Show I The Plagues History The threatened cholera epidemic has called attention to the great plagues recorded In history and a glance at some of the events may reconcile us to grateful feeling for the comparative freedom from pestilence pes-tilence in late years The earliest plagups of which there are any account ac-count are those described in Exodus occurred in Egypt 1401 B C In 594 B C there was a plague at Carthage so terrible that parents sacrificed tbeirchildren to propitiate the gods In 187 B C in the Greek islands Egyptand Syria people died at the rate ot 2000 a day In Rome A D 80 10000 persons died daily Another plague at Rome A D 256 took off 5000 a day In 430 Britain was scourged so that the giving were hardly able to bury the dead During the years 743749 Constantinople lost 200000 of its population At Chichester England Eng-land in 772 34OuO people died and in 954 Scotland lost 40000 people Ireland was Sorely visited in 1172 and 1204 and again in lo489 At that time 200 people were buried daily in London In 1407 London lost 30000 citizens There was a fearful pestilence in Oxford in 1471 The dreadful sweating ickness occurred in London in 1500 and again in 1517 In most of the towns half the people died and Oxford Ox-ford was depopulated In 1522 thousands were swept away in Limerick The sweating sickness revisited England in 1528 and again in 1551 In 160304 30578 people perished of plague in London Lon-don Constantinople again lost 200 000 people in 1611 In 1625 London lost 35417 inhabitants In 1032 Lyons lost 60000 In 1650 400000 people died at Naples in six months In 1664 Londons great plague took off 63596 inhabitants In 1720 60 000 people died at Marseilles In L773 80000 Inhabitants of Bossora Peisia died of plague In 1792 800 000 persons died of plague in Egypt In Barbarv 3000 people died daily and in 1799 247000 people perished at Asiatic cholera first appeared in Fez England at Sunderland October 20 1831 and in North America at Quebec Que-bec June 8 1832 and in New York June 22 1832 It revisited the United Uni-ted States in 1834 slightly in 1849 severely in 1855 and again slightly in 186637 In 182930900000 people died of Asiatic cholera in Russia and Germany In 184S49 532203 people died of it in England and Wales and in 1854 there countries lost 20097 and Naples 10000 persons per-sons In 1865 50000 people died of cholera at ConstantinopleInter Ocean |