The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-02-16

CONDUCTED ny MRS. N. l.. HOBBS.
Epidemics and Drunkards.
Statistics Prove that Drinking
Men are Sure Victims OF
Ehnlnrn

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Men are Sure Victims of
4 Cholera.
The danger Of cholera Ia again ap
lproaching, aud the London Time
sounds note Of warning. II cite
many facts to show that the germs ar
more aud more widely dissent mated
to spring into virulcnt activity will
the ad vent OF warm weather. IL thi
be so-snd we tear that 1t is-then W.
can hardly hope tha; the pestilenc'
shall be kept from our shores. !
evaded the strict quarantine in New
York hay last year, aud few case
sppeored in that city. II Is hardly
possible that il can be held at bay foI
the whole summer II 1t again break'
out in Europe.
In view OF the strong probability
that the United States will sufler from
a cholera epidemic this year, we wish
10 call public attention to the proved
fact that intoxicating drinks are the
strongest ally OF that scourge. A
Russian authority mentions 1t as re-
mark able that persons given 70
drinking have been swept away ike
flies. In Iiflis, containing 10000 in
every drunkard has fallen
all are dead not one remains"
In Glasgow 10 1S49a liquor dealer
declsred that cholera carried oil one
half OF his best customers, and It was
obser rved that after every public oc-
casion, on which the populace always
drinks, the mortality lists were swell
at once.
DR.. Carpenter, u leading ! ospital
physician OF that city, wrote: "ln
both epidemics which have visited
this country very large proportion
estimated by some physicians 81
five.sixths-o the individuals A.
tackled by it in whom the liability to
disease could not be attributed TO the
foul condition OF the locality in which
they resided, are known to have de-
rived their predisposition to it from
habitual intemperance, and the rate
OF mortality among those attacked
bore q constant proportion 10 their
previous abuse Of alcoholic liquors.
When cholera was epidemic III
Montreal. q physician gave this test'.
mony: The disease hss searched
out the haunt OF the drunkard and
has seldom left it without bearing
away its victim. Even modersle
drinkers have been but little better OIL
Ardent spirits in all shapes and IN 81
ouantities, have been highly detrl-
mental" A Montreal paper made
this comment after l,200 deaths had
occurred in that city: MOT q drnnkard
who has been attacked has recovered
from the disease, and almost all the
victims have been At least moderate
drinkers"
In 1882 five.sixths OF those who
perished from the cholera epidemic oI
that year in Great Britain were IN
temperate. 10 some villages every
drunk ard died, while no total abstain
er lost his life. In the same year at
hospital in New York out OF 2O4 pa
lticnts only 6 were nonirinkers
They all recovered, while l22 Of the
others died. During the last cho'ers
epidemic in New Orleans only three
deaths occurred amoug members OF inc
Sons OF Temperance. The death rate
of the city was 10 per 900 OF popula'
ton. while in thst order the rate was
only 1 in 400 -about one.s'xth the
average death rate. OF this epidemic
10 New York City leading doctor
wrote that "hsh il not been for the
sale and use OF spirits there wonld
not have been enough cholers In tht
CITY TO have caused the cessation O
business for . single day."
These instances might be multiplied
until they would fill column after col
.mn. The proof is clear that ths
drink habit enormously increases tht
danger Of infection by cholers and o
! fatal termination OF the case. -
view OF the probability Of the sdven
OF the pestilencc this year this lac
cannot be given too wide publicity
The time to begin preventive neas
ures on this line IL now. Temperance
means personal safety In the midst Q
: cholers plague. IL every drinking
man in the United Stales co0ld have
this fact impressed upon him, th'
common sense Of the vast mass OF I'M
community would deal one OF M
hs, dest blows ever given 10 pulverlz
lthe rum power.-Toledo Blade.