The Holbrook news., 1911-10-13

ever taken a direction different from
 that of commercial or military move
 ments. There is reason to believe the
 poison does not enter the system
 through the lungs or through any
 other channel than the gastro-intesti-
 nal canal
 The danger of the introduction of
 cholera from one port to another is
 not so much by typical cases as the
 mild or irregular ones, which often
 pass unrecognized. Cholera may ap-
 pear in the form of a simple diar- rhoea, which excites little or no sus-
 picion, or it may appear in a more ob-
 scure manner, and simulate some
 other affection. While certain articles of food or drink brought from an in- fected district may contain the spe- cif1c organism of cholera and may subsequently, act as media of infec- tion, there is reason to believe that this is not of very frequent occur renee
 There was some agitation in New York last year as the result of the presence of a few cholera cases at the quarantine station, but the last real cholera scare was late in the summer of 1892
 In the 60 years preceding 1892 there were five epidemics of cholera in this country, resulting in 15000 deaths. The first outbreak was in 1892, the second in 1884, the third in 1S4S, the fourth in 1854, and the fifth in 1865.
 Asiatic cholera attacked with great virulence the 1000 soldiers stationed at Fort Dearborn (Chicago) in 1892, the first year in which the East h. dian destroyer appeared in North America, and 200 of them were ad- mitted to hospitals in eight or nine days. The troops at this point were young and in good physical condition, but the poison germs had been brought to the country in immigrant ships and they had found victims in many Cana dian and United States cities. Fatal ities at the fort were large, but physi- clans by hard work got some 700 of the men on their feet again, and in September of that year they were or dered to march to the Mississippi river in the neighborhood of the pres ent city of Dubuque. They had not travelled 50 miles, however, before cholera broke out in their ranks again and before the command could reach the river the percentage of deaths was as great as it had been at the fort.
 Frances cholera death roll in 1882 was 120,O0O, and of this vast number 1000 passed away in Paris in IS days. The disease crossed the channel to Great Britain in the spring and sum- mer of that year and sent thousands to their graves in England, Wales and Ireland. From Liverpool, Cork, Lim- erick and Dublin there sailed five steamers filled with emigrants, many of them having taken flight from the epidemic. Cholera broke out on all of them and 179 of their passengers died on the voyage to Quebec The living and the dying were hurried by the steamer Voyageur to Montreal, where those who were able to travel were scattered up the St. Lawrence and to a half hundred inland Canadian and United States towns Almost in the time that it takes to tell the story cholera broke out at Kingston, To ronto and Niagara Falls, and a com pany of United States soldiers aboard 1 the steamer Henry Clay took the death-dealing epidemic to Detroit, | whence 1t spread along the great lakes to almost every place of 100 | people as far as the "Soo."
 Eternal vigilance is the price of human life in the battle with the first | assistant to the undertaken. Cleanlb | ness and alertness should be the watchword of everybody. Hygienic measures should be studied and disin. lection practiced wherever there seems a possibility for the disease to break out. N