Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-31
CHOLERA AND WAR.
Japan and Other Countries That Have
Suffered From Epidemics.

Japan and Other Countries That Have
Suffered From Epidemics.
Berlin Cor. of the London Standard.
The last number of the Transactions of
the Imperial German Beard Of Health"
states that according to official intelli-
gence, dated June 2, cholera is spreading
in most alarming way among the jap
anese troops stationed in China, 500 fatal
cases being reported to have occurred In
the guard regiments alone at Port Arthur.
1t Is feared that the impending return of
the troops will cause a further spread of
the disease in Japan. A communication
from Seoul. dated July II, states that the
cholera has broken out in Corea." This
intelligence Is of interest, as it once more
confirms the observation that the seat of
war is a fruitful ground for the propaga
ton of disease, and that cholera in par
ing or has lately been carried on. The ap-
prehensions that the disease may spread
in Japan by the return of the troops are
abundantly warranted by the history of
cholera, shown by the facts collected
by Herr A. Hirsch
When cholera first appeared in Europe.
in $780, 1t was soon Eeen how important
part was played by war in spreading the
disease. 1t first became prevalent in Rus
STA in 1880, where it had asserted itself in
spite Of the hard winter that preceded the
outbreak. Tho Russo-Polish war took place
in that year, and an outbreak of cholera
followed on the marching of Russian troops
into Poland. From there the disease pass
ed, by way of Warsaw and Kalisch, over
the Prussian frontier, and in a very short
time was raging in the Prussian provinces
of Posen and Silesia; then, following the
course of the Oder, it penetra ted into the
provinces Of Brandenburg and Pomerania
In 1881 1T was seen that this was not the
only way in which war aids in dissent
cholera
Russian warShipS arrived in DanZig harbor
with several cases of cholera ON board !;
through these the inhabitants OF Danzig
became infected, and the disease spread
thence by way of Elbing to konigsberg
and to the district of Koslin and Gumbin-
men. ufs.tn
1t has been clearly established that chol-
era was introduced In 1919 by Austrian
troops irto Vienna, and dn 1866 by English
troops from Malta and Gibraltar, and this
in times Of peace. The most instructive OBJ
servations, however, are those made dur
ing the wars CT the year 1866. A few cases
of cholera had occurred: in Austria in the
summer Of 1865, at Fiume and Trieste; but
spread over the whole oE1hesAust Hun
garian monarchy. those rFoynces suffering
most in which the prinC3paISevents of the
war had been enacted. Thus. from the
province of Moravia- 5000 eases were re-
ported; from Bohemia, t30o and from
Lower Austria, 10000; AID it's well estab-
lished that the cholera was then introduced
into Prussia and Saxony from there The
influence of war was plainly, discernible in
the observations made in Bayaria,. and in
this case from the fact thaC Bavaria suf-
fered most of all the South German states,
W lille, as the pestilence was especially
virulent just in the districts of middle
Franconia. Aschaffenburg. Suabia and Neu-
enburg, we may safely affirm that war was
responsible, most essentially, for the severe
character Of the plague