The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-10-13
THE BLA G K b DE,A TIL Z ! z
FAMOUS PLAGUE OF HISTORY
s53g 3sss IN LONDON. n ". fl
Has Brought Death to nIllions Awful
85 Rayases Of q Disease which 1t Is
Feared May Spread to America.

The awful ubonic plague, which has
been ravaging India. where its victims
4 have been numb bered by scores OF thou
sands, has invaded London, according
to a report made to the Marine Hospi-.
tai service at Washington BY our rep
resentatives in England, and fears M>A
felt that It may be transmitted to An. \
erica through the persons Of travellers
or shipment Of merchandise. Already
four cases have been discovered in.
London. and two deaths have re-
suited. 3Sss.s 5t ..59 :,5.5 @5
The bubonio plague is the same dis
ease that has been known IN history
as the Levantine plague, the Oriental
plague, the Black plague and the.
Black Death It has ragged repeatedly
in Asia, Africa and Europe In the last.
l8 centuries. Manettio. an Egyptian
historian, who lived at the beginning
of the third century, B. c., described
pestilences, supposed to have been the
bubonic plague, as having occurred in
the reign OF the most ancient Egyp-
tian kings. & s55**5. 81. s5z.. .ss Z
The plague prevailed in Athens 1872
429 B. G. Thucydides had described it
and had the disease Hippocrates, too,
noted it. Athens is said to have lost
more than one-third of its population
in one epidemic. It appears to have
been known in Syria, Egypt, and Lii
bya during Trojan's reign early in the
Christian era. G2 .5 i <.% 4 .b..35. !.
The first well authenticated invasion
Of Europe occurred about 543-546, the
pestilence appearing at Constantinople
and spreading to Italy and Gaul. The
next great inroad began about 1886,
and proceeded from Tartary to the Cri-.
ga and ,@sa;ei'v. whence it reached
rope and across into England. At ir-
regular intervals, for more than three
centuries, it swept this city and that
with appalling havoc, reappearing
again and again at the same spot.
Among the most impressive death
records of that period are the follow
ing: - .s:.: SKA 2;.$ ,= II 81: :3.S
l427---Dantzic =. ..... =. ......... 10000
q l4b6-Parls ...... 1000
157O--7-MoscoW zoe, 600
15 72-I Iyons .... Sc, 900
si57e Venice 1000
1866 Naples 8. ]. Z. !. s. 900
London /. y. = J. =. .:..s... 68, ,596
The last item in the table gives the
figures in the London plague so prom
inent in English history. lis known
that this number Of deaths was out Of
a population Of $4,000, and that nearly
one-third Of the denizens of the Eng
lish capital fed from the city in fear Of
death. - 5=s:t=r '$%'5 $zt. T.. g-5..s
In the eighteenth century the plague
prevailed extensively in Europe, the
most notable epidemic being In Mar
seilles in 1920, when from 40,0 900 to
10000 persons were carried off. -
b In 1721 it appeared in Toulon and
spread over Provence. Out of pop
ulation Of 25O,0O0, 1869 are said to
have died. Sicily was visited in 1743,
at Messina, where the mortality was
between 10000 and $4,000. In It'll it
broke out in Moscow, and more than
so 900 persons nearly one-quarter Of
the popula carried off. =
During the sixteenth century China
/ was nearly depopulated' with the
plague, it is said, while in the single
year 1903 no less than 100000 lives
were lost in Egypt. 81 y. &. q. ! + tss5s$ s
An isolated epidemic appeared in
Greece in 1928. It appeared in Egypt
between 1888 and 1845. the last plague
epidemic observed in that country and
marking its great eastward recessionl
4 There was an epidemic OF extreme Sc
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