Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-08
 The Progress or Cholera

From the st. James Gazeitel
 The progress of cholera offers two points of particular interest. In the first place, although it has spread very widely, it has nowhere exhibited much violence, even when all allowance for affective iuforma tion has been made. Oce would like to think that this ih due u the aforesaid ssa- itary advance aud ,o regard ite apparent inefectivsne-s of chul-Ta .LIs year as ihs proof and the measure of sa's.'srn improve men:s ia ths Wey a: clsst l..ssrs, No doGb; 1t Is sO In soole in-tancss. Assufs6ly Mar seilles and Naples wculd have suffered far more heavily thaa they nave hut for the lesson iearrrd eight yeas asa. Naples is sn especially striking sx>;apls- The m-ln- ory of It's tcrrisl= chA,tttoIz,s s.t daring the last epidemic l, slil frtsn. and the prestuI can.rss: must make the inhsb:t'nts p-OtoGndly ihsnkful for the wise expeEdilurn If public mon ey on municipal Improvements Bat this consideration cnlF applies 10 the large towns, and not to all If them. In the country distT.ctr, every R hegn alike, no sanitary advance whatever has taken place: a-A NCN AAA ALFrr A4EsN Nuu4Egh mas nNtu com psEstiyely mild. The contract in RusslA between this year and last is particularly striking. Probably the chief reasoa is the exceptional dryn-ss of inc present season. There hss been no great heat, which un- doub;edly favOrs cholerz; bu; it has be, n counteracted by tEe 6rxuzht The al mospherio condition in which cholera Hp- pears to flourish best Is moist h~st: very dry and very vet seasons both diminish i's activity.
 A third explanation of ifs mlldness in the more western countries may be Eug- gested, aud this h<ipgs us :o inc secord | peculiarity of the present visitation Last | year, 1t mey bs remembered, cholera had | two quite oisiirct s'zrtIuy points Tn | Europe-one in Russia and ike other in | France; and they were ss widely separated In character as in geographical position. | While the Russian epidemic, which was | clearly traceable to sn Indian origin, pre- sented s!l the virulencs of previous vlsiis. | tions arriving from the east, the outbreAk in France, which began much earlier in the year, was sO mild that the French | were able to pretend for some months that il was not cholera at all Its origin has | never been cleH.ed up. |; began near Paris at time when the eastern outbresk had scarcely left India, and two months before the latter reached the Caspian sea | A French ship from China, as some sssert, may have brought it; or it may have originated otherwise. We shall never know for certain, for in thGt \ quarter il ia vain to look for truth. How ever, there were wo distiact streamF, and both have resumed activity this year-the Russian moving westward to the Dsnubiaa provinces, Galieis aud Germany, and the French one sonthWsrd 70 the Mediterra- mean, Italy and Spain. We should, there. fore, rather expect the cholereio uutbIegks | In the latter countries to be of a mildeg | typs. On the whole, however, it Is prob able that the exceptional weather has most | to do with ;he matter, In which case s change might at any moment bring with il some rapid and violent developments ot the epidemic, especially as it has now found Its way into come exceedingly m
 savoTy localities just as We are entering upon the most critical psriod of the year
 What, then, about the psospectsl IL i,
 pretty safe to say that VIC shsll hear a good deal more about cholera before We get tc
 the end of another month. The EAsterT
 line of advance Ia tho E1os: 10 ba feared, e
 far as the continent is concerned. Already
 during the lAst fortnight 6 great incrsss,
 of mortality has been reported from Russis
 while Rumsnia, Hungary, and GRlicia art
 all badly infected. Tn the north the co
 currence of cases among the river pOpuls
 ton at Berlin is ominous. There il
 through communication between the Spre
 and the Oder, and these waters carry aI
 immense barge tra6c. Every protection
 that cool and intelligent vigilance cal
 afford may be relied upon in thi
 part of the world; but 1; is next to impos
 sible to persuade the river people that tn
 water they are accustomed to Is not fault
 less. Further westward both Holland anl
 Belgium are now admittedly touched. Il E the south, France and Italy slll both hay ' their hands full for a long tims to come i T spite of the most reassurIng official rt ports, and i: Is quite certain that Spai
 has not got of 80 sc0t-frse as she wOul e have us believe. On the whole We ms expect to hear great deal of choler 's scattered over & very wide areE; b. g another Hamburg is very unlikely. I'm !, town, by the by, is now probably one { oi the safest fin Europe.