Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-28

other points in the early part OF June,
and from these places spread rapidly,
following the lines OF travel pursued by
emigrants. From the st. Lawrence the
disease entered the United States by the
way of New York City In the latter half
of June, and spread rapidly into adJoin-
ing towns and cities. In the following
year, 1888, the cholera first appeared In
the United States In New Orleans, In
which city it was epidemic in May.
From New OrleonS the disease was car
ried northward, affecting almost all the
large cities in the Mississippi Valley.
In 1s34it was again introduced into
North America by way OF the st. Law
renee quarantine station, first appear
ing early in July, from which time 1t
rapidly spread, advancing along the
line OF the st. Lawrence, and from
thence into Upper Canada and the
United States. In 1885 it was
AGAIN INTRODUCED
from Cuba, and after thit year there
was an immunity from this disease I'M
I'll 1S4S.
1t reached the United States in 1S4s,
and increased rapidly until the follow
ing June, in which month in New Or
leans it eliminated ia more than 1854
deaths. The disease rapidly spread
through the country during the year
1S49, reaching San Francisco in Octo-
Der. From New Orleans IL also spread
to Cuba aud TO the ISthmus of Panama.
1t is very doubtful whether North
America was free from epidemic cholera
from this time until about the end CT
1854. 1t existed in Cuba In 1851; In
1852 and in the middle of 1852 it ap-
peared in the Mississippi Valley, nota-
bly, in Chicago and st. Louis.
A third great outbreak OF cholera
took place in the East in 1850, reaching
Europe in 1853. During the succeeding
years 1t prevailed extensively through
out the Continent, and fell with severi-
ty upon the armies engaged In the Cri-
mean war. Although widely prevalent
in Great Britain and Ireland, it was less
destructive than former epidemicJ. 1t
was especially severe throughout both
North and South America. Ships from
infected ports, bringing immigrants suf-
fering from the disease, arrived In large
number in the harbor OF New York in
autumn Of 1853.
THE FIRST APPEARANCE
Of cholera following this, however, was
not in New York, bat In Chicago, in the
latter part of April, 1854, whore 1t &C.
Cured among recently arrived immi-
grants, gradually increasing until IL
was declared epidemic in June. The
infected ship Gienmanna, on which for
ty-five passengers had died OF Asiattc
cholera during the voyage, arrived at
the quarantine station below Quebec on
the 18th OF June, aud this was soon fol-
lowed by the spread OF disease in Cana-
da.
A fourth epidemic visited Europe In
1866, but was, on the whole, less ex-
tensive and destructive than its prede-
cessors. 1t broke out in the city of New
York In May, 1866. From this point
the disease gradually spread, being
carried in part on the lines OF iinmi-
grafton and in part by recruits sent out
from Fl Columbus, Governors Island,
New York harbor, in the garrison OF
which the disease appeared about the
1st OF July.
The next outbreak OF cholera in the
United States began in New Orleans in
February, 1873, but there is no salts
factory evidence as to the mode Of its
commencement or the manner Of its
introduction. From New Orleans in
spread to the Mississippi Valley, APP
pearing In August, and in New York in
September.