Show precautions AGAINST CHOLERA re reports ports of the ravages of the cholera scourge in numerous of the world are causing much anxiety in this country the creps preps is ia urging the authorities at sea port cities to take steps to prevent the introduction of the infection and and throughout the nation to took look well to sanitary matters as aa a preparation in ease case the plague should make its appearance pe arance attention is being directed to former visitations of the disease diee iise to this country upon this branch of the subject an exchange presents pree ente the fol lowing data those who remember visitations of cholera to this country tremble at the prospect of its ita return we never saw the disease until 1832 when it raged here with frightful violence it came to us over precisely the course followed by the present epidemic except that there were then no railroads railroads to aid it it reached quebec first by ship and traveled down lake champlain it broke out in new york and two w days later was in albany then it moved west appearing within a few days at utica schenectady syracuse and buffalo it ravaged new york ork state a appearing ppe aring without warning in most of of the towns and villages 6 in new york city it created a panic it centered at t he live five points then an overcrowded over crowded loc locality alty far more filthy than any section of the city today and spread like fike fire in every direction por for a long period the death rate averaged seventy a day the physicians physician of that day did not understand its nature mature and attributed its spread to contagion in the air the people 0 P 1 left town by thousands thousand pa and took refuge 1 in neighboring country villages during daring that year persons person diedolf died of cholera throughout the country and the year following 1000 more boston newark philadelphia and new orleans also buffered greatly in philadelphia the panic was so great eat that the dead were left unburied iff by y hundreds until a committee of citizens volunteered to gather up thi the bodies and place them under ground it also spread to havana whore where of the inhabitants died of it in a year in 1848 the cholera came aga again in this time it reached the country by ship from E europe uro e to new orleans it reached new Y york rk but did not amount to much here it covered the entire west it was worst a at t new orleans where 1616 died in 1848 in 1849 and 1448 in 1850 it lingered in various parts of the country with occasional cas esa ional outbreaks until 1854 11 |