the Grasse leland station, in the st. Law
renee river, on June 8, 1882, Three ships,
which were known to be oholera-infected,
had preceded the Carrick, viz: the Constan-
tia, on April IS, having had 90
deaths during the voyage; the Robert, on
May Is, with 10 deaths. and the Elizabeth,
on May 20. with 300 immigrants on board,
and 20 deaths from cholera during
the voyage. Before April 2S, the date OF
arrival Of the first ship having cases of
cholera on board, $4,000 immigrants had
arrived in the st. Lawrence from infected
ports in Europe, and yet not single case
of cholera DEVELOPED in Canada or the
United States until June s, 1882, when the
first case was developed in Canada From
this center Of infection the disease gained
foothold at various points along the lakes,
and in the cities Of New York and Boston
From these points Il spread throughout
New England, Maryland, the District of
Columbia and Virginia, aud finally reached
Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans