The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-23
PLAQUES AND
PEST1LENCES

The nrst general plague In ths world took
place b. G. 767.
b. q. 63A. tsrribls plssus a. Carthage.
Children sacrificed TO appsnss ths gods.
Dreadful plague in Rome B. O. 453; 200,-
900 died In Italy.
Athsniaa plague graphically described BY
Thucydides B. Q. 43o.
b. q. 40, Athenian plague spread TO al
parts of the world.
Great plague in Greece, Egypt, and Syria
B. G. 1877; 1000 died daily.
B. O. l72. strange pestilense In Chinese
Tsrtary; GOO. 600 deaths.
In Chinese pestilenos 3. q. 172. the mona
hers dropped of before death.
b. q. ~, black tongue In India. Tongue
black and 20 swollen ~ 10 protrude.
A. d. 81, mysterious TsstiIenoe In Da-
massns; men became blind before death.
A. D. II, pestilence in JudsA from stencil
or dead bodies In Jerusalem.
A. d. 70, plague in Rome 10000 deaths in
A. D. 80, awful plague in Rome; 10000
persons persisted every day.
A. d. 1877, falling sickhsss throughout the
Roman empire.
stroysA one-half the population.
A. d. 100, plague prevailed over tho
Roman empire; many towns dspopulatsd.
A. d. ESQ, 5000 persons died daily At
Rene; total deaths. 100000.
A. d. 252. 9rsat psstilsase t~hroughou sne
In A. D. l27 nystsrious psstilsncs n Ara.
bia; mems ewes dropped out.
In A. .. 43O dreadful plague in Britain;
the living could net bury the dead.
A long-eontinusd plsgae in Europe Asia
and Africa Ia A. d. b58.
Terrible psstilenos At Constantinopls in
TAG; 200. COO persisted.
In Chichester. England, ne, sore throat
carried off 81, 600 people.
In 9b4 'swollsn throat" plague destroyed
10000 lives.
Plague broke out in London in 962; 80, 1000
persons died.
"Blaok mouth" in London in 1884; one
third the population died.
Famine and plague in Ireland in 1896;
half the population destroyed.
Plague in London, Ill; msn cattle
In 1172 Henry H. forced to svacuats Ire
land On account Of plague.
In 1904 Ireland was almost depopulatsd
BY famine and psstilenos.
The BLACK DEATH appeared in Italy In
1910. Spread all over Europe.
In 1348 Europe was again soourged. The
Florentine plague described BY Bocac0io.
In 1349 Britain and ireland visited by
black death; 1000 deaths daily in London.
In 1861 n fever in London and Paris
caused fearful mortality.
Sweating disease'' scourged England
and Ireland In 1867; thousands of deaths.
A fever and shaking disease In London
in 1868 spread all over Britain.
Tho fever and sore throat" in Ireland in
1870 caused many thousands OF deaths.
A great pestilenoe i'll Ireland, 1883, de-
stroyed a fourth Of the people.
London ravaRed by plague, l4O7, 10000
persona died during the summer.
Great famine and pestilencs in Ireland.
1477. 200. 900 died.
Black death in Dublin. 147o, half the peo-
pie of the city died.
Pestilence at Oxford. 147l. spread over
England; one-third population destroyed.
In 1885 the sweating sickness carried
of manv thousands in London.
In 1889 the plague in London SO deadly
that the court removed to Calais.
sweating sickness IN London, 1916. 27.OOO
died in one month.
Sweating Sickness in London, 1917. Strong
men died in three hours after falling ill.
In 1917 half the town population of Eng
land died. Oxford was d~spopulated.
Limerick attacked By plague in 1922.
Fearful mortality.
Sweating sickness in London. 1928. Gen
eral exodus from tine capital:
Sweating and falling sickness In Ger
many. 1923. Especially fatal to soldiers.
In 1861 fifth visit of sweating sickness ia
AlOuuOA, 10hl I'll hkOlG OAAUys
Plague appeared in England In 1903
30, 578 died in London alone.
III 1904 rlague destroyed one-fourth the
people OF Ireland.
In 1911 200, 900 people died In CONSTANT
nople; millions in Asia Minor.
Plague brought from Sardinia to Naples;
400, 900 died in SIX months; 1912.
Mysterious disease in London, 1926; 35,417
denths in a few waeks.
Great plague of London, 1864, destroyed
GO, 1856 lives. Described by Defos.
In 1866 there were 81, 500 death In London
in thirty-three weeks.
Great plague" lasted two years, finally
subdued by gleat fIs III 1866.
Plague came from enst to Narseilles, 1920;
10000 deaths in seven weeks.
= Awful plague in Syria. 1920; whole eitief
peoplsd only by the dead.
Great plague in Egypt, 1899; 500, 600 per
IONS died ia six months.
In 1856 an itch epidemic in Italy and
Sicily; many suicides from suffering.
Plague throughout east and Africa in
1893; PAT, 600 deaths ut Fez.
In 1900 plague visited Morocco; 1868 died
in one day.
The black vomit ragged at Gibraltar for a
year in 1928.
In 1928 Gibraltar was visited by ship f.
yer. which proved very destructive.
In 1856 Epidemic dlphthsria carried of
great numbers in tho United States.
In 1866 an incarable disease called blacl
death appeared in Dublin.
The black desth of 1866 was characterized
by purple spots OIL the skin.
The outbreak of 1867 caused bv e~xonvat.
ing n rlague cemetery Of Nero's time.
In 1867 plague and cholera appeared TO-
gether in Rome; great mortality.
In 1877 measles broke out in Russian
arruv on the Danube: TO- 900 died.
Black vomit at New Orleans in 1878: from
Havana; 3.377 deaths. Louis Globe.
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