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sEDnrKe the world ChoIDra 49, fonna
Horror cannot nnd words 40 aen an aho
oAlo Of what that pestiienca. thai paAgns
Has done 40 the earth. swim. lDakhso1An
unsSring IN its fatality. ~ has moved ma
e1onS and continents % grief more pOSer-
1nllY than anything else since the epdaenAcs
&c tho black death In the middle AEsA DorD
~ 4 cradle OF Aniatic nlfh. where nflltpns
crowd one another fQf lifs. ~ has ErDsn
until Europe and America have .hznnk
drawn 10 It's den. Than. aftsr . rss1 - hiss
smbrged again TO spread rsoswed t.rsor
Through the world. Often has tbis bssn To-
poatod. tits beginning nos An ths ss,ss
way Whether the end win b - tsrrihs
0AnhOt DO told. II it's America A. 20 snnsr
with the rest OF tho world America has
nevef yet escaped when tho seopxgs espsssa
the Cancasus Into Europa
True Aslafic cholera origin4ta0 n Hin
dostAn. and that country bad heyer been
absolutely free from. f. Greece suffered
roui epidemlcs introduced frona fnnih 600
YeaFs before Christi and noted Creek Ihysi-
clans, Aretnus. Galsn, Oeiius. AnzsliAnns
ands Ora basius Of the hrst three con1nr1es
Of the Christian era. described every agmp-
tom of the disease minutely. -
Dr. J. O. Peters. writing I'm tho .Amez3cnn
Encyciopedia.n takes the gr0nnd thai tbe
Spidemics are periodical. returning every
twelve years nt the occasion Of the great
Juggernaut festival The outbreak M
London in 1669-72 was not AsjAtic cholera.
but milder form that often Visits 1ndiy2d-
ual cases without injecting otherA
When the French and English struggled
Nnrtf kc md ane nj InH
epidemics were noticed near Madras and
POndicherry In connection with the great
Aindoo pilgrimageA The year 175s marks
the recognition Of periodical retnrntng
twelve- yearly epidemics. connected with
che great twelve yearly Hindoo festivals
~ the great temples The recurrcnceA
wore in 1855, 170s and i7sL
The scourge OF I7s1-
March %, 1881. 5000 English troopA under
Col Pearse, marching near CANAAN. not
1sr from the great temple OF JuggernauA
and very shortly after the huge twelve
yearly festival had taken place. we're at
hacked with the disease very suddenly and
with inconceIvable fury. after camping on
foul pilgrim grounds and drinking polluted
water. Men previously healthy dropped
down by dozens and those less severely
affected were generally past recovery In
twenty-four hours Besides those who had
died there were 500 on the sick list the hrst
day, and In two days more nearly AO00
we're affected This epidemic was carried
BY returning pilgrims up TO CaicuttA and
down TO Madras. -. l., .,.frs.
Three times twelve, or thirty-six. years
subsequently the great historical epidemic
of 1917 occurred. This proceeded mp the
GaDges rs far as Allahabad, when II was
detected southwark to tho provinces OF
BUndelcnnd. in which the Marquis OF Hast
tngs was carrying on war against the NAH
sattas with 90. 600 mon. OF. tho natives
koA oil hwyd tad In Aah hnA nd
many others had Joined tho army AZ camp
followers. among whom tho disease crcpt
about for several days. until q sufficient
humber OF focl had been developed for 10 70
hurst forth with irresistible fury In every
IfgeetIon. The natives deserted In great
pumbers, and the highways and fields for
many miles around were strewod' with tbe
bodies OF those who had hcd with tho dis
aase uDOn them. 49, ~ -
- Tho encampments and lines of march of
tho army presented most deplorable spec
tacles Hundreds OF soldiers dropped down
IN every days advance aud on every night 8
Aels, 90 that tho whole presented the aP-
pearance of successive battlehelds and the
track OF an army retreating under every
circumstances of defeat and discontinue
In two weeks 8, 900 men succumbed TO the
pestilence subsidiary force coming mp
from the south 20 cooperate with Hastings
afforded the second striking instance OF n
large body of men In high health coming
into a pestilential region and falling nj
ohce into wretchei state OF sickness
Seventy cases aud twenty, deaths occurred
abe first day, and many we're attacked
While lettering for water at contaminated
springs and rivulets.
How the Pestilence Spread
other Ie-enforcemen;s were advancing
Srom Bombay In the southwest. and the
course of the disease had long been so regu-
lar along the line of much-traveled roads
hau
authorities prepared for it when it wal
many hundreds of miles on. Stop BY steT
the disc se could tie traced. marching from
town so town and creeping from village V
village. by the arrival OF persons amictec
with IL from places where IL was known x
,revail From Bombay It was carried NJ
90 Rasscrah, ct the head OF the Persian
Gulf. where $4,000 persons died In cighteql
days., and from there along the River
Euphfates and Tigris to Bagdad. Damas
Gus. Aleppo, AMI the Mediterranean coast
where IL also faded away In 1921
Every successive epidemic OF cholera ha
always been carried up the Persian Gul
from Bombay, Surat, Kurrachee and othe
ports on the western coast or India. an.
thus, reached the Mediterranean, Blacl
and Caspian Seas and neighboring coun
tries by the So called Persian Gulf route
In the Bombay presidency are ninety
Sour shrines to which large pilgrimaRes ar
made. and from which the disease
brought to. tho sea coast In India IN
epidemic OF 1917 spread In every direction
with the march OF armies. pilgrims. mer
ehants and travellers. often In the face c
contrary winds and monsoons alth0ug
tbo speed Of its progress was accelerate
BY favorlng winds, which forced along YES
sels containing the disease This epidemi
and that, of s17s1 were distinctly, Juggei
nAut pilgrim choleras, and for years ate
there was "a repetition Of the old storj
sCbolera IN Calcutta; the Pilgrims az jug
Eernaut Suffering Severely"
More Pilgrimage Cholera.
In 1895 the first indications of anotbs
DestilOnce appeared In the north OF undii
Epidemic cholera broke out 40 Hurdwa
she great place OF pilgrimage At the,sourC